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Youth, Theatre and Community: Narrating and Acting Rights for Peace Residents of Valle del Cauca and Cauca have known a history of conflict and violence that continues to affect their communities. Grupo de Teatro Esquina Latina (TEL) promotes peace through community theater programs that help participants build confidence and gain leadership skills. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to enhance peace and security in Colombia. TEL's activities strengthen grassroots organizations and communities through education and training and build peer-to-peer learning and action networks.
Improving food security conditions to peasant associations in the Northeast, Colombia Corambiente will work to further develop eight associations of farmers in the departments of Santander and Norte de Santander and to increase the farmers' production of food with high nutritional content for consumption and sale.
Creating skills toward peace Corporacin Consorcio para el Desarrollo Comunitario (Consorcio) will help develop an approach that enables 50 grassroots organizations to contribute toward the peace process in their communities and will work with the organizations to adjust the approach as necessary via a series of workshops. The project will benefit 140 Colombians directly and 8,500 indirectly.
Ruta de la Ciudadana: Los jvenes mueven a Montera Young people in Montera Crdoba in Colombia's Caribbean region have been recruited and victimized by illegal armed groups at extremely high rates. Although young people did not have a seat at the table in Colombia's peace negotiations national legislation offers spaces for youth political participation to advance issues of importance such as protection measures job training access to employment and entrepreneurship opportunities and affordable education. At the IAF we support community-led approaches to improving governance by engaging young people in the political process. Corporacin de Profesionales Construyendo Ciudadana (CPCC) is strengthening Montera's youth movement and facilitating the inclusion of rural youth in local policy agendas. This will enable local youth to better engage with the municipal government to create and implement youth-centered public policies that respond to young people's most urgent needs. This grant is part of the IAF's broader initiative to build a just and lasting peace in Colombia.
Agriculture/Food Production Grant Cabildo Indgena del Resguardo de Guambia (Guambia) will collaborate with the indigenous Guambiano residents of the cabildos of Silvia, Ovejas Siberia, San Antonio, Pisitao and Kurachak, department of Cauca, to improve their production, processing and marketing of sugarcane and scallions. The resulting increase in income will benefit 1,250 indigenous Colombian farmers.
Implement tools of social control and citizen denunciation of corruption from the Peace Initiatives System Peace-building and good governance are threatened by corruption. Corporacin Transparencia por Colombia (Transparencia) supports community oversight activities carried out by IAF-grantees through training, technical assistance and dissemination activities. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to strengthen governance in Colombia. Transparencias activitiesencourage civic participation to allow marginalized groups to defend their rights, propel their own development and advocate for government accountability and transparency. This grant is part of a broader initiative that supports grassroots organizations to build a just and lasting peace in Colombia..
Improving livelihoods through community development Communities in rural areas of Colombia previously controlled by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia guerrillas (FARC, in Spanish) have historically struggled to make a living. Decades of violent conflict shattered social cohesion, public infrastructure and services, and incentives for private investment. Colombias peace agreement, signed between the government and FARC in late 2016, opens the way for renewed investments by these communities striving to improve their livelihoods. At the IAF we support community-led solutions to expand economic opportunity and enhance peace and security. Our grantee partner, Corporacin Andares Ida y Vuelta (Andares), working closely with the Asociacin Campesina Agroecolgica del Oriente del Tolima, provides training and technical assistance to help farming families benefit from the production and marketing of cacao, bananas, and other products with promising markets.
Youth for their rights, building citizenship and public youth policy at the municipal and departmental level Prodesal will involve 1,036 young Colombians in local policy- making, raise their awareness of their rights and improve their business skills through technical assistance, training, forums and exchanges. A subgrant fund will finance 40 start-up businesses.
SISTEMATIZACIN DE PRCTICAS ORGANIZATIVAS DE LAS EXPERIENCIAS QUE HACEN PARTE DEL SIP PARA LA CONSTRUCCIN DE LA PAZ Communities in Colombia still struggle with the extraordinarily complex task of implementing the 2016 peace accords and uniting people divided by more than a half-century of armed conflict. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to enhance peace and security in Colombia. Our grantee partner, Centro de Investigacin y Educacin Popular (CINEP), supports grassroots organizations' participation in peacebuilding by promoting peer-to-peer learning, strengthening the community of practice "Sistema de Iniciativas de Paz " and training local organizations in adopting approaches to learning that can further improve their programming. This grant is part of the IAF's broader initiative to build a just and lasting peace in Colombia.
Strengthening Agricultural Associative Group El Progreso Ciudadela de Bombon, Municipio de Consac zona de influencia del Santuario de F Grupo Asociativo Agropecuario El Progreso Ciudadela de Bombon (El Progreso); in Colombia. El Progreso will work closely with two other IAF grantees, Asociacin de Comunidades Andinas de Nario (Tierrandina) and Asociacin de Usuarios del Distrito de Adecuacin de Tierras de Pequea Escala San Miguel De Cariaco Bajo (Distrito de Riego), toward creating an organization that will represent the interests of multiple community-led organizations, which will be called the Asociacin de Productores del Galeras (Asoprogaleras). The grant will directly benefit 125 coffee farmers in the municipality of Consac.
Women who build and live in peaceful territories Fundacin Mujer y Futuro will contribute to peace-building in the city of Bucaramanga. FMF will use a hands-on methodology to train 30 women leaders in how to promote a culture of peace from a gender perspective, which recognizes the differential role of women as peace builders and as victims of the conflict. The project will directly benefit 30 women leaders of community organizations and local action committees (juntas de accin local) and indirectly reach an additional 600 people.
Strengthenin g Asociacion de Comunidades Campesinas Andinas of Narino Tierrandina will work with 252 farmers from the municipalities of Consac, Yacuanquer and Sandon, department of Nario, to strengthen a network of environmentally sustainable farms, some registered as private nature reserves, and to consolidate its own position as a grassroots organization.
Peace-building with the communities of southern Tolima Indigenous and campesino communities in the department of Tolima are victims of the conflict in Colombia and struggle to maintain viable livelihoods. Corporacin Grupo Semillas (Semillas) is working with 15 grassroots organizations to implement sustainable agricultural practices, defend their rights to land and water and use communications tools such as community radio to increase the visibility of grassroots resilience and peace-building strategies. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to enhance peace and security in Colombia. Semillass activities bolster community-led efforts to counteract environmental degradation and protect the natural resources that these communities depend on. This grant is part of our broader initiative to build a just and lasting peace in Colombia..
Caribbean youth, productive skills, income generation and audiovisual production with inclusion, innovation and articulation. In Colombia's Caribbean region, COVID-19 has exacerbated an already precarious situation for young people: youth unemployment has reached record highs and a lack of available virtual schooling options has led many young people to desert the formal education system. In Colombia, this often translates into young people being recruited by armed groups or participating in other illicit trades. However, it can also lead young people to creating their own economic opportunities, starting small businesses, and mobilizing for positive change. The IAF supports young entrepreneurs in growing their small businesses to assist in economic recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic. Our grantee Corporacin Taller de Promocin Popular y Desarrollo Alternativo (Prodesal) is working with young people to generate new economic and cultural ventures, train them in business development and audio-visual production, and offer seed capital to launch their initiatives.This grant is part of the IAF's broader COVID-19 response strategy.
Grant Agreement: Rio Metas territories and new threats during the pandemic Indigenous people in Colombia's Orinoqua region, who already experienced chronic poverty, have seen their livelihoods and health threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Violence, threats, and encroachment or exploitation of natural resources by outside interests and non-state armed groups have also increased during the pandemic. The IAF supports strategies to enhance the security of historically marginalized groups. Our grantee Fundacin para el Etnodesarrollo de los Llanos Orientales de Colombia (Etnollano) is working with seven communities of Amora, Sikuani, and Sliva ethnic groups in Northern Vichada represented by a regional Indigenous organization, the Organizacin Regional de los Pueblos Indgenas del Bajo Orinoco (ORPIBO), to implement a COVID-19 prevention and resilience strategy based on local knowledge and customs.This grant is part of the IAF's broader initiative to build a just and lasting peace in Colombia and the IAF's COVID-19 response strategy.
National Alliance of Farmers Markets in 8 Departments of Colombia Many farmers in Colombia have few options for marketing their agricultural products. Corporacin Buen Ambiente (Corambiente) is working with more than 80 organizations to create a national alliance of smallholder producers and consumers strengthening the production, marketing and consumption of environmentally friendly foods. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to expand economic opportunity in Colombia. Corambientes activities promote smallholder agriculture and food production to enhance food security and ensure meaningful opportunities for communities to thrive. This grant is part of our broader initiative that supports grassroots organizations to build a just and lasting peace in Colombia.
Education/Training Grant Sumapaz will work with 60 community leaders drawn from 150 grassroots groups and representatives of three community-based networks in Comuna 3, a neighborhood in Medellin, toward developing skills in planning, cooperation, conflict resolution and the promotion of human rights. It will also create an information center whose operations will be funded by the municipality of Medellin.
Strengthening organizational processes, community and collective action in defense of territory Asociacin para el Desarrollo Campesino (ADC) will work with its member mingas, or organizations, and with other community groups in the municipalities of Pasto, Buesaco, Chachagui, Ipiales, Puerres and Yacuanquer to encourage practices that benefit the environment and help farmers remain on their land. The grassroots members will form a network. ADC's program also includes environmental education in primary schools. The project will benefit 700 Colombians directly and 2,000 indirectly...
Corporate Social Investment Grant Asociacin para el Desarrollo Campesino (ADC in Colombia) will work with its member mingas, or organizations, and with other community groups in the municipalities of Pasto, Buesaco, Chachagui, Ipiales, Puerres and Yacuanquer to encourage practices that benefit the environment and help farmers remain on their land. The grassroots members will form a network. ADC's program also includes environmental education in primary schools. The project will benefit 700 Colombians directly and 2,000 indirectly.
Education/Training Grant Fundacin Mujer y Futuro (FMF) in Colombia will undertake a three-year project to increase women's knowledge of their rights and participation in local government, planning, and access to programs available to them through the existent policy for gender equality for the municipality of Bucaramanga. The program will include training, technical assistance and exchanges. The grant will directly benefit 300 women and indirectly impact 1,500 community members.
Afro-Colombian School of Leadership "Nelson Mandela": Program for social, political and economic empowerment of Afro-Colombian women in Bogot Asociacin Movimiento Nacional por los Derechos Humanos de las Comunidades Afrocolombianas, IAF Grant: $247,775 over three years, Counterpart committed: $118,188 Cimarrn will provide 300 Afro-Colombian women training toward their more active participation in local government and in social protection programs. It will help them become more aware of their rights and leadership potential and create opportunities for them to serve on civic committees in 10 localities in Bogot.
Transparency for Colombia Transparencia, with support from RedEAmrica member Fundacin Corona, AVINA and the Fondo para la Sociedad Civil por la Paz, los Derechos Humanos y la Democracia (FOS-Colombia), will provide small grants of up to $20,000, training and other support to community organizations encouraging the participation of community residents in oversight to assure transparency in government and in public discussions of issues that directly affect their lives.
Design and implementation of a participatory process with youth, grassroots organizations and rural families to improve institutional structures, political and socio-economic conditions in the region of the Duende, Valle del Cauca Asociacin de Campesinos de la Vereda Palmas (Asocap) Asocap will work with Asociacin Comunitaria de Productores de Mora y Dems Cultivos de la Regin (Asocomore) and Fundacin Ecolgica Produende (Produende) to develop the leadership skills and income potential of young residents of the rural municipalities of Darien, Trujillo and Riofrio, department of Valle del Cauca, and will provide them access to materials, supplies, and equipment. The work will benefit 350 Colombians directly and another 1,500 indirectly, and it should motivate young residents to stay and build a future for themselves in the region.
Cultivating peace through family, farmer and community agriculture Many family farmers in Colombia have few options for improving their production and marketing their agricultural products. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to expand economic opportunity in Colombia in a way that protects the natural resources on which communities depend. Corporaci?n Buen Ambiente (Corambiente) is working with more than 70 organizations in the departments of Santander and Valle del Cauca to strengthen the production, marketing, and consumption of environmentally-friendly foods. Corambiente's activities promote smallholder agriculture and food production to enhance food security and ensure meaningful, licit opportunities for communities to thrive.This grant is part of the IAF's broader initiative to build a just and lasting peace in Colombia.
Strengthening organizational processes, community and collective action in defense of territory Asociacin para el Desarrollo Campesino (ADC) will work with its member mingas, or organizations, and with other community groups in the municipalities of Pasto, Buesaco, Chachagui, Ipiales, Puerres and Yacuanquer to encourage practices that benefit the environment and help farmers remain on their land. The grassroots members will form a network. ADC's program also includes environmental education in primary schools. The project will benefit 700 Colombians directly and 2,000 indirectly.
Networks of Peace for Development Hijos de la Sierra Flor will work with indigenous and Afro-Colombian women's groups in five municipalities of the Department of Sucre to create spaces for dialogue, exchanges and recreation in order to promote reconciliation, offer tools and methodologies for community peace-building initiatives and to recognize ancestral practices for conflict resolution and rebuilding trust. The project will benefit 195 women, members of grassroots organizations, directly, and will indirectly benefit 1,500 additional family members and residents of the five municipalities.
Revitalizing the knowledge of traditional medicine of the indigenous woman Chagra of life The Asociacin de Mujeres Indgenas La Chagra de la Vida (Asomi) will work with its members and the members of five indigenous communities representing the Inga Kaments Siona Kofn and Koreguaje ethnicities to draw upon proven traditional practices to improve livelihoods protect their way of life and the natural environment. Asomi will increase the diversity and productivity of chagras or sustainable farms revitalize traditional knowledge and practices and increase exchanges and cooperation among its members and directly benefit 475 persons and 1,350 indirectly.
Strengthening governance among indigenous Amazonian communities as a strategy for peace-building Following nearly five decades of armed conflict, the residents of Colombia's Amazonian region face a range of new threats ranging from armed groups to environmental challenges. Fundacin Gaia Amazonas (Gaia) supports 13 local Indigenous organizations in the departments of Amazonas, Vaupes, and Guainia in developing policies that improve their livelihoods and work with government officials to help implement them. Gaia collaborates closely with the Fundacin Natura (Natura) and the Centro de Investigacin y Educacin Popular (CINEP). The IAF supports community-led solutions to enhance peace and security in Colombia. Gaia's activities encourage civic participation from underserved groups to uphold their rights, propel their own development, and advocate for government accountability and transparency.This grant is part of our broader initiative that supports grassroots organizations to build a just and lasting peace in Colombia.
Junta de Accin Comunal Vereda Cumbarco Junta de Accin Comunal Cumbarco (JAC Cumbarco) will work with residents of Cumbarco to increase the resources of local grassroots groups, develop them as organizations and encourage the participation of young residents in their initiatives, including to improve the production and marketing of coffee, plantains and flowers. The project will benefit 165 Colombians directly and another 510 indirectly...
Afro- Colombian School of Leadership "Nelson Mandela": Program for social, political and economic empowerment of Afro- Colombian women in Bogot Asociacin Movimiento Nacional por los Derechos Humanos de las Comunidades Afrocolombianas, IAF Grant: $247,775 over three years, Counterpart committed: $118,188 Cimarrn will provide 300 Afro-Colombian women training toward their more active participation in local government and in social protection programs. It will help them become more aware of their rights and leadership potential and create opportunities for them to serve on civic committees in 10 localities in Bogot.
environmental education for all in the township of Dapa Fundacin Ambiental Dapaviva (Dapaviva) will carry out educational activities with school children, residents, businesses and public institutions around the Reserva Forestal Protectora Nacional Cerro Dapa Carisucio, to teach them about the local ecosystems and conservation strategies such as recycling and composting, with the objective of encouraging the protection of the environment. Dapaviva will also train a group of young Colombians to be park rangers, and will explore opportunities for registering private lands as nature reserves. The project will work with 1,500 residents of Dapa, Yumbillo, La Buitrera and La Olga, Valle del Cauca, and will indirectly benefit an additional 3,250.
Junta de Accin Comunal Vereda Cumbarco Junta de Accin Comunal Cumbarco (JAC Cumbarco). JAC Cumbarco will work with residents of Cumbarco to increase the resources of local grassroots groups, develop them as organizations and encourage the participation of young residents in their initiatives, including to improve the production and marketing of coffee, plantains and flowers. The project will benefit 165 Colombians directly and another 510 indirectly.
Strengthening community tourism actions and services offered by the Community Council of San Francisco de Ich - Choc, to favor the access of its inhabitants to development opportunities. The Peace Agreement in Colombia has created opportunities for economic development in areas previously wracked by violence including in Afro-Colombian communities along Colombia's Pacific coast. At the IAF we encourage local entrepreneurship and efforts to protect the natural resources that communities depend on. Our grantee partner Asociacin Vamos Mujeres de San Francisco de Ich (Vamos Mujeres) is working with the local community council in the Choc department to lead a community-based tourism initiative that will simultaneously generate income and protect the environment. This grant is part of a broader initiative to build a just and lasting peace in Colombia.
Applied research and training program with Nasa indigenous communities in the municipalities of Jambal and Caldono Centro Nacional de Consultora (CNC) will conduct an applied research and training program with Nasa communities in the municipalities of Jambal and Caldono in the department of Cauca. The program will generate base line information on households and rural production through the implementation of a survey that will validate a new set of indicators, which will contribute towards the measurement of quality of life of indigenous communities. The project will directly benefit 135 persons and indirectly benefit 10,000 indigenous people.
Knowledge management strategy for value chain competitiveness and green markets with community-based rural enterprises RCV will work to improve communication and collaboration among its 42 community-based member-enterprises from throughout Colombia. RCV's program of hands-on training and new subgrant fund will help farmers involved in the enterprises develop their production, marketing and business skills.
Design and implementation of a participatory process with youth, grassroots organizations and rural families to improve institutional structures, political and socio-economic conditions in the region of the Duende, Valle del Cauca Asociacin de Campesinos de la Vereda Palmas (Asocap) will work with Asociacin Comunitaria de Productores de Mora y Dems Cultivos de la Regin (Asocomore) and Fundacin Ecolgica Produende (Produende) to develop the leadership skills and income potential of young residents of the rural municipalities of Darien, Trujillo and Riofrio, department of Valle del Cauca, and will provide them access to materials, supplies, and equipment. The work will benefit 350 Colombians directly and another 1,500 indirectly, and it should motivate young residents to stay and build a future for themselves in the region.