ID: AR-332
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Beneficiary: Fundación Arcor (FUNARCOR)
Sector/Classification: Community development
Dates: 2003-2013
City: Cordoba
Province: Cordoba
Country: Argentina
Amount: $831,750
Latitude: 31.3989
Longitude: -64.1821
Description: Through the mobilization of multiple partners, Fundación Arcor provides small grants, training and other support to community organizations of poor people to carry out local self-help development projects through the expansion of the existing FUNARCOR Sub-Grant Fund and the Argentinean National Fund.
ID: AR-341
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Fundación Pro Vivienda Social (FPVS)
Sector/Classification: Housing/infrastructure ievelopment
Dates: 2006-2014
City: Buenos Aires
Province: Buenos Aires
Country: Argentina
Amount: $334,537
Latitude: -34.537884
Longitude: -58.714678
Description: FPVS is establishing a center for community leaders and training over 300 employees of nongovernmental organizations and other residents in Greater Buenos Aires to address community issues related to infrastructure development and services and improved housing conditions.
ID: AR-347
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Beneficiary: Cooperativa de Trabajo COOPSOL Ltda (COOPSOL)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2007-2012
City: Santiago del Estero
Province: Formosa
Country: Argentina
Amount: $330,368
Latitude: -26.1844
Longitude: -58.1756
Description: COOPSOL provides training and technical assistance to 70 beekeepers in the departments of Formosa and Moreno. The grantee is building two additional extraction centers that meet the requirements for exporting honey certified as fair-trade, as well as studying the feasibility of growing and marketing capers to diversify and increase income.
ID: AR-349
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Beneficiary: Fundación Solidaridad (FS)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2007-2013
City:
Province: Mendoza
Country: Argentina
Amount: $282,360
Latitude: -32.905578
Longitude: -68.814402
Description: FS underook a project to increase food security and direct access to markets for family agricultural products. The project aimed to reduce the role of the middle man and diversify markets for local agricultural production. The project benefited 520 producers and approximately 2,900 family members in the northern part of Mendoza province.
ID: AR-352
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Beneficiary: Circo Social del Sur (CSS)
Sector/Classification: Training, skills development
Dates: 2008-2014
City: Buenos Aires
Province: Buenos Aires
Country: Argentina
Amount: $285,540
Latitude: -34.6206
Longitude: -58.4759
Description: CSS teaches circus arts to more than 250 marginalized young people in poor neighborhoods in Buenos Aires. The project indirectly impacts another 1,000 beneficiaries.
ID: AR-354
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Beneficiary: Cooperativa de Provisión de Servicios para Productores, Comercialización y Consumo, Centro de Comercio Solidario, Ltda. (CCS)
Sector/Classification: Marketing/enterprise development
Dates: 2009-2014
City: Rosario
Province: Santa Fe
Country: Argentina
Amount: $216,700
Latitude: -31.6324
Longitude: -60.6995
Description: CCS is expanding the distribution of its Comercio-Solidario (Fair-Trade) products through direct sales, including to foreign clients, through developing its network of vendors and through broadening its consumer base. It administers a loan fund for entrepreneurs as well as a working capital fund used to pay them upon delivery of their crafts, processed foods and furniture.
ID: AR-356
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Red Puna y Quebrada (Red Puna)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2009-2014
City: La Quiaca
Province: Jujuy
Country: Argentina
Amount: $274,700
Latitude: -22.6633
Longitude: -66.2367
Description: Red Puna offers training, technical assistance and marketing services to 160 indigenous Coya artisans, primarily women, from 16 communities in the province of Jujuy.
ID: AR-359
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Beneficiary: Fundación para el Desarrollo en Justicia y Paz (FUNDAPAZ)
Sector/Classification: Agricultural/enterprise development
Dates: 2010-2013
City: Vera
Province: Santa Fe
Country: Argentina
Amount: $355,480
Latitude: -29.4653
Longitude: -60.2161
Description: FUNDAPAZ is improving access to water in 21 communities in Vera, Santa Fe, by building mini reservoirs, retention basins, storage tanks and windmills, in addition to training 785 families to maintain them.
ID: AR-360
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Beneficiary: Fundación Alternativa 3, Estrategias de Desarrollo Comunitario (A3)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2010-2013
City: Buenos Aires
Province: Buenos Aires
Country: Argentina
Amount: $260,350
Latitude: -34.5655
Longitude: -58.4399
Description: A3 expanded its program of economic development and microcredit to reach an additional 690 families in four communities of Greater Buenos Aires and trained staff of Comunidad Organizada Unidos para Crecer (Crecer) to apply its microlending approach in other communities.
ID: AR-361
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Beneficiary: Caxi Asociación para el Desarrollo Integral (Caxi)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2011-2014
City:
Province: Mendoza
Country: Argentina
Amount: $233,820
Latitude: -32.577485
Longitude: -68.684521
Description: Caxi provides 320 farmers in Mendoza and San Juan the training and technical assistance necessary to improve the efficiency and productivity of their small businesses that process meat, honey, tomato sauce and paste, jam and jellies, canned fruit and animal feed.
ID: AR-362
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Beneficiary: Asociación Civil Nuestras Huellas (Nuestras Huellas)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Buenos Aires
Province: Buenos Aires
Country: Argentina
Amount: $379,500
Latitude: -34.5968
Longitude: -58.3845
Description: Nuestras Huellas is providing credit, training and technical assistance to improve production and marketing practices of 3,640 entrepreneurs belonging to 200 savings-and loan-associations (community banks) in Greater Buenos Aires.
ID: AR-363
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Asociación Pescadores del Chaco (ASOPECHA)
Sector/Classification: Aquaculture
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Barranqueras
Province: Chaco
Country: Argentina
Amount: $160,300
Latitude: -26.5858
Longitude: -60.9540
Description: ASOPECHA works toward the conservation of fisheries along the Paraguay River and its tributaries, as well as improving the income for its 567 fisher members.
ID: AR-364
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Beneficiary: Fundación Banco de Bosques para el Manejo y la Conservación de los Recursos Naturales (BdeB)
Sector/Classification: Community development
Dates: 2012-2014
City:
Province: Misiones
Country: Argentina
Amount: $190,050
Latitude: -26.9377
Longitude: -54.4342
Description: BdeB works with Fundación MATE to build infrastructure and provide training and other support enabling indigenous Mbya Guaraní Argentines in the Yryapu community, province of Misiones, to engage in tourism as a source of income.
ID: AR-365
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Beneficiary: Cooperativa de Trabajo Encuentro Ltda (Cooperativa Encuentro)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, education/training, cultural expression
Dates: 2012-2015
City: Rosario
Province: Santa Fe
Country: Argentina
Amount: $255,400
Latitude: -32.9965
Longitude: -60.6213
Description: Cooperativa Encuentro is developing a community network dedicated to the promotion and execution of community tourism opportunities in and around Rosario and Villa Constitución, Argentina. The Grantee provides training and technical assistance to the organizational partners and participants in the development and execution of the community tourism activities. Cooperativa Encuentro is also establishing a travel agency to promote and market its tours locally, nationally and internationally.
ID: AR-366
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Beneficiary: Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia (ACIJ)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, education/training
Dates: 2012-2014
City: Buenos Aires
Province: Buenos Aires
Country: Argentina
Amount: $49,950
Latitude: -34.5773
Longitude: -58.4037
Description: Through a planning grant, ACIJ is conducting a participatory study to collect information on the principal causes of the lack of access to the formal economy for residents of 10 irregular settlements (Villas) in greater Buenos Aires. The design, collection, and analysis of information is supervised by ACIJ and jointly carried out with residents of the Villas in order to increase their capacity to identify problems and develop solutions. The study also identifies existing resources, potential public, private and non-profit partners, and formal and informal networks working to build the residents' entrepreneurial capacity to succeed in the formal economy.
ID: AR-367
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Beneficiary: Asociación Civil “La Choza” - Centro de Iniciativas para el Desarrollo Local (La Choza)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, environment, Corporate Social Responsibility, Cultural Expression
Dates: 2013-2016
City: San Miguel
Province: Corrientes
Country: Argentina
Amount: $280,900
Latitude: -27.971359
Longitude: -58.565369
Description: La Choza is building the individual and collective capacity of 1,500 individuals in the department of San Miguel to organize and promote community participation in local economic development planning through the design and management of sustainable tourism activities and microenterprises in and around the Iberá wetlands protected area. La Choza is focusing on empowering and highlighting the role of women in the local economy, prioritizing the participation of women-owned businesses and associations in project activities, as well as integrating gender discussions and perspective into the general training activities.
ID: AR-368
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Beneficiary: Cooperativa Agroganadera Diaguita Ltda. (Diaguita)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, Education/Training, Argiculture/Food Production
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Santa Maria
Province: Catamarca
Country: Argentina
Amount: $164,500
Latitude: -26.695165
Longitude: -66.048946
Description: Cooperativa Agroganadera Diaguita Ltda. (Diaguita) is working with cooperative and community members in and around Santa Maria to improve and diversify their agricultural production, develop and market value-added agricultural and commercial products, and strengthen the ability of the cooperative to offer value added services for agricultural products as well as act as a resource for local economic development in the region. Approximately 230 individuals will benefit directly and 2,000 residents indirectly from this project.
ID: BE-110
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Beneficiary: Plenty Belize (PLENTY BZ)
Sector/Classification: Community support
Dates: 2010-2014
City:
Province: Toledo
Country: Belize
Amount: $310,000
Latitude: 16.2492
Longitude: -88.8647
Description: PLENTY BZ is supporting home and school gardens, school kitchens and fairs in the Toledo district, improving nutrition for 3,620 Belizeans.
ID: BE-111
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Beneficiary: Sustainable Harvest International - Belize (SHI-Bz)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture/sustainability
Dates: 2010-2013
City: Punta Gorda
Province: Toledo
Country: Belize
Amount: $297,380
Latitude: 16.0989
Longitude: -88.8095
Description: SHI-Bz is helping 250 farmers of indigenous, Garifuna and Creole descent manage their farms sustainably by applying farming methods compatible with the responsible use of the environment, and assists them with marketing their crops for a better income.
ID: BE-112
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Beneficiary: Trio Farmers Cacao Growers (TFCG)
Sector/Classification: Education/training
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Maya Mountain North Forest Reserve
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Description: TFCG is improving its operational, administrative, and farming skills, strengthening its partnerships, and completing the process for obtaining a land use concession inside the Maya Mountain North Forest Reserve. A land use concession within a natural reserve area allows an organization to work the land following established government regulations for a period of up to 30 years. TFCG will work closely with the partner organizations Maya Mountain Cacao (MMC) and Ya’axché Conservation Trust (YCT). The grant will directly benefit the 35 farmers who comprise TFCG and their families. Grant activities will be divided into two groups: a) skills development and b) completion of the land concession process.
ID: BO-490
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Beneficiary: Centro de Capacitación y Formación para Mujeres (CCIMCA)
Sector/Classification: Training
Dates: 2004-2014
City: Oruro
Province: Oruro
Country: Bolivia
Amount: $373,607
Latitude: -17.968497
Longitude: -67.113356
Description: CCIMA is strengthening the Foro Ciudadano Municipal de Mujeres (AMUPIE) by incorporating additional women’s organizations. It also engages husbands in training programs targeting a more gender-sensitive society and political culture, and is opening a legal services and counseling center for victims of domestic violence and rape.
ID: BO-494
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Beneficiary: TUKUYPAJ
Sector/Classification: Aquaculture
Dates: 2005-2014
City: Cochabamba
Province: Cochabamba
Country: Bolivia
Amount: $284,282
Latitude: -17.378788
Longitude: -66.142514
Description: Tukuypaj is expanding its experimental program of community-managed trout breeding and farming using lagoons in 41 Andean communities in 10 municipalities of Sacaba and Colomi in Cochabamba department. The grantee is diversifying food production, developing the communities’ management skills, improving family income and increasing trout consumption, resulting in nutritional benefits, especially for children.
ID: BO-496
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Beneficiary: Centro de Investigación, Diseño Artsenal y Comercialización Comunitaria (CIDAC)
Sector/Classification: Culture, enterprise development
Dates: 2005-2013
City: Santa Cruz
Province: Santa Cruz
Country: Bolivia
Amount: $511,637
Latitude: -17.8667
Longitude: -63.0000
Description: CIDAC is increasing the workmanship and incomes of 200 artisans from Guaranies, Weenhawek, Ayoreo, and other indigenous and mestizo peoples in eastern Bolivia. The project involves fostering skills and product development for pottery, woodcarving, weaving and other crafts, constructing the first stages of an indigenous arts museum, and providing a current report on the artisan sector for eastern and southern Bolivia though activities in training, technical assistance, and museum development. The project also foments broader appreciation for these cultural values, increases the incomes of the beneficiaries and enhances their standing as citizens in the department of Santa Cruz.
ID: BO-500
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Beneficiary: Fundación Uñatatawi (FUNDAWI)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2005-2013
City:
Province: Caranavi
Country: Bolivia
Amount: $422,219
Latitude: -15.8358
Longitude: -67.5649
Description: FUNDAWI introduced and consolidated the production and marketing of medicinal and aromatic plants and promoted the organization of small farmers. The grantee protected the natural resources of the tropical forest and increased the incomes of over 250 families from eight communities in the Caranavi province. FUNDAWI trained farmers in organic production technologies and marketing and developed a farmer-owned and -managed enterprise that includes a seedling nursery and infrastructure for processing and storing dried leaves, teas and essential oils.
ID: BO-506
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Beneficiary: Fundación Taller de Iniciativas en Estudios Rurales y Reforma Agraria (TIERRA)
Sector/Classification: Community development
Dates: 2007-2014
City: Viacha
Province: Viacha
Country: Bolivia
Amount: $422,380
Latitude: -16.6434
Longitude: -68.2913
Description: TIERRA is testing and improving an innovative methodology based upon community participation to give greater legal protection to land owners and solve and reduce land disputes among farmers and rural communities while consolidating fragmented holdings into larger, more productive units in the central and northern altiplano minifundia sub-regions. The project will ultimately benefit approximately 3,000 families from up to 50 communities by enabling them to accelerate the steps leading to land title.
ID: BO-509
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Beneficiary: Consultora en Servicios de Desarrollo Rural y Agricultura Ecológica (ECOTOP)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2008-2015
City: Alto Beni
Province: La Paz
Country: Bolivia
Amount: $301,397
Latitude: -16.4808
Longitude: -68.1209
Description: ECOTOP is introducing “succession agro-forestry,” incorporating technologies for soil and species recovery, to 200 farmers from seven participating communities in the Alto Beni municipality of La Paz. The project features diversifying farm production to include cacao, bananas, pineapples, yucca, mango, and citrus and indigenous fruits, as well as swine for home consumption.
ID: BO-510
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Beneficiary: Fundación Suiza de Cooperación para el Desarrollo Técnico (SWISSCONTACT)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, enterprise development, education/training
Dates: 2008-2013
City:
Province: Chuquisaca
Country: Bolivia
Amount: $298,000
Latitude: -19.921713
Longitude: -64.150086
Description: SWISSCONTACT is working with the Irupana Andean Organic Food Company and more than 800 Andean farm families to introduce organic technology that improves the production and marketing of the Andean grains quinoa, amaranth and canahua, as well as increase the export of organic quinoa to the U.S. and Europe.
ID: BO-515
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Beneficiary: Desarrollo Social y Sostenible Bolivia (DESSBOL)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2010-2013
City: Madidi Park
Province: La Paz
Country: Bolivia
Amount: $275,440
Latitude: -14.336243
Longitude: -68.387604
Description: DESSBOL provided training in and technical assistance with agro-forestry related to the production, marketing and processing of native cacao, thereby improving the income of 170 indigenous Tsimane and Moseten families in the Pilon de Lajas area and 100 indigenous Tacana families in the Madidi Park of northern La Paz department.
ID: BO-516
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Beneficiary: Instituto para el Hombre, Agricultura y Ecologia (IPHAE)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2010-2014
City:
Province: Beni
Country: Bolivia
Amount: $399,670
Latitude: -14.3783
Longitude: -65.0958
Description: IPHAE is expanding and consolidating agriculturally diversified parcels located in secondary and degraded forest areas, supporting small-scale pig-farming and beekeeping, and developing products processed from the fruit of peach palm, cacao and other native plants. Some 500 families from 60 communities in five municipalities in the Beni and Riberalta departments are benefiting from a more reliable food supply, better income and the adoption of a sustainable agro-forestry farming technology for this Amazonian micro-region.
ID: BO-518
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Beneficiary: Centro de Investigación y Servicio Popular (CISEP)
Sector/Classification: Community development
Dates: 2011-2014
City:
Province: Oruro
Country: Bolivia
Amount: $199,317
Latitude: -17.967997
Longitude: -67.112154
Description: CISEP is working with female mineworkers in 14 mining cooperatives in the department of Oruro to improve their productivity and income. The women receive machinery, equipment, tools and safety gear as well as related training and technical assistance.
ID: BO-519
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Beneficiary: Asociación de Mujeres Aymaras Lecheras de Irpa Chico (AMALIC)
Sector/Classification: Community development
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Viacha
Province: La Paz
Country: Bolivia
Amount: $195,338
Latitude: -10.9685
Longitude: -66.7942
Description: AMALIC’s 70 members, mostly Aymara women, from four communities in the municipality of Viacha on the Bolivian altiplano are improving their dairy enterprise to increase its output of milk and other products. These farmers are acquiring technical skills related to livestock and pasture management and to processing and marketing. The expected results are more incomes and better nutrition, especially in the schools that AMALIC supplies.
ID: BO-520
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Beneficiary: Sub Central Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos Mojocoya (SCSUTCM)
Sector/Classification: Community development
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Mojocoya
Province: Chuquisaca
Country: Bolivia
Amount: $114,003
Latitude: -18.8387
Longitude: -64.6170
Description: SCSUTCM is launching a school and producing community radio programs to support the process of converting the current municipality of Mojocoya into a model autonomous campesino originario municipio within the innovative framework of the new Bolivian Constitution. It is selecting 140 male and female representatives from each of its 30 member communities for training in its school.
ID: BO-521
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Beneficiary: Asociación de Artesanos Andinos (AAA)
Sector/Classification: Culture, enterprise development
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Arque and Tapacari
Province: Cochabamba
Country: Bolivia
Amount: $226,437
Latitude: -17.378491
Longitude: -66.166592
Description: AAA is reviving the Andean weaving tradition and undertaking a program of community tourism benefiting its 350 female and male Quechua and Aymara member-weavers from more than 19 communities in the department of Cochabamba.
ID: BO-522
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Beneficiary: Protección del Medio Ambiente de Tarija (PROMETA)
Sector/Classification: Environmental protection
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Yunchara, El Puente
Province: Tarija
Country: Bolivia
Amount: $387,978
Latitude: -21.5318
Longitude: -64.7312
Description: PROMETA is working with 1,059 families from 50 communities in the municipalities of Yunchará and El Puente in the altiplano of the Tarija department to improve camelid production and marketing. Herders acquire the skills necessary to recover natural resources, manage prairies, produce forage crops and protect water sources.
ID: BO-523
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Beneficiary: Servicios Múltiples de Tecnologías Apropriadas (SEMTA)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, community development
Dates: 2011-2014
City:
Province: Pacajes
Country: Bolivia
Amount: $347,026
Latitude: -17.4271
Longitude: -68.7155
Description: SEMTA is undertaking a program of agricultural development intended to benefit 400 Aymara families from 34 communities in three municipalities in the Pacajes department of the altiplano region. It expects to increase their harvests of quinoa, canawi and vegetables; their production of camelids, cattle and sheep; and native and exotic pastures. It is also improving access to water and practices that reverse environmental degradation.
ID: BO-525
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Beneficiary: Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza (FAN)
Sector/Classification: Environment, enterprise development
Dates: 2012-2015
City: Rurrenabaque
Province: Beni
Country: Bolivia
Amount: $256,325
Latitude: -14.8262
Longitude: -64.8878
Description: FAN-Bolivia is workingn to expand ecotourism activities in Pampas de Yacumo, a municipal protected area near the town of Rurrenabaque in the Beni department. The project is improving employment opportunities, income and conservation practices, as well as developing enterprises in which community residents participate.
ID: BO-527
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Beneficiary: Fundación Nueva Norte (FNN)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2013-2015
City: La Paz
Province: La Paz
Country: Bolivia
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Latitude: -16.5068
Longitude: -68.1245
Description: FNN is working to increase income from crops, livestock and fisheries in 15 communities with diverse eco-systems in the municipalities of Batallas and Pucarani, on the altiplano, by improving farming skills, product quality and marketing to niche outlets in the city of La Paz. The project should benefit 250 farmers.
ID: BR-793
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Beneficiary: Fundação O Boticário de Proteção à Natureza (FBPN)
Sector/Classification: Environment
Dates: 2001
City: São José dos Pinhais
Province: Paraná
Country: Brazil
Amount: $550,000
Latitude: -25.5307
Longitude: -49.1958
Description: Fundação O Boticário de Proteção à Natureza (FBPN) created a fund to improve the quality of life of low-income regions and communities in Brazil by promoting environmentally sustainable development initiatives. This project served as a model for environmental institutions interested in supporting grassroots development in Latin America. An estimated 2,400 low-income beneficiaries improved their quality of life through development projects supported by the fund.
ID: BR-802
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Beneficiary: Federação das Indústrias do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FIRJAN)
Sector/Classification: Corporate social investment
Dates: 2002
City: Rio de Janeiro
Province: Rio de Janeiro
Country: Brazil
Amount: $412,000
Latitude: -22.908307
Longitude: -43.17449
Description: Federação das Indústrias do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FIRJAN) is undertaking a ten-year project to increase corporate social investment in the State of Rio de Janeiro. The program establishes a small grant fund to mobilize resources from 10 companies for direct investments in communities, trains companies to develop social programs and organizes an international meeting to exchange best practices in corporate social investment.
ID: BR-812
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Beneficiary: Fundação Otacílio Coser (Coser)
Sector/Classification: Community development
Dates: 2003
City: Vitoria
Province: Espírito Santo
Country: Brazil
Amount: $306,000
Latitude: -20.314868
Longitude: -40.301718
Description: Fundação Otacílio Coser's mission is to develop areas of low education and problems of environmental degradation by promoting youth to become civic leaders. They provide environment, voluntarism and social organization management training to youth living in high levels of social inequality to support community development.
ID: BR-832
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): P
IconStyle: small_blue
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Beneficiary: Centro de Estudos e Promoção da Agricultura de Grupo (CEPAGRO)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, sustainability
Dates: 2006
City: Florianópolis
Province: Santa Catarina
Country: Brazil
Amount: $405,256
Latitude: -27.6089
Longitude: -48.5225
Description: CEPAGRO is fostering sustainable development and solidarity among rural producers and in low-income urban communities using the principles of agroecology. The project directly benefits 150 farm families in 8-10 municipalities of Santa Catarina and 60 families from low-income communities in Florianópolis.
ID: BR-844
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): P
IconStyle: small_blue
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Beneficiary: Instituto Asta (formerly Instituto Realice)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2008
City: Rio de Janeiro
Province: Rio de Janeiro
Country: Brazil
Amount: $396,325
Latitude: -22.855138
Longitude: -43.256641
Description: Instituto Asta (formerly Instituto Realice) is organizing a network to distribute hand-crafted mercado-solidário, or Fair Trade products, through direct sales, catalogues and the Internet, and developing centers in Rio de Janeiro linking producers with vendors. Its training ensures quality and promotes the self-sufficiency of a structure that maximizes the earning potential of almost 1,000 Brazilians.
ID: BR-846
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
IconStyle: capital_small_highlight
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Casa-Crafts-H.gif
VideoUrl: http://www.iaf.gov/index.aspx?page=1924
Beneficiary: Centro de Apoio Sócio-Ambiental (CASA)
Sector/Classification: Social development, environment
Dates: 2009
City: Campo Grande
Province: Mato Grosso do Sul
Country: Brazil
Amount: $353,045
Latitude: -20.4435
Longitude: -54.6478
Description: CASA is channeling small grants to grassroots groups and nongovernmental organizations throughout Brazil for social development and environmental conservation. The IAF finances 30 projects and CASA funds the remaining 320 projects. This increases the engagement of Brazilians in the challenges directly affecting them and improves environmental programming and policy-making.
ID: BR-848
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Conselho Pastoral dos Pescadores/Regional Ceará (CPP-Ceará)
Sector/Classification: Fishing
Dates: 2009
City:
Province: Ceará
Country: Brazil
Amount: $173,000
Latitude: -5.4984
Longitude: -39.3206
Description: CPP-Ceará is developing artisan fishing organizations operating in seven communities in the state of Ceará by working with them to increase income, encourage greater participation by women, reduce environmental degradation and improve fisheries.
ID: BR-850
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): P
IconStyle: small_blue
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Associação Ateliê de Idéias (Ateliê de Idéias)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2009
City: Vitoria
Province: Espírito Santo
Country: Brazil
Amount: $338,000
Latitude: -20.304323
Longitude: -40.309033
Description: Ateliê de Idéias improved the earning potential of microenterprises, increased its microcredit fund in order to reach more borrowers, brought banking services to individuals currently excluded from the formal financial system and further developed its ability to serve the community in Vitória, Espírito Santo.
ID: BR-851
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): P
IconStyle: small_blue
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Ação Moradia (Ação Moradia)
Sector/Classification: Training, technical assistance
Dates: 2009
City: Uberlândia
Province: Minas Gerais
Country: Brazil
Amount: $296,000
Latitude: -18.9113
Longitude: -48.2622
Description: Ação Moradia worked to advance the economic inclusion and socio-economic development of vulnerable families in eight communities on the periphery of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais by providing women heads-of household and young adults training, technical assistance and financial support, including loans.
ID: BR-855
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Federação De Irmãos Beneficiente (FIB)
Sector/Classification: Education/training
Dates: 2010
City: Rio de Janeiro
Province: Rio de Janeiro
Country: Brazil
Amount: $303,145
Latitude: -22.900559
Longitude: -43.249592
Description: FIB is extending its Projeto Mão na Massa, a six-month course in construction skills, to 160 women from favelas in Rio de Janeiro, whom the organization is training to become professional masons, carpenters, electricians and plumbers. The workers and their 300 family members will directly benefit; another 900 Brazilians will benefit from the practicum, during which trainees expand or renovate an existing structure.
ID: BR-856
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): P
IconStyle: small_blue
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Cooperativa das Trabalhadoras Autônomas da Pesca e Acessórios Artesanias (COPESCARTE)
Sector/Classification: Education/training
Dates: 2010
City: Antonina
Province: Paraná
Country: Brazil
Amount: $122,780
Latitude: -25.4297
Longitude: -48.7118
Description: COPESCARTE converted a donated space into a tannery and office and refined the skills of its member-craftswomen who use fish skin to make leather and leather articles. The improved plant and products resulted in better sales, benefiting the 21 workers and their nearly 300 family members, as well as the new members of the cooperative.
ID: BR-858
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Centro de Educação Popular e Formação Sindical (CEPFS)
Sector/Classification: Training, technical assistance
Dates: 2010
City: Teixeira
Province: Paraíba
Country: Brazil
Amount: $346,155
Latitude: -7.2239
Longitude: -37.2531
Description: CEPFS is offering farmers in eight municipalities of Paraíba technical assistance and training that improves agricultural production. A study of each community in which CEPFS works facilitates the introduction of appropriate new technologies that address the challenges of living and farming in an area with very limited water resources. The project directly benefits 200 producers and an estimated 800 family members.
ID: BR-860
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Associação de Estudos, Orientação, e Assistência Rural (ASSESOAR)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture/training
Dates: 2010
City:
Province: Paraná
Country: Brazil
Amount: $380,765
Latitude: -26.0783
Longitude: -53.0531
Description: ASSESOAR is working in eight municipalities in southeastern Paraná to train 2,000 farmers and public officials in the development and application of (1) “agricultural forests” (agroflorestais), which combine agricultural production and forest management for economic and environmental benefit; (2) low-cost, low-maintenance silos; and (3) cisterns that catch and store rainwater. Through workshops, exchanges and brochures, an additional 25,000 Brazilians will become familiar with the new techniques.
ID: BR-861
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): P
IconStyle: capital_small_highlight
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Margarida-V.gif
VideoUrl: http://www.iaf.gov/index.aspx?page=1924
Beneficiary: Fundação Margarida Maria Alves (FMMA)
Sector/Classification: Education/training
Dates: 2010
City: João Pessoa
Province: Paraíba
Country: Brazil
Amount: $99,930
Latitude: -7.1153
Longitude: -34.8611
Description: The foundation is expanding its course that trains non-lawyers as legal specialists (juristas populares) to teach two classes of 30 students each in João Pessoa, and developing a shortened course to meet the growing demands of rural communities in Paraíba. Students learn about civic participation, how public policy is formulated, alternative dispute resolution and the law related to domestic violence law, as well as visit relevant public offices. 
ID: BR-862
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Associação Vianei de Cooperação e Intercambio no Trabalho, Educação, Cultura e Saude (AVICITECS)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, environment
Dates: 2010
City: Lages
Province: Santa Catarina
Country: Brazil
Amount: $303,365
Latitude: -27.8074
Longitude: -50.3201
Description: AVICITECS is working with 151 women and their families in 21 communities in Santa Catarina to diversify and expand the production of organic crops and micro- and small businesses, as well as reforest the Mata Atlântica. Training focuses on gender relationships and strengthening the organization of the women’s groups.
ID: BR-863
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Bahia Street (Bahia Street)
Sector/Classification: Education
Dates: 2010
City: Salvador
Province: Bahia
Country: Brazil
Amount: $172,360
Latitude: -12.9704
Longitude: -38.5124
Description: Bahia Street is offering 120 girls and young women between the ages of 6-17 classes that supplement their school curriculum, instruction in health and nutrition, career counseling and mentoring so they can make the transition to high school and the university. On a pilot basis, it is undertaking new activities expected to reach an estimated 170 additional Brazilians, including parents and caregivers of the students in the program, Bahia Street teachers and other students in public schools in Salvador da Bahia.
ID: BR-864
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Grupo de Informática, Comunicação e Ação Local (GIRAL)
Sector/Classification: Education/training
Dates: 2011
City: Gloria do Goita
Province: Pernambuco
Country: Brazil
Amount: $196,635
Latitude: -8.0024
Longitude: -35.2933
Description: GIRAL is training 120 young Brazilians from Pernambuco in the skills needed to work in the production of radio broadcasts, videos and print media. GIRAL members have opportunities to participate in meetings of the Pernambuco Forum on Communication (FOPECOM), other fora and local and regional networks of young leaders.
ID: BR-865
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Fundação Francisca Machado Ribeiro (Foco de Luz)
Sector/Classification: Education/training
Dates: 2011
City: Pinhão
Province: Paraná
Country: Brazil
Amount: $221,550
Latitude: -25.7073
Longitude: -51.6334
Description: Foco de Luz is expanding its program of training and internships with businesses, its cultural and sports activities and its handicraft workshops to reach an estimated 1,000 young people and 3,500 adults.
ID: BR-866
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Fundação Maurício Sirotsky Sobrinho (FMSS)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2011
City: Porto Alegre
Province: Rio Grande do Sul
Country: Brazil
Amount: $343,000
Latitude: -30.0277
Longitude: -51.2287
Description: FMSS is providing subgrants to grassroots organizations undertaking projects in Rio Grande do Sul focused on economic development, food security and the inclusion of marginalized Brazilians, especially those of African and indigenous descent. It is committed to mobilizing counterpart equivalent to double the contribution of the IAF.
ID: BR-867
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Associação dos Agricultores Agroflorestais de Barra do Turvo e Adrianópolis (COOPERAFLORESTA)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2011
City: Vale do Ribeira
Province: São Paulo
Country: Brazil
Amount: $297,385
Latitude: -24.7580
Longitude: -48.5049
Description: COOPERAFLORESTA is expanding its agroforestry school to offer its member-farmers training and the opportunity to share experiences with technicians, researchers and other interested farmers. It will also begin operating its new plant processing fruit pulp, ice cream and dried fruit. The project is expected to benefit at least 2,000 Brazilians directly and another 11,000 indirectly.
ID: BR-868
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Instituto Comunitario Grande Florianópolis (ICom)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2011
City: Florianopolis
Province: Santa Catarina
Country: Brazil
Amount: $297,650
Latitude: -27.594328
Longitude: -48.551332
Description: ICom is using its grant to develop its Centro de Apoio a Iniciativas Sociais (CAIS), a resource center for nongovernmental, community and grassroots groups in Greater Florianopolis, which is expected to directly benefit 400 organizations and 1,000 individuals.
ID: BR-869
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Centro Ecológico (CE)
Sector/Classification: Environment, agriculture
Dates: 2012
City:
Province: Rio Grande do Sul
Country: Brazil
Amount: $347,400
Latitude: -29.3961
Longitude: -49.8466
Description: CE is increasing the incomes of 300 small-scale farmers while substantially improving the environmental sustainability of their plots with organic production and agro-ecological systems. CE provides training and technical assistance to small-scale farmers’ cooperatives to diversify and expand organic agricultural production intercropped with native tree species, and to improve and scale-up the cooperatives’ small agro-processing facilities.
ID: BR-870
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Centro for Digital Inclusion (CDI Amazônia)
Sector/Classification: Education/training, environment, corporate social investment
Dates: 2012
City: Manaus
Province: Amazonas
Country: Brazil
Amount: $175,420
Latitude: -2.5977
Longitude: -60.0363
Description: CDI Amazônia is offering hands-on training in refurbishing computers, building upon its campaign to promote awareness of e-waste, add more e-waste collection points and develop its enterprise that sells reconditioned computers. It works with CDI Pará to introduce similar training, an awareness campaign and courses on recycling e-waste into handicrafts.
ID: BR-871
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Instituto Fazer Acontecer (IFA)
Sector/Classification: Education/training
Dates: 2012
City:
Province: Bahia
Country: Brazil
Amount: $209,030
Latitude: -12.1205
Longitude: -44.9983
Description: IFA, which uses sports to spur community development, is organizing training for sports educators, educational sports activities for young Brazilians in rural Bahia and forums on sports in education and the social impact of the World Cup and Olympics.
ID: BR-872
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Centro de Tecnologias Alternativas Populares do Rio Grande do Sul (CETAP)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, agriculture/food production, environment
Dates: 2012
City:
Province: Rio Grande do Sul
Country: Brazil
Amount: $280,935
Latitude: -28.2612
Longitude: -52.4083
Description: CETAP is promoting the expansion of agro-ecological farming systems with family farmers and improving the distribution and marketing of organic products in the northwest region of Rio Grande do Sul. CETAP also facilitates the connection between these family farmers and low-income urban groups interested in processing the organic produce into value-added products for local markets. These activities will generate employment and income for family farmers, and low-income urban groups.
ID: BR-873
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Associação de Desenvolvimento Comunitário de Batayporã (ADEPORÃ)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture/food production, environment
Dates: 2012
City: Batayporã
Province: Mato Grosso do Sul
Country: Brazil
Amount: $87,500
Latitude: -22.2897
Longitude: -53.2803
Description: ADEPORÃ is working with farmers who were resettled as a result of Brazil’s land reform program to plant agro-ecological community gardens in idle or degraded areas and organize a cooperative, resulting in a more reliable food supply for approximately 500 rural families, for schools and for markets in the municipality of Batayporã, Mato Grosso do Sul. The grantee plans to connect the new cooperative to wholesalers in the region, school lunch programs and government agencies that distribute food to the poor.
ID: BR-874
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Associação de Cooperação Técnica para o Desenvolvimento Humano - Outro Olhar (Outro Olhar)
Sector/Classification: Cultural expression, education/training, environment
Dates: 2012
City:
Province: Santa Catarina
Country: Brazil
Amount: $301,890
Latitude: -25.3935
Longitude: -51.4562
Description: Outro Olhar is working with the Popyguá Solidarity Network, composed of representatives of indigenous Guarani communities in the states of Santa Catarina and Paraná, to develop microenterprises, improve infrastructure, record oral history, preserve the environment and reduce dependency on government assistance.
ID: BR-875
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
IconStyle: capital_small_highlight
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Quilombo1-small-H.gif
VideoUrl: http://www.iaf.gov/index.aspx?page=1472
Beneficiary: Associação dos Remanescentes do Quilombo de Pombal (ARQP)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, agriculture/food production, environment
Dates: 2012
City: Santa Rita do Novo Destino
Province: Goiás
Country: Brazil
Amount: $285,350
Latitude: -15.1360
Longitude: -49.1147
Description: ARQP is working with 160 Afro-Brazilian farmers resettled through Brazil’s program of land reform in São Tiago in the municipality of Santa Rita do Novo Destino, state of Goiás, to develop the association’s fund for equipment to improve production, and to launch a cooperative that buys the community’s produce to sell in volume.
ID: BR-876
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): N
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Instituto Brasil Central (IBRACE)
Sector/Classification: Legal assistance, education/training
Dates: 2013
City:
Province: Goiás
Country: Brazil
Amount: $177,600
Latitude: -14.479919
Longitude: -46.4929
Description: Instituto Brasil Central (IBRACE) is training farmers, residents of quilombola and indigenous Brazilians resettled as a result of land reform in the northeastern region of the state of Goiás to contribute to the discussion of public policies on rural development, conservation and social services, and to monitor the programs derived from the policies. One hundred individuals are expected to benefit directly and 80,000 indirectly.
ID: BR-877
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: A Casa Verde - Cultura e Meio Ambiente (Casa Verde)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, cultural expression
Dates: 2012
City:
Province: Goiás
Country: Brazil
Amount: $307,780
Latitude: -16.9775
Longitude: -49.2297
Description: Casa Verde is working with indigenous, quilombola communities and small farmers resettled by Brazil’s program of land reform, to improve their productive capacities, reinforce their traditional practices, and conserve biodiversity in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso, and Mato Grosso do Sul. This project will directly benefit 1,000 families and another 3,500 families indirectly.
ID: BR-878
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Geledés Instituto da Mulher Negra (Geledés)
Sector/Classification: Legal assistance, education/training
Dates: 2012
City:
Province: São Paulo
Country: Brazil
Amount: $161,500
Latitude: -23.5149
Longitude: -46.6411
Description: Geledés is training 120 Afro-Brazilian women from marginalized neighborhoods in eastern and southern São Paulo to provide residents information on domestic violence, health care, the judicial system and the availability of legal services to victims of discrimination based on gender or race or of basic civil rights violations.
ID: BR-879
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): P
IconStyle: small_blue
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Cooperativa de Agricultores Ecológicos do Portal da Amazônia (Cooperagrepa)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture/food production, enterprise development
Dates: 2012
City:
Province: Mato Grosso do Sul
Country: Brazil
Amount: $43,000
Latitude: -10.5183
Longitude: -55.2322
Description: Cooperagrepa is developing a plan to organize farmers in municipalities in the north of Mato Grosso and offering them assistance with their production of native fruits and vegetables, organic certification processes and marketing.
ID: BR-880
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Instituto Arcor Brasil (IAB)
Sector/Classification: Corporate social investment
Dates: 2012
City:
Province: São Paulo
Country: Brazil
Amount: $188,000
Latitude: -23.5186
Longitude: -46.3907
Description: IAB’s subgrant fund is providing resources to grassroots groups for undertaking development projects. IAB is working with Brazilian corporations and corporate foundations in RedEAmérica to improve the effectiveness of their social investment practices.
ID: BR-881
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): N
IconStyle: capital_small_highlight
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Proeza-small-H.gif
VideoUrl: http://www.iaf.gov/index.aspx?page=1472
Beneficiary: Instituto Pró Educação e Saúde (Instituto Proeza)
Sector/Classification: Education/Training, enterprise development
Dates: 2013
City: Brasilia
Province: DF
Country: Brazil
Amount: $141,000
Latitude: -15.747319
Longitude: -47.92923
Description: Instituto Proeza is working on the outskirts of Brasilia to train victims of domestic violence in vocational skills; help them form their own association to take advantage of opportunities related to the 2014 World Cup and beyond; and is offering after-school classes and tutoring for children at risk. The project is expected to benefit 100 women and 200 children directly and another 1,500 Brazilians indirectly.
ID: BR-883
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): N
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Associação Etnoambiental Beija-Flor
Sector/Classification: Agriculture/food production; cultural expression
Dates: 2013
City: Rio Preto da Eva
Province: Amazonas
Country: Brazil
Amount:
Latitude: -2.686888
Longitude: -59.701424
Description: AEFB is planting native fruit trees and developing honey production in the community of Beija-Flor, Rio Preto da Eva, state of Amazonas. Results expected include a more reliable food supply and employment opportunities that should benefit 640 indigenous Brazilians directly and 1,000 other residents of Rio Preto da Eva indirectly.
ID: BR-886
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): N
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Alternativas para Pequena Agricultura no Tocantins (APA-TO)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture/food production; education/training; environment
Dates: 2013
City: Augustinópolis
Province: Tocantins
Country: Brazil
Amount:
Latitude: -5.467937
Longitude: -47.889619
Description: APA-TO is developing and applying new technologies that help communities and ecosystems in the north of Tocantins state adapt to the effects of climate change. It is also working to generate income from non-timber forest products and diversify the food supply. This project should benefit 500 farmers directly and 5,000 other Brazilians indirectly.
ID: BR-887
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): N
IconStyle: small_yellow
ImageUrl: http://www.rainforest-alliance.net/pictures/IafBrazilPhotos/Logo-multicolor-official.jpg
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Beneficiary: Cooperativa de Trabalho, Prestação de Serviços, Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural (COOPTER)
Sector/Classification: Education/training; enterprise development; environment
Dates: 2013
City: Palmas
Province: Tocantins
Country: Brazil
Amount:
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Description: COOPTER is working with communities in Araguacema and Couto de Magalhães, state of Tocantins, to establish cooperation agreements to facilitate fishing in the lakes along the Araguaia River, to develop plans for managing stocks of pirarucu (arapaima gigas) and to improve processing. The income generated and the more reliable food supply developed will benefit 245 fishers directly and 980 other area residents indirectly.
ID: CH-511
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Beneficiary: Fundación Pehuén (Pehuén)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2003-2014
City: Alto Bio-Bio
Province: Region VIII
Country: Chile
Amount: $316,000
Latitude: -36.9777
Longitude: -72.3311
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ID: CH-514
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Beneficiary: Corporación Sociedad Activa (CSA)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2005-2013
City: Santiago
Province: Santiago
Country: Chile
Amount: $260,000
Latitude: -33.46954
Longitude: -70.647855
Description: Corporación Sociedad Activa (CSA) is improving the quality of life of poor people by investing private resources in response to community needs.
ID: CH-516
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Beneficiary: Fundación Microfinanzas y Desarrollo (Microfinanzas)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2006-2014
City: Santiago
Province: Santiago
Country: Chile
Amount: $255,000
Latitude: -33.468538
Longitude: -70.637641
Description: Funding and support through Fundación Microfinanzas y Desarrollo is enabling local organizations to implement their self-help development projects, strengthen their community organizations, and form partnerships with businesses, local governments and other organizations.
ID: CH-518
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Beneficiary: Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-Sustainability Team (NESsT)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2010-2014
City:
Province: Region VI
Country: Chile
Amount: $227,840
Latitude: -36.927939
Longitude: -72.3349
Description: NESsT is promoting income-generating activities in order to re-establish livelihoods for the inhabitants of the VI, VII and VIII regions in southern Chile, following the earthquake that struck of February 2010. NESsT does so through the creation of a “Levantando Chile” Subgrant Fund, psychological support to affected communities, and assistance to grassroots organizations for long-term sustainability and the impact of their mission through the development of enterprises that generate revenue.
ID: CO-498
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Beneficiary: Corporación Consorcio para el Desarrollo Comunitario (Consorcio)
Sector/Classification: Training, grassroots support
Dates: 2003-2014
City: Bogotá
Province: Distrito Capital
Country: Colombia
Amount: $678,595
Latitude: 4.5981
Longitude: -74.0758
Description: Consorcio provided small donations, training and other support to community organizations of poor people through the expansion of the existing “Colombian National Fund." Consorcio also participated with other members of the Inter-American Network of Corporate Foundations and Actions for Grassroots Development in regional and hemispheric workshops and conferences to share learning, best practices, policies, and methodologies for supporting grassroots development.
ID: CO-499
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Beneficiary: Asociación de Fundaciones Petroleras (AFP)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2003-2013
City:
Province: Arauca
Country: Colombia
Amount: $258,500
Latitude: 4.6476
Longitude: -74.0757
Description: AFP provided small grants, training and other support to community organizations of poor people to carry out local self-help development projects. AFP also participated with other members of the Inter-American Network of Corporate Foundations and Actions for Grassroots Development in regional and hemispheric workshops and conferences to share learning, best practices, policies, and methodologies for supporting grassroots development.
ID: CO-504
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Beneficiary: Corporación Asesorias para el Desarrollo (ASDES)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2006-2013
City: Tumaco
Province: Nariño
Country: Colombia
Amount: $429,723
Latitude: 3.4380
Longitude: -76.5240
Description: ASDES trained 100 leaders of communities of African descent in constitutional rights, natural resource management and self-governance, and provided legal assistance in the city of Tumaco, Nariño department, benefiting 14 African-descendent territories with a total population of 53,000.
ID: CO-507
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Beneficiary: Corporación Consorcio para el Desarrollo Comunitario (Consorcio)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2007-2013
City: Bogotá
Province: Distrito Capital
Country: Colombia
Amount: $388,000
Latitude: 4.5981
Longitude: -74.0758
Description: Consorcio is supporting the launch of RedEAmérica’s executive directorate, developing and applying a strategy for expanding training programs, improving communications among members and preparing RedEAmérica’s Information System to mobilize resources for grassroots development.
ID: CO-511
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Beneficiary: Transparencia por Colombia (Transparencia)
Sector/Classification: Training, grassroots support
Dates: 2007-2014
City: Bogotá
Province: Distrito Capital
Country: Colombia
Amount: $259,063
Latitude: 4.5981
Longitude: -74.0758
Description: Transparencia, with support from RedEAmérica member Fundación Corona and future member AVINA, is providing small grants of up to $20,000, training and other support to community organizations encouraging the participation of community residents in oversight to assure transparency in government and in public discussions of issues that directly affect their lives.
ID: CO-512
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Beneficiary: Fundación para el Etnodesarrollo de los Llanos Orientales en Colombia (ETNOLLANO)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2008-2013
City:
Province: Vichada
Country: Colombia
Amount: $405,212
Latitude: 6.3098
Longitude: -67.4734
Description: ETNOLLANO is working to improve the income of approximately 240 indigenous Sikuani, Amorua, and Piaroa women artisans by helping them increase and refine their production of baskets, wood carvings, ceramics and woven handbags. Craftswomen from three indigenous resguardos, or territories, along the Orinoco River in the eastern Amazon region in the northern part of the Vichada department will participate in and benefit from the project.
ID: CO-513
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Beneficiary: Empresa Cooperativa del Sur del Cauca (COSURCA)
Sector/Classification: Agrobusiness
Dates: 2008-2014
City:
Province: Cauca
Country: Colombia
Amount: $327,305
Latitude: 2.4650
Longitude: -76.6188
Description: COSURCA is providing technical and financial services to 1,270 coffee and fruit farmers from 13 of its affiliates in the southern provinces of the Cauca region. Its goal is to help them renovate their farms, industrialize the processing of fruit and roasted and ground coffee and increase the volume of organic coffee marketed through international Fair-Trade channels and of its members’ fruit and fruit products sold in Colombian markets.
ID: CO-515
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Beneficiary: Asociación Nacional de Recicladores (ANR)
Sector/Classification: Technical assistance
Dates: 2009-2014
City: Bogotá
Province: Distrito Capital
Country: Colombia
Amount: $150,380
Latitude: 10.9965
Longitude: -74.8033
Description: ANR is improving the 12 garbage-collection and recycling member-organizations in its Atlantic Coast office through technical assistance and new equipment. It is targeting three associations that are already working together to offer quality services and expand: Asociación de Recolectores de Basura y Reciclaje del sur Occidente de Soledad (ARESOL), consisting of 30 garbage collectors; Cooperativa de Trabajadores del Reciclaje de Soledad (COOREINSOL), whose 38 recyclers reach the same neighborhoods; and Cooperativa de Recicladores de Malambo (Coopserviasep), a grassroots organization of 30 recyclers.
ID: CO-517
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Beneficiary: Asociación de Cabildos Ukawe'sx Nasa Cxahb (Asociacion de Cabildos)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2009-2014
City:
Province: Cauca
Country: Colombia
Amount: $362,607
Latitude: 2.8114
Longitude: -76.4004
Description: Asociación de Cabildos is working with young indigenous Nasa Colombians, between the ages of 18 and 32, in resguardos, or autonomous territories, in Colombia's Cauca department to develop enterprises marketing organic coffee, meat and wool.
ID: CO-518
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Beneficiary: Asociación de Campesinos Agro-ecologicos de la Zona de Amortiguamiento al Parque Nacional Regional del Duence (Asoduende)
Sector/Classification: Community development
Dates: 2009-2014
City:
Province: Valle del Cauca
Country: Colombia
Amount: $381,316
Latitude: 4.0832
Longitude: -76.3713
Description: Asoduende is working with eleven grassroots organizations present in 15 communities found in the buffer zone of the Regional Natural Park “El Duende” (El Duende) in the department of Valle del Cauca (municipalities of Darien, Trujillo, Riofrio) to promote community participation in the ongoing territorial planning of the region in order to improve the quality of life of its inhabitants and reach a sustainable model of development.
ID: CO-519
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Beneficiary: Cooperativa Multiactiva Agropecuaria del Pacifico LTDA (COAGROPACIFICO)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2009-2013
City:
Province: Nariño
Country: Colombia
Amount: $316,920
Latitude: 1.8619
Longitude: -78.7641
Description: COAGROPACIFICO is working in communities along five rivers in the Nariño province to help 300 African descendent farmers wholesale coconuts and develop a plant where they process coconuts into value-added products for diverse industries.
ID: CO-521
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Beneficiary: Consejo Comunitario de la Comunidad Negra del Rio Raposo-Palenque Regional el Congal (CCR)
Sector/Classification: Community development
Dates: 2010-2013
City: Río Raposo
Province: Valle del Cauca
Country: Colombia
Amount: $102,528
Latitude: 3.9519
Longitude: -77.0832
Description: CCR worked with 13 communities to draft internal regulations related to self-government, to demarcate a protected area and to develop a strategy for the protection of natural resources. The project impacted approximately 120 Afro-Colombians directly and another 2,800 indirectly.
ID: CO-522
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Beneficiary: Fundación Sumapaz (Sumapaz)
Sector/Classification: Community development
Dates: 2010-2013
City: Medellín
Province: Antioquia
Country: Colombia
Amount: $180,403
Latitude: 6.2359
Longitude: -75.5751
Description: Sumapaz is working with 60 community leaders drawn from 150 grassroots groups and representatives of three community-based networks in Comuna 3, a neighborhood in Medellin, toward developing skills in planning, cooperation, conflict resolution and the promotion of human rights. It is also creating an information center, the operations of which will be funded by the municipality of Medellin.
ID: CO-523
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Beneficiary: Corporación Buen Ambiente (Corambiente)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2010-2014
City:
Province: Santander
Country: Colombia
Amount: $314,300
Latitude: 7.1275
Longitude: -73.1196
Description: Corambiente is working to further develop eight associations of farmers in the departments of Santander and Norte de Santander, and to increase the farmers’ production of food with high nutritional content for consumption and sale.
ID: CO-524
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Beneficiary: Corporación Red Colombiana de Organizaciones Comunitarias Ambientalmente Amigables-Red Colombia Verde (RCV)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, training
Dates: 2010-2015
City: Bogotá
Province: Distrito Capital
Country: Colombia
Amount: $320,350
Latitude: 4.593023
Longitude: -74.09327
Description: RCV is working to improve communication and collaboration between its 42 environmentally friendly community-based enterprises throughout Colombia and to implement a hands-on training program and a sub-grant fund to increase the farmers’ production, marketing and business capabilities.
ID: CO-525
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Beneficiary: Fundación Natura (Natura)
Sector/Classification: Community development
Dates: 2010-2015
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Province: Chocó
Country: Colombia
Amount: $333,930
Latitude: 6.3126
Longitude: -77.4046
Description: Natura is working with the inhabitants of the community of El Valle, in the department of Chocó, to strengthen the local governing structure, improve inter-ethnic relations, improve food security, and increase income through community-managed tourism.
ID: CO-526
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Beneficiary: Asociación de Desplazados Dos de Mayo (ADOM)
Sector/Classification: Training
Dates: 2011-2012
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Province: Ciudad de Quibdó
Country: Chocó
Amount: $35,000
Latitude: 5.695078
Longitude: -76.654186
Description: ADOM worked with its members to update its mission statement, enhance its members’ income-generating activities through training and improve its members’ psychological health and academic competency through workshops and meetings.
ID: CO-527
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Beneficiary: The Asociación de Comunidades Andinas de Narino (TIERRANDINA)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2011-2014
City:
Province: Nariño
Country: Colombia
Amount: $217,932
Latitude: 1.2331
Longitude: -77.2780
Description: Tierrandina is working with 252 farmers from the municipalities of Consacá, Yacuanquer and Sandoná, department of Nariño, to strengthen a network of environmentally sustainable farms, some registered as private nature reserves, and to consolidate its own position as a grassroots organization.
ID: CO-528
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Beneficiary: Corporación Grupo Semillas (Semillas)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2011-2014
City:
Province: Tolima
Country: Colombia
Amount: $292,500
Latitude: 4.6640
Longitude: -74.0757
Description: Semillas is working with six African descendants and indigenous Colombian organizations in the departments of Cauca and Tolima to improve relations with Colombians of other ethnicities, and supports responsible agriculture. The project will directly benefit 1,760 persons.
ID: CO-529
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Beneficiary: Corporación Taller de Promocion Popular y Desarrollo Alternativo (PRODESAL)
Sector/Classification: Technical assistance, training
Dates: 2011-2014
City:
Province: Sucre
Country: Colombia
Amount: $212,006
Latitude: 8.7704
Longitude: -75.9018
Description: Prodesal is involving 1,036 young Colombians in local policy-making, raising their awareness of their rights and improving their business skills. The project includes technical assistance, training, forums, exchanges and the creation of a subgrant fund to finance 40 start-up businesses.
ID: CO-530
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Beneficiary: Corporación RedEAmérica (RedEAmerica)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2012-2014
City: Bogotá
Province: Distrito Capital
Country: Colombia
Amount: $192,797
Latitude: 4.655432
Longitude: -74.057692
Description: Corporación RedEAmérica was launched in 2002 as a hemisphere-wide, business-sector network. Its mission is to reduce poverty and inequality in Latin America by coordinating efforts of businesses that finance programs and enterprises proposed and undertaken by community-based organizations. The network is composed of 70 dues-paying corporate-foundation members that represent more than 350 Latin American companies from 11 countries.
ID: CO-531
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Beneficiary: Corporación Socioecológica para el Futuro de Bolivar (Ecofuturo)
Sector/Classification: Environment, agriculture/food production
Dates: 2012-2015
City: Bolivar
Province: Valle del Cauca
Country: Colombia
Amount: $245,000
Latitude: 4.1191
Longitude: -76.2041
Description: Ecofuturo is working in the municipalities of Bolivar, El Dovio and Versalles, department of Valle del Cauca, to improve land use in 50 private reserves and on farms, offer educational activities on conservation in five rural schools and facilitate collaboration involving community residents and local authorities toward the designation of three sections of public land as protected areas.
ID: CO-532
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Beneficiary: Red Departamental de Mujeres Chocoanas (Red Departamental)
Sector/Classification: Education/training
Dates: 2012-2015
City: Quibdó
Province: Chocó
Country: Colombia
Amount: $190,870
Latitude: 5.5750
Longitude: -76.6298
Description: Red Departamental is engaging its members in a planning process expected to update information on them, their needs and their priorities. It is also offering them a program on Gender and Social Development leading to certification.
ID: CO-533
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Beneficiary: Asociación de Productores del Corregimiento de Puerto Frazada Vereda Las Vegas (Asoprovegas)
Sector/Classification: Environment, agriculture/food production
Dates: 2012-2015
City: Tuluá
Province: Valle del Cauca
Country: Colombia
Amount: $167,475
Latitude: 4.1191
Longitude: -76.2041
Description: Asoprovegas is working with its members and two other grassroots organizations in the municipality of Tulua, department of Valle del Cauca, Asociación de Escuelas Agroecológicas Campesinas de San Rafael (Aseas) and the Asociación de Agricultores Orgánicos de San Lorenzo (Asoagro), toward better land-use practices on 57 farms, resulting in the increased production of sugar cane and a more reliable food supply. Goals also include greater collaboration among the three organizations.
ID: CO-534
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Beneficiary: Corporación Consorcio para el Desarrollo Comunitario (Consorcio)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2012-2015
City: Bogotá
Province: Distrito Capital
Country: Colombia
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Latitude: 4.5597
Longitude: -74.1287
Description: Consorcio is providing small grants, training and other support to grassroots organizations for projects undertaken in collaboration with local-level government and other partners, as well as participating in workshops and conferences on grassroots development with other members of the Inter-American Network of Corporate Foundations and Actions for Grassroots Development (RedEAmérica).
ID: CO-535
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): N
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Beneficiary: Asociación Movimiento Nacional por los Derechos Humanos de las Comunidades Afrocolombianas (Cimarron)
Sector/Classification: Education/Training
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Bogotá
Province: Distrito Capital
Country: Colombia
Amount: $247,775
Latitude: 4.71279
Longitude: -74.032896
Description: Asociación Movimiento Nacional por los Derechos Humanos de las Comunidades Afrocolombianas (Cimarron) is engaging Afro-Colombian women in ten localities of the city of Bogotá in training, assessing their needs and in creating and/or strengthening ten local women’s committees to increase their participation in local government and access to social protection programs available to them. The grant will directly benefit 300 women and indirectly impact 1,200 family members and community members.
ID: CO-536
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Beneficiary: Fundación Mujer y Futuro (FMF)
Sector/Classification: Education/training
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Bucaramanga
Province: Santander
Country: Colombia
Amount: NC
Latitude: 7.126699
Longitude: -73.108971
Description: Fundación Mujer y Futuro (FMF) is undertaking a three-year project to increase women’s knowledge of their rights and participation in local government, project planning, and access to programs available to them through the existing policy for gender equality for the municipality of Bucaramanga. The program includes training, technical assistance and exchanges. The grant will directly benefit 300 women and indirectly impact 1,500 community members.
ID: CO-537
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Beneficiary: Corporación Funámbulos (Funámbulos)
Sector/Classification: Cultural expression/training
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Bogotá
Province: Distrito Capital
Country: Colombia
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Latitude: 4.640526
Longitude: -74.094286
Description: Funámbulos’ training, technical support and subgrants is helping young people between the ages of 17 and 28 develop leadership and artistic skills, form a network and participate more actively in their communities. The grant will benefit 120 young Colombians directly and 400 other community residents indirectly.
ID: CR-328
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Beneficiary: Empresa para el Desarrollo S.A. (EDESA)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2008-2014
City: San José
Province: San José
Country: Costa Rica
Amount: $408,200
Latitude: 9.9271
Longitude: -84.0820
Description: EDESA is incorporating grassroots development principles and practices into its approach to create and support Empresas de Crédito Comunitarias (ECCs), or community-owned businesses, throughout Central America, and is also extending microloans.
ID: CR-329
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Beneficiary: Cooperativa Autogestionaria de Servicios Profesionales para la Solidaridad Social, R.L. (CoopeSoliDar)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2010-2013
City: Garabito
Province: Puntarenas
Country: Costa Rica
Amount: $99,560
Latitude: 9.9778
Longitude: -84.8294
Description: CoopeSoliDar worked with organizations of fishers, the municipal government of Garabito, Puntarenas, businesses and the Costa Rican Coast Guard to improve the oversight of a community-managed marine area, as well as to develop a program of economic alternatives that reduces pressure on marine resources.
ID: CR-330
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Beneficiary: Asociación BriBripa Kaneblo (ABK)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, environment
Dates: 2010-2014
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Province: Puntarenas
Country: Costa Rica
Amount: $79,250
Latitude: 9.1726
Longitude: -83.3258
Description: ABK, formed by and for indigenous Bribri Costa Ricans, is developing a tourism enterprise by constructing a cultural center, clearing trails and designating observation sites and camping areas, while preserving and protecting the community’s forests. It is offering its members training in organic agriculture to apply on the community’s land. Approximately 70 indigenous Bribri are participating and another 350 individuals will benefit indirectly from the project.
ID: CR-331
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Beneficiary: Asociación Mixta de Piangueros de Purruja (APIAPU)
Sector/Classification: Environment, health
Dates: 2010-2013
City: Golfo Dulce
Province: Puntarenas
Country: Costa Rica
Amount: $39,990
Latitude: 8.4692
Longitude: -83.2078
Description: APIAPU designed a plan for harvesting mollusks that assures future populations in area mangroves, investigated options for growth and worked toward obtaining health and unemployment insurance coverage for its 32 members. Another 30 independent mollusk collectors benefited indirectly from its project.
ID: CR-332
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Beneficiary: Asociación de Guias de Turismo de Piedras Blancas (AGTPB)
Sector/Classification: Education/training
Dates: 2010-2014
City: Piedras Blancas
Province: Puntarenas
Country: Costa Rica
Amount: $30,650
Latitude: 8.7840
Longitude: -83.2372
Description: AGTPB is furthering community-based tourism in the Piedras Blancas National Park, Puntarenas and surrounding areas by training young members to become licensed guides, conducting a feasibility study to define the services to be offered, acquiring administrative, communication and negotiation skills, and organizing workshops on the environment in local schools. The project will benefit 20 community residents directly and another 50 indirectly.
ID: CR-334
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Beneficiary: Asociación Instituto Monteverde (IMV)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2011-2013
City: Monteverde
Province: Puntarenas
Country: Costa Rica
Amount: $49,600
Latitude: 10.3070
Longitude: -84.8097
Description: IMV created an autonomous, not-for-profit organization for raising funds from the tourism sector and other local businesses to finance small grants supporting community-based initiatives in the municipality of Monteverde.
ID: CR-335
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Beneficiary: Fundación Corcovado Lon Willing Ramsey Junior (FC)
Sector/Classification: Environment, grassroots support
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Osa Peninsula
Province: Puntarenas
Country: Costa Rica
Amount: $227,850
Latitude: 8.5654
Longitude: -83.5161
Description: FC is launching a fundraising operation, expanding its environmental education program to include waste management and low-impact tourism throughout the Osa Peninsula, and managing a program of small grants. The project will directly benefit 600 residents of the Osa Peninsula and will indirectly impact all 3,000 individuals who make up its population.
ID: CR-336
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Beneficiary: Asociación Movimiento de Agricultura Organica Costarricense (MAOCO)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2011-2014
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Province: Huetar Norte
Country: Costa Rica
Amount: $243,000
Latitude: 9.9190
Longitude: -84.1020
Description: MAOCO is strengthening its network of 900 organic producers through improving their access to markets, identifying the demand for organic goods not currently available, coordinating production and conducting a certification program.
ID: CR-337
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Beneficiary: Alianza Comunitaria Conservacionista de Turismo Alternativo Rural (ACTUAR)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2012-2015
City: San José
Province: San José
Country: Costa Rica
Amount: $159,200
Latitude: 9.9164
Longitude: -84.1016
Description: ACTUAR is opening a café, gallery and store in San Jose to sell the products of its 40 member-organizations and promoting community tourism. More than 200 Costa Ricans will benefit directly and another 800 indirectly.
ID: CR-338
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Beneficiary: Asociación Fondo Comunitario Monteverde para el Desarrollo Sostenible (FCM)
Sector/Classification: Corporate social investment
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Monteverde
Province: Puntarenas
Country: Costa Rica
Amount: $154,570
Latitude: 10.305451
Longitude: -84.808928
Description: FCM is raising funds from the tourism sector and other local businesses to fund small grants supporting community-based initiatives in the municipality of Monteverde. It is convening community organizations around local issues, and is developing a strategic plan with community participation. Approximately 285 persons will benefit directly from project activities and an additional 6,000 local residents will benefit from the emphasis on grassroots development.
ID: CR-339
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Beneficiary: Cooperativa Autogestionaria de Servicios Profesionales para la Solidaridad Social, R.L. (CoopeSoliDar)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture/Food production; research/disemmination
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Dominicalito
Province: Puntarenas
Country: Costa Rica
Amount: $211,100
Latitude: 9.239662
Longitude: -83.846068
Description: CoopeSoliDar is working with the fishing community of Dominicalito to begin the development of a community-managed marine reserve. It is also strengthening the nascent, national Red de Pesca Responsable and carrying out a public education campaign about small-scale fishing along the Pacific coast. About 2,200 fishers and their families will participate in the project activities and another 5,000 residents will benefit indirectly.
ID: CR-340
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Beneficiary: Fundación Integral Campesina (FINCA)
Sector/Classification: Corporate social investment
Dates: 2013-2015
City:
Province: San José
Country: Costa Rica
Amount:
Latitude: 9.946659
Longitude: -84.105191
Description: FINCA is designing and testing procedures and criteria for a sustainability fund that will serve to invest in community credit businesses (CCBs) through providing seed capital. As CCBs gain access to other credit funds, they will repay the FINCA loan. It is also identifying investors and assessing whether this is a viable mechanism to cover institutional costs. About 200 persons will benefit from the project activities.
ID: CR-341
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Beneficiary: Fundación Neotrópica (FN)
Sector/Classification: Education/training
Dates: 2013-2014
City:
Province: Corredor Biológico Pájaro Campana (CBPC)
Country: Costa Rica
Amount:
Latitude: 10.164912
Longitude: -84.882431
Description: FN is working with seven community associations in the Corredor Biológico Pájaro Campana (CBPC) to develop a rural community tourism plan to promote low-impact, community managed tourism from the Monteverde cloud forest to the Gulf of Nicoya. Approximately 50 persons are participating in this planning phase.
ID: DR-329
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Beneficiary: American Chamber of Commerce of the Dominican Republic (AmCham-DR)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2003-2013
City: Santo Domingo
Province: Distrito Nacional
Country: Dominican Republic
Amount: $389,159
Latitude: 18.4961
Longitude: -69.9193
Description: AmCham-DR is supporting additional grassroots development projects through its subgrant fund, training the subgrantees in project management and offering business leaders workshops on corporate social responsibility.
ID: DR-338
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Beneficiary: Reef Check Dominican Republic (RCDR)
Sector/Classification: Ecotourism
Dates: 2009-2014
City: La Caleta
Province: Santiago
Country: Dominican Republic
Amount: $280,000
Latitude: 18.9327
Longitude: -70.4071
Description: RCDR is partnering with Cooperativa de Pesca y Prestadores de Servicios Turísticos de La Caleta (COOPRESCA) and the Dominican Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARENA) on a program of community-based marine resource management and ecotourism directed at restoring the health of the reef in the La Caleta Marine Protected Area and improving the livelihood of 60 fishers and other residents of the adjacent town of La Caleta, located 20 kilometers east of Santo Domingo.
ID: DR-341
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Beneficiary: Movimiento para el Auto-Desarrollo Internacional de la Solidaridad (MAIS)
Sector/Classification: Education/training
Dates: 2010-2015
City:
Province: Puerto Plata
Country: Dominican Republic
Amount: $197,901
Latitude: 19.7808
Longitude: -70.6871
Description: MAIS is providing supplemental academic classes and skills training to children and adolescents who are most at risk of dropping out of school. The students’ parents and teachers, members of community-based organizations and churches, and other residents of Puerto Plata are receiving complementary training to raise their awareness of children’s rights and improve their economic conditions.
ID: DR-342
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Beneficiary: Fundación Castillo, Inc. (FUCAS)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2011-2014
City:
Province: Elias Piña
Country: Dominican Republic
Amount: $356,560
Latitude: 19.0525
Longitude: -71.6199
Description: FUCAS is working with members of two farmer associations and an agricultural cooperative in Elias Piña, near the Haitian border, to increase their harvest of avocados and limes, pool production to sell in volume, develop their management and marketing skills, and protect the upper Artibonite watershed through organic farming and the application of agroforestry techniques. At least 160 families are expected to improve their income.
ID: DR-343
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Beneficiary: Acción Callejera - Fundación Educativa, Inc. (Acción Callejera)
Sector/Classification: Education/training
Dates: 2012-2015
City:
Province: Santiago
Country: Dominican Republic
Amount: $250,310
Latitude: 19.3376
Longitude: -70.5995
Description: Acción Callejera is offering classes to 2,700 children in poor neighborhoods in Santiago, teaching or reinforcing academic skills. It is training parents, educators and community leaders to recognize when children are at risk, and is organizing adults into groups responsible for monitoring conditions in their communities, intervening on behalf of vulnerable children, and working toward public policies benefiting children and adolescents
ID: DR-344
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Beneficiary: Instituto para la Autogestión y el Desarrollo de Base (INADEB)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture/food production, environment
Dates: 2012-2015
City: Palo Alto
Province: Santiago
Country: Dominican Republic
Amount: $348,365
Latitude: 18.9026
Longitude: -70.7481
Description: INADEB is working with 150 members of the Asociación de Agricultores San José, a federation of coffee farmers from Palo Alto, Santiago, to improve their production, processing, storage and domestic sales of organic coffee. Farmers are expected to earn more income while increasing forest cover and preserving biodiversity.
ID: DR-345
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Beneficiary: Núcleo de Apoyo a la Mujer (NAM)
Sector/Classification: Education/training, legal assistance
Dates: 2012-2015
City:
Province: Moca
Country: Dominican Republic
Amount:
Latitude: 18.9333
Longitude: -70.3998
Description: NAM is expanding services offered to victims of family, gender and sexual violence, and strengthening institutional networks dedicated to preventing such violence in Santiago and Moca. The project is expected to benefit 1,385 victims, members of grassroots and nongovernmental organizations and local public-sector employees.
ID: DR-346
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Beneficiary: Junta de Asociaciones Campesinas Rafael Fernández Domínguez, Inc. (JACARAFE)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture/food production, Environment
Dates: 2013-2015
City:
Province:
Country: Dominican Republic
Amount: $285,370
Latitude: 19.239198
Longitude: ,-71.620615
Description: Junta de Asociaciones Campesinas Rafael Fernández Domínguez, Inc. (JACARAFE) is working with five grassroots associations from four communities: Velot, Haiti and Jengibre, Rincón, and Horqueta, Dominican Republic, to improve land use and preservation through the application of agro-forestry systems. As a result of the project, 50 farming families in Haiti and 50 in the Dominican Republic will improve agricultural production, food security, nutrition, and incomes, increase forest cover, and reduce erosion. Five grassroots associations will strengthen their capacity to promote the development of their communities. Approximately 277 additional families will benefit indirectly from project activities.
ID: DR-347
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Beneficiary: GUAKIA AMBIENTE
Sector/Classification: Environment; education/training
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Santo Domingo
Province: Distrito Nacional
Country: Dominican Republic
Amount:
Latitude: 18.431472
Longitude: -69.978597
Description: GUAKIA AMBIENTE is working with the communities of Mata de Café, Arroyo Frío, El Higuito, and Chinguelo in central Dominican Republic to construct, maintain, and operate micro hydroelectric systems that harness natural water flow to generate electricity. The Grantee is training community members in system installation, maintenance, and sustainable management of natural resources. Residents of participating communities will gain access to a clean and reliable source of electricity, opening new opportunities in education, health care, and income generation. The work will benefit 400 people directly and 2,400 indirectly, and strengthen four community associations.
ID: DR-348
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Beneficiary: Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples San Rafael (Cooperativa San Rafael )
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Peralta
Province: Azua
Country: Dominican Republic
Amount:
Latitude: 18.581091
Longitude: -70.765901
Description: Cooperativa San Rafael, a farmer cooperative in Peralta, Azua, is increasing coffee farmers’ incomes by improving the quality of their processed coffee so that they are able to access niche markets. The Cooperative is installing a centralized dry mill, training farmers in improved agricultural practices, including organic production, and in sorting and classification of coffee, and providing materials and financing to improve coffee plantations. The Cooperative is also working with farmers to increase yields, opening a cooperatively run store to sell basic goods and starting a seed bank, which can contribute to members’ food and economic security. Approximately 250 farmers will directly benefit, and another 1,250 residents of Peralta will benefit indirectly.
ID: EC-398
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Beneficiary: Fundación de Desarrollo Social y Cultural Afroecuatoriana - Azúcar (AZUCAR)
Sector/Classification: Culture, community development
Dates: 2006-2014
City: Quito
Province: Pichincha
Country: Ecuador
Amount: $291,080
Latitude: -0.2167
Longitude: -78.5167
Description: Fundación de Desarrollo Social y Cultural Afroecuatoriano (AZUCAR) is implementing activities that recover and value Afro-Ecuadorian history and culture, promoting interactions between African descendant and non-African descendant people and advancing actions that generate better well-being for families and individuals. Beneficiaries are primarily individuals of African descent, from low socio-economic households, with limited access to formal education or who have dropped out of school.
ID: EC-413
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Beneficiary: Fundación para el Desarrollo de Alternativas Comunitarias de Conservación del Trópico (ALTROPICO)
Sector/Classification: Training, technical assistance, enterprise development
Dates: 2009-2014
City:
Province: Esmeraldas
Country: Ecuador
Amount: $271,790
Latitude: 0.950102
Longitude: -79.665742
Description: Fundación para el Desarrollo de Alternativas Comunitarias de Conservación del Trópico (ALTROPICO) is working with 10 small, rural community-run businesses in the provinces of Esmeraldas and Carchi to improve income, access to credit, long-term economic planning and community organizations. Its training, technical assistance and opportunities to participate in exchanges directly benefit 270 individuals and indirectly benefit 1,200 family members and other community residents.
ID: EC-418
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Beneficiary: Corporación Pesquera Artesanal-Jose Mercedes Valencia (CPAJMV)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2010-2013
City: Camarones
Province: Esmeraldas
Country: Ecuador
Amount: $169,155
Latitude: 0.9774
Longitude: -79.5627
Description: Corporación Pesquera Artesanal-Jose Mercedes Valencia (CPAJMV) worked in the parishes of Camarones and Los Recintos Colapez, Cabuyal and Palestina to update their infrastructure and improve the skills, tools and equipment of 120 fisherwomen.
ID: EC-419
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Beneficiary: Fundación Papa Roncón (FUNPARON)
Sector/Classification: Education, cultural expression
Dates: 2010-2014
City:
Province: Esmeraldas
Country: Ecuador
Amount: $98,250
Latitude: 0.86926
Longitude: -79.843941
Description: Fundación Papá Roncón (FUNPARON) is working with 65 children, adolescents and their families in the parish of Borbón, canton of Eloy Alfaro, province of Esmeraldas. The young people are learning to build and play Afro-Ecuadorian marimba instruments, and FUNPARON is studying the market for the traditional instruments and music.
ID: EC-423
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Beneficiary: Federación Provincial de Organizaciones Campesinas de Zamora Chinchipe (FEPROCAZCH)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, enterprise development
Dates: 2011-2014
City:
Province: Zamora-Chinchipe
Country: Ecuador
Amount: $261,750
Latitude: -4.1535
Longitude: -78.8383
Description: FEPROCAZCH is working with 400 farmers to increase their production of organic cacao, improve the environmental sustainability of their farms and launch a candy business. An additional 2,000 Ecuadorians will benefit indirectly from the project.
ID: EC-424
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Beneficiary: Federación de Organizaciones Negras y Mestizas del Sur Occidente de Esmeraldas, Atacames, Muisne (FONMSOEAM)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2011-2013
City:
Province: Esmeraldas
Country: Ecuador
Amount: $49,500
Latitude: 0.818454
Longitude: -79.938011
Description: FONMSOEAM worked with 60 farmers from its 12 member groups to study the feasibility of a business that processes cacao into chocolate and to develop a plan for its operation. This benefited more than 500 Ecuadorians.
ID: EC-425
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Beneficiary: Fundación para la Vida Sostenible Yanapuma (Yanapuma)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture/food production
Dates: 2012-2016
City:
Province: Santo Domingo de las Tsa’chilas
Country: Ecuador
Amount:
Latitude: -0.2210
Longitude: -79.2900
Description: Fundación Yanapuma is working with four indigenous Tsa’chila communities near Santo Domingo de las Tsa’chilas to cultivate cacao and family gardens using methods compatible with the responsible use of the environment, to market their production and to begin to process cacao into paste and candy. The project will benefit 130 farmers and 650 family members.
ID: EC-426
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Beneficiary: Agrupación Afroecuatoriana "Mujeres Progresistas" (AAMP)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2012-2016
City: Isla Trinitaria
Province: Guayaquil
Country: Ecuador
Amount:
Latitude: -2.2381
Longitude: -79.9256
Description: AAMP is building a center to house three new community businesses in underserved neighborhoods of Comunidad Nigeria, Isla Trinitaria, in Guayaquil: a restaurant with a conference room, a beauty salon and a hostel. The project directly benefits AAMP’s 300 members and 5,000 family members and neighbors benefit indirectly.
ID: EC-427
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Beneficiary: Fundación de Organizaciones de Salinas (FUNORSAL)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture/food production
Dates: 2012-2015
City:
Province: Chimborazo
Country: Ecuador
Amount:
Latitude: -1.6537
Longitude: -78.6561
Description: FUNORSAL is expanding Hilandería Intercomunal Salinas (HIS), its model enterprise that produces industrial-quality thread, into six additional locations. It is working with the residents, comprising 480 indigenous sheep and alpaca farmers, to improve their herds, launch businesses and organize as communities. The project is expected to benefit 1,000 families in the provinces of Bolívar, Tungurahua and Chimborazo.
ID: EC-428
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Beneficiary: Movimiento Juvenil Paz Urbana (MJPU)
Sector/Classification: Education/training, enterprise development
Dates: 2013-2014
City: Guayaquil
Province: Guaya
Country: Ecuador
Amount:
Latitude: -2.19989
Longitude: -79.888244
Description: Movimiento Juvenil Paz Urbana (MJPU) is strengthening an employment model for youth at risk and gang members in Guayaquil that offers positive alternatives and promotes social, cultural and economic inclusion. At least 150 youth between the ages of fifteen and twenty-nine will participate in the activities. Four hundred family and community members will indirectly benefit.
ID: EC-429
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Beneficiary: Asociación Fe y Algería (FyA)
Sector/Classification: Education/training
Dates: 2013-2015
City: Alpachaca
Province: Ibarra
Country: Ecuador
Amount:
Latitude: 0.362546
Longitude: -78.132684
Description: Asociación Fe y Algería (FyA) is promoting social inclusion through support for about 400 at-risk children and adolescents and at least 50 adults in the neighborhood of Alpachaca, Ibarra. The program is known as Cuéntamelo Todo Ibarra (CTI).
ID: EC-430
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Beneficiary: Asociación de Mujeres de Juntas Parroquiales Rurales de Ecuador (AMJUPRE)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Quito
Province: Pichincha
Country: Ecuador
Amount:
Latitude: -0.21021
Longitude: -78.486414
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ID: ES-229
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Beneficiary: Sociedad Cooperativa Marías Noventa y Tres (MARÍAS 93)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2008-2014
City: San Miguel
Province: San Miguel
Country: El Salvador
Amount: $313,096
Latitude: 13.513748
Longitude: -88.350778
Description: Sociedad Cooperativa Marías Noventa y Tres (MARÍAS 93), a farmers' cooperative in the department of San Miguel that produces and markets coffee certified as organic, is offering its members training and technical assistance to improve the quality of their coffee, increase their income, strengthen their organization and ensure that their methods are environmentally responsible
ID: ES-237
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Beneficiary: Centro Arte para la Paz (CAP)
Sector/Classification: Culture, community development
Dates: 2009-2012
City: Suchitoto
Province: Cuscatlán
Country: El Salvador
Amount: $238,935
Latitude: 13.938961
Longitude: -89.029106
Description: Over three years, CAP improved and expanded its community museum in the municipality of Suchitoto, developed the leadership skills of at-risk young adults and trained them in audio-visual production so that they can document and disseminate Suchitoto’s history and generate revenue through tourism activities and sales.
ID: ES-238
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Beneficiary: Asociación El Bálsamo (EL BÁLSAMO)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2009-2015
City: Cuisnahuat
Province: Sonsonate
Country: El Salvador
Amount: $261,220
Latitude: 13.6368
Longitude: -89.6037
Description: EL BÁLSAMO is working with farmers in Cuisnahuat, Sonsonate, to revitalize the organic cultivation of indigo. Farmers are improving their indigo crop and processing it into dye to market. They are also producing organic fertilizer and pesticide for their own use and for sale, in addition to developing their management and marketing skills as a cooperative.
ID: ES-239
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Beneficiary: Instituto de Investigación, Capacitación y Desarrollo de la Mujer (IMU)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, grassroots support
Dates: 2009-2014
City:
Province: Ahuachapán
Country: El Salvador
Amount: $285,705
Latitude: 13.923071
Longitude: -89.845333
Description: Instituto de Investigación, Capacitación y Desarrollo de la Mujer (IMU) is working with women in three grassroots associations in the department of Ahuachapán to improve their income, their food supply, and their leadership and organizational skills. With IMU’s support, these farmers raise livestock, cultivate organic vegetables, learn to produce and apply organic fertilizer and pesticide and acquire better access to markets.
ID: ES-242
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Beneficiary: Asociación Cooperativa de Producción Agropecuaria La Alternativa (ACPALA)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, enterprise development
Dates: 2010-2013
City:
Province: Sonsonate
Country: El Salvador
Amount: $73,450
Latitude: 13.7230
Longitude: -89.7333
Description: Asociación Cooperativa de Producción Agropecuaria La Alternativa (ACPALA) is boosting the income of farmers in Sonsonate and Ahuachapán who process tropical fruits and market the juice, pulp, sauce and beverages. The cooperative is drafting a formal business plan, providing its members the training and technical assistance necessary for better products and sales, expanding its line and improving the infrastructure and equipment of its processing center.
ID: ES-244
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Beneficiary: Fundación Red de Sobrevivientes y Personas con Discapacidad (Red de Sobrevivientes)
Sector/Classification: Technical assistance, enterprise development
Dates: 2010-2012
City: San Salvador
Province: San Salvador
Country: El Salvador
Amount: $289,045
Latitude: 13.707909
Longitude: -89.215643
Description: Fundación Red de Sobrevivientes y Personas con Discapacidad (Red de Sobrevivientes) worked with Salvadorans with disabilities from eight departments to develop their grassroots associations and to boost their income through funding and technical assistance for their microbusiness and agricultural initiatives.
ID: ES-245
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Beneficiary: Asociación Pro-Búsqueda de Niñas y Niños Desaparecidos (Pro-Búsqueda)
Sector/Classification: Community development
Dates: 2010-2015
City: San Salvador
Province: San Salvador
Country: El Salvador
Amount: $179,175
Latitude: 13.699695
Longitude: -89.223497
Description: Asociación Pro-Búsqueda de Niñas y Niños Desaparecidos (Pro-Búsqueda) is working with 250 Salvadorans who were separated from their families during the civil war or were affected by “disappearances” as a result of the armed conflict. It is helping them develop a more reliable food supply, creating opportunities for employment, funding microbusinesses and offering scholarships enabling some to complete vocational training or work toward a university degree.
ID: ES-246
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Beneficiary: Voluntarios Construyendo El Salvador (VOCES)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture/food production, education/training, enterprise development
Dates: 2010-2014
City:
Province: San Salvador
Country: El Salvador
Amount:
Latitude: 13.716039
Longitude: -89.201775
Description: Voluntarios Construyendo El Salvador (VOCES) is providing technical advice, workshops, financial resources and materials to families in 27 settlement communities to improve food security, boost income and strengthen management skills. The project will benefit approximately 2,470 family members directly and about 7,700 people indirectly
ID: ES-247
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Beneficiary: Consejo para la Asistencia en Recursos y Técnicas del Área Rural de Oriente (CARTARO)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, training, technical assistance
Dates: 2010-2014
City: San Francisco Javier
Province: Usulután
Country: El Salvador
Amount: $160,415
Latitude: 13.4175
Longitude: -88.5731
Description: Consejo para la Asistencia en Recursos y Técnicas del Área Rural de Oriente (CARTARO) is offering the necessary training, technical assistance, equipment and infrastructure to women in San Francisco Javier so they can process fruit and cashews and sell their products. It is also assisting residents with managing a nursery that grows young plants and contributes to reforestation.
ID: ES-248
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Beneficiary: Asociación Comunal de Mujeres de Morazán (ACMM)
Sector/Classification: Technical assistance, enterprise development
Dates: 2010-2014
City: Torola
Province: Morazán
Country: El Salvador
Amount: $282,810
Latitude: 13.9167
Longitude: -88.2333
Description: Asociación Comunal de Mujeres de Morazán (ACMM) is providing technical advice, investment capital and materials to women in the municipalities of Torola, El Rosario and Jocoaitique toward improving their small businesses, agricultural production and market access.
ID: ES-249
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Beneficiary: Asociación de Desarrollo Comunal de la Isla de Méndez (ADESCOIM)
Sector/Classification: Environment, tourism
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Isla de Méndez
Province: Usulután
Country: El Salvador
Amount: $121,895
Latitude: 13.2589
Longitude: -88.7314
Description: ADESCOIM is working with residents of Isla de Méndez, Usulután on conservation and income-generation in the Jiquilisco Biosphere Reserve. Activities include the construction of artificial reefs, fishing, marketing, the propagation of sea turtles and improvements to the grantee’s tourism center.
ID: ES-250
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Beneficiary: Asociación de Municipalidades de la Montañona (Mancomunidad La Montañona)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2011-2012
City:
Province: Chalatenango
Country: El Salvador
Amount: $44,755
Latitude: 14.037852
Longitude: -88.936785
Description: Mancomunidad La Montañona engaged residents from seven municipalities of Chalatenango in a grassroots planning process that included workshops to assess needs and priorities, consider economic alternatives and develop an economic development plan for the region.
ID: ES-251
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Beneficiary: Asociación Acuícola Lago de Ilopango (ASALI)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Lake Ilopango
Province: San Salvador
Country: El Salvador
Amount: $159,180
Latitude: 13.6692
Longitude: -89.0466
Description: ASALI is working with fishers around Lake Ilopango to improve and expand their aquaculture and facilitate sales. The project directly benefits 112 fishers from associated cooperatives and other member groups and indirectly benefits 560 other residents of the lake basin.
ID: ES-252
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Beneficiary: Fundación para la Educación Social, Económico y Cultural (FUPEC)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2011-2014
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Province: Cabañas
Country: El Salvador
Amount: $286,485
Latitude: 13.8648
Longitude: -88.7494
Description: FUPEC is working with Salvadoran hometown associations in the United States to fund sub-grants for grassroots associations of producers and for micro- and small businesses. The project is directly benefiting 370 farmers and entrepreneurs in the departments of Cabañas, Cuscatlán, Usulután and San Miguel.
ID: ES-253
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Beneficiary: Iniciativa Social para la Democracia (ISD)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support, community development
Dates: 2011-2012
City: San Pedro Masahuat
Province: La Paz
Country: El Salvador
Amount: $46,540
Latitude: 13.5517
Longitude: -89.0493
Description: ISD worked with residents of San Pedro Masahuat to prioritize needs of microentrepreneurs and farmers; to develop an economic development plan that incorporates leaders of hometown associations in the United States; and to draft a proposal for an income-generating project.
ID: ES-254
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Beneficiary: Instituto para el Rescate Ancestral Indígena Salvadoreño (RAIS)
Sector/Classification: Training, technical assistance, enterprise development
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Suchitoto
Province: Cuscatlán
Country: El Salvador
Amount: $279,640
Latitude: 13.932464
Longitude: -89.023892
Description: RAIS is offering training and technical assistance that enables residents from 11 communities in Suchitoto to revitalize and market traditional crafts and to engage in cultural tourism. The project activities are improving the skills, earnings and cultural pride of 800 Salvadorans.
ID: ES-255
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Beneficiary: Asociación Para el Desarrollo Empresarial de Productores y Comercializadores Centroamericanos (ADEPROCCA)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2012-2015
City:
Province: Chalatenango
Country: El Salvador
Amount: $258,600
Latitude: 14.04417
Longitude: -88.939748
Description: ADEPROCCA is developing the leadership and organizational and technical skills of 150 residents of six municipalities in the departments of Chalatenango and San Salvador, enabling them to take advantage of opportunities to improve and market their services as tailors and shoemakers and their silk-screened items. Some 65 percent of these Salvadorans are women and 60 percent are young adults.
ID: ES-256
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Beneficiary: Asociación Coordinadora de Comunidades Unidas de Usulutám (COMUS)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, agriculture/food production, education/training
Dates: 2012-2015
City: Jiquilisco
Province: Usulután
Country: El Salvador
Amount:
Latitude: 13.3257
Longitude: -88.5730
Description: COMUS is forming a marketing network in the municipalities of San Francisco Javier, San Agustín, Jiquilisco and Ozatlán and otherwise working to expand microbusinesses, improve the distribution of their products, develop the organizational skills of community associations and increase family income. The project benefits 442 Salvadorans directly and 2,000 indirectly.
ID: ES-257
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Beneficiary: Asociación Adolescente Juvenil Amigos de Apopa (AJA)
Sector/Classification: Education/training
Dates: 2012-2013
City: Apopa
Province: San Salvador
Country: El Salvador
Amount:
Latitude: 13.8000
Longitude: -89.1833
Description: AJA involved residents of three communities in the municipality of Apopa, department of San Salvador, in assessing their needs and ordering their priorities, improving their organization of community development associations, and formulating action plans. The project benefited 90 Salvadorans directly and 1,380 indirectly.
ID: ES-258
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Beneficiary: Asociación Comunal Lenca de Guatajiagua (ACOLGUA)
Sector/Classification: Education/training, enterprise development, cultural expression
Dates: 2012-2014
City: Guatajiagua
Province: Morazán
Country: El Salvador
Amount:
Latitude: 13.6622
Longitude: -88.2093
Description: In collaboration with Comité Pro-Guatajiagua (Pro-Guatajiagua), an association of Salvadorans in Virginia, ACOLGUA is opening and operating a center offering vocational instruction to young adults, including indigenous Salvadorans, and working to refine Lenca pottery design and improve market access. The project is benefiting 340 Salvadorans directly and another 1,700 indirectly.
ID: ES-259
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Beneficiary: Asociación Cooperativa de Productores Agropecuarios y Aprovisionamiento La Taiwanesa de RL (ACOAGROT de RL)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture/food production, education/training
Dates: 2012-2014
City: Tepecoyo
Province: La Libertad
Country: El Salvador
Amount:
Latitude: 13.7003
Longitude: -89.4678
Description: ACOAGROT is developing its administrative skills, generating sufficient revenue to support its activities and providing its members training, technical assistance and capital toward improving their production of coffee, vegetables, grains and small livestock. The grant benefits 300 Salvadorans directly and another 1,500 indirectly.
ID: ES-260
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Beneficiary: Asociación Centro para la Promoción de los Derechos Humanos “Madeleine Lagadec” (CPDH)
Sector/Classification: Education/training, enterprise development
Dates: 2013-2014
City:
Province: San Vicente
Country: El Salvador
Amount:
Latitude: 13.684393
Longitude: -88.783436
Description: Asociación Centro para la Promoción de los Derechos Humanos “Madeleine Lagadec” (CPDH) is engaging residents from five resettled communities in San Vicente department in a planning process to assess needs, delineate priorities and result in community action plans. The grant directly benefits 250 people, about 50 percent of whom are single mothers and young adults. The project indirectly impacts at least 1,250 family members and residents of the community.
ID: ES-261
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Beneficiary: Asociación Cooperativa de Producción Pesquera Reyes del Sol de R.L. (Reyes del Sol)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, agriculture/food production
Dates: 2013-2015
City: San Francisco Menéndez
Province: Ahuachapán
Country: El Salvador
Amount:
Latitude: 13.839538
Longitude: -90.016866
Description: Asociación Cooperativa de Producción Pesquera Reyes del Sol de R.L. (Reyes del Sol) is providing its members training, technical advice, equipment and capital toward improving their production, processing and marketing of fish in San Francisco Menéndez, Ahuachapán. The grant is helping Reyes del Sol enhance its administrative and business management skills as well as its ability to access markets directly. The grant is benefiting 60 members of the cooperative directly and another 325 indirectly. The cooperative is actively incorporating young adults from the community into administration and various activities.
ID: ES-262
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Beneficiary: Fundación Santa Teresa (FUNDATERE)
Sector/Classification: Economic development, income generation
Dates: 2013-2015
City: Santiago Nonualco
Province: La Paz
Country: El Salvador
Amount:
Latitude: 13.510953
Longitude: -88.940206
Description: Fundación Santa Teresa (FUNDATERE) is engaging residents of 15 communities in Santiago Nonualco, department of La Paz, to improve community organization and diversify vegetable, fruit, and livestock production. FUNDATERE is expanding and leveraging its network of diaspora organizations in the United States to support the development priorities of residents in their communities of origin. The work benefits 150 people directly and 750 people indirectly.
ID: ES-264
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Beneficiary: Asociación Comunal Comité de Desarrollo Turístico de Meanguera (CDT-Meanguera)
Sector/Classification: Education/Training
Dates: 2013-2014
City: Meanguera
Province: Morazán
Country: El Salvador
Amount:
Latitude: 13.887078
Longitude: -88.147087
Description: Working with Asociación Cooperativa de Comercialización, Producción Artesanal, Agropecuaria e Industrial “Mezcal, Historia y Color” de Meanguera, CDT-Meanguera is developing its administration, partnerships and a plan for community-led tourism in Meanguera, Morazán. The project includes training, exchanges and outreach to other entities as well as the creation of the broader proposal on tourism. The work should benefit 100 residents of Meanguera directly and 500 indirectly.
ID: ES-263
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Beneficiary: Asociación Cooperativa de Producción Agropecuaria “San Raymundo” (SAN RAYMUNDO)
Sector/Classification: Economic development
Dates: 2013-2015
City: Ahuachapán
Province: Ahuachapán
Country: El Salvador
Amount:
Latitude: 13.979714
Longitude: -89.815292
Description: SAN RAYMUNDO, a farmers’ cooperative in Ahuachapán, is developing its administrative skills, updating its equipment and training its members to process their coffee more effectively and improve sales. Better services and infrastructure at its tourism center will allow the cooperative to provide jobs and generate revenue. The project will benefit 300 Salvadorans directly and another 1,500 indirectly.
ID: GT-289
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Beneficiary: Fundación Pantaleón (Pantaleón)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2008-2013
City: Guatemala City
Province: Guatemala
Country: Guatemala
Amount: $215,000
Latitude: 14.6248
Longitude: -90.5328
Description: In coordination with RedEAmérica’s other Guatemalan members, Pantaleón is developing a Guatemalan/Regional Program to provide small grants, training and other support to grassroots organizations undertaking self-help projects.
ID: GT-296
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Beneficiary: Asociación Amigas del Sol (ADS)
Sector/Classification: Training, enterprise development, health
Dates: 2010-2014
City: San Lucas Tolimán
Province: Sololá
Country: Guatemala
Amount: $110,460
Latitude: 14.6358
Longitude: -91.1425
Description: ADS is coordinating the construction of 165 solar ovens that offer economic, environmental, health and safety advantages to the indigenous women in southwestern Guatemala who will learn to build them. The women are also benefiting from training in topics ranging from entrepreneurial skills to healthcare.
ID: GT-298
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Federación Comercializadora de Café Especial de Guatemala (FECCEG)
Sector/Classification: Training, enterprise development
Dates: 2009-2014
City:
Province: Quetzaltenango
Country: Guatemala
Amount: $280,910
Latitude: 14.836392
Longitude: -91.54266
Description: FECCEG is offering training and investing in infrastructure to increase the volume of coffee certified as Fair-Trade or organic that farmers in its eight member cooperatives, produce, process and market for export, as well as the volume of coffee processed from coffee grown exclusively by women farmers and marketed under the brand Café Femenino.
ID: GT-300
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Beneficiary: Comite de Desarrollo Campesino (CODECA)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2010-2014
City:
Province: Suchitepéquez
Country: Guatemala
Amount: $134,890
Latitude: 14.4216
Longitude: -91.4048
Description: CODECA is building the necessary infrastructure and training 160 families from Suchitepéquez to produce loroco, a wild vine native to Central America that produces edible flower clusters, to market in Guatemala City, Mazatenango and, eventually, El Salvador.
ID: GT-301
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Beneficiary: Asociación de Mujeres del Altiplano de Quetzaltenango (AMA)
Sector/Classification: Training, technical assistance
Dates: 2010-2015
City:
Province: Sololá
Country: Guatemala
Amount: $142,265
Latitude: 14.773197
Longitude: -91.183043
Description: AMA is training 150 indigenous weavers from Quetzaltenago and Sololá and offering them the technical assistance necessary to produce merchandise of consistently high quality that appeals to an international clientele.
ID: GT-302
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Beneficiary: Coordinadora de Organizaciones Maya Kaqchikeles para el Desarrollo Equitativo y Sostenible (COMKADES)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2010-2014
City: San Martín Jilotepeque
Province: Chimaltenango
Country: Guatemala
Amount: $199,290
Latitude: 14.6622
Longitude: -90.8208
Description: COMKADES is training 70 indigenous Kaqchikel families in Chimaltenango in animal husbandry and giving them the calves produced by its “bank” of 35 cows. Its goal is to address chronic malnutrition and to enable the families to earn additional income.
ID: GT-303
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Beneficiary: Sa Qa Chol Nimla K'aleb'aal (SANK)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, environment
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Chisec
Province: Alta Verapaz
Country: Guatemala
Amount: $200,900
Latitude: 15.5943
Longitude: -90.1495
Description: SANK is working in 100 communities in the municipalities of Chisec and Raxuhá, in Alta Verapaz, to conform the possession and ownership of land to Q’eqchi’tradition; raise awareness of environmental degradation; and train farmers on the advantages of crop diversification and the risks associated with monocropping and the overuse of pesticides.
ID: GT-304
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Beneficiary: Fundación ProPetén (PROPETEN)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, community development
Dates: 2011-2015
City: Santa Elena
Province: Petén
Country: Guatemala
Amount: $247,805
Latitude: 16.9120
Longitude: -90.2996
Description: PROPETEN is working with three Q'eqchi' communities in the municipalities of Poptún and San Luis, Petén to formalize their operational structure, and is providing selected farmers technical assistance with growing and selling cacao.
ID: GT-305
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Beneficiary: Asociación de Agricultores Ecológicos de la Laguna de Chicabal (ASAECO)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, environment
Dates: 2012-2015
City:
Province: Quetzaltenango
Country: Guatemala
Amount: $157,825
Latitude: 14.816821
Longitude: -91.650011
Description: ASAECO is investing in training and infrastructure to improve the services that its members offer through its ecotourism complex. The goal is to increase income by attracting more visitors to Lake Chicabal and the nearby volcano.
ID: GT-306
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Beneficiary: Asociación Para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Juventud (ADESJU)
Sector/Classification: Education/training, cultural expression
Dates: 2012-2015
City: Chiantla
Province: Huehuetenango
Country: Guatemala
Amount: $185,680
Latitude: 15.5880
Longitude: -91.6761
Description: ADESJU is offering a program of sports and cultural activities to 750 indigenous Maya Guatemalans in 25 affiliated community-based youth groups. It also expects to demonstrate to municipal authorities of Chiantla and Aguacatán the benefit of investing in its program to encourage young people to stay in school and to counter gang membership, alcohol and drug abuse, and migration to Mexico and the United States.
ID: GT-307
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Beneficiary: Asociación No Lucrativa Muj'Bab'l yol (MBYL)
Sector/Classification: Education/training, cultural expression
Dates: 2012-2015
City: Los Cayax
Province: Quetzaltenango
Country: Guatemala
Amount:
Latitude: 14.8362
Longitude: -91.5220
Description: MBYL is working with community radio stations to develop better programming; improve technical skills that enable member-stations to promote awareness of the rights of indigenous Guatemalans; and inform the public of the need for a regulatory framework conducive to the operation of community stations. The project involves 60 radio technicians and should reach 66,000 listeners.
ID: GT-308
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Beneficiary: Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén (ACOFOP)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture/food production
Dates: 2012-2015
City: Reserva de la Biosfera Maya
Province: Petén
Country: Guatemala
Amount:
Latitude: 16.7819
Longitude: -88.9284
Description: ACOFOP is offering training and related technical assistance to enable community-forestry organizations located in the Mayan Biosphere Nature Reserve to incorporate the responsible use of forest resources into the management of their plantations of the xate palm, the leaves of which are used in the floral industry. The project benefits 200 Guatemalans directly and another 1,550 indirectly, and contributes toward preserving the biodiversity of the Mayan Reserve.
ID: GT-309
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Beneficiary: Proyecto de Salud Sangre de Cristo (PSSC)
Sector/Classification: Education/training, health
Dates: 2012-2015
City: San Pedro Ayampuc
Province: Chinautla
Country: Guatemala
Amount:
Latitude: 14.7000
Longitude: -90.5000
Description: PSSC is working in four schools to improve the diet and general health of children and parents in marginal communities in the municipalities of San Pedro Ayampuc and Chinautla, department of Guatemala.
ID: GT-310
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Beneficiary: Asociación de Desarrollo Integral Inhat (ASOINHAT)
Sector/Classification: Education/training
Dates: 2012-2013
City: San Mateo Ixtatán
Province: Huehuetenango
Country: Guatemala
Amount:
Latitude: 15.8313
Longitude: -91.4794
Description: ASOINHAT is working on a plan to raise funds for its bilingual, bicultural community school serving indigenous Chuj Guatemalans in the municipality of San Mateo Ixtatán.
ID: GT-311
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Beneficiary: The Asociación para el Desarrollo Socio-Cultural y Agropecuario Kaqchikel (ASDEA-K)
Sector/Classification: Environment, education/training
Dates: 2013-2016
City: San Martín Jilotepeque
Province: Chimaltenango
Country: Guatemala
Amount:
Latitude: 14.784758
Longitude: -90.793591
Description: The Asociación para el Desarrollo Socio-Cultural y Agropecuario Kaqchikel (ASDEA-K) is training leaders from some 29 indigenous communities on how to prepare for and reduce the effects of natural disasters using Mayan and modern practices. It is also educating the local municipality on the effectiveness of their methods and encouraging the municipality to invest financial resources to implement the techniques in other communities. The program includes hands-on training in negotiation techniques, soil and water preservation, the use and preparation of natural medicines, construction of nurseries and demonstration plots, and funding for ten micro-projects to apply lessons from the training sessions.
ID: GT-312
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Beneficiary: The Alcaldía Maya de Canillá (AMC)
Sector/Classification: Education/training, cultural expression
Dates: 2013-2014
City: Canillá
Province: El Quiché
Country: Guatemala
Amount:
Latitude: 15.167453
Longitude: -90.850067
Description: The Alcaldía Maya de Canillá (AMC) is engaging residents from around 36 communities in the municipality of Canillá in a planning process to assess needs and delineate priorities to ensure AMC’s long-term operations. The planning grant directly benefits all residents of the 36 communities that form part of AMC, of which more than half are women or youth under 18.
ID: GT-314
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Beneficiary: Asociación Agropecuaria y Artesanal para el Desarrollo, El Buen Sembrador (EBS)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, Agriculture/food production
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Sololá
Province: Sololá
Country: Guatemala
Amount:
Latitude: 14.732386
Longitude: -91.252441
Description: EBS is implementing a project to promote income generation for its member families. EBS’ members are increasing their production levels, which will enable them to engage with buyers who require minimum production volumes, but who pay better prices. EBS staff is also receiving training to strengthen its operational structure, increase women’s participation, and develop a business plan that will increase production and revenues, as well as properly manage a search for new buyers with the aim of increasing profits. About 150 direct beneficiaries and 900 indirect beneficiaries will benefit from the project activities.
ID: GT-313
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Beneficiary: Asociación de Abogados y Notarios Mayas de Guatemala (AANMG)
Sector/Classification: Legal assistance, agriculture/food production
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Guatemala City
Province:
Country: Guatemala
Amount:
Latitude: 14.654883
Longitude: -90.505157
Description: AANMG is working with residents from the community of Se’konon to legalize their land and promote crop diversification and food security through a campesino school and campesino contests. Grant activities are empowering beneficiaries, enable them to organize more effectively, and give them a strong incentive to remain in their homeland and contribute to the social and economic development of the local municipality. This grant will directly benefit all of the 300 families that currently inhabitant Se’konon.
ID: GT-316
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Beneficiary: Asociación Sinergia No’j (SN)
Sector/Classification: Education and training
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Guatemala City
Province:
Country: Guatemala
Amount:
Latitude: 14.605823
Longitude: -90.524426
Description: SN is training 29 indigenous women representing nine grassroots groups to exercise leadership on issues related to health, violence, gender, civic participation, race-based discrimination and their rights under Guatemalan law. The project should benefit 2,000 indigenous members of the organizations the women are expected to lead.
ID: GT-315
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Beneficiary: Asociación de Comunidades Campesinas Indígenas para el Desarrollo Integral de Petén (ACDIP)
Sector/Classification: Education and training
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Santa Elena
Province: Petén
Country: Guatemala
Amount:
Latitude: 16.922376
Longitude: -89.893618
Description: ACDIP is working with residents of about 150 communities in the department of Petén to inform them of the benefits and risks of current land titling programs and to present alternative, legal methods of managing land according to indigenous practices. ACDIP is creating educational materials in Spanish and Q’eqchi’ to show community members, local and national government officials, and international project officers the results of prior land titling programs. This grant will directly benefit inhabitants of the 150 participating communities.
ID: HA-201
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Beneficiary: The Coordination des Paysans pour le Développement de Thomazeau (COPDET)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2006-2013
City: Thomazeau
Province: Ouest
Country: Haiti
Amount: $253,290
Latitude: 18.6523
Longitude: -72.0927
Description: COPDET implemented a project to establish a seed bank and provide training to help 300 small-scale farmers grow and sell shallots.
ID: HA-203
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Beneficiary: Mouvement Paysan 3ème Section Camp-Perrin (MP3K)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2008-2013
City: Camp Perrin
Province: Sud
Country: Haiti
Amount: $562,870
Latitude: 18.3320
Longitude: -73.7007
Description: MP3K worked in the Third Communal Section of Camp-Perrin in the Sud department to apply the minisett technique, an inexpensive method of rapid propagation, to the cultivation of three yam varieties. The increase in production and crop sales boosted the income of MP3K’s 1,500 farmers-members and indirectly benefited the 25,000 other residents of Camp-Perrin.
ID: HA-204
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Beneficiary: Kombit Fanm Kaskad-Dubreuil (KOFAKAD)
Sector/Classification: Training, enterprise development
Dates: 2008-2014
City: Ducis
Province: Sud
Country: Haiti
Amount: $266,600
Latitude: 18.2299
Longitude: -73.8828
Description: KOFAKAD is constructing and equiping a workshop and training center in the southern town of Ducis, where 350 at-risk young women and adolescents can become computer literate and acquire the skills to work as dressmakers, artisans and bakers. KOFAKAD is also developing its members’ dressmaking, cake-decoration and handicrafts and baked good production into a community-based enterprise.
ID: HA-206
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Beneficiary: Fondation Festival Film Jakmèl (FFFJ)
Sector/Classification: Training, education
Dates: 2009-2014
City: Jacmel
Province: Sud-Est
Country: Haiti
Amount: $431,280
Latitude: 18.2381
Longitude: -72.5340
Description: FFFJ is expanding the multimedia education offered by the Ciné Klas and Ciné Lekòl programs of its Ciné Institute to reach 5,000 high school students in Jacmel and Port-au-Prince and to provide training in filmmaking to 75 young adults. FFFJ’s goal is to develop the Haitian film industry, to create more job opportunities for young people and to otherwise stimulate the economy.
ID: HA-207
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Beneficiary: Fonds International de Développment Économique et Social (FIDES)
Sector/Classification: Training, technical assistance
Dates: 2009-2014
City:
Province: Bas-Artibonite
Country: Haiti
Amount: $408,000
Latitude: 19.6723
Longitude: -72.6798
Description: FIDES is providing technical assistance, training, equipment, materials and financial resources to 10 of its member organizations toward assuring a more reliable food supply, increasing income and developing their technical skills and overall management. The project is benefiting 1,000 farmers and market women in the Bas-Artibonite, Nord-Ouest, Sud-Est and Ouest departments of Haiti.
ID: HA-209
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Beneficiary: Organizasyon Kominotè Fanm Veyon (OKFV)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2010-2013
City: Petite Rivière
Province: Artibonite
Country: Haiti
Amount: $60,455
Latitude: 19.3629
Longitude: -72.4258
Description: OKFV developed a storage system for grains and other crops that allows its members to preserve surpluses for future sale and ensures year-round supplies of food and seeds. It also improved its administration and financial management through training and exchange visits. The project benefited OKFV’s members and other residents of Veillon, located near Petite Rivière in Haiti’s Artibonite region.
ID: HA-210
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Beneficiary: Fonkoze Haiti (Fonkoze)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2010-2013
City: Port-au-prince
Province: Ouest
Country: Haiti
Amount: $91,455
Latitude: 18.5393
Longitude: -72.3364
Description: Fonkoze is working with members of the Haitian Home Town Associations Resource Group (HHTARG) in Boston, New York and Miami to provide pilot subgrants to grassroots groups and small and medium-sized enterprises in Haiti. Applying this experience, Fonkoze and HHTARG will later design a community investment fund that will channel Diaspora resources to grassroots development in Haiti.
ID: HA-213
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Beneficiary: Mouvement Paysan de l'Acul du Nord (MPA)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Acul-du-Nord
Province: Nord
Country: Haiti
Amount: $392,400
Latitude: 19.680495
Longitude: -72.31915
Description: MPA is working with 600 member-families to develop their production, processing and sale of manioc and associated crops, such as pumpkins, sweet potatoes and beans in Camp Louise and La Souffrière, two sections communales of Acul du Nord, near Cap-Haitien.
ID: HA-214
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Beneficiary: Organizasyon Gwoupman Kominotè Pawas Sakrekè (OGKPS)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Cap-Haiten
Province: Nord
Country: Haiti
Amount: $124,675
Latitude: 19.757818
Longitude: -72.201047
Description: OGKPS is renovating and resuming the operation of its bakery and cassaverie, which is expected to result in an income for farmers, bread vendors and bakery workers and directly benefit other residents of the Lavyolèt arrondissement of Cap-Haitien.
ID: HA-215
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Beneficiary: L'Ecole de Fabrication Métallique pour les Démunis (EFAMED)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Jérémie
Province: Grand'Anse
Country: Haiti
Amount: $295,770
Latitude: 18.5489
Longitude: -74.0770
Description: EFAMED is working with graduates of its vocational training school in Jérémie to launch a metalworking cooperative producing industrial doors, windows and gates and agricultural tools. The project is working to provide a steady source of income for 50 young men, and its products are benefiting the entire department of Grand’Anse.
ID: HA-216
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Beneficiary: Fondation Haïtienne pour le Maintien de la Paix Social (FOHMAPS)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture/food production, health
Dates: 2012-2015
City:
Province: Artibonite
Country: Haiti
Amount:
Latitude: 19.3629
Longitude: -72.4258
Description: FOHMAPS, through PDL, its rural development program, is training 3,000 members of grassroots groups to manage agricultural, community health, conservation and microcredit activities in Haiti’s North and Artibonite departments. It is developing the leadership that enables the groups to form larger organizations and become self-sufficient.
ID: HA-217
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Beneficiary: Association Planteurs Jonc-Tiby (ASPJ)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture/food production
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Camp Perrin
Province: Sud
Country: Haiti
Amount:
Latitude: 18.32927
Longitude: -73.861599
Description: Association Planteurs Jonc-Tiby (ASPJ) is working with its members to increase production and sale of vegetables. The project is enabling approximately 650 farming families organized into 38 grassroots groups (groupements) in Camp-Perrin in Haiti’s Sud department to diversify revenue sources and increase incomes, guarantee a more reliable food source, improve nutrition for themselves and their families and further ensure women’s integration into the local economy. It is also strengthening ASPJ’s knowledge of viable market outlets for collective sales and piloting the marketing of vegetable crops to restaurants and hotels.
ID: HA-218
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Beneficiary: Lakou Lapè
Sector/Classification: Education/training (chronic violence)
Dates: 2013-2014
City: Port-au-prince
Province: Ouest
Country: Haiti
Amount:
Latitude: 18.532555
Longitude: -72.329628
Description: Lakou Lapè is working to become an inclusive, Haitian-led institution dedicated to building peace within and among the divided communities that comprise Haitian society. During the grant period, the grantee is carrying out two parallel sets of activities: a) administrative and institutional structuring of Lakou Lapè and b) practical conflict transformation in neighborhoods experiencing violence and strengthening of community-based structures in conflict resolution and prevention. The project is directly benefiting approximately 400 residents of Port-au-Prince and indirectly benefiting another 125,000.
ID: HA-219
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Beneficiary: Sant Pon Ayiti (SPA)
Sector/Classification: Cultural expression
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Port-au-prince
Province: Ouest
Country: Haiti
Amount:
Latitude: 18.543419
Longitude: -72.336559
Description: SPA is working with Troupe Culturelle Dahomey (Troupe Dahomey) to document and disseminate traditional Haitian dance and music and promote the troupe in Haiti and the Caribbean. Troupe Dahomey is becoming more skilled in technique, performance, sound recording, management and business and will expand its repertoire. SPA is increasing the exposure of Troupe Dahomey and of other musical groups across Haiti, improving access to affordable studio space and encouraging cultural pride, especially among young people. Approximately 500 Haitians will benefit directly and another 10,000 indirectly.
ID: HA-220
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Beneficiary: Kowòdinasyon pou Developman Solidè Sidès (KODESS)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2013-2015
City: Jacmel
Province: Sud-Est
Country: Haiti
Amount:
Latitude: 18.239052
Longitude: -72.534142
Description: KODESS is working to further develop four grassroots groups in Haiti’s Southeast department, to ensure a more reliable food source and reduce vulnerability to natural disasters. Approximately 1,500 residents of the communities of Bainet, La Vallée, Meyer and Montagne La Voute in Jacmel will benefit directly and another 3,150 will benefit indirectly.
ID: HO-244
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Beneficiary: Centro de Educación Vocacional Grupo Juvenil Dion (GJD)
Sector/Classification: Training, enterprise development
Dates: 2007-2015
City: Tegucigalpa
Province: Francisco Morazán
Country: Honduras
Amount: $384,541
Latitude: 14.0833
Longitude: -87.2167
Description: Centro de Educación Vocacional Grupo Juvenil Dion (GJD) is improving training and employment opportunities for 400 at-risk youths from Tegucigalpa, as well as improving the standard of living of their parents as it works toward becoming a premier training, employment and enterprise development center.
ID: HO-249
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Beneficiary: Asociación de Productores de Hortalizas y Frutales de Intibucá (APRHOFI)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2009-2014
City:
Province: Intibucá
Country: Honduras
Amount: $200,500
Latitude: 14.309548
Longitude: -88.178594
Description: Asociación de Productores de Hortalizas y Frutales de Intibucá (APRHOFI) is working with 120 farmers to increase fruit and vegetable production by introducing modern production techniques. It is also improving its storage and processing center and expanding its marketing program.
ID: HO-251
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Beneficiary: Centro Internacional de Información Sobre Cultivos de Cobertura (CIDICCO)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, education
Dates: 2010-2014
City:
Province: Intibucá
Country: Honduras
Amount: $319,500
Latitude: 14.286842
Longitude: -88.17353
Description: CIDICCO is supporting the expansion of an alternative secondary education system called Sistema de Aprendizaje Tutorial (SAT) in Intibucá, strengthening rural agricultural production through training and technical assistance and expanding a network of rural savings and loan associations. The program is directly improving the quality of life of 800 rural students and their parents, and benefiting another 1,000 people indirectly.
ID: HO-252
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Beneficiary: Consejo de Desarrollo del Sector Social de la Economía Regional de Intibucá (CODESSE-Intibucá)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2010-2014
City:
Province: Intibucá
Country: Honduras
Amount: $229,100
Latitude: 14.305639
Longitude: -88.163409
Description: Consejo de Desarrollo del Sector Social de la Economía Regional de Intibucá (CODESSE-Intibucá) is developing up to 25 worker-owned enterprises selected from among its member-businesses, improving the income of 290 Hondurans of Lenca descent. Another 830 Hondurans are benefiting indirectly.
ID: HO-253
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Beneficiary: Asociación Hondureña de Juntas Administradoras de Sistemas de Agua (AHJASA)
Sector/Classification: Community development
Dates: 2010-2013
City:
Province: Olancho
Country: Honduras
Amount: $300,175
Latitude: 14.8067
Longitude: -85.7667
Description: Asociación Hondureña de Juntas Administradoras de Sistemas de Agua (AHJASA) collaborated with 30 communities in the development of systems supplying water that is safe for human consumption, thereby improving the health and living conditions of 24,500 Hondurans in the department of Olancho.
ID: HO-254
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Beneficiary: Organismo Cristiano de Desarrollo Integral de Honduras (OCDIH)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2010-2013
City: Las Flores and Lepaera
Province: Lempira
Country: Honduras
Amount: $295,600
Latitude: 14.1888
Longitude: -88.5565
Description: Organismo Cristiano de Desarrollo Integral de Honduras (OCDIH) is helping 750 farmers of indigenous Lenca descent in the department of Lempira move into sustainable agriculture, increase food security and develop their marketing skills. Another 4,500 Hondurans are benefiting indirectly from the project.
ID: HO-255
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Beneficiary: Cooperativa Femenina de Producción Agropecuaria Alianza Limitada (COFEPROAL)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, education/training, cultural expression
Dates: 2012-2016
City: La Esperanza
Province: Intibucá
Country: Honduras
Amount:
Latitude: 14.2000
Longitude: -88.1667
Description: COFEPROAL is working to open and operate a multipurpose outlet in La Esperanza, the capital of the department of Intibucá, which will sell weaving supplies and other merchandise and will market indigenous crafts on a wholesale basis.
ID: HO-256
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Beneficiary: Organización para el Empoderamiento de la Juventud (OYE Adelante Jóvenes)
Sector/Classification: Education/training, cultural expression
Dates: 2012-2015
City: El Progreso
Province: Yoro
Country: Honduras
Amount:
Latitude: 15.4013
Longitude: -87.8108
Description: OYE Adelante Jóvenes is developing its programs in the arts for young Hondurans at risk, its magazine and its radio broadcasts through equipment purchases, training and internships. It is working to make these activities self-sufficient so that they continue to benefit these vulnerable Hondurans and the community of El Progreso.
ID: HO-257
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Beneficiary: Grupo Güinopeño Ambientalista (G. Guia)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture/food production; environment
Dates: 2013-2015
City: Yauyupe
Province: El Paraíso
Country: Honduras
Amount:
Latitude: 13.8815
Longitude: -86.9342
Description: Grupo Güinopeño Ambientalista (G. Guia) is promoting agroecological farming techniques, conservation, soil improvement, water management practices, and the preservation and growth of biodiversity in at least five communities from the municipalities of Yauype and Maraita. G. Guia is supporting family farms using the farmer-to-farmer technical assistance model. The project is also promoting local organization and civic actions that promote better conservation and management of natural resources by the local government. The project will reach approximately 190 direct beneficiaries, mainly farmers, and 1,330 indirect beneficiaries.
ID: HO-264
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Beneficiary: Organización de Desarrollo Étnico Comunitario (ODECO)
Sector/Classification: Education/training, cultural expression
Dates: 2013-2014
City: La Ceiba
Province: Atlántida
Country: Honduras
Amount:
Latitude: 15.75907
Longitude: -86.809233
Description: Organización de Desarrollo Étnico Comunitario (ODECO) is managing IAF resources and helping the International Committee of the Plataforma Cumbre Mundial de Afrodescendientes (PCMA) to work on three major agenda items. These agenda items are 1) develop a proposal for an Afrodescendant university, 2) advocate to create a permanent Afrodescendant forum within the Organization of American States, and 3) develop a technical work plan and fundraising plan for the PCMA’s short-term agenda. It is also helping PCMA obtain legal status in Honduras. The project involves about 100 direct beneficiaries from around 18 Afrodescendant organizations.
ID: JA-111
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Beneficiary: Local Initiative Facility for the Environment (LIFE)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2009-2013
City: Kingston
Province: Kingston
Country: Jamaica
Amount: $385,000
Latitude: 18.006856
Longitude: -76.776454
Description: Local Initiative Facility for the Environment (LIFE) is working with 13 community-based organizations and clusters of organizations to improve their management, mobilize resources, address environmental issues and increase their beneficiaries’ income through community-based business and training centers. It is targeting groups that want to engage in self-help but are struggling with poor management and insufficient training and resources. The project will reach 400 people in 80 communities across Jamaica.
ID: JA-112
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Beneficiary: The Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support, environment
Dates: 2010-2014
City: Kingston
Province: Kingston
Country: Jamaica
Amount: $400,000
Latitude: 18.011998
Longitude: -76.774331
Description: The Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ) is awarding subgrants to Jamaican organizations undertaking projects in environmental and natural resource conservation and child survival and development. At least 14 subgrantees will receive up to $25,000 in IAF funding and between $25,000 and $75,000 in EFJ funding. At least 5,000 Jamaicans will benefit directly from this collaboration.
ID: JA-114
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Beneficiary: Jamaica Environment Trust (JET)
Sector/Classification: Environment
Dates: 2013-2015
City:
Province:
Country: Jamaica
Amount:
Latitude: 17.976937
Longitude: -76.764243
Description: JET’s training and legal assistance are enabling five organizations representing residents of Bull Bay, Clarendon, St. Ann and Cockpit Country to monitor and manage the impact of mining and quarrying on their respective communities through increased access to information about the sector and advocacy for improved public participation and more effective regulation of the industry. The project, undertaken in partnership with The Access Initiative (TAI) of the World Resources Institute, should benefit 350 residents of these communities directly and another 16,300 indirectly.
ID: LA-160
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Beneficiary: International Training Centre, International Labour Organization (DELNET)
Sector/Classification: Education/training
Dates: 2003-2015
City:
Province:
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Amount:
Latitude: 32.8235
Longitude: -93.5065
Description: The International Labour Organization’s Delnet Program (Delnet) is providing two types of specialized training and networking opportunities: on-line courses in local development for approximately 240 local development practitioners from throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, and annual technical workshops on specialized themes of local development for 75 practitioners.
ID: LA-174
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Beneficiary: Universidad de Cordillera/Observatorio del Racismo en Bolivia (UNICOR)
Sector/Classification: Education/training, research/dissemination
Dates: 2012-2014
City: Alto Sopocachi
Province: La Paz
Country: Bolivia
Amount:
Latitude: -17.4667
Longitude: -68.9333
Description: Observatories are watchdog agencies that monitor social issues and recommend steps toward reform. UNICOR is supporting the consolidation and expansion of the Red de Observatorios del Racismo en las Americas [Network of Observatories Against Racism in Latin America], and is developing in its members the skills necessary to document racism and work to eliminate it in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico. The Southern Poverty Law Center, headquartered in Montgomery, Ala., is a partner in this project.
ID: ME-487
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Beneficiary: K'inal Antsetik A.C. (K'inal)
Sector/Classification: Training, health, education
Dates: 2008-2013
City: San Cristóbal de las Casas
Province: Chiapas
Country: Mexico
Amount: $290,442
Latitude: 16.75203
Longitude: -92.66686
Description: K'inal Antsetik A.C. (K'inal) offered training, assistance with productive projects and programs in health, education and communication to indigenous women in Chiapas through improving Jolom Mayaetik, a textile cooperative, and founding the Women's Leadership Center. Some 350 members of approximately 14 community groups participated in the project.
ID: ME-488
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Beneficiary: Innovación y Apoyo Educativo, A.C. (IAE)
Sector/Classification: Community development
Dates: 2008-2013
City: San Cristobal de las Casas
Province: Chiapas
Country: Mexico
Amount: $303,910
Latitude: 16.717282
Longitude: -92.635435
Description: Innovación y Apoyo Educativo, A.C. (IAE), in partnership with the Consejo Municipal de Participación Social (CMPSE), trained 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 learned and practiced democratic skills through community dialogues to construct education policy around the role of the school not only as the axis of learning but also as the promoter of civic education and community participation.
ID: ME-489
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Beneficiary: Centro de Formación Integral para Promotores Indígenas A.C. (CEFIPI)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, health, education
Dates: 2008-2014
City:
Province: Chiapas
Country: Mexico
Amount: $318,113
Latitude: 17.111056
Longitude: -92.276169
Description: Centro de Formación Integral para Promotores Indígenas A.C. (CEFIPI) is training farmers in organic agriculture, addressing women's employment opportunities and illiteracy, improving children's nutrition through the distribution of a supplement processed locally from the improved produce and developing a new, centrally located marketplace. The program is benefiting 3,600 indigenous Mexicans in the municipalities of Chilón, Xihtalhá, Salto de Agua, Palenque, Ocosingo, Yajalón and Pantelho.
ID: ME-490
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Beneficiary: Trotasueños Asociación Civil (Trotasueños) [formerly Migramex Asociación Civil (MAC)]
Sector/Classification: Community Development
Dates: 2008-2012
City: Acayucan
Province: Veracruz
Country: Mexico
Amount: $334,595
Latitude: 17.9487
Longitude: -94.9149
Description: With a focus on households headed by women, Trotasueños organized at least 160 participants around income generating activities in Jaltipan, Ciudad Isla, Catemaco, San Andres Tuxtla, Acayucan, Sayula de Aleman, Minzapan and Playa Vicente in the south of Veracruz. The participants formed community groups, received training in financial management, developed income-generating activities and self-financed savings and loan groups and received mental health support on a case by case basis.
ID: ME-492
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Beneficiary: ECOSTA Yutu Cuii Sociedad de Solidaridad Social (ECOSTA)
Sector/Classification: Environment, ecotourism, enterprise development
Dates: 2009-2014
City: San Pedro Tutepec
Province: Oaxaca
Country: Mexico
Amount: $292,400
Latitude: 16.1287
Longitude: -97.6072
Description: Ecosta Yutu Cuii, Sociedad de Solidaridad Social (Ecosta) is emphasizing economic development and the conservation of natural resources in 12 communities in the municipality of San Pedro Tututepec, Oaxaca. The goal is to improve food production through environmentally responsible practices, expand ecotourism initiatives, launch small businesses, further wildlife protection and increase Ecosta´s existing loan fund. More than 400 Mexicans of indigenous, African and mestizo descent are benefiting from this project.
ID: ME-493
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Beneficiary: Enlace Comunicación y Capacitación A.C. (ENLACE)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2009-2012
City:
Province: Chiapas
Country: Mexico
Amount: $190,000
Latitude: 16.906686
Longitude: -92.09389
Description: Enlace, Comunicación y Capacitación, A.C. (Enlace) worked with three community-based organizations to develop a more reliable food supply and better access to markets for 225 individuals in four regions of Chiapas. Businesses involved with the three organizations were improved through the application of environmentally responsible practices and land-use plans, the access to new markets and a small savings and loan program.
ID: ME-494
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Beneficiary: Xanvil, Asociación Civil (Xanvil)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, environment
Dates: 2009-2013
City: Usumacinta
Province: Chiapas
Country: Mexico
Amount: $304,300
Latitude: 16.9151
Longitude: -92.0878
Description: Xanvil worked with 400 individuals from five indigenous communities in the Usumacinta watershed in eastern Chiapas to promote enterprise development and conservation by reintroducing native bamboo. The grantee trained residents in the cultivation of bamboo, its environmental benefits and its use in construction, handicrafts and furniture.
ID: ME-495
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Beneficiary: Instituto Mexicano de Investigación de Familia y Población, A.C. (IMIFAP)
Sector/Classification: Microcredit, training
Dates: 2009-2013
City:
Province: Hidalgo
Country: Mexico
Amount: $256,500
Latitude: 20.6668
Longitude: -99.0129
Description: IMIFAP worked in three municipalities of Hidalgo to support productive projects and community banks through access to credit and training in business skills for 1,300 residents of indigenous and other marginalized communities.
ID: ME-496
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Beneficiary: Sistema Comunitario para el Manejo y Resguardo de la Biodiversidad de Oaxaca A.C. (SICOBI)
Sector/Classification: Environment, ecotourism
Dates: 2009-2013
City:
Province: Oaxaca
Country: Mexico
Amount: $219,528
Latitude: 17.059657
Longitude: -96.72545
Description: SICOBI, which is made up of 10 member communities, worked in the Copalita-Zimatan-Huatulco watershed in southern Oaxaca to further economic development and biodiversity through better community management of forestry, agroforestry and ecotourism; introduce its new products and services in regional markets; and improve the representation of its 10 members.
ID: ME-498
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Beneficiary: Fundación del Empresariado en México, A.C. (FUNDEMEX)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2009-2013
City: Mexico City
Province: Federal District
Country: Mexico
Amount: $350,000
Latitude: 19.4326
Longitude: -99.1332
Description: FUNDEMEX is providing subgrants to more than 20 Mexican civil society organizations undertaking economic development projects in partnership with grassroots groups. More than 2,500 Mexicans are expected to benefit directly and another 15,000 indirectly.
ID: ME-500
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Beneficiary: Despertar Maya, Asociación Civil (DEMAAC)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2010-2014
City:
Province: Chiapas
Country: Mexico
Amount: $262,285
Latitude: 16.758194
Longitude: -92.656163
Description: DEMAAC is working with 158 indigenous Tzolzil, Tzeltal and Ch’ol Mayan beekeepers in the Chiapas jungle and highlands to improve their production of organic and fair-trade honey for export. The grantee is offering training, access to credit and payment for honey upon delivery.
ID: ME-501
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Beneficiary: Centro Campesino para el Desarrollo Sustentable, A.C. (CAMPESINO)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2010-2014
City:
Province: Tlaxcala
Country: Mexico
Amount: $250,640
Latitude: 19.3000
Longitude: -98.2400
Description: CAMPESINO is working 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 is also supporting the further development of a community-based business, constructing and equiping a storage facility and offering farmers access to working capital and loans.
ID: ME-502
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Beneficiary: Colectivo de Mujeres Campesinas de la Costa Grande de Guerrero S.C. (COMUCAM)
Sector/Classification: Training, technical assistance
Dates: 2010-2014
City: Atoyac de Alvarez
Province: Guerrero
Country: Mexico
Amount: $56,925
Latitude: 17.2080
Longitude: -100.4327
Description: COMUCAM is offering training and technical assistance to 300 representatives of 22 women-led savings-and-loans associations in communities along the coast of Guerrero. Among the results expected is a 50 percent increase in household savings.
ID: ME-504
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Beneficiary: Alianza Sierra Madre, A.C. (ASMAC)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, community development
Dates: 2010-2014
City: Chihuahua
Province: Chihuahua
Country: Mexico
Amount: $198,430
Latitude: 28.6306
Longitude: -106.0737
Description: ASMAC is working to improve the food security, health, conservation efforts and the general quality of life of indigenous residents of Baborigame, Choreachi and Coloradas de la Virgen in the Sierra Tarahumara of Chihuahua. Activities include the diversification of agriculture, introduction of alternative farming methods, construction of infrastructure for water conservation and distribution, soil conservation, support for the economic initiatives of women and training.
ID: ME-505
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Beneficiary: Consejo Civil Mexicano para la Silvicultura Sostenible, A.C. (CCMSS)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2010-2014
City: Amanalco
Province: Mexico
Country: Mexico
Amount: $143,340
Latitude: 19.2535
Longitude: -100.0203
Description: CCMSS is working with 11 communities in the Amanalco-Valle del Bravo region, as well as with representatives of nongovernmental organizations and various levels of government, to put into operation a structure to pay farmers for environmental services. The project directly involves 635 individuals working on 220 hectares of agricultural land and forests, and is improving water quality and reducing silt and sediment.
ID: ME-506
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Comercializadora Agroforestal del Istmo, Sociedad de Producción Rural (CAI)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, training, technical assistance
Dates: 2010-2014
City: Matías Romero Avedaño
Province: Oaxaca
Country: Mexico
Amount: $139,260
Latitude: 16.8787
Longitude: -95.0348
Description: CAI is working with 120 Mexicans of Mixe, Zapotec, Mixtec and African descent living in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, to improve their food supply and income. It is building greenhouses and providing training, technical assistance and other support to 60 families using biointensive methods to grow vegetables for consumption and sale.
ID: ME-507
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Fundación Comunitaria Malinalco (FCM)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2010-2014
City: Malinalco
Province: Mexico
Country: Mexico
Amount: $263,560
Latitude: 18.9446
Longitude: -99.4954
Description: FCM is expanding the reach and depth of programs addressing the environment, women and young people; strengthening community organization efforts and civic engagement; and coordinating with municipal authorities and local businesses to complement existing initiatives. About 685 low-income residents in Malinalco are benefiting from project activities, and 12,000 residents are benefiting indirectly from the coordinated effort to carry out a recycling campaign and fire control and prevention initiative.
ID: ME-509
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Unión de Productores Agroforestales de las Comunidades Indígenas de la Huasteca Hidalguense S.P.R. de R.I. (UPACIHH)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Huejutla de Reyes
Province: Hidalgo
Country: Mexico
Amount: $142,060
Latitude: 21.1437
Longitude: -98.4181
Description: UPACIHH is working with 215 farmers in Huejutla, Hidalgo to improve their production of the camedor palm and their ability to take advantage of demand for it in Mexico and abroad. The organization is offering its members training, creating a working capital fund and upgrading its facility.
ID: ME-510
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Enlace Rural Regional A.C. (ERRAC)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2011-2014
City:
Province: Oaxaca
Country: Mexico
Amount: $131,610
Latitude: 17.0870
Longitude: -96.7258
Description: ERRAC is working with 70 farmers from Asociación Civil Productores De Caprinos y Ovinos (ACPO) in Queretaro to improve their production and marketing of goats, meat and cheese. Its project should indirectly benefit 350 other residents of the seven communities the farmers represent.
ID: ME-511
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): P
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Beneficiary: Sociedad Cooperativa 10 de octubre (Cooperativa 10 de octubre)
Sector/Classification: Environment, grassroots support
Dates: 2011-2012
City: Hueyotlipan
Province: Tlaxcala
Country: Mexico
Amount: $43,675
Latitude: 19.4672
Longitude: -98.3460
Description: Cooperativa 10 de octubre engaged its 300 members, all residents of three rural communities of Tlaxcala, in assessing needs and priorities, drafting proposals that benefit the environment and developing the organization.
ID: ME-512
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Beneficiary: Iniciativas para el Desarrollo de una Economía Alternativa y Solidaria, A.C. (Ideas Comunitarias)
Sector/Classification: Community development
Dates: 2011-2014
City:
Province: Oaxaca
Country: Mexico
Amount: $152,530
Latitude: 17.084599
Longitude: -96.716478
Description: Ideas Comunitarias is reaching 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 are also eligible for subgrants to fund their proposals.
ID: ME-513
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Beneficiary: Comité para la Educación y Desarrollo Integral de la Mujer, A.C. (CEDIM)
Sector/Classification: Training
Dates: 2011-2014
City: San Andrés Tuxtla
Province: Veracruz
Country: Mexico
Amount: $54,820
Latitude: 18.4440
Longitude: -95.2133
Description: CEDIM is training counselors in 15 communities of Veracruz in issues affecting women, including basic rights and domestic violence, and providing the institutional resources to address them.
ID: ME-514
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: San Sebastián Tlacotepec Ipantepetl Sociedad de Producción Rural de Responsabilidad Limitada (SSTI)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, training, technical assistance
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Sierra Negra
Province: Puebla
Country: Mexico
Amount: $120,660
Latitude: 18.9833
Longitude: -97.3167
Description: SSTI is working with approximately 94 coffee farmers to increase the quality of organic coffee beans, increase the volume produced, improve infrastructure of its storage facility and purchase equipment to be able to sell organic, fair trade ground coffee for the domestic market. SSTI offers participating coffee farmers access to working capital to facilitate sales and promotes educational exchanges with coffee farmers in other states.
ID: ME-515
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Ñepi Behña AC (ÑEPI BEHÑA)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2012-2015
City: Hidalgo
Province: Hidalgo
Country: Mexico
Amount:
Latitude: 20.1199
Longitude: -98.7241
Description: Ñepi Behña, a nongovernmental organization, and Ya Muntsi Behña, a cooperative comprised of 250 women in Hidalgo, are developing their jointly-owned enterprise operating on the principles of fair trade through training, the application of a new strategy for reaching niche markets, and the participation of 520 women suppliers in the states of Chiapas, Puebla, Mexico State, the Federal District and Hidalgo.
ID: ME-516
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Union de Museos Comunitarios de Oaxaca, A.C. (UMCO)
Sector/Classification: Cultural expression, education/training
Dates: 2012-2015
City:
Province: Oaxaca
Country: Mexico
Amount:
Latitude: 17.1088
Longitude: -96.706839
Description: UMCO is partnering with primary and secondary schools to develop the leadership, technical skills and cultural identity of children and adolescents in 15 rural communities of Oaxaca through a series of workshops, festivals, exchanges and exhibits. The activities involve 2,700 children, 500 adolescents and 300 adults.
ID: ME-517
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Comunidad y Biodiversidad, A.C. (COBI)
Sector/Classification: Environment
Dates: 2012-2015
City:
Province: Quintana Roo
Country: Mexico
Amount:
Latitude: 19.1817
Longitude: -88.4791
Description: COBI is working with a fishing cooperative in Quintana Roo to manage a community-based marine reserve, restore its reefs, and benefit traditional fishers and local tourism enterprises. The project directly involves 230 fishers and members of their families and also reaches 5,000 residents of villages in Quintana Roo.
ID: ME-518
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Grupo Autónomo para la Investigación Ambiental, A.C. (GAIA)
Sector/Classification: Environment
Dates: 2012-2015
City: Tabasco
Province: Zacatecas
Country: Mexico
Amount:
Latitude: 19.5517
Longitude: -96.9234
Description: GAIA is working in Tabasco with 210 residents of seven ejidos, or indigenous communities, organized as the Unión de Ejidos de la Sierra de Huimanguillo (UNESIH) to manage natural resources and a territory extending over roughly 12,722 hectares used for agriculture, livestock and forests.
ID: ME-519
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Instituto Mora (Instituto Mora)
Sector/Classification: Education/training
Dates: 2012-2014
City: Mexico City
Province: Federal District
Country: Mexico
Amount:
Latitude: 19.3980
Longitude: -98.9860
Description: IM is hosting a training program directed at preparing 40 young Mexicans between the ages of 22 and 29 for positions of leadership in community foundations. The program includes offering classes in a traditional setting and online, internships with the foundations, and the opportunity to undertake research on foundation priorities. Some 700 foundation employees and volunteers are expected to benefit indirectly.
ID: ME-520
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Fondo Acción Solidaria, A.C. (FASOL)
Sector/Classification: Environment
Dates: 2012-2015
City: La Paz
Province: Baja California Sur
Country: Mexico
Amount:
Latitude: 24.1385
Longitude: -110.3174
Description: FASOL is awarding 350 subgrants of up to $6,000 to grassroots and nongovernmental organizations involved in development and conservation and will provide related technical support. At least 7,000 Mexicans are directly benefiting.
ID: ME-521
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): N
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Beneficiary: Fundación Merced (FM)
Sector/Classification: Corporate social investment
Dates: 2013-2016
City:
Province: Mexico
Country: Mexico
Amount:
Latitude: 19.451115
Longitude: -99.16204
Description: Fundación Merced (FM) is developing a challenge grant program to enhance community foundations’ capacity to support grassroots grantmaking initiatives. FM is also carrying out training and technical assistance activities to promote more effective engagement of community foundations in grassroots grantmaking. It is disseminating learning, accomplishments, and challenges. This partnership is establishing long-term funding relationships among community foundations, Mexican philanthropists, and local donors that will contribute to a higher level of financial, operational, and programmatic sustainability for community foundations to advance social change in their communities. The grant is directly benefiting approximately 14,900 individuals in about 14 localities throughout Mexico. The project’s impact will be felt indirectly by the 120,000 family members of the 14 localities.
ID: ME-522
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): N
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Beneficiary: Comunalia
Sector/Classification: Education/training (community foundations)
Dates: 2013-2014
City:
Province: Mexico
Country: Mexico
Amount:
Latitude: 19.295813
Longitude: -99.020913
Description: The Alianza de Fundaciones Comunitarias de México, A.C. (Comunalia) is engaging approximately 50 employees of community foundations in designing a participatory strategic and operational plan for the network, drawing on the principles of grassroots development. Based on an assessment of resources, Comunalia is initiating its planning work by researching, documenting, and sharing grassroots development practices of its members. Through this process, Comunalia expects to make community foundations more effective organizations and more responsive to organized civil society needs. The project is benefiting 148 community foundation staff, 206 board members, and 384 community volunteers. The long-term results of the planning process are expected to include more community foundation resources for organized low-income residents reflecting the philosophy and purpose of grassroots development.
ID: ME-523
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Beneficiary: Unión de Esfuerzos para el Campo, A.C. (UDEC)
Sector/Classification: Community-based enterprises
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Tequisquiapan
Province: Queretaro
Country: Mexico
Amount:
Latitude: 20.527642
Longitude: -99.880872
Description: Unión de Esfuerzos para el Campo, A.C. (UDEC) is working with Cooperativa Cosechando Juntos lo Sembrado, S.C. (CSJ) to provide business training, technical assistance, and access to an existing loan fund for 500 backyard garden producers and 125 rural microentrepeneurs working in agricultural products (agroecological fruits and vegetables, small livestock), services (carpentry, beauty parlors, blacksmith, bakeries), commerce (small stores, food, clothing), and artisan products (natural shampoos and soaps, bags, clay) in 40 communities of Querétaro. UDEC and CSJ are developing an independent entrepreneur network that will strengthen their businesses and generate new marketing opportunities.
ID: ME-524
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): N
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Beneficiary: Voces por la Naturaleza (SuMar)
Sector/Classification: Environment; enterprise development
Dates: 2013-2015
City: Guaymas
Province: Sonora
Country: Mexico
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Description: SuMar is increasing the collective capacity of 10 local community-based enterprises to design, implement and advocate for community-managed tourism initiatives in the Gulf of California of Mexico. SuMar is offering training, technical assistance, small grants as seed capital, and exchanges to develop quality and viable local initiatives. It is also documenting the experiences and supporting the development of a network of small community-owned tourism enterprises that support species and habitat conservation.
ID: ME-526
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): N
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Beneficiary: Finca Triunfo Verde, Sociedad Civil (FTV)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture/food production; enterprise development
Dates: 2013-2015
City: Angel Albino Corzo
Province: Chiapas
Country: Mexico
Amount:
Latitude: 15.873342
Longitude: -92.723751
Description: FTV, a farmer’s cooperative in Chiapas, is improving the quality of certified fair trade and organic coffee and increase sales. It is upgrading its processing equipment, investing in infrastructure, and offering training to its members and promoters (community organizers) in quality control at all levels of production (harvest, post-harvest, certification, wet process, dry process, storage, and cupping). It is offering working capital to facilitate sales and promoting educational exchanges with coffee producers in Mexico and other countries. As a result of the project, 447 men and women will improve their living standard directly and another 2,235 indirectly.
ID: ME-527
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Beneficiary: Procesos Participativos para el Desarrollo Comunitario, A.C. (Procesos Participativos)
Sector/Classification: Education/training
Dates: 2013-2014
City:
Province: Baja California
Country: Mexico
Amount:
Latitude: 32.530153
Longitude: -116.943262
Description: Procesos Participativos is working with five communities in two municipalities of the state of Baja California Norte in a planning process. Residents of all ages are participating in a community assessment process and developing a project proposal to identify neighborhood improvement activities that consider local assets and the skills of residents, associations, and the supportive role of local institutions in their development process (asset based community development or ABCD). Selected residents or community leaders are receiving training in deliberative dialogue to facilitate a conversation within the community and between the communities and governmental and nongovernmental institutions aimed at finding the best course of action. Approximately 50 residents will benefit directly by participating in community meetings and 2,500 indirectly.
ID: NC-278
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Beneficiary: Unión de Cooperativas Agropecuarias Productoras de Café (UCPCO)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, technical assistance
Dates: 2008-2013
City:
Province: Madriz
Country: Nicaragua
Amount: $463,120
Latitude: 13.4726
Longitude: -86.4592
Description: UCPCO is increasing the income and quality of life of farmers in Madriz by improving their ability to produce and export certified fair-trade and organic coffee. It is providing the farmers financial and technical assistance and equipment, constructing an office and a store, and improving its processing plant by including a quality control laboratory, a drying patio and a storage facility.
ID: NC-279
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): P
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Beneficiary: Cooperativa Multisectorial Verde Esperanza, R.L. (COMULVERL)
Sector/Classification: Training, technical assistance, enterprise development
Dates: 2008-2012
City:
Province: León
Country: Nicaragua
Amount: $347,017
Latitude: 12.5092
Longitude: -86.6611
Description: COMULVERL implemented a project in two rural municipalities, El Jicaral and Santa Rosa del Peñon, in the department of León. COMULVERL formed citizen organizations in 22 communities, provided farmers with credit, materials, training and technical assistance and made credit and training available to entrepreneurs operating retail and small-scale industry enterprises.
ID: NC-280
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Beneficiary: Fundación Caja Rural San Lorenzo (CARUSALO)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, training, technical assistance
Dates: 2008-2013
City: Boaco
Province: Boaco
Country: Nicaragua
Amount: $419,924
Latitude: 12.4709
Longitude: -85.6597
Description: CARUSALO provided four groups of farmers in Boaco training, technical assistance and credit toward improving their production of beans, rice, vegetables and dragon fruit. It supported the farmers’ efforts to apply new irrigation strategies, construct crop collection centers and a greenhouse, and pool their crops to market in volume to wholesalers in Managua.
ID: NC-282
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Beneficiary: Unión de Cooperativas Agropecuarias Héroes y Mártires de Miraflor, R.L. (MIRAFLOR)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, ecotourism
Dates: 2008-2013
City: Miraflor Nature Reserve
Province: Estelí
Country: Nicaragua
Amount: $374,453
Latitude: 13.0868
Longitude: -86.3555
Description: MIRAFLOR is working in the rural communities inside the Miraflor Nature Reserve to augment the production of its organic pesticide business, increase water conservation and reforestation activities, promote the use of fuel-efficient stoves, provide credit to support the production of organic coffee and ecotourism infrastructure, build wet mills for processing coffee beans at farm sites, expand its in-kind revolving loan of dairy cattle, and improve the physical plant of its agro-ecological institute.
ID: NC-287
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Asociación Familia Padre Fabretto (AFPF)
Sector/Classification: Education
Dates: 2009-2014
City: San José de Cusmapa
Province: Madriz
Country: Nicaragua
Amount: $234,070
Latitude: 13.2872
Longitude: -86.6537
Description: AFPF is reaching more than 1,200 students with its application of the Sistema de Aprendizaje Tutorial, a secondary-school program, in the communities of San José de Cusmapa and San Isidro de Bolas. It is devloping teaching materials, training tutors in the SAT methodology and launching the academic curriculum. Through the AFPF program, students are also able to take advantage of community development and revenue-generating activities and opportunities to volunteer.
ID: NC-288
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Beneficiary: Unión de Cooperativas Agropecuarios Sociedad de Pequeños Productores de Café (SOPPEXCCA)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, training, technical assistance
Dates: 2009-2013
City: Jinotega
Province: Jinotega
Country: Nicaragua
Amount: $243,770
Latitude: 13.0915
Longitude: -86.0002
Description: SOPPEXCCA is increasing the profits of its member-farmers cultivating conventional and organic coffee in the municipalities of Jinotega and El Cuá through training and technical assistance, the expansion of its dry mill, the construction of two new drying patios and the purchase of machinery and equipment.
ID: NC-291
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Beneficiary: Bluefields Indian and Caribbean University (BICU)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, enterprise/community development
Dates: 2010-2014
City: Mahogany Wetlands Municipal Ecological Park
Province: Autonomous Region of the Southern Atlantic (RAAS)
Country: Nicaragua
Amount: $224,820
Latitude: 12.0100
Longitude: -83.7600
Description: BICU is improving food security and income for more than 150 families in seven communities in and around the Mahogany Wetlands Municipal Ecological Park in the Southern Atlantic Autonomous Region by offering training in, technical assistance with and other support for sustainable agriculture and small-business and organizational development.
ID: NC-292
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Emprendedores Juveniles Nicaragua (EJN)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2010-2014
City: Managua
Province: Managua
Country: Nicaragua
Amount: $209,575
Latitude: 12.1364
Longitude: -86.2514
Description: EJN expects to improve income and employment prospects for 400 young entrepreneurs in Managua, Masaya and Granada through its program that combines general training in business with specialized training in agribusiness, tourism or information technology. It is also offering technical assistance, mentoring and in-kind support toward starting their businesses.
ID: NC-293
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Fundación Luchadores Integrados al Desarrollo da la Región (LIDER)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, ecotourism
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Cosigüina
Province: Chinandega
Country: Nicaragua
Amount: $260,000
Latitude: 12.930953
Longitude: -87.669754
Description: LIDER is working with farmers in 20 communities of the Peninsula of Cosigüina to improve their access to markets in Nicaragua and abroad, and with entrepreneurs to develop and promote their ecotourism services.
ID: NC-294
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Beneficiary: La Asociación de Comunidades de la Peninsula de Cosigüina (ACODEPEC)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Cosigüina
Province: Chinandega
Country: Nicaragua
Amount: $85,075
Latitude: 12.90686
Longitude: -87.493973
Description: ACODEPEC is developing its leadership role in facilitating development through training and the organization and administration of a subgrant fund to support initiatives in 20 communities of Cosigüina.
ID: NC-295
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Beneficiary: Cooperativa Multisectorial de Productores de Café Organico Certificado Las Segovias, R.L. (PROCOCER)
Sector/Classification: Training, technical assistance
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Nuevo Segovia
Province: Segovia
Country: Nicaragua
Amount: $271,795
Latitude: 13.7894
Longitude: -86.138306
Description: PROCOCER is offering coffee farmers in the department of Nueva Segovia training, technical assistance and access to better infrastructure.
ID: NC-296
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Beneficiary: Asociación para el Desarrollo del Norte de Chinandega (ADENOCH)
Sector/Classification: Community development, grassroots support
Dates: 2011-2013
City: San Francisco del Norte
Province: Chinandega
Country: Nicaragua
Amount: $43,220
Latitude: 13.1998
Longitude: -86.7717
Description: ADENOCH's 450 members from 16 communities of the municipality of San Francisco del Norte conducted a planning process to develop their ability to formulate and undertake initiatives that improve their income and living conditions.
ID: NC-297
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Beneficiary: Centro Promocional Cristiano por la Paz y la Vida (CPCPV)
Sector/Classification: Training, microloans
Dates: 2011-2014
City: San Ramón
Province: Matagalpa
Country: Nicaragua
Amount: $160,000
Latitude: 12.9235
Longitude: -85.8397
Description: CPCPV is offering training and access to a loan fund to members of a newly formed network in San Ramón that provides services to tourists. The program is expected to reach 400 Nicaraguans, including low-income youths.
ID: NC-298
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Beneficiary: Casa Alianza Nicaragua (CAN)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, community development
Dates: 2012-2014
City: Managua
Province: Managua
Country: Nicaragua
Amount: $301,400
Latitude: 12.1364
Longitude: -86.2514
Description: CAN is conducting outreach to young people and their parents in three neighborhoods of Managua. It is providing adults and older children training in job skills and microenterprise development, offering young people opportunities to participate in internships and sports leagues, and making available seed capital to launch new businesses. Its resources include a residential drug treatment center accommodating 90 young people and a shelter for 25 teen mothers and their babies.
ID: NC-299
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Beneficiary: Asociación para el Desarrollo de la Costa Atlántica Pana Pana (Pana Pana)
Sector/Classification: Health, housing, environment
Dates: 2012-2015
City: Puerto Cabezas
Province: Northern Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN)
Country: Nicaragua
Amount:
Latitude: 14.0200
Longitude: -83.3800
Description: Pana Pana is enabling 14 rural and peri-urban community committees on the isolated Atlantic Coast to mobilize resources from the government, nongovernmental organizations and other entities for infrastructure that provides clean water and sanitation, thereby reducing the incidence of water-borne diseases. It is also promoting hygienic practices in the area.
ID: NC-300
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Beneficiary: Fundacion Nicaraguense Cosecha Sostenible (FUNCOS)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture/food production, environment
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Kukra Hill, Bluefields
Province: Autonomous Region of the Southern Atlantic (RAAS)
Country: Nicaragua
Amount:
Latitude: 12.01066
Longitude: -83.766037
Description: Fundacion Nicaraguense Cosecha Sostenible (FUNCOS) is working with approximatedly 30 communities in the Municipalities of Kukra Hill and Bluefields to increase and diversify their agricultural production in an environmentally responsible way and promote the rational and sustainable use of the natural resources of the region. FUNCOS, in conjunction with the project participants, is storing, processing, and marketing products such as cacao, coconuts, tropical roots, and vegetables to sell in the local, national, and international markets.
ID: NC-301
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Beneficiary: Asociación para el Desarrollo Integral de la Mujer (APADEIM)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2013-2014
City: El Viejo
Province: Chinandega
Country: Nicaragua
Amount:
Latitude: 12.663787
Longitude: -87.166986
Description: The Asociación para el Desarrollo Integral de la Mujer (APADEIM) is carrying out a participatory needs assessment and planning process with approximately 420 women in 21 communities in the Municipio of El Viejo, Chinandega. About 2,000 family and community members are indirectly benefiting from this APADEIM's efforts.
ID: NC-302
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Beneficiary: Asociacion Aldea Global Jinotega (Aldea Global)
Sector/Classification: Credit, Marketing and Education/Training
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Jinotega
Province: Jinotega
Country: Nicaragua
Amount: $300,800
Latitude: 13.09146
Longitude: -86.000237
Description: Aldea Global is training 18 cooperatives, NGOs, and farmer owned businesses in administration, risk management, financial and credit delivery, internal governance, quality control and greater gender equity among the boards, staff, and beneficiaries. Aldea Global is providing credit, technical assistance and training to the groups to improve their effectiveness as lenders and marketing agents for small farmers. The eighteen groups have a membership of about 1,800 who will benefit directly and their 9,000 family members who will benefit indirectly.
ID: PN-285
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Beneficiary: Club Rotario de David (Club Rotario)
Sector/Classification: Community development
Dates: 2007-2014
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Province: Chiriquí
Country: Panama
Amount: $180,610
Latitude: 8.430772
Longitude: -82.430792
Description: Club Rotario is improving the job skills, housing, and access to water and sanitation of the indigenous population in the Chiriquí portion of the Comarca Ngöbe Buglé. The grantee’s goal is better employment possibilities and living standards for about 500 people. Another 2,500 individuals will benefit indirectly from project activities.
ID: PN-290
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Beneficiary: Asociación Pro-Artesana Panameña (PROARTESANA)
Sector/Classification: Training, technical assistance, cultural expression
Dates: 2008-2014
City: Panama City
Province: Panama
Country: Panama
Amount: $248,000
Latitude: 8.989786
Longitude: -79.528062
Description: PROARTESANA is improving the skills, earnings, self-esteem, cultural pride and market participation of about 300 craftspeople, mostly women, from Panama City, the central provinces, indigenous reserves and other areas. The grantee is providing training and technical assistance to develop techniques and marketing skills so the craftspeople can tap into tourist and other high-end sales outlets, including via the Internet.
ID: PN-291
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Beneficiary: Asociación Muchachas Guía Panamá (AMGP)
Sector/Classification: Civic participation
Dates: 2009-2014
City: Panama City
Province: Panama
Country: Panama
Amount: $104,500
Latitude: 8.97372
Longitude: -79.536474
Description: AMGP is developing young women into entrepreneurs and community leaders and promoting civic participation throughout Panama, improving the income and quality of life of 1,000 Panamanians and benefiting another 2,500 indirectly.
ID: PN-292
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Beneficiary: Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples San Antonio de Padua, R.L. (CSAP)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2009-2013
City:
Province: Veraguas
Country: Panama
Amount: $40,000
Latitude: 8.007302
Longitude: -81.315579
Description: CSAP worked with farmers during their transition to environmentally responsible production methods. It built a facility for storage and marketing and expanded the inventory of its general store.
ID: PN-293
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Beneficiary: Fundación de Organizaciones Campesinas e Indígenas de Veraguas (FOCIV)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, environment
Dates: 2009-2014
City:
Province: Veraguas
Country: Panama
Amount: $267,000
Latitude: 8.092159
Longitude: -80.987223
Description: FOCIV is working with 300 families in 10 indigenous communities in the La Palma municipality of Veraguas to improve food production, protect the watershed through reforestation and further economic initiatives.
ID: PN-295
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Beneficiary: Asociación de Puertos Obaldieños Unidos (APOU)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, tourism
Dates: 2009-2014
City:
Province: Puerto Obaldia
Country: Panama
Amount: $213,790
Latitude: 8.6687
Longitude: -77.4055
Description: APOU is working with community residents to develop endeavors in tourism, crop and poultry production, food processing and marketing. It is improving the reliability of the food supply and economic opportunities for 350 Panamanians. Another 350 are benefiting indirectly.
ID: PN-296
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Beneficiary: Grupo para la Investigación Tecnoecológica y la Conservación (GITEC)
Sector/Classification: Ecotourism, environment
Dates: 2009-2013
City: Montijo District
Province: Veraguas
Country: Panama
Amount: $134,155
Latitude: 8.1231
Longitude: -81.0755
Description: GITEC developed its ecotourism services and worked with an environmental youth organization in the Montijo region of Veraguas province.
ID: PN-297
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Beneficiary: Centro de Investigación y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos (CIPDH)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2010-2013
City: Biroquera
Province: Darién
Country: Panama
Amount: $272,700
Latitude: 7.8682
Longitude: -77.8367
Description: CIPDH worked with the Organización de Productores Embera Wounaan de Jaque (OPEWAJ) to diversify agricultural, handicraft and small-livestock production, improve food distribution in the 12 participating communities, and strengthen OPEWAJ’s management.
ID: PN-298
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Beneficiary: Cooperativa Agropecuaria y Servicios Múltiples Victoriano Lorenzo, R. L. (COPEVILO)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2010-2013
City: San Miguel Centro
Province: Coclé
Country: Panama
Amount:
Latitude: 8.6266
Longitude: -80.3659
Description: COPEVILO is purchasing coffee for resale, expanding its storage facility, training its members, and increasing and diversifying the inventory for sale in its store. Activities take place in San Miguel Centro, Coclé and the surrounding communities, and are benefiting 300 Panamanians directly and another 2,000 indirectly.
ID: PN-299
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Beneficiary: Artesanías Ocueñas, S.A. (AOSA)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, training
Dates: 2010-2013
City:
Province: Herrera
Country: Panama
Amount: $121,200
Latitude: 7.7704
Longitude: -80.7214
Description: AOSA is training 200 women in the province of Herrera to produce embroidered tablecloths and garments, managing a working-capital fund, and devloping a brand name, labels and other materials to promote sales.
ID: PN-300
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Beneficiary: Fundación Instituto Panameño de Desarrollo Humano y Municipal (IPADEHM)
Sector/Classification: Community development
Dates: 2011-2014
City:
Province: Bocas del Toro, Ngobe Bugle Comarca
Country: Panama
Amount: $299,100
Latitude: 9.2934
Longitude: -82.7347
Description: ECAM is working in 20 communities in the province of Bocas del Toro and the Ngobe Bugle Comarca to form community water associations that organize and build water systems, bringing clean water to about 1,800 households and improving the quality of life for more than 11,000 Panamanians.
ID: PN-301
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Beneficiary: Asociación Panameña para la Sostenibilidad de la Agricultura y la Naturaleza (APASAN)
Sector/Classification: Environment
Dates: 2012-2014
City: La Chorrera
Province: La Chorrera
Country: Panama
Amount: $166,250
Latitude: 8.8743
Longitude: -79.7655
Description: The Asociación Panameña para la Sostenibilidad de la Agricultura y la Naturaleza (APASAN) is working with the Consejo Consultivo de las Subcuencas Los Hules-Tinajones y Caño Quebrado (CC) to strengthen its organizational capacity, create an affiliated not-for-profit organization and obtain its legal status and reforest about 12 hectares of watershed. Approximately 400 persons are participating in the project through training and the implementation of activities that will indirectly benefit 2,570 residents. The project is being carried out in the district of La Chorrera in the regions of Amador, Arosemena, Medoza and Iturralde.
ID: PN-302
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Beneficiary: Asociación Nacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (ANCON)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, environment
Dates: 2012-2015
City: Punto Patiño Reserve
Province: Darién
Country: Panama
Amount: $262,000
Latitude: 7.8682
Longitude: -77.8367
Description: The Asociación Nacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (ANCON) is undertaking a project to support environmentally-sustainable micro and small enterprises in ten communities in and around the Punto Patiño Reserve in the Darien. The program includes technical assistance to conduct participatory feasibility studies, seed funding for selected businesses and the formation of a regional organization representing ten organizations. The project benefits 200 members and indirectly benefits the local population of about 2,000.
ID: PY-194
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Beneficiary: Base Educación, Comunicación y Tecnología Alternativa (BASE ECTA)
Sector/Classification: Grassroots support
Dates: 2008-2013
City: San Lorenzo
Province: Central
Country: Paraguay
Amount: $155,500
Latitude: -25.3503
Longitude: -57.5111
Description: BASE ECTA provided sub-grants, training and technical assistance to grassroots organizations undertaking small, community-based development projects directly benefiting at least 3,000 Paraguayans.
ID: PY-195
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Grupo Sunu (Sunu)
Sector/Classification: Cultural expression
Dates: 2008-2014
City:
Province: Canindeyú, Presidente Hayes, Alto Paraguay
Country: Paraguay
Amount: $262,476
Latitude: -24.1379
Longitude: -55.6690
Description: Sunu is working with indigenous Ava Guaraní, Angaité Maskoy and Chamacoco Paraguayans in the departments of Canindeyú, Presidente Hayes and Alto Paraguay to promote their cultural identity, their understanding of their rights as indigenous peoples, and economic, social and cultural development. The project directly is directly benefiting 3,600 indigenous Paraguayans in the communities served and indirectly benefiting 6,000 other indigenous Paraguayans.
ID: PY-196
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Beneficiary: Fundación Saraki (Saraki)
Sector/Classification: Disability assistance
Dates: 2008-2013
City: Asunción
Province: Asunción
Country: Paraguay
Amount: $430,925
Latitude: -25.267984
Longitude: -57.599947
Description: Saraki worked with the Coordinadora Nacional por la Promoción de los Derechos de las Personas Con Discapacidad (CONAPRODIS) to provide training to 900 representatives of disability rights organizations, enabling these NGOS to more effectively serve 100,000 Paraguayans with disabilities.
ID: PY-197
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Beneficiary: Federación de Entidades de Vecinalistas del Paraguay (FEDEM)
Sector/Classification: Community development
Dates: 2009-2015
City: Limpio
Province: Central
Country: Paraguay
Amount: $287,370
Latitude: -25.1683
Longitude: -57.4942
Description: FEDEM is training members of 300 neighborhood associations in the municipalities of Asunción and Limpio and in Barrio Remansito in Villa Hayes to address neighborhood issues and improve employment opportunities.
ID: PY-198
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Estación A-Nucleo Cultural (Estacion A)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, tourism
Dates: 2010-2015
City:
Province: Central
Country: Paraguay
Amount: $285,439
Latitude: -25.295419
Longitude: -57.414773
Description: Estacion A is training 176 men and women to design and produce Ñanduti lace, weavings from palm fiber, pottery, and woodcarvings and market their products in Paraguay and abroad. It is also organizing events and tours that coincide with local festivals and developing networks led by craftspeople to promote their products and services.
ID: PY-199
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Institución Ecuménica de Promoción Social (OGUASU)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2010-2014
City:
Province: Caaguazu
Country: Paraguay
Amount: $200,353
Latitude: -25.4698
Longitude: -56.0153
Description: OGUASU is training 1,000 Myba Paraguayans in the organic cultivation of traditional crops, reforestation, conservation, beekeeping, aquaculture and animal husbandry and offering workshops in leadership and indigenous rights. Participants are also developing a weekly radio program.
ID: PY-200
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Beneficiary: Mennonite Economic Development Associates del Paraguay (MEDA-PY)
Sector/Classification: Training, technical assistance, microcredit
Dates: 2010-2013
City:
Province: San Pedro
Country: Paraguay
Amount: $221,000
Latitude: -24.1949
Longitude: -56.5616
Description: MEDA-PY worked in collaboration with Pro Desarrollo Integral Rural (PRODIR), a microfinance institution, to organize 2,500 farmers and improve their production of manioc and sugar cane to market directly to two agro-processors and -exporters. The training, technical assistance and access to credit the farmers received also extended to their goals of diversifying their agricultural production for sale and consumption and developing their individual enterprises.
ID: PY-201
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Beneficiary: Asociación de Mujeres Recicladoras Unidas del Bañado Norte de Asunción Paraguay (ARUBAN)
Sector/Classification: Training
Dates: 2011-2012
City: Asunción
Province: Asunción
Country: Paraguay
Amount: $49,705
Latitude: -25.3129
Longitude: -57.6215
Description: ARUBAN improved the income and working conditions of the women who constitute its membership, recruited and trained new members, and helped 840 residents of metropolitan Asunción learn recycling practices and the value of the recylers’ work.
ID: PY-202
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Centro de Educación, Capacitación y Tecnología Campesina (CECTEC)
Sector/Classification: Training, technical assistance
Dates: 2011-2014
City:
Province: Itapúa
Country: Paraguay
Amount: $331,200
Latitude: -26.7924
Longitude: -55.6690
Description: CECTEC is providing technical assistance and training to residents of six rural communities who were resettled pursuant to Paraguay’s agrarian reform program. This includes working with them to identify and support their development priorities. The project is expected to benefit 250 families in the department of Itapúa.
ID: PY-203
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Beneficiary: Asociación de Productores Orgánicos (APRO)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, agriculture, environment
Dates: 2012-2015
City:
Province: Central
Country: Paraguay
Amount: $280,125
Latitude: -25.3503
Longitude: -57.5110
Description: APRO is training 290 families in the organic cultivation of fruits and vegetables, including off-season; providing related technical assistance; and working with them to diversify crops, add value to their production through processing and increase sales. The project should benefit 1,000 Paraguayans directly and another 1,820 indirectly.
ID: PY-204
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Beneficiary: Fundación Arlequin Teatro (FAT)
Sector/Classification: Cultural expression, education/training, enterprise development
Dates: 2012-2014
City: Asunción
Province: Asunción
Country: Paraguay
Amount:
Latitude: -25.2550
Longitude: -57.5495
Description: FAT is developing the artistic and organizational skills of the 50 young Paraguayans comprising a theater group that draws its members from public secondary schools in metro Asunción. The young people are learning to organize a community cultural center and receiving assistance toward filing to obtain legal status as a foundation.
ID: PY-205
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Beneficiary: Fundación Saraki (Saraki)
Sector/Classification: Education/training, community services, disabilities
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Asunción
Province: Asunción
Country: Paraguay
Amount:
Latitude: -25.2680
Longitude: -57.5999
Description: Saraki is working with 50 grassroots and nongovernmental organizations in 11 departments to develop leadership and advocacy skills toward the enforcement of laws protecting the rights of Paraguayans with disabilities, including the right to equal opportunity in employment. The coalition is offering training in job skills and also educating the public. The project is benefiting 1,960 Paraguayans directly and 900,000 indirectly.
ID: PY-206
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Beneficiary: Asociación Paí Tavytera RekoPave (APTR)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture/food production, cultural expression, education/training, environment
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Capitán Bado
Province: Amambay
Country: Paraguay
Amount: $200,630
Latitude: -23.255226
Longitude: -55.54018
Description: APTR is working with approximately 17 indigenous communities in the departments of Amambay, Canindeyú and San Pedro to improve their agricultural production and cultivation of traditional seeds to become more food secure, protect their local environment, strengthen their cultural identity, and enhance the association’s ability to represent its interests and advocate for its rights under Paraguayan law. Approximately 1,500 people will benefit directly.
ID: PY-207
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ID: PU-545
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Beneficiary: Asociación Atocongo (Atocongo)
Sector/Classification: Training
Dates: 2008-2013
City:
Province: Lima
Country: Peru
Amount: $400,000
Latitude: -12.088853
Longitude: -77.020438
Description: Atocongo, in coordination with RedEAmérica's other Peruvian members, developed a Peruvian National Program to provide small grants, training and other support to grassroots organizations undertaking self-help projects.
ID: PU-546
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Beneficiary: Centro de Estudios y Desarrollo Social - APURIMAC (CEDES-APURIMAC)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2008-2014
City:
Province: Apurimac
Country: Peru
Amount: $200,412
Latitude: -14.0505
Longitude: -73.0877
Description: Centro de Estudios y Desarrollo Social - APURIMAC (CEDES-APURIMAC) is providing training, technical assistance, credit and marketing services to more than 900 farm families and their municipal governments as they undertake a coordinated program to develop organic agriculture.
ID: PU-548
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Beneficiary: Asociación Arariwa para la Promoción Técnico-Cultural Andina (ARARIWA)
Sector/Classification: Technical assistance
Dates: 2008-2014
City: Valle del Inca
Province: Cajamarca
Country: Peru
Amount: $326,055
Latitude: -13.5000
Longitude: -71.9000
Description: Asociación Arariwa para la Promoción Técnico-Cultural Andina (ARARIWA) is providing training, technical assistance, processing and marketing services, and exchange opportunities to 300 farmers in the Sacred Valley of the Inca as they revive their organic fruit production.
ID: PU-550
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Beneficiary: Red de Municipalidades Rurales del Perú (REMURPE)
Sector/Classification: Community development
Dates: 2008-2013
City:
Province: Piura
Country: Peru
Amount: $298,900
Latitude: -5.200536
Longitude: -80.633326
Description: Red de Municipalidades Rurales del Perú (REMURPE) coordinated meetings, conducted surveys and studies of community needs, and offered training, technical assistance, exchanges and an electronic communications network to enable municipalities in the regions of Cusco, Piura, Puno and Ayacucho to access public resources for economic development projects.
ID: PU-552
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Beneficiary: Asociación Comunión, Promoción, Desarrollo y Liberación-COPRODELI (COPRODELI)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2009-2014
City: Ica
Province: Ica
Country: Peru
Amount: $298,720
Latitude: -14.062987
Longitude: -75.74461
Description: Asociación Comunión, Promoción, Desarrollo y Liberación-COPRODELI (COPRODELI) is developing a business incubator and dedicated industrial park that will provide production facilities, equipment, business services, training and technical assistance to 100 micro- and small enterprises in the Ica region that suffered recent earthquake damage.
ID: PU-553
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Beneficiary: Comunidad Nativa Marankiari Bajo (CIAMB)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture, enterprise development
Dates: 2009-2014
City: Perene River Basin
Province: Junín
Country: Peru
Amount: $228,455
Latitude: -11.3358
Longitude: -75.3412
Description: Comunidad Nativa Marankiari Bajo (CIAMB) is expanding its program in agriculture and business development by offering training and technical assistance to eight neighboring Asháninka communities.
ID: PU-556
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Beneficiary: Centro de Investigación, Estudio y Promoción del Desarrollo (MINKA)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2009-2014
City:
Province: La Libertad
Country: Peru
Amount: $266,200
Latitude: -8.1436
Longitude: -78.4752
Description: Centro de Investigación, Estudio y Promoción del Desarrollo (MINKA) is providing training, technical and marketing assistance, and financial support to 150 farmers and nine microenterprises that are developing into business networks to further the production and marketing of strawberries, mangos, avocados, dairy products and fresh vegetables.
ID: PU-559
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Beneficiary: Acción Humanitaria sin Fronteras (AHSF)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2010-2013
City: Fernando Lores
Province: Loreto
Country: Peru
Amount: $205,000
Latitude: -3.744699
Longitude: -73.250027
Description: Acción Humanitaria sin Fronteras (AHSF) worked with two community associations to build and operate cassava- processing plants that add value to the members' crops, thereby increasing income. The plants served 610 families in 20 communities located along the banks of the Amazon River, in the district of Fernando Lores, Loreto, 60 minutes by boat from the city of Iquitos.
ID: PU-560
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Beneficiary: Ayllu Yupaychay (Yupay)
Sector/Classification: Education, culture
Dates: 2010-2014
City:
Province: Cusco
Country: Peru
Amount: $260,000
Latitude: -13.523679
Longitude: -71.977703
Description: Ayllu Yupaychay (Yupay) is using the visual arts, the Quechua language and indigenous Peruvian cultural values to further the educational development of rural children between the ages of 3 and 7 in 10 Quechua-speaking communities in the Cusco region. The goal is official institutionalization of this pilot program, thereby increasing the likelihood that rural Andean children receive a quality education.
ID: PU-561
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Beneficiary: Acción y Desarrollo (Accion y Desarrollo)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, training
Dates: 2011-2014
City: San Juan de Lurigancho
Province: Lima
Country: Peru
Amount: $210,000
Latitude: -12.0333
Longitude: -77.0167
Description: Over three years Acción y Desarrollo is offering vocational and technical training to 600 students between the ages of 15 and 20 in two public schools in the district of San Juan de Lurigancho in Lima so they acquire the skills to compete in the job market or start and manage their own microenterprises. The program involves parents, teachers, other educational authorities and the local government, who are working toward formulating policies favorable to the young entrepreneurs.
ID: PU-562
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Beneficiary: Centro de Investigación Social y Educación Popular (ALTERNATIVA)
Sector/Classification: Training, technical assistance
Dates: 2010-2014
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Province: Lima, Callao
Country: Peru
Amount: $260,000
Latitude: -12.0333
Longitude: -77.1333
Description: Centro de Investigación Social y Educación Popular (ALTERNATIVA) is providing technical assistance and training to 440 recyclers, micro-entrepreneurs, community leaders and municipal authorities. It is strengthening the recyclers' organizations, increasing the members' incomes and working with all participants to address issues related to solid-waste management in three districts of metropolitan Lima and in the province of Callao.
ID: PU-563
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Beneficiary: Asociación Minga Peru (Minga Peru)
Sector/Classification: Training
Dates: 2010-2014
City:
Province: Loreto
Country: Peru
Amount: $381,960
Latitude: -4.2325
Longitude: -74.2179
Description: Asociación Minga Peru (Minga Peru) is training 1,000 indigenous women from 45 communities in the Loreto region in the Amazon Rainforest with the goal of advancing their socioeconomic development and improving their participation in public life. Its 200 new radio programs and rebroadcasts of 430 programs reach 100,000 listeners every week.
ID: PU-564
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Beneficiary: Centro Global para el Desarrollo y la Democracia (CGDD)
Sector/Classification: Community support
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Lurín River basin
Province: Lima
Country: Peru
Amount: $365,000
Latitude: -12.0478
Longitude: -77.0622
Description: Centro Global para el Desarrollo y la Democracia (CGDD) is helping to create jobs for and improve the income of 955 families in the Lurín River basin in the Lima region.
ID: PU-566
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Central Piurana de Cafetaleros (CEPICAFE)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2011-2014
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Province: Piura
Country: Peru
Amount: $302,200
Latitude: -5.191475
Longitude: -80.650663
Description: Central Piurana de Cafetaleros (CEPICAFE) is helping 880 members of 12 producer associations from the Piura, Amazonas and Tumbes regions of northeastern Peru raise their income through increased yields of organic cacao and through processing plantain chips for export.
ID: PU-567
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Beneficiary: Centro de Investigación y Promoción del Desarrollo Andino (CIPDA ANDINO)
Sector/Classification: Agriculture
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Sitacocha
Province: Cajamarca
Country: Peru
Amount: $307,200
Latitude: -7.5208
Longitude: -77.9727
Description: Centro de Investigación y Promoción del Desarrollo Andino (CIPDA ANDINO) is helping 370 farmers from the district of Sitacocha, Cajamarca, improving their production of quinoa, wheat, cattle, sheep and bees, and forming microenterprises that market organically-grown grains, dairy products and honey.
ID: PU-568
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Beneficiary: Centro de Estudios, Desarrollo y Acción Social (CEDAS)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Contumazá
Province: Cajamarca
Country: Peru
Amount: $260,800
Latitude: -7.3687
Longitude: -78.8046
Description: Centro de Estudios, Desarrollo y Acción Social (CEDAS) is helping 200 dairy farmers from the district of Contumazá, Cajamarca improve their income by increasing their production of milk and cattle and through the formation of microenterprises focused on milk production and marketing.
ID: PU-569
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Beneficiary: Centro de Investigación y Promoción Social "Sara Lafosse" (CIPS)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, agriculture, education/training
Dates: 2012-2015
City: Virú
Province: La Libertad
Country: Peru
Amount: $326,000
Latitude: -8.428904
Longitude: -78.772202
Description: By working with associations of dairy farmers and fishers and training new entrepreneurs, CIPS is working to increase the incomes of 200 families in the communities of El Carmelo and Huanquito Bajo in the district of Virú, La Libertad. It is also promoting cooperation among the 22 public and private entities in the Association for the Joint Discussion of Local Development of the Coastal River Basins of the Libertad Region (AMEDIVAC), which will actively support the project.
ID: PU-570
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Beneficiary: Instituto de Investigación para Desarrollo Rural, Agroindustrial y Medio Ambiente (IDRA PERU)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development, cultural expression
Dates: 2012-2015
City: Atuncolla
Province: Puno
Country: Peru
Amount:
Latitude: -15.842081
Longitude: -70.032114
Description: IDRA PERU is developing the technical and organizational skills and market access of 225 artisans in 14 associations, primarily women and young adults, enabling them to increase and diversify their production. The project is indirectly benefiting another 900 residents of the eight communities located around the archeological site of Sillustani, in the district of Atuncolla, Puno.
ID: PU-571
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Beneficiary: Urku Estudios Amazónicos (URKU)
Sector/Classification: Education/training, environment
Dates: 2012-2015
City:
Province: San Martín
Country: Peru
Amount:
Latitude: -7.2000
Longitude: -76.8000
Description: Urku is working to engage communities in the San Martín region in the conservation of their forests through an integrated program of resource management and biodiversity recovery. In collaboration with the Federación Kichwa Huallaga Dorado (FEKIHD), it is developing ecotourism; producer networks to market coffee, medicinal plants and crafts; a system to monitor the environment; and environmental education. The project is expected to benefit 5,600 Peruvians directly, help protect the local ecosystem and generate revenue to support the participating communities' conservation efforts.
ID: PU-572
New (N) Current (C) Past (P): C
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Beneficiary: Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH)
Sector/Classification: Education/training
Dates: 2012-2015
City: Lima
Province: Lima
Country: Peru
Amount:
Latitude: -12.0478
Longitude: -77.0622
Description: APRODEH is furthering the social inclusion of Peruvians with mental disabilities, one of Peru’s most marginalized and vulnerable groups, by working towards the enforcement of Article 19 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which recognizes their right to live independently and participate in community life.
ID: PU-573
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Beneficiary: Asociación Kallpa para la Promoción de la Salud Integral y el Desarrollo (Kallpa)
Sector/Classification: Education/training; enterprise development
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Lima
Province: Lima
Country: Peru
Amount:
Latitude: -12.0876
Longitude: -77.0140
Description: Kallpa is helping approximately 1,300 youth between the ages of 15 and 29 to find meaningful employment or start a small business. It is helping consolidate two Centers for Youth and Employment, creating two Youth Business Incubators, and strengthening two networks that focus on issues of youth employment and entrepreneurship. The project’s activities will take place in Cusco and San Juan de Miraflores in Lima.
ID: PU-574
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Beneficiary: Taller de Capacitación e Investigación Familiar (TACIF)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development; education/training
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Punchana
Province: Loreto
Country: Peru
Amount:
Latitude: -3.7241
Longitude: -73.2471
Description: TACIF is working with approximately 130 indigenous community members to expand their farm pond production and marketing of native Amazonian fish to increase family nutrition and income, diversify their farm enterprises, and reduce overfishing in the Amazon River basin. The project’s activities take place in the Santa Maria de Ojeal community in the Punchana district of the department of Loreto.
ID: PU-575
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Beneficiary: Asociación Chico Latino (ACL)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development; Education/training; Environment
Dates: 2013-2016
City: Choquepata
Province: Cusco
Country: Peru
Amount:
Latitude: -13.5881
Longitude: -71.7889
Description: ACL is working in 12 rural communities in Choquepata, Cusco, to help indigenous women improve their production and sale of guinea pigs, develop the skills that communities need to manage their natural resources, prepare residents and their local government to access funds through participation in the budgeting process, and raise awareness of issues related to domestic violence, health and nutrition. The project should benefit 110 Peruvians directly and another 850 indirectly.
ID: PU-576
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Beneficiary: Asociación No Gubernamental Rural Amazonica Andina Choba Choba (Choba-Choba)
Sector/Classification: Cultural expression; environment; agriculture/food production
Dates: 2013-2016
City:
Province: San Martín
Country: Peru
Amount:
Latitude: -7.1827
Longitude: -76.8356
Description: Choba-Choba is helping communities recover traditional practices related to land management, conservation and agriculture, including the diversification of crops. The project should benefit 3,680 Peruvians residing in the districts of Pilluana and Tres Unidos, in the Mishikiyacu Valley of San Martin Region.
ID: PU-577
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Beneficiary: Innovaciones para el Desarrollo Sostenible (IDES)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development; agriculture/food production
Dates: 2013-2016
City:
Province: Melgar Province
Country: Peru
Amount:
Latitude: -14.6048
Longitude: -70.7080
Description: IDES is working with small groups of farmers and microentrepreneurs to design and undertake projects that bring them into the value chain for dairy products and goods from alpaca fiber, and is improving the ability of local units of government to stimulate and support economic development. The project will benefit approximately 3,300 Peruvians in 216 communities in Melgar Province, Puno.
ID: PU-578
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Beneficiary: Asociación Negra de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos (ASONEDH)
Sector/Classification: Education/training
Dates: 2013-2014
City:
Province: Ica
Country: Peru
Amount:
Latitude: -14.2537
Longitude: -75.5365
Description: ASONEDH is using a virtual platform to extend the activities of the Lima-based First School of Afro-descendent Youth Leaders to the Ica region and reach Afro-Peruvian youths with its training in participatory democracy and human rights. Activities conducted in partnership with Ashanti Peru, a youth network, will benefit 30 young Peruvians in rural and urban communities in the provinces of Chinca, Pisco, Ica and Nazca.
ID: UR-181
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Beneficiary: Cooperativa Delicias Criollas (Delicias Criollas)
Sector/Classification: Training, technical assistance, enterprise development
Dates: 2008-2014
City: Montevideo
Province: Montevideo
Country: Uruguay
Amount: $228,150
Latitude: -34.3375
Longitude: -56.7136
Description: Delicias Criollas is developing 13 affiliated enterprises managed and supplied by 150 low-income rural women in 10 Uruguayan departments through training and technical assistance in the production of traditional foods, quality control and marketing. The women are benefiting from increased income and some 3,750 other individuals are benefiting indirectly from the project.
ID: UR-183
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Beneficiary: Agencia de Desarrollo Productivo-Consejo Económico Social (ADP-CES)
Sector/Classification: Technical assistance, agriculture
Dates: 2009-2013
City:
Province: Aysandú
Country: Uruguay
Amount: $280,500
Latitude: -32.3214
Longitude: -58.0756
Description: ADP-CES is improving the technical skills and income of 400 farmers throughout the department of Paysandú. It is also encouraging their participation in mesas zonales, similar to neighborhood boards that bring together some 4,000 residents of six communities to identify their priorities and develop projects for funding.
ID: UR-185
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Beneficiary: Centro de Promoción por la Dignidad Humana (CEPRODIH)
Sector/Classification: Enterprise development
Dates: 2011-2014
City: Montevideo
Province: Montevideo
Country: Uruguay
Amount: $399,900
Latitude: -34.90515
Longitude: -56.208115
Description: CEPRODIH is supporting the creation of a support network to mentor 460 women entrepreneurs as they launch or develop businesses, as well as helping them develop marketing opportunities. Through CEPRODIH’s business incubator and training center, the women are also receiving training and technical assistance.
ID: UR-186
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Beneficiary: Organización Social Salvador (OSS)
Sector/Classification: Education/training
Dates: 2013-2014
City: Montevideo
Province: Montevideo
Country: Uruguay
Amount:
Latitude: -34.868468
Longitude: -56.134729
Description: Through this planning grant, Organización Social Salvador (OSS) is working in approximately four departments of Uruguay, strengthening existing Afro-descendant organizations and formalizing Afro-descendant community groups. OSS expects to formalize and strengthen at least eight existing Afro-descendent groups and offer them the capacity to access government grants targeted to Afro-descendent groups.