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Indigenous Artisan Capacity-Building, Law Promotion and Museum Construction CIDAC will increase the workmanship and incomes of 200 artisans from Guaranies, Weenhawek, Ayoreo, and other indigenous and mestizo peoples in eastern Bolivia. The project will foster skills and product development for pottery, woodcarving, weaving and other crafts, construct the first stages of an indigenous arts museum, and provide a current report on the artisan sector for eastern and southern Bolivia though activities in training, technical assistance, and museum development. The project will foment broader appreciation for these cultural values, increase the incomes of the beneficiaries.
Strengthening women's organizations in the Gran Chaco Americano to defend their rights This amendment provides ProYungas, Centro de Estudios Regionales de Tarija Pueblos del Chaco (CERDET) in Bolivia, and Grupo Sunu de Accin Intercultural (Sunu) an additional 18 months and $275,000 to support the Colectivo de Mujeres del Chaco Americano (Colectivo), a grouping of approximately 100 Indigenous and creole women's grassroots organizations located in the Gran Chaco. The amendment will promote greater peer-to-peer learning among women members and their organizations across the region, further engagement with other actors to raise awareness and fund solutions to community priorities, and increase the number of grassroots strategic investments that respond to priorities such as food security, access to basic services, digital connectivity, and women's rights. ProYungas will also support the Colectivo in training and building the leadership capacity of the next generation of young women leaders. ProYungas, CERDET and Sunu aremobilizing an additional $222,732 in counterpart resources to the grant agreement.
Consolidation of Artecampo as an autonomous organization. Many marginalized communities in Bolivia have limited economic opportunities and their artistic contributions are under-valued. Asociacin de Artesanos del Campo (Artecampo) is a grassroots womens association that will strengthen its administrative, management, marketing and production capacity in order to become more self-sufficient through sales of its art and artisan crafts. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to expand economic opportunity in Bolivia. Artecampos activities encourage local entrepreneurship and market development to ensure meaningful opportunities for communities to thrive.
Promoting food security during the pandemic: Neighborhood planning, urban agriculture, and food production enterprises. Families from rural Bolivia have been migrating in great numbers to the urban center of El Alto. These migrants especially women and youth often struggle to earn a living or access healthy and affordable food. Many suffer domestic violence without the protective factors of economic independence and strong ties with their neighbors. The IAF supports community-led solutions that improve food security, expand economic opportunity, and increase civic engagement in Bolivia. Our grantee partner Centro de Formacin y Capacitacin para la Participacin Ciudadana (FOCAPACI) works with producer and consumer groups and other local civil society organizations, as well as public and private sector actors, to develop neighborhood plans. Neighborhood plans identify community priorities such as addressing food security, climate impacts, and social and health emergencies such as COVID-19 and domestic violence. FOCAPACI will work to improve food production and access to healthy food, strengthen producers access to local markets, generate income, and strengthen women's and young people's leadership skills.
Strengthening the Amazonian Fruit Value Chain during and after COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic in Bolivia has prevented indigenous and campesino producers in Bolivias Amazon from harvesting, processing, and storing most of their fresh fruit, and reduced the market for their frozen products. This seasons losses have left producers food insecure and struggling to invest in economic recovery. With IAF support, IPHAE is providing materials, supplies, and technical assistance and training to six producer associations and Madre Tierra Amazonia, a producer-owned social enterprise, affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. IPHAE will promote the producers recovery and resilience by increasing the production of marketable Amazonian value-added fruit products for local, national, and international markets. IPHAE will also strengthen the organizational capacity of the Amazonian Fruit Producer Platform, which will promote public policies supporting sustainable agroforestry and increasing consumer access to healthy food.
Increasing food security, rural incomes, and sustainable farming in Bolivia's North Amazon El Instituto Para el Hombre, Agricultura y Ecologa (IPHAE) will expand its agroforestry program to more communities on the Amazon in the Alto Beni and Pando and offer representatives of 700 families training in the production, processing and marketing of asai, majo and cacao as well as opportunities to participate in farmer- to-farmer exchanges and dissemination of results.
Community Development Through Traditional Weaving, Natural Dyes, and Expansion of Community Tourism AAA will continue to revive the local Andean weaving tradition and will undertake a program of community tourism, thereby benefiting 350 female and male Quechua and Aymara weavers from 19 communities in the department of Cochabamba.
Improving economic, environmental and cultural outcomes for five indigenous communities ASMUDES will work to increase income for five indigenous communities that reside in a nationally recognized protected area by promoting sustainable agricultural practices and improving marketing for fruit and value-added products. The project will incorporate practices like incorporating native vegetation among crops to create more diverse, productive, profitable, healthy, ecologically sound, and sustainable agroforestry systems. It will also strengthen the organizational and marketing capacity of two producer associations to promote greater access to more stable food supplies for their families. Surplus products can be sold as fresh fruit or as value added products in their communities and to consumers demanding healthy products in regional urban centers. ASMUDES' activities will strengthen leadership skills among women and young people, promoting their participation as community leaders who are better able to engage and participate in decision making at the municipal level. About 1,390 p
Support for the management of natural resources by communities and grassroots groups in Bolivia to achieve the conservation of their territories and the sustainability of their livelihoods. Families from rural Bolivia have been migrating in great numbers to the urban center of El Alto. These migrantsespecially women and youthoften struggle to earn a living or access healthy and affordable food. Many suffer domestic violence without the protective factors of economic independence and strong ties with their neighbors. The IAF supports community-led solutions that improve food security, expand economic opportunity, and increase civic engagement in Bolivia. Our grantee partner Centro de Formacin y Capacitacin para la Participacin Ciudadana (FOCAPACI) works with producer and consumer groups and other local civil society organizations, as well as public and private sector actors, to develop neighborhood plans. Neighborhood plans identify community priorities such as addressing food security, climate impacts, and social and health emergencies such as COVID-19 and domestic violence. FOCAPACI will work to improve food production and access to healthy food, strengthen producers access to local markets, generate income, and strengthen women's and young people's leadership skills.
Strengthening the autonomy, and social and political role of the women in Cochabamba Women from Cochabama face challenges related to gender equality in their communities. Instituto de Formacin Femenina Integral (IFFI) provides technical assistance to the organization Plataforma de Mujeres por la Ciudadana y la Equidad (PMCE) to develop its members' skills in leadership, organization, and civic engagement. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to strengthen governance in Bolivia. IFFI's activities strengthen excluded communities so they can improve their living conditions and participate equally in a nation's political, economic, and social life.
RSE - BOLIVIA RECICLA People who make a living collecting and selling recyclable products in Bolivia face high levels of discrimination, because the majority of residents see these recyclers as working in unsanitary conditions, despite the work providing environmentally-friendly livelihoods to groups with few economic opportunities. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to creating economic opportunity and social inclusion for underserved populations in Bolivia, including women, youth, and indigenous people, who are more likely to take on stigmatized work like recycling. Fundacin Amigos de la Responsabilidad Social Empresarial (AMIGARSE) will work with approximately 40 recycler associations in five departments (Chuquisaca, La Paz, Santa Cruz, Sucre and Santa Cruz) to strengthen links among the recycler associations and advocate for public policies and programs that recognize and support an inclusive, community-based recycling sector. It will also work with the Red de Recolectores Santa Cruz to test the first phase of a community-based recycling enterprise model, transforming recycling associations into economic and social enterprises that provide environmental and solid waste management services to the public and private sector.
WOMEN AND YOUNG PEOPLE CONTRIBUTE TO FAMILY FOOD SECURITY AND THE REDUCTION OF GENE-GENERATIONAL INEQUITY GAPS IN PERIURBAN DISTRICTS OF EL ALTO In recent years families from rural Bolivia have rapidly migrated to the urban center of El Alto straining its available resources. As a result these migrantsespecially women and youthoften struggle to earn a living and access healthy and affordable food. At the IAF we support community-led solutions that improve food security expand economic opportunity and increase civic engagement in Bolivia. Our grantee partner Centro de Formacin y Capacitacin para la Participacin Ciudadana (FOCAPACI) works with producer and consumer groups to improve and promote organic production techniques provide access to healthy foods generate income and strengthen women and young people's capacity to advocate for public policies that promote nutrition food security and gender equity.
Education/Training Grant CISEP will work with women in 14 mining cooperatives in the department of Oruro to improve their productivity and income. The mine workers will receive machinery, equipment, tools and safety gear as well as related training and technical assistance.
NADA SOBRE ELLOS, SIN ELLOS, la demanda recurrente de las familias.Objetivo del proyecto People with disabilities in Bolivia face a number of economic and social barriers to fully participating in and contributing to society. The challenges for children and youth with disabilities are even greater. The IAF supports community-led solutions to create economic opportunity and social inclusion for children and youth with disabilities in El Alto and La Paz, Bolivia. IAF grantee Jach'a Uru is an association for the parents of children and youth with disabilities that raises awareness of the rights of people with disabilities and advocates for programs and policies that incorporate a community-based rehabilitation strategy to improve their health, wellbeing, and inclusion. The grant will build people with disabilities autonomy and independence using life skills and economic development tools that Jacha Uru and other organizations can adapt and scale up. It will also strengthen Jacha Urus capacity to raise funds and engage partners to promote inclusive economic, educational, and social programs and policies that support the rights of people with disabilities in Bolivia.
Social Enterprise of Dairy Products in Irpa Chico AMALIC's 70 members, all Aymara women, from four communities in the municipality of Viacha on the Bolivian altiplano will improve their dairy enterprise to increase its output of milk and other products. These farmers will acquire technical skills related to livestock and pasture management and to processing and marketing. The expected results are more income as well as better nutrition, especially in the schools that AMALIC supplies.
Consolidation of Artecampo as an autonomous organization. Many marginalized communities in Bolivia have limited economic opportunities and their artistic contributions are under-valued. Asociacin de Artesanos del Campo (Artecampo) is a grassroots women's association that will strengthen its administrative, management, marketing, and production capacity in order to become more self-sufficient through sales of its art and artisan crafts. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to expand economic opportunity in Bolivia. Artecampo's activities encourage local entrepreneurship and market development to ensure meaningful opportunities for communities to thrive.
Strengthening women's organizations in the Gran Chaco Americano to defend their rights This amendment provides ProYungas, Centro de Estudios Regionales de Tarija Pueblos del Chaco (CERDET) in Bolivia, and Grupo Sunu de Accin Intercultural (Sunu) an additional 18 months and $275,000 to support the Colectivo de Mujeres del Chaco Americano (Colectivo), a grouping of approximately 100 Indigenous and creole women's grassroots organizations located in the Gran Chaco. The amendment will promote greater peer-to-peer learning among women members and their organizations across the region, further engagement with other actors to raise awareness and fund solutions to community priorities, and increase the number of grassroots strategic investments that respond to priorities such as food security, access to basic services, digital connectivity, and women's rights. ProYungas will also support the Colectivo in training and building the leadership capacity of the next generation of young women leaders. ProYungas, CERDET and Sunu are mobilizing an additional $222,732 in counterpart resources to the grant agreement.
Agriculture/Training Grant Arakuaanda will implement an educational program for 1200 Guarani youth to enable them to reinforce their Guarani cultural identity, and deepen and fortify the practice of their constitutional rights through participating in the construction of new political forms of indigenous municipal autonomy in Charagua and Gutirrez in the department of Santa Cruz. The project will create an array of regional and local organizations for youth to assert their priorities to become more dynamic actors in the new political order of the two municipalities.
Indigenous Leadership and Citizenship School SCSUTCM will launch a school and produce community radio programs that support the development of the current municipality of Mojocoya into a model autonomous campesino originario municipio within the innovative framework of the new Bolivian Constitution. It will select 174 male and female representatives from each of its 30 member communities for training in its school. (BO-520)
Community Development Through Traditional Weaving, Natural Dyes, and Expansion of Community Tourism Asociacin de Artesanos Andinos (AAA) will continue to revive the Andean weaving tradition and community tourism benefiting its 350 female and male Quechua and Aymara member-weavers from more than 19 communities in the department of Cochabamba. It will strengthen its marketing and organizational capacity and form new leaders.
Consolidation and Self-management of Value-added Production of Ilamas in Municipalities of Yunchar y El Puente in the Department of Tarija Communities living near and within protected areas face unique environmental and economic challenges to support their livelihoods. Proteccin del Medio Ambiente Tarija (PROMETA) provides technical assistance to camelid herders to improve the sustainable production and marketing of their livestock and to develop skills in natural resource management and forage crop production. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to expand economic opportunity in Bolivia. PROMETA's activities promote smallholder agriculture and food production to enhance food security and ensure meaningful opportunities for communities to thrive.
Supporting community and grassroots groups to manage natural resources in Bolivia to conserve their territories and sustains their livelihoods. Indigenous and rural communities throughout Bolivia are eager to protect important local ecosystems, which include parts of the Amazon and Gran Chaco Americano, while fostering sustainable livelihoods. They often face obstacles in engaging and mobilizing resources from public and private sector actors to address these priorities. The IAF supports community-led solutions to unlock private, public, and community resources for grassroots development in Bolivia. Fundacin Semilla will expand its social-environmental fund to support grassroots initiatives led by community-based organizations that strive to sustainably manage territories and improve livelihoods. Fundacion Semilla will strengthen its administrative, financial, programmatic, and operational capacities and its ability to engage local, national, and international partners so it can scale up its grantmaking.
Participation of women to improve their income through the commercialization of dairy products. The COVID-19 pandemic in Bolivia has upended traditional markets changing how small enterprises operate their businesses and consumer demand. With IAF support Asociacin de Mujeres Aymaras Lecheras de Irpa Chico (AMALIC) is adapting production and marketing strategies for its small producer-owned dairy enterprise. AMALIC is improving member pasture and storage practices to help them increase milk production generating additional income. It is also training its indigenous women members in leadership and organizational strengthening to increase its competitiveness and build up its next generation of leaders. These changes will provide consumers with access to healthy food and help AMALIC and its members recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and improve economic resilience to future crises. This grant is part of the IAF's Women INvesting in Growth and Security (WINGS) initiative to empower women as business and community leaders.
Increasing food security, rural incomes, and sustainable farming in Bolivia`s North Amazon Instituto Para el Hombre Agricultura y Ecologa (IPHAE) will expand and consolidate agriculturally diversified parcels located in secondary and degraded forest areas support small-scale pig-farming and beekeeping and develop products processed from the fruit of peach, palm, cacao, and other native plants. Some 500 families from 60 communities in five municipalities in the Beni and Riberalta departments are expected to benefit from a more reliable food supply and better income and the adoption of a sustainable agro-forestry farming technology for this Amazonian micro-region.
ECOTOP: Diversifying Agro-ecological Production ECOTOP will introduce "succession agro- forestry " incorporating technologies for soil and species recovery, to 200 farmers from seven participating communities in the Alto Beni region of La Paz. It features diversifying farm production to include cacao, bananas, pineapples, yucca, mango, and citrus and indigenous fruits as well as swine for home consumption. ECOTOP and participating communities will also construct nine collective seedling nurseries, organize 10 family-based modules for swine-raising, and organize 20 new modules for raising criollo chicken. ECOTOP will also provide technical assistance and specialized training to 150 farming families.
Strengthening the autonomy, and social and political role of the women in Cochabamba IFFI will build the leadership and, organizational and advocacy capacity of the Plataforma de Mujeres por la Ciudadana y la Equidad of Cochabamba (PMCE) ), a network of 100 women's organizations located in the Greater Metropolitan Area of Cochabamba, in order to promote women's rights and set PMCE on a path towards institutional autonomy. Approximately 1,780 women will benefit directly and 111,350 people will benefit indirectly. ..
Improving economic, environmental and cultural outcomes for five indigenous communities Indigenous communities living in a national protected area face a low quality life due to unstable food supply and limited decision-making opportunities in their communities. Asociacin de Mujeres Unidas Para el Desarrollo Sostenible (ASMUDES) promotes sustainable farming practices, works to improve marketing for fruit and organic products, and provides technical assistance in leadership to encourage civic participation by women and young people. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to expand economic opportunity in Bolivia. ASMUDES' activities promote smallholder agriculture and food production to enhance food security and ensure meaningful opportunities for communities to thrive.
Enhancing the Productive Process of Women Miners in Oruro Oruro women in mining communities have limited income and face safety-related challenges in their way of life. Centro de Investigacin y Servicio Popular (CISEP) provides technical assistance and equipment to mining cooperatives to improve their productivity, occupational safety, and environmental standards. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to expand economic opportunity in Bolivia. CISEP's activities strengthen excluded communities so they can improve their living conditions and participate equally in a nation's political, economic, and social life.
Consolidation and Self-management of Value-added Production of Ilamas in Municipalities of Yunchar y El Puente in the Department of Tarija PROMETA will work with 1,059 families from 50 communities in the municipalities of Yunchara and El Puente, on the altiplano of the department of Tarija, to improve camelid production and marketing. Herders will acquire the skills necessary to recover natural resources, manage prairies, produce forage crops and protect water sources. (BO-522)
Consolidation and Self-management of Value-added Production of Ilamas in Municipalities of Yunchar Communities living near and within protected areas face unique environmental and economic challenges to support their livelihoods. Proteccin del Medio Ambiente Tarija (PROMETA) provides technical assistance to camelid herders to improve the sustainable production and marketing of their livestock and to develop skills in natural resource management and forage crop production. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to expand economic opportunity in Bolivia. PROMETA's activities promote smallholder agriculture and food production to enhance food security and ensure meaningful opportunities for communities to thrive.
Contribute to the paradigm shift towards agroecological production by facilitating production and marketing of organic products in the municipalities of Palos Blancos and Alto Beni Farmers who depend on agriculture for a living in the Alto Beni region in Bolivia, near the Amazon River Basin, struggle with high rates of deforestation and soil erosion due to unsustainable agricultural practices and increasingly frequent extreme weather events. The IAF supports community-led approaches to building economic opportunities through sustainable agriculture. Fundacin Ecotop (ECOTOP) promotes a community-based sustainable agroforestry systems model that diversifies crop production and promotes environmental resilience. ECOTOPs approach also builds the organizational capacity of producer associations and the leadership of its members, and improves economic opportunities, especially for women and young people. The grant will also help producers engage with local and municipal governments to promote programs and policies that support local priorities. This grant is part of the IAF's broader COVID-19 response strategy.