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Unin de Comunidades Productoras Forestales Zapotecos-Chinantecos de la Sierra Jurez, de R.I. La Unin de Comunidades Productoras Forestales Zapotecos-Chinantecos de la Sierra Jurez de R.I. (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 2422 Chinatecos working on 25605 hectares of woodlands. Another 3989 area residents will benefit from its responsible practices. ..
Strengthening local capacity: Connecting the provision of hydrological services with local economic development CCMSS will work with 11 communities in the Amanalco-Valle del Bravo region as well as with representatives of nongovernmental organizations and government to put into operation a structure to pay farmers for environmental services. The project will directly involve 635 individuals working on 220 hectares of agricultural land and forests.(ME-505)
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 project will directly involve 200 beneficiaries, including family members of the fishers, and indirectly reach 1,240 residents in Puerto Morelos, located 30 kilometers south of Cancn.
Construction of a Culture of Good Treatment and Wellbeing: training for indigenous and mestizo rural communities in Mexico. Comaletzin - 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.
Leadership development program for community foundations in Mexico Instituto Mora will work with Alianza de Fundaciones Comunitarias de Mxico, A.C. (Comunalia) and its 17 community foundations throughout Mexico to launch a training program and develop public awareness of the challenges facing the philanthropic sector as well as the need for a regulatory environment conducive to its effectiveness. The training and other activities for 199 representatives of the participating foundations will directly benefit the grassroots organizations that they support; 1,200 Mexicans will benefit indirectly.
Improving the quality of life in the rural communities of the Sierra Sur and coast of Oaxaca SICOBI, which is made up of 10 member communities, will work in the Copalita-Zimatan-Huatulco watershed in southern Oaxaca to further economic development and biodiversity through better community management of forestry, agroforestry and ecotourism; to introduce its new products and services in regional markets; and to improve its representation of its 10 members.
Presupuesto Participativo: Fortaleciendo nuestras comunidades 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. Our 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 City's 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.
Alianza Fundaciones Comunitarias Mxico, Asociacin Civil Alianza Fundaciones Comunitarias Mxico, Asociacin Civil (Comunalia) will work with the leaders, staff and boards of directors of the 17 community foundations in its network toward the design of a plan to develop the organization into an effective advocate for its members. The C.S. Mott Foundation is co- funding the process directly, involving 380 employees and board members of the participating foundations, which should benefit 15,000 Mexicans.
Solidarity Economy Entrepreneurship for a Life with Dignity 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.
Women building alternative lives of dignity and fair trade. Strengthening of economic and educational strategies, food security and care of natural resources for indigenous women of Mexico. epi Beha Asociacin Civil (epi Beha), epi Beha and Ya Muntsi Beha, a cooperative comprising 250 women in Hidalgo, will work together to develop a process to certify crafts that reflects the women's consensus on standards consistent with their own vision of fair trade and equitable treatment. The collaboration should also strengthen the women's organizations and increase their income.
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.
Empoderamiento y vida independiente de personas con discapacidad y sus familias en comunidades rurales The majority of people with disabilities in Mexico live in the southern states where they face great social marginalization. Most lack opportunities for education, healthcare, and work. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions for people with disabilities to create opportunity and a sense of belonging in Mexico. Our grantee Pia Palmera collaborates with people with disabilities and their families to further social inclusion in communities of the Oaxacan coast. The grantee raises awareness among municipal leaders and schools on issues facing people with disabilities and on practical ways to improve their inclusion in their communities. Pia Palmera also supports vocational training and income-generating initiatives such as carpentry, vegetable gardens, bicycle repair, and wheelchair adaptation, to increase the incomes of people with disabilities.
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.
Comunalia 2.0 Locally-rooted institutions have the ability to unlock resources for communities and ensure the long-term sustainability of civil society organizations. At the IAF, we strengthen the ability of local philanthropic organizations to carry out effective programming and obtain additional public and private resources for long-term development. Our grantee partner, Alianza de Fundaciones Comunitarias Mexico (Comunalia), will establish a hub to promote peer-to-peer coordination and learning, providing training for community foundations in areas such as evaluation, community philanthropy, grassroots development grantmaking, fundraising, and proposal writing. This hub will contribute to the long-term viability of thousands of civil society organizations providing a range of services without relying on U.S. government resources or assistance.
Education/Training Grant 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.
Human Rights Committee Fray Pedro Lorenzo of the Nada A.C. The 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.
Alianza Fundaciones Comunitarias Mxico, Asociacin Civil Alianza Fundaciones Comunitarias Mxico, Asociacin Civil (Comunalia) will work with the leaders, staff and boards of directors of the 17 community foundations in its network toward the design of a plan to develop the organization into an effective advocate for its members. The C.S. Mott Foundation is co-funding the process directly, involving 380 employees and board members of the participating foundations, which should benefit 15,000 Mexicans.
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.
Strengthening Campesino Leadership to promote micro-enterprises and development projects in Mexico CAMPESINO will include Central American and Caribbean leaders in its agroecology school, support Tijtoca Nemilizli to gain legal recognition as a certifying association and to promote locally focused quality assurance systems in Tlaxcala, and strengthen a consumer and producers' cooperative to address increasing demand for agroecological grains. The work will benefit directly an additional 248 people.
Comunalia 2.0: Building a Better Future for Mexico Locally-rooted institutions have the ability to unlock resources for communities and ensure the long-term sustainability of civil society organizations. At the IAF, we strengthen the ability of local philanthropic organizations to carry out effective programming and obtain additional public and private resources for long-term development. Our grantee partner, Alianza de Fundaciones Comunitarias Mxico (Comunalia), will establish a hub to promote peer-to-peer coordination and learning, providing training for community foundations in areas such as evaluation, community philanthropy, grassroots development grantmaking, fundraising, and proposal writing. This hub will contribute to the long-term viability of thousands of civil society organizations providing a range of services without relying on U.S. government resources or assistance.
JUXTA.co & iTEXTIL 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.
Knowledge in Practice: sharing agroecologic al knowledge throughout Latin America Centro de Estudos e Promoo da Agricultura de Grupo (CEPAGRO) will work in close collaboration with other IAF grantee partners throughout Latin America to develop a collaborative network among farmers to share training opportunities and best practices on agroecology. This project will benefit directly 1,000 people and another 40,000 indirectly.
Friends for Chiapas - Community philanthropy Chiapas has the highest rate of extreme poverty of any state in Mexico, and its residents, including indigenous Tseltal and Tsotsil groups, experience associated food insecurity, health issues, low formal education rates, and net out-migration. To address this, Amigos de San Cristbal is drawing from multiple sources'individual residents, community groups, and the public and private sectors'to channel know-how and resources to development projects in the region. It is mobilizing giving circles of individual donors based in the Chiapas highlands, Mexico City and the United States to support long-term development in Chiapas. The grantee will carry out training and technical assistance, two community assessments on issues that affect highland communities, and a campaign to raise awareness about regional challenges related to health, education, and natural resources. Amigos de San Cristbal will also provide seed funding for community projects addressing those issues.
School for the Common Good: Productive Actions for Sustainable Livelihoods School for the Common Good: Productive Actions for Sustainable Livelihoods
Empowered Maya Tseltal women fostering food security and diversified, sustainable smallholder agriculture in Chiln, Chiapas. Tseltal indigenous women and their families struggle to obtain sufficient food through small-scale agriculture. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions that enhance food security in Mexico. In Chiln, Chiapas, our grantee partner, Sbelal Kuxlejalil A.C. (SKU) provide Tseltal women with technical assistance for sustainable vegetable, fruit and small livestock production to improve their livelihoods. In addition to improving food security, SKUs activities strengthen grassroots organizations and empower Tseltal women as 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.
Comunalia 2.0 Locally-rooted institutions have the ability to unlock resources for communities and ensure the long-term sustainability of civil society organizations. At the IAF, we strengthen the ability of local philanthropic organizations to carry out effective programming and obtain additional public and private resources for long-term development. Our grantee partner, Alianza de Fundaciones Comunitarias Mxico (Comunalia), will establish a hub to promote peer-to-peer coordination and learning, providing training for community foundations in areas such as evaluation, community philanthropy, grassroots development grant-making, fundraising, and proposal writing. This hub will contribute to the long-term viability of thousands of civil society organizations providing a range of services without relying on U.S. government resources or assistance.
Strategies for Community Development in the Mayan Zone in the Face of a New Normality. The Yucatan Peninsula and Chiapas in southern Mexico are home to rich biodiversity and archeological sites that attract tourists from around the world. In spite of these resources, the Maya, Tseltal, and Chool Indigenous communities that live in these areas confront poverty and encroachments on their land. The Red Indgena de Turismo de Mxico A.C. (RITA) supports Indigenous communities in harnessing community-led tourism and using natural resources sustainably and inclusively. The IAF supports community-led solutions to fortify civil society organizations and approaches to expand economic opportunity and inclusion for historically marginalized groups. Through this grant, RITA engages Indigenous communities to create community action plans, network with each other, and invest seed funding in tourism enterprises to help adapt to the pandemic and improve the quality of life of their communities. RITA's activities bolster efforts to counteract environmental degradation and protect the natural resources on which communities depend.
Sustainable Production Alternatives for the Reintegration of Migrants in Transnationa l Communities Tsotsiles of Chiapas Sustainable Production Alternatives for the Reintegration of Migrants in Transnationa l Communities Tsotsiles of Chiapas
Rebuilding Community Ties Comunidad - Mexico. 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 Comunidad, A.C. (Comunidad) partners with communities in Morelos 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. Comunidads activities 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.
Centro de Formacin y Capacitacin para Mujeres K`inal Antsetik, A.C. Womenparticularly LGBTI womenfrom indigenous communities in the highlands of Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Guerrero struggle to earn enough to support their households by marketing their traditional textiles. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions that expand economic opportunity for indigenous Maya women in Mexico. Our grantee partner, Centro de Formacin y Capacitacin para Mujeres K'inal Antsetik, A.C. (CEFOCAM), trains indigenous women in income-generation activities, leadership skills, and women's rights issues. CEFOCAM's activities include working with a community-run women's weaving cooperative to improve its production processes, as well as training women leaders to engage with local authorities to reduce gender-based violence.
Sociedad de Solidaridad Social Los Lagos 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.
Strengthening Community Forestry in Mexico Forest communities in Oaxaca, Michoacn, Guerrero, and Tlaxcala face environmental challenges that threaten their natural resources. Estudios Rurales y Asesora Campesina, A.C. (ERAC) provides technical assistance on sustainable forest management techniques adapted to local conditions and creates a network to share best practices. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to expand economic opportunity in Mexico. ERAC's activities bolster efforts to counteract environmental degradation and protect the natural resources that communities depend on.
Network of cooperative women for a culture of peace Women in rural and Indigenous communities in Mexico face high rates of gender-based violence, and without economic independence they cannot remove themselves from violent environments. The IAF supports community-led solutions to promote human rights and inclusion through education, training, and economic opportunities. Our grantee Grupo de Estudios Sobre la Mujer Rosario Castellanos, A.C. (GESMujer) collaborates with Indigenous, mestiza, and Afro-Mexican women leaders in Oaxaca to advance their economic empowerment and their right to live free of violence through assessments and action plans, training of promoters, funding for their economic initiatives, and learning exchanges.The grant advances the IAF's strategic initiatives on Chronic Violence and Social Inclusion by focusing on women as business leaders who replicate training and promote inclusive development in their communities.