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Online Security Training for Partners in Bolivia The closing of space for actors in Bolivian civil society that are critical of government policies and actions is well-documented. A number of CAFOD partners (and CAFOD in Bolivia) work on issues (such as the protection of natural resources and indigenous rights) that certain sectors of the Bolivian state seek to repress. In Bolivia, human rights defenders are not usually at risk of physical violence, a number of minor incidents have occurred that have lead several partners to suspect that their communications are under surveillance. The visit of an online security expert provides an opportunity for CAFOD and three partners (Caritas, UNITAS and the Bolivian Climate Change Platform) to analyse their security situation from all angles and learn some basic techniques and skills to achieve an improved level of online security.
Access to diverse, agricultural produce and improved nutrition practices in indigenous communities Fundación Nuna works in the Department of La Paz, supporting rural indigenous communities to achieve improvements in sustainable agricultural production and community organisation. This project will provide small-scale farming households with training and technical accompaniment in sustainable and innovative agricultural practices aiming to increase their production and also reduce their vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. The team will also provide support to improve resilience, providing training on the transformation and sale of agricultural produce and on the extraction / gathering of seeds from current crops for future harvest cycles.  The team promote civic participation, transparency and accountability, in particular through the participation and skills of women, young people and children
Improving Family Health through access to safe water and sanitation ACLO Potosi is a Jesuit NGO focusing on community development in rural areas in the Potosi department.   Potosí is the poorest department of Bolivia with 88% of its rural population living in extreme poverty according to the government’s institute for statistics (INE). The communities of the Vitichi municipality, where this project will be implemented, are increasingly vulnerable to chronic water issues (shortage, salinity, contamination from mining), with 70% of families are suffering from water scarcity or limited access to potable water. 
This WASH project forms part of the Water and Gender Match Fund programme. The project aims to help the communities to set up drinking water and sanitation systems, improve their knowledge and practice of safe water consumption and hygiene and lobby for support from municipal governments in replicating the activities more widely. There will be a particular emphasis on working with women to empower them to play a key role in changing practice in the family and community domains to increase convenient availability of drinkable water and improve hygiene and sanitation.
Humanitarian and legal assistance to the victims of the Pando massacre On 11 September 2008, a group of 230 small farmers and indigenous people was violently attacked by an armed group in the Bolivian department of Pando, leaving 18 people killed – including children – and 51 still accounted for. This project aims to support a key CAFOD partner in Bolivia UNITAS and its member organisations CIPCA (another key CAFOD partner), CEJIS and IPHAE to 
1) Deal with the immediate humanitarian assistance to at least 70 refugees in the city of La Paz and an estimated 4000 people stuck in the area with a continued climate of fear, violence and impunity.
2) Provide urgent legal support to the families of those massacred, and those wounded. 3) Implement a communications and advocacy strategy to ensure a timely and correct legal process as well as contribute to the creation of safe conditions for returning refugees and those not daring to leave their houses.
Local, national and international advocacy on seeds part of as peoples' collective heritage, Bolivia CENDA will work with communities and leaders from the Cochabamba department to influence local, national and international perspective on the threats and mechanisms of seed privatisation, an essential element for the food security and sovereignty of indigenous campesino communities.
Protecting the environmental rights of indigenous people and vulnerable communities in Bolivia The Bolivian Climate Change Platform was established in 2009 by key CAFOD partners and supported by a number of international agencies with the aim of providing Bolivian grassroots communities with spaces and mechanisms to engage with issues of climate change. The remit of the Platform has widened in recent years beyond climate justice issues. This project, supported by five international agencies including CAFOD, seeks to raise awareness about climate change issues, support communities in developing proposals for alternative models of development and promote the protection of indigenous rights and the environmental rights of vulnerable communities in urban areas.
Gender Support to Bolivia Programme Partners In response to the significant need for effective responses to the extreme gender inequality suffered by Bolivian women, this project seeks to support CAFOD partners in improving their understanding of gender inequality and its root causes.  The project will also provide training and accompaniment to CAFOD partners to implement gender policies and to incorporate a gender focus into both their programmes and their institutional practices.  The project will be coordinated and implemented by the Gender Coordinator of CAFOD partner UNITAS.
Improving community agricultural production, sanitation and health in La Paz Dept, Bolivia Through this new project, Fundacion Nuna will continue to work with school children and families, particularly women and the elderly, in indigenous campesino communities in the La Paz department in Bolivia. The project is based on a series of interconnected approaches in which the team provide bespoke support to assist participant families in improving: a) their agroecological production (including livestock) so that families have more diverse food available for consumption and to bring in income b) access to water for consumption, irrigation, and sanitation on their homestead and c) wellbeing in the home, family and community through workshops and spaces for reflection on self-esteem and values (including violence).
Improving community agricultural production, sanitation and health in La Paz Dept, Bolivia This new project combines together Fundación Nuna’s agricultural production project (previously BOL156) with the project working with children on agroecology and young people on produce transformation BOL151). Fundacion Nuna’s team will provide support to rural indigenous communities to achieve improvements in sustainable agricultural production and community organisation in the department of La Paz. The team will provide small-scale farming households with training and technical accompaniment in sustainable and innovative agricultural practices aiming to increase their production and also reduce their vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. Nuna will also provide support to improve resilience, providing training on the transformation and sale of agricultural produce and on the extraction / gathering of seeds from current crops for future harvest cycles.  
The team promote civic participation, transparency and accountability, in particular through the participation and skills of women, young people and children. The results of the baseline study in the previous project cycle alongside the onset of the pandemic increased concerns about sanitation practices and lack of family infrastructure. In this new cycle, Nuna’s team will broaden in scope to include training and materials to support improved awareness and implementation of safe sanitary practices, thereby improving child health in terms of both sanitation and nutrition. Nuna’s commitment to recuperating indigenous knowledge, validating indigenous culture and practices and addressing gender inequality underpin their methodology and institutional approaches.
Rights and leadership training for indigenous and campesino communities Pastoral Social Caritas Bolivia run a national rights and leadership training programme. The programme aims to strengthen the rural campesino and indigenous organisations to enable them to assert their rights and influence public policies, especially when communities are affected by extractive and mega-project activity. Caritas Bolivia work to do this by teaching  the local communities about their rights and the issues they face and training them in advocacy techniques and then support them to run campaigns based on the needs and interests of the communities involved. 
NB: Caritas Bolivia were formerly known until 2014 as CEPAS or CEPAS Caritas
Sustainable livelihoods in the context of climate change Fundación Nuna works in the Department of La Paz on sustainable rural development and community organisation.  The organisation supports communities to achieve improvements in sustainable agricultural production in order to reduce their vulnerability to the impact of climate change through technical training. They also seek to strengthen local municipal management and civic participation to promote transparency and accountability, in particular the participation and skills of women. Fundación Nuna places strong emphasis on working with young people and on gender. This project in the municipality of Ancoraimes near Lake Titicaca, Curva and Mocomocowill work towards increasing awareness of the causes and impact of climate change at municipal and community level. Small-scale farming households will receive training and technical accompaniment in sustainable and innovative agricultural practices aiming to increase their production and also reduce their vulnerability to the impact of climate change.
Indigenous and campesino organisations promote local development with a gender focus in Vitichi The social, economic, cultural and political life of the men and women of indigenous campesino communities in the municipality of Vitichi is not equal, nor just. There are conditions of exclusion and injustice in terms of gender which have been reproduced over time and negatively affect the rights of women. The exercising of power by men in the local organisational structures highlight the conditions of disadvantage faced by women. The most important positions are held predominantly by men and as such the needs and demands discussed and prioritised by community organizations are based on the perspective of men. The indigenous (ayllu) and campesino (union) organisations struggle to engage the attention of the municipal government and secure meaningful development for the communities in the project area. The project will tackle this disadvantageous situation in which men and women from the communities of the intervention area find themselves, by training them in the knowledge and management of legal norms related to municipal public management and also on exercising their rights of participation and social control within the framework of the application of the Comprehensive State Planning System SPIE. The project will also provide gender training (including masculinities) and provide accompaniment and support for communities in prioritising their needs and developing and presenting proposals to the municipal authorities to ensure these needs are met.
UNITAS Urban Programme: cities with rights UNITAS is an umbrella organisation of NGOs in Bolivia. It provides a forum in which groups in this sector can discuss, collaborate and lobby on development issues at national level. The new project cycle with the UNITAS Urban Programme, will ensure continuity of processes to strengthen civil society and grassroots organisations from vulnerable sectors affected by human rights abuses in urban areas.
Empowering indigenous women in political participation ACLO describes itself as ‘a Christian-inspired organisation  that provides services to organised indigenous and rural men and women in the south of Bolivia to strengthen their capacities in the areas of economic production, political organisation, municipal administration and cultural renewal’. ACLO trains these rural and indigenous organisations in human rights and supports them to strengthen their leadership capacity so they can effectively participate in decision-making at community and municipal level. The partner also works to involve women in their community organisations and also to educate the general public about the collective rights of marginalised groups and the need for these rights to be respected. ACLO forms part of CAFOD's rural development programme.
Environmental and livelihoods impact assessment - Cachuela Esperanza damage This project implemented by CIPCA Norte in Bolivia seeks to assess the risks and management scenarios relating to water resources in the Amazon, examining the way in which the rules governing the use of scarce common-pool water are being transformed and with what effects. The project will focus specifically on the planned Cachuela Esperanza dam. 

This project will focus on:
- Identifying the proposals for sustainable development in the Bolivian Amazon;
- Investigating and systematising information (secondary and CIPCA’s own research) on the topics identified;
- Developing mitigation initiatives to address threats identified and contribute to sustainable development proposals 
- Developing outreach materials with clear, reliable, and understandable information that presents information in a user friendly way
Improving access to justice by strengthening Bolivian human rights defenders' skills and spaces This is a small-scale project being implemented by CAFOD partner UNITAS to build a community of human rights defenders with increased capacity to respond to the needs of civil society. At present there are very few human rights organisations and even fewer human rights lawyers operating to uphold the rule of law in Bolivia and their capacity to respond to the changing context is limited. There is an increasing demand for the services of human rights lawyers to defend victims of civil, political, economic, social and cultural and environmental rights both of individuals, communities, indigenous people and NGOs (both Bolivian and international).
Supporting indigenous and campesino organisations in defending their human rights and Creation Pastoral Social Caritas Bolivia run a national level rights and leadership training programme. The programme aims to strengthen both urban and rural campesino and indigenous organisations to enable them to defend their human, environmental and collective rights. Caritas Bolivia’s Tierra Agua Ecologia y Medio Ambiente -TAEMA (Land, Water, Ecology and Environment) team from the national office work with six regional offices providing training to their technical staff and leaders from communities in these six regions. TAEMA’s work is heavily influenced by Laudato Si and the project has been designed within a frame work of caring for the gift of Creation. 
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NB: Caritas Bolivia were formerly known until 2014 as CEPAS or CEPAS Caritas
Indigenous peoples and campesinos exercise their rights within the Care of OurCommon Home framework The team of the Pastoral Social for Intergral Ecology in the national Caritas Bolivia office will work with local Caritas jurisdiction teams to support indigenous campesino communities exercising their rights within the Care of Our Common Home framework.
Integrated Territorial Management in the face of extractivism in Bolivia CENDA seek to strengthen community self-government and territorial management in vulnerable communities in the highlands of Oruro, valleys and tropics of Cochabamba, whose environmental and territorial rights have been affected by water pollution and the effects of the climate crisis. The project aims to identify local practices of self-governance and territorial management, with a focus on integrated watershed management and resilience to the climate crisis. In addition CENDA will support inter-organisational coordination and spaces for exchanges and joint learning and action around community governance of the territory, resilience to the climate crisis and the generation of proposals for alternatives to extractivism.
CIPCA policy unit (Unidad de Acción Política ) This project will continue CIPCA’s advocacy work to lobby the Bolivian Government to implement rural development policies that benefit indigenous campesinos. This will involve building the capacity of male and female leaders of indigenous campesinos organisations to prepare and deliver proposals on rural development to the government. CIPCA will then monitor whether the government implements the proposals from indigenous campesinos organisations. It will also entail providing the government with accurate analysis and recommendations on rural development policies to guide public policy at a time when they are open to dialogue with civil society.
Strengthening indigenous justice as a tool for indigenous nations to exercise their rights IIADI will build on the achievements of their first year working with the Q’hara Q’hara nation to protect indigenous rights. This one-year project will continue to provide support to the Q’hara Q’hara as they advance with their cases in Colombia to defend their historic patrimony and in Bolivia to protect their territory and the right to autonomy. The team will support the Q’hara Q’hara leaders in sharing their experiences with other indigenous nations and peoples. In addition IIADI will work with 16 indigenous young people from the Q’hara Q’hara nation providing training  in indigenous justice and leadership to build a bridge of learning between older community leaders and younger community members.
To improve child health through agroecological production and sanitation practices Fundacion Nuna will continue a new project cycle working with children on agroecology and young people on produce transformation in three municipalities in the La Paz department. The results of the baseline study in the previous project alongside the onset of the pandemic increased concerns about sanitation practices and lack of family infrastructure. In this new cycle, Nuna’s team will broaden in scope to include training and materials to support improved awareness and implementation of safe sanitary practices, thereby improving child health in terms of both sanitation and nutrition. Nuna’s commitment to recuperating indigenous knowledge, validating indigenous culture and practices and addressing gender inequality underpin their methodology and institutional approaches.
Rural Community Develoment CIPCA is one of Bolivia’s largest and best-known NGOs, with programmes in all the main regions of the country, specialising in support and capacity building for rural communities. This programme combines sustainable rural development with community organising to tap public funds through the local authority.  Through technical training CIPCA supports communities to achieve improvements in agricultural and livestock production. They also seek to strengthen local municipal management and civic participation to promote transparency and accountability, in particular the participation and skills of women. This programme operates in the highland region of La Paz department, near Lake Titcaca.
Indigenous communities working towards human devlpmnt & resilience in the context of climate change Bolivia and Guatemala are two countries with large indigenous populations, many of whom are small-scale rural farmers living in poverty, frequently impacted by the negative effects of climate change and environmental degradation. In recent years, there has been an increase in the unpredictability of rainfall and climate change that has exacerbated climatic phenomena such as frosts, hailstorms and droughts which have affected crops and production. Both countries have seen an increase in the adoption of modern farming practices which use registered seeds and chemical farming products. These practices are unsustainable for families in poverty, are causing significant damage to the environment and are threatening the protection of local indigenous heritage. The negative effects of climate change and environmental degradation, as well as extractive development models and large-scale farming (mono-crops), are currently threatening agricultural rural families’ and indigenous communities’ livelihoods and are reducing their income generation, particularly for those communities and families that depend on small plots of land. Rural farmers and indigenous communities, particularly women, in both regions are often affected by low self-esteem and sometimes undervalue the importance of their traditional knowledge, particularly their techniques to adapt crops to climate change. In the face of low levels of support by the State, structural inequality and closing civil society spaces, communities need support more than ever in building their networks and increasing their knowledge, confidence and decision-making capacity. CAFOD partners CENDA (Bolivia) and PSCV (Guatemala – GUA181) will carry out a three-year project with support from CAFOD and JOA (Government of Jersey) to support poor rural indigenous communities in responding to these challenges, sharing together their knowledge and experiences. This project covers the Bolivian component of the joint venture.
Improving access to justice by strengthening Bolivian human rights lawyers' skills and spaces This is a small-scale project being implemented by CAFOD partner UNITAS to build a community of human rights defenders, particularly young lawyers, with increased capacity to respond to the needs of civil society. At present there are very few human rights organisations and even fewer human rights lawyers operating to uphold the rule of law in Bolivia and their capacity to respond to the changing context is limited. There is an increasing demand for the services of human rights lawyers to defend victims of civil, political, economic, social and cultural and environmental rights both of individuals, communities, indigenous people and NGOs (both Bolivian and international).
Increasing access to justice through the strengthening of space for human rights lawyers in Bolivia This is a small-scale project being implemented by CAFOD partner UNITAS to build a community of human rights lawyers with increased capacity to respond to the needs of civil society. At present there are very few human rights organisations and even fewer human rights lawyers operating to uphold the rule of law in Bolivia and their capacity to respond to the changing context is limited. There is an increasing demand for the services of human rights lawyers to defend victims of civil, political, economic, social and cultural and environmental rights both of individuals, communities, indigenous people and NGOs (both Bolivian and international).