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Fortalecimiento de estrategias de organizaciones de base que responden a las situaciones de violenciaque experimentan nias y mujeres migrantes en Mxico. Long-term development efforts often fail without diverse, local sources of funding. At the IAF, we strengthen the ability of local philanthropic organizations to do effective programming and unlock additional local and national resources for long-term development. Our grantee partner Fondo Semillas, A.C. (Fondo Semillas) provides funding and technical support to women-led grassroots organizations. Fondo Semillas will award small grants to organizations throughout Mexico that offer programs and services to underserved populations; this includes work to educate and raise awareness among migrants employed in Mexico about their rights and to help prevent human trafficking, facilitate their integration into local communities, and promote alternatives to migration by bolstering small enterprise development. Through capacity building and a networking program, Fondo Semillas will strengthen the work of these grassroots organizations.This grant is part of the IAF's Women Investing in Growth and Security (WINGS) initiative to empower women as business and community leaders.
Sociedad de Solidaridad Social Los Lagos de Colores SSS (Lago de Colores) Sociedad de Solidaridad Social "Los Lagos de Colores " SSS (Lagos de Colores) will work with its 150 member families of indigenous Chuj, Tojolabal and Mam descent in four rural municipalities in Tziscao, Chiapas, a toward the application of "agroecology " or farming practices compatible with the responsible use of the environment; the improvement of coffee production and processing; and more effective marketing of coffee, honey and vegetables. Its workshops will address concepts related to community, territory, identity and gender. The increased income and awareness should benefit 750 Mexicans of indigenous descent.
Alternatives for the Food Security Crisis in Indigenous Communities in Southern Mexico CAI will work with 120 Mexicans of Mixe, Zapotec, Mixtec and African descent living in the isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, to improve their food supply and income. It will build greenhouses and provide training, technical assistance and other support to 60 families using bio-intensive methods to grow vegetables for consumption and sale. (ME-506)
Malinalco: Local Sustainable Development FCM will expand the reach and depth of programs addressing the environment, women and young people; strengthen community organization efforts and civic engagement; and coordinate with municipal authorities and local businesses to complement existing initiatives. About 685 low-income residents in Malinalco will benefit from project activities, and 12,000 residents will benefit indirectly from the coordinated effort to carry out a recycling campaign and fire control and prevention initiative.
Community Strengthening Program in response to the emergency in Isthmus of Oaxaca. In the wake of the 2017 earthquakes Mexico faces unprecedented challenges to secure long-term recovery and work with communities to prepare for future natural disasters. Fundacin Comunitaria Oaxaca A.C. (FCO) partners with communities in Oaxaca impacted by the earthquake to award subgrants for community projects that improve food sovereignty and small-business productivity and to offer training and technical advice to mitigate the impact of future natural disasters. At the IAF we support community-led solutions to expand economic opportunity in Mexico. FCO's activities further actions that make more resources available to communities seeking to address their own development needs. This grant is part of our broader initiative to encourage innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to unlock private public and local resources for grassroots development. This project has been made possible in part by a grant from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Community strengthening in Puebla in response to the 2017 earthquakes. International donors often rally to address the immediate aftermath of natural disasters, but few continue to fund long-term rebuilding and resiliency efforts. Following the 2017 earthquakes, Mexico has faced unprecedented challenges to ensuring long-term recovery in affected communities and in preparing communities to be resilient to future natural disasters. At the IAF, we strengthen the ability of local philanthropic organizations to do effective programming and unlock additional public and private resources for long-term development. Our grantee partner, Fundacin Comunitaria Puebla (FCP), raises funds from local private sector and philanthropic organizations and then invests in community projects in Puebla, Mexico. FCP's investments enhance food security, increase income, and provide training and technical assistance to mitigate the impact of future natural disasters.
Centro de Formacin y Capacitacin para Mujeres K'inal Antsetik, A.C. Centro de Formacin y Capacitacin para Mujeres K'inal Antsetik, A.C. (CEFOCAM). CEFOCAM, a women-led indigenous organization, will offer training in cooperativism, leadership and the rights of women, including those who identify as LBTI, in indigenous communities in the highlands of Chiapas, Oaxaca and Guerrero. Benefits will reach 372 indigenous women and 1,500 members of their families.
Community savings groups Residents of rural areas in Baja California Sur, Mexico, often have to travel more than two hours each way to access financial services, such as savings accounts or small loans, that can improve their lives. Banks are often reluctant to service them due to their small amounts of savings. When these residents pool together their savings, however, they can better manage crises, invest in their small businesses, and gain financial independence. The IAF supports community-led solutions to promote inclusive economic development. Our grantee Pedazo por Pedazo un Mundo Mejor Philanthropiece AC (PpAC) is identifying, training, and mentoring local leaders to help rural communities in Baja California Sur form savings groups that provide financial services while also building trust and accountability among their members. PpAC is also training local promoters to replicate the community savings groups model in new communities, allowing more local residents to provide for their own financial needs.
Indigenous families in Chiapas creating paths to build their strategies for development from schools, families, and the community Climate-related challenges threaten the food security of indigenous smallholder farmers in southern Mexico. Discrimination and gender-based violence also limit women's full participation in Mexican society. The IAF supports community-led approaches to creating economic opportunities for organic farmers and the social and economic inclusion of women and young people. Our grantee partner Xilotl Asociacin para el Desarrollo Social A.C. (Xilotl) works with farmers to improve the sustainable production of diverse crops and livestock. Xilotl is training community promoters in sustainable farming techniques, delivering technical assistance and materials for families to improve yields and produce food during additional months of the year, and providing seed funding for women- and youth-led economic initiatives. It also supports networks of women and men that work to promote gender equity and reduce gender-based violence.
Environment Grant Estudios Rurales y Asesora Campesina, A.C. (ERAC) in Mexico will conduct research in seven forest communities and work with their respective grassroots organizations to draft a plan to address the challenges to economic success and environmental viability. The work will benefit at least 75 members of community-based forestry organizations directly and more than 5,000 other local residents indirectly.
Strengthening Social Fabric in Malinalco In the wake of the 2017 earthquakes, Mexico faces unprecedented challenges to secure long-term recovery and to help communities prepare for future natural disasters. Fundacin Comunitaria Malinalco, A.C. (FCM) partners with communities in Malinalco impacted by the earthquake to improve food sovereignty and small-business productivity and to mitigate the impact of future natural disasters. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to expand economic opportunity in Mexico. FCMs activities make more resources available to communities seeking to address their own development needs. This grant is part of our broader initiative to encourage innovative and entrepreneurial approaches to unlock private, public and local resources for grassroots development. This project has been made possible in part by a grant from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
School for the Common Good: Productive Actions for Sustainable Livelihoods Ideas Comunitarias will reach more than 240 young indigenous leaders in several communities of Oaxaca with its curriculum that trains them to undertake community development and projects for generating income. Students will be eligible for subgrants to fund their proposals.
Navigating the social and solidary economy from the healthy tseltal household/Transitando en la Economa Social y Solidaria a partir del hogar tseltal saludable In Tseltal communities in the highlands of Chiapas, Indigenous children and their families face a wide range of challenges, including chronic malnutrition, deteriorating environmental conditions, violence, and health challenges that have long-term repercussions. The IAF supports lasting, comprehensive solutions for community developmentfrom health to environment to enterprisebased on local needs and resources. Our partner Ixim A.C. (Ixim) is working with Tseltal families to provide integrated solutions to these challenges through community assessments, health and nutrition interventions, conflict resolution approaches, and simple technologies to improve air, water, and soil quality. By supporting community savings groups and enterprises, Ixim is also helping families to build sustainable livelihoods.
Indigenous families in Chiapas creating paths to build their strategies for development from schools, families, and the community Climate-related challenges threaten the food security of indigenous smallholder farmers in southern Mexico. Discrimination and gender-based violence also limit womens full participation in Mexican society. The IAF supports community-led approaches to creating economic opportunities for organic farmers and the social and economic inclusion of women and young people. Our grantee partner Xilotl Asociacin para el Desarrollo Social A.C. (Xilotl) works with farmers to improve the sustainable production of diverse crops and livestock. Xilotl is training community promoters in sustainable farming techniques, delivering technical assistance and materials for families to improve yields and produce food during additional months of the year, and providing seed funding for women- and youth-led economic initiatives. It also supports networks of women and men that work to promote gender equity and reduce gender-based violence.
Improving livelihoods of Mexican families through community projects that include diaspora investment. Instituto de Investigacin y Prctica Social y Cultural A.C. (IIPSOCULTA) will engage families in the Mexican states of Guerrero Mexico Puebla and Tlaxcala to improve livelihoods through the implementation of grassroots development projects that include diaspora investment. The project includes community-led action plans and financing for economic and cultural initiatives through diaspora investment in grassroots development. The grant includes assistance to strengthen IIPSOCULTA's organizational capacity. The grant will benefit 200 men and women directly and more than 500 family members indirectly.
Intelligent Sustainable Coffee with Climate: Local strategy for the challenges of Climate Change in the Highlands of Chiapas. Smallholder coffee producers in southern Mexico face an array of challenges, including shifts in weather patterns and the impacts of coffee rust. These affect farmers ability to grow and process crops, and earn sufficient income to maintain their families. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to expand economic opportunity and enhance food security through sustainable smallholder agricultural practices. Our grantee partner, Campesinos Ecolgicos de la Sierra Madre de Chiapas S.C. (CESMACH), is a cooperative that improves families and community resilience to market fluctuations and adverse weather conditions in Chiapas through enhanced production, storage, processing, and marketing of sustainably-produced specialty coffee and honey..
Centro de Formacin y Capacitacin para Mujeres K`inal Antsetik, A.C. Centro de Formacin y Capacitacin para Mujeres K'inal Antsetik A.C. (CEFOCAM) a women-led indigenous organization will offer training in cooperativism leadership and the rights of women including those who identify as LBTI in indigenous communities in the highlands of Chiapas Oaxaca and Guerrero. Benefits will reach 372 indigenous women and 1500 members of their families..
Resiliencia comunitaria en Mxico: El impulso de las Fundaciones Comunitarias. Mexico, like most Latin American and Caribbean countries, has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The virus has had devastating economic and social impacts on an already economically unequal country. Alianza de Fundaciones Comunitarias (Comunalia) is developing a challenge grant program to enhance community foundations capacity to support grassroots initiatives in Mexico. The grants enable foundations to quickly respond in creative ways to the economic or social challenges in their own communities during the pandemic in the aftermath of the crisis. Additional grant activities include training, technical assistance, peer-to-peer networking, and communications and dissemination to share the results and impact of the program to help Comunalia members develop their grassroots grantmaking programs to better respond to COVID-19 and future crises.
Strengthening capacity and services for beekeeper producers DEMAAC will work with 158 indigenous Tzolzil, Tzeltal and Ch'ol Mayan beekeepers in the Chiapas jungle and highlands to improve their production of organic and fair-trade honey for export. It will offer training, access to credit and payment for honey upon delivery.
El agua en nuestras manos Fortaleciendo sistemas comunitarios para la gestin integral del agua en Mxico. Many rural Mexicans do not have access to public water systems or clean water for drinking, cleaning, and growing food. To fill this gap, communities have organized non-governmental water committees that manage delivery of water to households. However, these committees often lack needed resources, as well as technical and administrative support. Our grantee partner Controla tu Gobierno (CTG) will strengthen water committees capacity to provide communities with water and improve their management ability. CTG will also support a network among water committees in the Mexican states of Mxico, Hidalgo, Puebla and Morelos to improve even more communities access to safe and clean water and promote good practices in governing water committees.
Strengthening of leadership and community entrepreneurship for the good living (lekil kuxlejal) of the people in Mitontic, Chiapas. Indigenous Tseltal and Tsotsil young people in southern Mexico face limited livelihood opportunities, leading many to migrate to other places in Mexico or the U.S. As a result, communities are losing their most important resource: young people. The IAF supports community-led solutions for Indigenous young people to identify and develop homegrown economic opportunities based on local resources and culture. Our grantee Jvenes Articulando Territorios A.C. (JovenArte), an Indigenous youth-led organization in Chiapas, is carrying out a youth leadership and entrepreneurship program embedded in the Indigenous notion of lekil kuxlejal or good living to encourage young people to stay in school, start a business, and build local leadership.This grant is part of the IAF's Social Inclusion and Alternatives to Migration strategic initiatives focused on Indigenous young people.
A Partnership to Pilot an Indicator Framework for Sustainable Agriculture in Latin America Farmers are often absent from discussions about how policies and programs impact sustainable agricultural production. At the IAF, we are investing in a regional effort, in conjunction with the University of British Columbia, that will give voice to farmers and directly support them in collecting, analyzing, and presenting data that they can incorporate into their operations to manage their farms more efficiently. Centro Campesino para el Desarrollo Sustentable, A.C. (Campesino) established Mexico's first recognized participatory certification system and the first network connecting producers directly to consumers to improve farmers' quality of life and consumers' food security. It provides training and technical assistance programs that emphasize revitalizing traditional knowledge and farm practices that protect the environment and promote sustainable agricultural technologies.The results of this regional project will inform agricultural support organizations, government extension experts, farmer groups, and policy-makers with context-specific data about how to encourage the transition to sustainable agricultural practices to improve food security, enhance farmer livelihoods, and minimize environmental degradation. This is part of the IAF's strategic initiative for sustainable agriculture.
Presupuesto Participativo: Fortaleciendo nuestras comunidades Ollin-Mexico. In Mexico City, participatory budgetingin which communities democratically decide how to spend available municipal public fundspresents a tremendous opportunity for residents to build strong local organizations and enhance their ability to advocate for the development priorities of their communities. IAF grantee partner Ollin, Jvenes en Movimiento, A.C. (Ollin) engages grassroots leaders to offer training on participatory budgeting, implements a subgrant fund in Mexico State as a pilot of participatory budgeting, promotes the replication of this model beyond Mexico City, and disseminates information on Mexico Citys participatory budgeting program to citizens. At the IAF, we strengthen the ability of local organizations to unlock additional public and private resources for long-term development.
Lekil Kuxlejal: Integral strengthening with Indigenous women of Chiapas through textiles and the support of effective social entrepreneurship. Indigenous Tsotsil and Tseltal women artisans from the Highlands of Chiapas (Los Altos de Chiapas) are vulnerable to unethical market practices in the sale of their highly-valued traditional textiles. The IAF supports community-led efforts to protect the cultural heritage of Indigenous peoples in order to improve their incomes and labor conditions. Our grantee partner Proyecto Impacto Consultores A.C. (NGOImpacto) is bringing Indigenous women weavers? perspectives to key government institutions and private sector stakeholders to ensure market access and recognition of their cultural property. NGOImpacto is also training Indigenous craftswomen in social entrepreneurship and human rights, and is supporting the expansion of Juxta Nation, a social enterprise owned by cooperatives of Indigenous craftswomen from Los Altos de Chiapas. This grant is part of the IAF?s Women INvesting in Growth and Security (WINGS) initiative to empower women as business and community leaders.
Improve the Production, Transformati on and Marketing of Organic Coffee SSTI, which groups farmers and markets their coffee certified as organic and fair trade, will offer its members training and technical assistance, will develop its grassroots business and will create a working-capital fund from which to pay farmers upon delivery.
Environment Grant Comunidad y Biodiversidad, A.C. (COBI) will work with two additional cooperatives on controlling the invasion of lionfish off the Yucutan Peninsula by harvesting quantities sufficient to meet the growing consumer demand. Fishers will receive training in the use of diving equipment and in management, accounting and marketing. Some 150 fisher families will benefit directly from the expansion of COBI's program; more than 600 other residents of Quintana Roo will benefit indirectly.
Improving livelihoods of Mexican families through community projects that include diaspora investmen Families that have one or more relatives abroad face challenges that include securing investment for sound business initiatives to improve livelihoods, raising children alone, and depression as a result of separation. Instituto de Investigacin y Prctica Social y Cultural A.C. (IIPSOCULTA) provides financial assistance through grassroots development projects in Guerrero, Mexico state, Puebla, and Tlaxcala that fund cultural initiatives and increase means of self-support for community members. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to expand economic opportunity in Mexico. IIPSOCULTA's activities strengthen grassroots organizations through education and training and build peer-to-peer learning and action networks.
Action Plan for the Strengthenin g of Community Forest Management in Mexico Estudios Rurales y Asesora Campesina, A.C. in Mexico, $42,100 over one year; counterpart committed, $37,720 ERAC will conduct research in seven forest communities and work with their respective grassroots organizations to draft a plan to address the challenges to economic success and environmental viability. The work will benefit at least 75 members of community-based forestry organizations directly and more than 5,000 other local residents indirectly.
Corporate Social Investment Grant Centro Mexicano para la Filantropa, A.C. (CEMEFI), a fundraising and donor organization, is a founding member of The Inter-American Network of Corporate Foundations and Actions for Grassroots Development (RedEAmrica), an IAF- initiated business- sector launched in 2002. In partnership with five other RedEAmrica members (C CEMEX, Fundacin ADO, Fundacin del Empresariado de Mexico (Fundemex), Fundacin Haciendas del Mundo Maya (FHMM) and Fundacin Merced) CEMEFI will develop and manage a subgrant fund to finance grassroots development and will otherwise encourage corporate social investment in Mexico. The grant will 600 Mexicans directly; 3,000 members of their family will benefit indirectly.
Strengthening Community Forestry in Mexico Estudios Rurales y Asesora Campesina, A.C. (ERAC) will engage grassroots organizations in the states of Oaxaca, Michoacn, Guerrero and Tlaxcala to implement sustainable forest management techniques adapted to local conditions; consolidate community forest enterprises (CFE); and create a network that shares best practices and advocates for regulations and norms that reflect regional contexts. ERAC will provide technical assistance, training, materials and subgrants to promote sustainable forest management in each region and strengthen CFEs. Some 200 residents of six forest communities will benefit from activities directly and another 10,000 indirectly.
Sustainable Production Alternatives for the Reintegratio n of Migrants in Transnationa l Communities Tsotsiles of Chiapas Sustainable Production Alternatives for the Reintegratio n of Migrants in Transnationa l Communities Tsotsiles of Chiapas
Strengthening the rural economy and the local organization Pixquiac River Basin, Central Veracruz, Mexico. Senderos y Encuentros para un Desarrollo Autnomo Sustentable, A.C. (SENDAS) will work to support the Comit de la Cuenca del Ro Pixquiac (COCUPIX), an organization composed of residents of four indigenous communities, civil society organizations and the municipal government of Xalapa, in its management of natural resources in the watershed of the Pixquiac River, Central Veracruz. The project, which includes payment for environmental services, will directly involve 575 families living in the watershed on roughly 161 hectares of agricultural and forested land. It will indirectly benefit 1,140 ejidatarios, or residents of the indigenous communities, and 125,000 water users in the city of Xalapa.