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Peace and Ecological Spirituality Training for Community Leaders Following the Peace Agreements In 2016, after five decades of civil war, the Government of Colombia and the major guerrilla movement – the FARC – reached the Final Agreement, after a peace process that had been underway in Havana since 2012. Civil society in general, and the pastoral and development work of the Church in particular, played a key part in building a durable peace through work at grassroots and national level.

Since the Peace Accord has been ratified, the challenge is to take forward the peace-building process at the national level into the regions of the country where the war has been raging.  This present project seeks to prepare the country and the general population for the long and difficult process of peace-building and reconciliation within the communities. This will be developed through working with leaders who are trained and experienced in reconciliation processes and in sustainable development, bringing together a spirituality of peace along with the capacity of rebuilding the country at a regional level.  The project is based on the premise that the humanitarian crisis in Colombia is first and foremost a spiritual crisis, and a developmental crisis, because the country has been wounded by war and by the destruction of its natural resources, forests and waterways as a result of coca production for the drugs trade, illegal mining and major extractive exploitation of minerals and agro-industry.
CELAM-DEJUSOL: Strenghtening the CLAMOR network (2019-2021) One of the great challenges for the Latin American and Caribbean Church is to coordinate and strengthen its pastoral work in providing care for migrants, refugees and victims of trafficking, particularly in the face of the unprecedented migratory crisis of Venezuelans, the caravans of Central American migrants heading towards the US, and the difficult situation of the Haitian people. Pope Francis has shown the path that the Church should take: “embrace, protect, promote and integrate”. 

Diverse bodies and organisations of the Catholic Church already carry out numerous actions to care for migrants, although these efforts are often undertaken in isolation, which affects the efficiency of the services that are being provided. For two years now, the CLAMOR network has been a space of coordination for the Latin American Church and organisations that work in the area of human mobility, promoting togetherness and participation. In the next three years (2019-2021), the CLAMOR network will promote opportunities to train pastoral facilitators, will disseminate a map of services that already exist in all Latin American countries in favour of migrants and refugees, will sensitise the Church and society in general to the “culture of encounter and welcoming”, and will strengthen advocacy processes. Another important task for the next three years will also be the dissemination of the agreements established in the Global Compact for Migration (2018), in order to influence governments to comply with them. Integral Ecology will be a cross-cutting approach in the pastoral care for migrants, since "everything is interconnected" (LS XX).
Strengthening of the Women in Church and Society Steering Committee The project contributes to the development of two strategic actions that are part of the 2024-2027 Work Plan proposed by the Animating Commission of the Women in the Church and Society Axis.  The Commission is an ecclesial process of synodal character between the Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Religious -CLAR; CARITAS ALC and the Centre for Pastoral Action Programmes and Networks CEPRAP of CELAM  ; its mission is to guide the processes and lay the foundations and guidelines for the development of integral and comprehensive pastoral action, which contributes to transforming gender relations, the condition and position of women in the Church and society. 
They aim to broaden and strengthen the social base of the Commission of the Axis  , with the participation of representatives mainly from the pastoral ministries related to the Women's Axis and from other ecclesial and/or social processes that they wish to participate, including the women who took part in the 2023 Meeting.  
With the meetings  , including the present project, the aim is to continue the Listening process initiated in 2021 with the LAC Ecclesial Assembly, whose challenges and orientations are the founding mandate of the Axis Animating Commission; the aim is to share realities, knowledge and experiences, to identify those that would form part of the mapping, which is the second strategic activity that supports this project.  Internally, the aim is to strengthen participation, inclusion and sense of identity with the being and work of the Commission, i.e. to unite the process for the achievement of its main goals, as set out in the Identity document.
This project is complementary to CELAM's Triennial Project: Promoting Integral Human Development For A Just, Fraternal, United, Inclusive Continent, Caring For The Common Home In Latin America And The Caribbean.
Training and Institutional Strengthening for Community Organisations and NGOs 1) to encourage the sharing of experience and learning about community based economic initiatives and productive projects which strengthen the process of change towards a fairer and more equitable society in Latin America.

2) To offer holistic formation to members of civil society organisations throughout Latin America, with an emphasis on technical training, so that they can contribute to institutional strengthening in their own organisations.

3) To promote reflection upon  the socio-economic and political environment and upon traditional cultural values so that change agents trained through ICI courses can work to develop, strengthen and foster a sense of Latin American identity.

4) To encourage gender awareness at an institutional level and promote a Latin America wide gender perspective through ICI's educational processes as a contribution towards establishing real participatory and democratic practices in civil society organisations

5) To stimulate and encourage discussion about the role of community-based organisations in society, so that citizens can reclaim responsibility in the construction of a real democracy.

6) To link the current model of development with activities that contribute towards environmental degradation, and to strengthen organisational capacity in order to develop activities and ways of working which are environmentally sound.
Amerindia's strategic plan 2022-24: building Synodality from praxis and liberating spirituality. Amerindia is a theological network with reach across Latin America and the Caribbean. It has its origins in 1978 when a group of theologians came together to advise the Bishops in preparation for the Puebla Conference. The group did the same for the Santo Domingo Conference in 1992 and again for the Rome Synod in 1997. It was after the Synod that Amerindia developed into a wider network of Bishops, theologians, communicators, educators, social scientists, members of religious congregations, and lay people.  

Its Social and Ecclesial Observatories provide invaluable analysis to underpin theological reflection on current affairs in Latin America and the Caribbean and the response of the Church.  Whilst its roots are in the Catholic Church, Amerindia seeks to be ecumenical, drawing on other Christian traditions, as well as faith traditions of indigenous and African-descendant peoples.
Strengthening Family and Community Health in a rural community in El Salvador Over the past several years, public health system in El Salvador has been in a state of crisis and disintegration. Previous governments had plans for privatising health services, but these had generated strong opposition from large sectors of the population. As a consequence, a national health commission was set up, which included governmental and non-governmental representatives, to examine alternative models for healthcare management. The community health project on of the communities in the Chalatenango department was one of the experiences of participatory healthcare under consideration, with a health team made up mainly of local health promoters. 

Subsequently, the institutional relations with the Ministry of Health improved considerably. Currently, the Clinic belongs to the Ministry of Health and offers a comprehensive healthcare coverage, an integral maternity programme, and secure employment for the staff, as well very good indicators of health and community participation. For this reason, the Clinic earned recognition of the WHO and the University of El Salvador as a “model rural clinic”. The clinic now has a multi-disciplinary team of medical doctors and an outreach team that covers a 40 kms radius, attending isolated rural communities as well as Honduran migrants from the border regions. 

However, the authorities are unable to cover all the necessary expenses of the Clinic and thus it needs to seek certain level of support from other sources. Therefore, this project aims to strengthen the participatory community health system in the community, which emphasises women’s and children’s health, and to address health promotion issues such as gender equity and domestic violence, health as a human right, as well as dental and mental health care. They aim to improve wellbeing of girls, boys, women and men of all ages in the community as well as in the neighbouring communities.
Support to SELACC for Regional Planning Support for the Strategic planning of SELACC- Caritas Latin America 2011-2015 to enable the Regional Caritas organisations, in coordination with CELAM-Department of Justice and Solidarity (DEJUSOL), to meet the multitude of challenges facing the poorest communities in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Empowering women community radio broadcasters for the future Radialistas Apasionadas y Apasionados was created in 2001 to contribute to the democratisation of communications, especially of radio, with particular focus on gender, citizenship and protection of the environment. It was set up as a production and training centre for radio broadcasters from all continents, although prioritising Latin America & the Caribbean. During these past 20 years, Radialistas have worked to expand their services, and with Radioteca.net, Radios Libres and RadioLAB, they have consolidated their position as one of the most renown radio production and training centres in the region.

This new project will focus on training and capacity building for women radio broadcasters. Radialistas continue to believe that it is crucial to strengthen the capacities of community media and they want to explore other ways of doing this work, not only via courses or publications. Additionally, this new project will include a more continuous processes of accompanying women radio broadcasters as the partner wants to focus more on women, especially in rural and indigenous areas, who have fewer opportunities to access training. 

Therefore, the aim of this project is to develop training in different formats (podcasts, webinars and courses), in order to accompany a group of radio broadcasters, mainly women from rural/indigenous areas, to train them in radio broadcasting. Additionally, hundreds of other radio broadcasters will also benefit from these training processes via the website. 

During the two stages of the project, Radialistas will directly and intensively train 20 women radio broadcasters, while at the same time at least 200 other women radio broadcasters will be participating in the various activities organised as part of these training processes. Additionally, Radialistas would continue to send a fortnightly bulletin to the Radialistas network and, with the same frequency, another one to Radios Libres.
Pan Amazon Ecclesial Network REPAM This project aims to assist in the defence of human rights and the enforceability of rights in the Pan-Amazonian region.

Focusing on the different areas of the Church in the nine countries of the region with territory in the Amazon basin, REPAM, the Ecclesial Network of the pan-Amazon Region, was set up officially in September 2014 bringing together a range of pastoral experience of the laity, hierarchy, religious congregations, and the major coordinating bodies of the Church in the region. Its overall aim is to encourage the transformation of the reality of the Amazon region based on the Gospel, "taking care of creation and building a just and fraternal society, promoting the integral and sustainable human development and the perspective of the good life, so that people have life and have it abundantly”.

The project provides support for the process of consolidation of the REPAM network and its international advocacy in the field of human rights, and for the development of its methodological approach to the training of agents for the promotion and defence of human rights and the enforceability of rights in Pan-Amazonia.
Motivating and supporting Caritas in Latin America & the Caribbean in their contribution to the SDGs This project is a direct continuation of the project implemented by SELACC in 2018 which aimed at ensuring that Bishops’ Conferences in Latin America & the Caribbean have knowledge of and are committed to working towards the achievement of SDGs. As a consequence, national Caritas are now more aware of the importance of the 2030 Agenda. Therefore, to continue the work carried out in this previous project, in the next three years (2019-2021) SELACC is hoping to focus on undertaking targeted actions aimed at contributing to the achievement of the SDGs. As a result of the project, the partner envisages that national Caritas in Latin America & the Caribbean will have a clear commitment to join other actors to contribute to the SDG, particularly those related to gender equity, integral human development, integral ecology, food security, eradication of poverty and migration. Initially, SELACC will focus on strengthening national Caritas’ commitment and motivation in order to move to concrete actions later on in the project. An important element of the project will be taking advantage of the first round of country evaluations (Voluntary National Reviews) that the governments present to the UN on their countries’ progress on the achievement of the SDGs. The partner plans to contribute to ensuring that the VNRs are as accurate as possible and that the development policies of the relevant countries truly respond to the fundamental needs of the most disadvantaged. The partner envisages that at the end of this three-year project, a vast majority of national Caritas will have carried out specific advocacy actions aimed at contributing to the achievement of the SGDs.
LAB: Creating Networks, Consolidating Alliances:  Communication and Information for Development Latin America Bureau (LAB) is an independant charitable organisation based in London providing news, analysis and information on Latin America, its people, politicsa dn society.  LAB exists to promote greater understandindd and awareness of the region through conducting in-depth research and publishing books, news articles and focused reports on the most critical issues facing the region.

The Strategic Communications Project of LAB aims to:
1. Increase the amount of news and information available on key development issues in the region.
2. Strengthen local organisations through increased information provision and sharing.
3. Encourage greater debate and collaboration between stakeholders by identifying common approaches and common goals.

CAFOD funding will support Aims 1 and 2
UCA Festival Verdad The civil war in El Salvador left thousands of people dead or disappeared, and a climate of impunity prevails.  Since the signing of the peace accords, Salvadoran organisations committed to justice and reparation for the victims have worked to keep the historical memory alive and pursued truth.  The UCA Truth Festival began in 1998.  It is an academic, artistic and cultural event that has become a symbol for dignity, truth and breaking down impunity.  The Tribunal of Restorative Justice is a relatively new element of the Truth Festival, beginning in 2009.  The purpose is to insist on the need for justice and an end to impunity to help heal the psychological wounds of the war and build a true peace.  Each year the Tribunal is held in a place that was particularly affected by the civil war.  The first was conducted in the Chapel at the UCA; 2010 - Suchitoto, Cuscutlán;  2011 - Arcatao, Chalatenango;  2012 - Perquín, Morazán;  2013 - the UCA.  In 2014 it will be held in the community of Santa Marta, in the municipality of Victoria, department of Cabañas.
Fe y Alegria:  Solid Roots of Peace project The Sisters of Saint Clare will work through Fe y Alegria on a project which will promote human development and contribute to the reduction of violence and establishment of a peaceful society by means of strengthening family bonds and the provision of appropriate training in life skills, sports and the Arts in a marginalised area on the outskirts of San Salvador.
Festival Verdad 2011: Jovenes: Memoria, Seguridad y Paz Contribution to the Truth Festival, El Salvador which will be held in March 2011.  This Festival is an academic, artistic and cultural event, which has been organised by long-standing CAFOD partner - Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) every year since 1993.  The event has a special signicance for the Salvadoran people as a symbol of their struggle for the defence of their dignity, uncovering of the truth and an end to impunity for Human Rights abuses.  This year's Festival will focus on young people of El Salvador - Remembrance, Security and Peace' and will include a number of diverse activities including a young people's photo exhibition, a conference about Monseñor Romero and the right of victims to the truth, young people's poetry, art and music competitions and a concert featuring national and international artists.  The central part of the event will be a Restorative Justice Tribunal.  The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness about the search for Truth, Justice and Peace among the population in general but in particular young people, organised groups and sectors of the civil service.

CAFOD will make a contribution towards the cost of  travel, food and lodgings for the international jury members of the Restorative Justice tribunal.
International Restorative Justice Tribunal in El Salvador The annual Restorative Justice Tribunal run by the Central American University UCA seeks to contribute to the struggle against impunity by encouraging access to justice, and the recovery of historical memory in El Salvador. It started in 2009, as an element of the UCA Truth Festival which has been running since 1998. The Truth Festival is an academic, cultural and artistic week of events promoting truth, justice and peace, with the aim of contributing to the construction of a peaceful and democratic society. The Festival coincides with the anniversary of the 1980 murder of Saint Oscar Romero and the date it commemorates has been recognised by the United Nations as the "International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims": http://www.un.org/en/events/righttotruthday/
Bishops' Ecumenical Pastoral Study Days This project aims to support the running costs of an ecumenical course for pastoral reflection and analysis in Brazil. 

The original idea behind the course emerged from a group "Churches of the Poor" during the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) when a group of socially progressive Bishops decided to continue to meet once a year and foster mutual support and commitment to the poor and to a Church model based in service and solidarity committed to social transformation, overcoming inequalities and injustices. As a consequence, since 1966 a number of bishops and priests, of various religious denominations, from Brazil and several other Latin American countries have been meeting on an annual basis to co-ordinate their work, provide mutual support and strengthen their actions in favour of the preferential option for the poor. 

Since 1991 the planning, monitoring and follow up of the meetings has been organised on a more systematic basis with the support of CESEEP, an ecumenical training and research centre in Sao Paulo and long standing CAFOD partner since the 1980s. CAFOD has supported the course with small grants since 1991.  Each year the meeting is organised around a theme where the Church has a pastoral responsibility to give clear understanding and guidance.
Research: "South-south migration: the dynamics of Salvadorian migration to Costa Rica and Panama". This project consists of a research initiative that seeks to understand one of the many aspects of the migratory flow in the south-south context as an alternative destination for Salvadorians who, faced with the strict North American migration policies, seek non-traditional destinations. A direct consequence of this work would be the strengthening of networking and collaboration between Jesuit works dedicated to the defense and promotion of human rights in the southern region of Central America. 

Certainly, the research could offer insights to generate an improvement in the accompaniment of the migrant population which, in specific terms, could translate into an impact on the work carried out by the Red de Atención de la Red Jesuita para Migrantes de Centroamérica, especially in the Panama chapter. 

The research proposal will be carried out in three phases. During the first three months, the partner will conduct a systematic literature review on the south-south migration flow in the Central American region. The second phase will consist of carrying out the fieldwork and organise the information gathered in order to get to know, understand and analyse the testimony of migrants in Panama. The third and final stage will consist of analysing the information, developing the discussion, drafting the results and, consequently, drafting the planned final products.
Strengthening the capacity of Latin American CSOs to promote economic and social justice The aim of this project is to consolidate a space for the discussion of fiscal (i.e. economic and social) justice in Latin America by strengthening the capacity of civil society organisations (CSOs), rights holders and activists to mobilise critical masses across society and to successfully influence political authorities. This will be achieved with the help of Latindadd's region-wide network of grassroots organisations, advocacy groups and experts in the field, and attention will be paid to cross-cutting issues such as gender equality and human rights.

Specifically, the focus of the project is on strengthening the capacities of CSOs and activists working on economic and social justice across Latin America to help them build strategic alliances with relevant stakeholders, show solidarity with rights holders, raise emblematic cases of fiscal (in-)justice, apply innovative communications strategies and develop political analyses as well as proposals for socio-economic change. The project will be implemented in Brazil, Buenos Aires, Ecuador, El Salvador, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Peru.  

Latindadd is the Latin American Network for Economic and Social Justice. It grew out of CEAS, a longstanding partner of CAFOD working on debt reduction, and of the Andean and Central American Strategic Network on Debt and Poverty, which brought together several specialist organisations working on these issues and were particularly active around the Jubilee 2000 campaign for debt cancellation. Previously coordinated by Forum Solidaridad Peru, since the beginning of 2019, Latindadd is a separate legal entity, based in Lima, Peru.