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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.
Rural micro- enterprise UDEC will work with Cooperativa Cosechando Juntos lo Sembrado, S.C. (CSJ), to provide business training and technical assistance to 500 backyard gardeners and 125 rural microentrepeneurs selling food, clothing, soaps and shampoos and crafts in 40 communities of Queretaro. The program also offers them access to credit through savings-and- loan associations.
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 another10,000 indirectly...
Environment Grant GAIA will work with seven communities (ejidos) in the Sierra de Huimanguillo Tabasco organized as the Unin de Ejidos de la Sierra de Huimanguillo (UNESIH) to support natural resource and territory management. The project will involve 210 ejidatarios, or residents of ejidos, working in roughly 12,722 hectares of agricultural, livestock, and forested land.
Improving the capacity and competitiveness of coffee farmers in Veracruz, Puebla and Oaxaca. Centro Internacional de Capacitacin en Cafeticultura y Desarrollo Sustentable, A.C. (CICADES) will work with farmers of the Integradora de Cafs de Especialidad de las Altas Montaas (INCAFESAM) in Oaxaca, Puebla and Veracruz to strengthen these growers competitiveness and sustainability. Project activities will help improve organic coffee production, processing, and sales for specialty export markets and to satisfy domestic demand for roasted coffee. Farmers will use organic fertilizers and learn about techniques to produce high quality fungus-resistant coffee plants. This project will also promote the organizational growth for INCAFESAM and encourage youth participation through training and opportunities in sales and coffee cupping. The grant will benefit 490 people directly and 2,000 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.
Improving livelihoods of Mexican families through community projects that include diaspora investment. 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.
Our vision of change: community museums and schools strengthening visions from the past and the future Unin de Museos Comunitarios de Oaxaca A.C. (UMCO) will partner with primary schools and high schools to develop the leadership technical skills and cultural identity of marginalized children and adolescents in 15 rural communities of Oaxaca through a series of workshops festivals exchanges and exhibitions. Project activities will reach at least 2700 children 500 adolescents and 300 adults.
Our vision of change: community museums and schools strengthening visions from the past and the future Young people in rural communities of Oaxaca struggle to gain employability skills and maintain their cultural identity. Unin de Museos Comunitarios de Oaxaca, A.C. (UMCO) partners with schools to facilitate workshops, festivals, exchanges, and museum exhibits that help develop the leadership, technical skills, and cultural identity of children and adolescents. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to strengthen governance in Mexico. UMCO's activities strengthen excluded communities so they can improve their living conditions and participate equally in a nation's political, economic, and social life.
Improving the Quality of Fair Trade and Organic- certified Coffee and Increasing the Market Share of the Cooperative of Small Producers in Sierra Madre FTV, a cooperative located in a buffer zone of the El Triunfo Reserve, plans to improve the quality of its coffee certified as fair-trade and organic and increase sales by investing in equipment, infrastructure, training in quality control, and technical assistance for farmers. The project should improve the income of 447 farmers, thereby benefiting 2,235 family members as well.
Construction of a Culture of Good Treatment and Wellbeing: training for indigenous and mestizo rural communities in Mexico. Women living in rural and indigenous communities in Mexico face high rates of gender-based violence. At the IAF we support community-led solutions to promote human rights and inclusion through education and training. Our grantee partner Coordinacin Interregional Feminista Rural Comaletzin" (Comaletzin) trains local women leaders in eight states to promote gender equity and reduce gender-based violence equipping them with the skills to replicate the training and build peer-to peer learning and action networks that promote inclusive development in their communities.
RedAmerica Mexico node 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.
Breaking paradigms towards fishing sustainability: Mobilizing solutions and resources for the entrepreneurship of youth and women in fishing communities. Women and young people from Mexican coastal communities support hundreds of small fishing businesses and cooperatives, as well as ocean conservation, with their labor. However, they are essentially excluded from decision making spaces, which are dominated by male fishers. The IAF supports community solutions led by women and young people that protect natural ocean resources while also improving their livelihoods. Our grantee Comunidad y Biodiversidad A.C. (COBI) expands the management skills and access to financial resources of women and young leaders across 22 coastal communities, helping them advance conservation projects. COBI is also broadening the ways that women and young people can formally participate in decision making within fishing networks.
Action Plan for the Strengthening 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.
Social Laboratory for Youth-Led Initiatives Young people represent an underutilized resource in Mexico, with many facing obstacles to sharing their ideas and proposals through civic participation. Afrolatino and Indigenous youth, LGBTQ+ youth, youth with disabilities, rural youth, and those living in marginalized urban communities all face additional barriers to full participation. Yet it is precisely these young people who are best able to identify potential solutions to address their challenges. The IAF supports young people to identify, design, and implement youth-led action plans in their communities, mobilizing their energy and talent. Our grantee Alternativas y Capacidades will train and mentor young people to develop plans, policies, and solutions to increase their civic participation and empower them to lift up their voices for the causes that most affect them. By investing in youth-led initiatives, Alternativas is investing in a more inclusive and sustainable future and new generation of Mexican leaders.
Improved group production and sale of textiles in the Chiapas highlands Batsil Antsetik will collaborate with indigenous women from eight artisan groups in the regions of Los Altos and Los Bosques Chiapas to improve their earnings craft production skills and self-esteem and to foster cultural pride. These communities are home to an impressive textile tradition passed from parents to children. Beyond just an economic activity weaving is part of local culture and it represents a real artistic phenomenon. The colors and designs used in textiles carry deep significance for each community for example shirts dresses and other traditional clothing. Grant activities include training workshops quality improvement and design innovation direct market access learning exchanges and organizational strengthening. The grant will benefit 80 Maya-Tsotsil indigenous women directly and 400 people indirectly.
Strengthening Campesino Leadership to promote micro-enterprises and development projects in Mexico Centro Campesino para el Desarrollo Sustentable A.C. (CAMPESINO) will work with farmers in the state of Tlaxcala to improve their income and food supply through training in conservation techniques leadership planning and related subjects. It will also support the further development of a community-based business construct and equip a storage facility and offer farmers access to working capital and loans..
Daycare centers for active families (CASAS) FCMAT will organize two daycare centers for children between the ages of four and nine with the goal of using the experience to offer the service in other poor neighborhoods of Matamoros. The proposed cooperative model will be managed by the children's parents.
Human Rights Committee Fray Pedro Lorenzo of the Nada A.C. Comit de Derechos Humanos Fray Pedro Lorenzo de la Nada A.C. (Fray Pedro) will engage approximately 1,500 residents in 90 rural communities in the municipality of Ocosingo in promoting a culture of peace and advocating for young people and women's rights. It will also encourage 200 small producers to adopt sustainable farming practices on their plots and work toward a more reliable food supply for farmers in the municipality. This project is expected to improve the livelihood of Tseltal communities through conflict resolution and women's empowerment activities and generate more income for farmers by adopting agroecological practices. A total of 1,500 residents will benefit directly, and another 6,000 family members will benefit indirectly through project activities.
Rehabilitation training program for communities affected by the September 19 earthquake in Puebla 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. FCPs investments enhance food security, increase income, and provide training and technical assistance to mitigate the impact of future natural disasters.
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 Mexicos 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 IAFs strategic initiative for sustainable agriculture.
Promoting rural livelihoods in Veracruz in the context of Covid-19. The economic downturn stemming from the COVID-19 crisis is exacerbating already severe trends of poverty, migration, and food insecurity in Mexico. The IAF supports community-led approaches for the social and economic inclusion of women and young people, vulnerable populations that have been particularly affected by the crisis. Our grantee Desarrollo Autogestionario, A.C. (AUGE) promotes recovery and resilience among communities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic by addressing food security through sustainable smallholder agricultural practices. AUGE is also expanding women's savings groups to empower women economically and supporting women- and youth-led enterprises in adapting to client needs in the pandemic to generate income.This grant is part of the IAF's broader COVID-19 response strategy and the Women INvesting in Growth and Security (WINGS) initiative to empower women as business and community leaders.
Construction of a Culture of Good Treatment and Wellbeing: training for indigenous and mestizo rural communities in Mexico. Women living in rural and indigenous communities in Mexico face high rates of gender-based violence. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to promote human rights and inclusion through education and training. Our grantee partner, Coordinacin Interregional Feminista Rural "Comaletzin" (Comaletzin), trains local women leaders in eight states to promote gender equity and reduce gender-based violence, equipping them with the skills to replicate the training and build peer-to peer learning and action networks that promote inclusive development in their communities.
Solidarity Economy Enterprises for Rural Livelihoods The economic downturn stemming from the COVID-19 crisis is exacerbating already severe trends of poverty, migration, and food insecurity in Mexico. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions that expand economic opportunity and inclusion of historically marginalized groups. Our grantee partner Accin Social Samuel Ruiz A.C. (ASSR) assists Indigenous and mestizo families in Chiapas to generate income and improve their quality of life through training, technical assistance, farmer-to-farmer exchanges, and seed funding for their enterprises. This grant includes activities to increase the resiliency of rural communities as part of the IAF's broader COVID-19 response strategy.This grant is part of the IAF's broader COVID-19 response strategy.
Investing in Community Foundations in Mxico FM will develop a program of challenge grants for community foundations supporting grassroots initiatives, will conduct training in grantmaking for their staff, will offer related technical assistance and will disseminate what has been learned and accomplished. The project should directly impact 14,900 Mexicans in 14 localities and benefit 120,000 other residents indirectly. The C.S. Mott Foundation is co-funding this grant.
Strengthening the Regional Network of Rural Tourism Enterprises Voces por la Naturaleza in Mexico. SuMar will increase the collective capacity of 10 local community-based enterprises to advocate for, design, and implement community-managed tourism initiatives in the Gulf of California of Mexico. SuMar will offer training, technical assistance, small grants as seed capital and exchanges to develop quality and viable local initiatives. It will document experiences and develop a network of small community- owned tourism enterprises that support species and habitat conservation, the Alianza Regional de Empresas Comunitarias de Turismo (ARECOT), to share experiences, generate greater regional impact and influence existing state and national government-sponsored tourism programs. At least 292 members of the 10 groups will benefit directly from project activities and more than 600 residents will benefit indirectly.
Community action to ensure the success of the fishing refuge in Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, Mexico COBI will work with a fishing cooperative in Quintana Roo to implement a community- based marine reserve management strategy that will restore reef health and increase economic benefits to traditional fishers and local tourism enterprises. The
To know is to participate, to participate is to build: Towards Collective action to transform education in Las Margaritas IAE, in partnership with the Consejo Municipal de Participacin Social (CMPSE), will train more than 1,500 parents, educators, students, and other local citizens to convene, deliberate and reach agreements on the allocation of the municipal education budget. Beneficiaries will learn and practice democratic skills through community dialogues to construct education policy around the role of the school not only as the axis of learning but as the promoter of civic education and community participation. (ME-488)
Leadership training for Young LGBT in Quintana Roo Red + Posithiva de Quintana Roo A.C. in Mexico (Redposithiva) will create and implement a pilot training program for young LGBT leaders in Quintana Roo and will raise awareness of the rights of the LGBT community. Grant activities include visits to similar training programs, conducting surveys on the status of LGBT people in Quintana Roo, developing educational materials, and training young leaders who can train others. Trainings will address subjects such as human rights, Mexico's legal framework that guarantees rights, the LGBT movement in Mexico, stigma, diversity, discrimination, leadership, citizenship, alliance-building and acquisition of popular education techniques and tools. The grant will benefit about 120 LGBT young people.
Agriculture/Food Production Grant UZACHI will work with four indigenous Chinantec and Zapotec member communities in the Sierra Jurez region of Oaxaca toward the integrated management of the local ecosystem. Its technical services and subgrants will reach two additional Chinantec communities and encourage the involvement of women and young Chinatecos. UZACHI is expected to develop as an organization capable of providing leadership to other indigenous communities. Its approach to forestry will directly benefit 2,422 Chinatecos working on 25,605 hectares of woodlands. Another 3,989 area residents will benefit from its responsible practices.
Alliance Building: A Collaborative Strategy for Local Sustainable Development in Mexico Mexico faces unprecedented challenges and opportunities in improving civic engagement in natural resources management. Fondo de Accin Solidaria (FASOL) partners with grassroots organizations to improve environmental governance. At the IAF we support community-led solutions to strengthen democratic governance in Mexico. FASOL's 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 thinking to unlock private public and local resources for grassroots development
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 1,500 members of their families.
Rehabilitation training program for communities affected by the September 19 earthquake in Puebla 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.