| South America : Bolivia : 2010 |
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Central Indígena de la Región Amazónica de Bolivia
To build awareness among indigenous communities about Cachulea Esperanza, a dam project on the Madera River that is part of the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA). Funds will enable the group to access information about the project, organize workshops with indigenous leaders, hold community assemblies where strategies and actions to combat the dam will be developed, and attain legal assistance. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-274
Amount: $5,050
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Comisión para la Gestion Integral del Agua en Bolivia
To coordinate and monitor four work groups that are conducting research on (1) water and climate change; (2) water, indigenous territories, watershed, and irrigation systems; (3) water and water laws; and (4) water and mining. Specifically, funds will be used to collect and organize information; to create and publish four newsletters; and to update the organization's website with the information generated by the work groups. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-275
Amount: $5,000
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Juventud Ecologísta en Acción
To organize the 3rd Environmental Music Festival ILLAPA . The organization will also use funds to host environmental workshops and talks for other youth groups, develop reports, pamphlets, documentaries and TV shows on environmental problems and injustices in Oruro, Bolivia. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-423
Amount: $5,000
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Consejo Nacional de Ayllus y Markas del Quallasuyu
To organize and host a national meeting of indigenous communities from all regions of Bolivia. Participants at the meeting will discuss legal instruments that can be used to guarantee and protect indigenous communities’ rights, specifically in the face of threats from the incursion of major development projects including as mining, oil extraction, and large-scale energy projects. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-276
Amount: $5,000
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Expedición Madidi
To organize a 15 person expedition of 15-20 days to visit isolated indigenous communities located along the Peruvian border and near the Absolute Reserve Zone of Toromona. The purpose of the visit is to check on and document the state of the reserve area and the remote campesino communities nearby. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-133
Amount: $5,000
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Foro Boliviano Sobre Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo
To follow-up on the work done at Mesa 18, an informal space organized during the 2010 People's Summit on Climate Change in Cochabamba, Bolivia where discussions and debates were held on the issues of democracy, neoliberal policies, climate change, and development strategies in regions where the extractive industries sector is undermining the rights of communities. Specifically, funds will be used to conduct follow-up with participants and to establish an editorial board and bi-monthly newsletter, that will reflect the visions, themes and ideas that were addressed. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-278
Amount: $6,000
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Eco Mujeres
To organize a workshop in Lima for 30 female leaders and activists from Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Perú that will address ways that these individuals and their organizations can prevent and protect themselves from criminalization. With the expansion of the extractives industry throughout Latin America, incidences of human rights violations against rural and campesino communities have been on the rise and the tendency of governments in the region has been to criminalize any protest of these violations. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-277
Amount: $5,000
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| South America : Colombia : 2010 |
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Asociación Campesina de Fruticultores
To survey bird populations in the area, in order to assess which species of birds are experiencing decline due to lack of food and places to nest related to climate change. The organization will also organize tree planting activities and an awareness campaign; their work focuses broadly on environment and food security issues. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-280
Amount: $5,027
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Palenque Regional El Congal
To work with 40 families from the Afro-Colombian communities of Matía and San Francisco to raise awareness about sanitation issues, especially disposal of solid waste, dirty water and waste management. These marginalized communities lack basic waste management services, and the environment and health of the communities has suffered, especially among children under 5 years old. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-281
Amount: $5,000
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Corporación para el Desarrollo de las Comunidades Caribeñas Jorge Artel
To organize a campaign to inform the communities of María la Baja, San Onofre, San Cayetano, Palenque Paraíso and San Cristóbal about the water issues their region faces. The group works to promote social, economic, political, and environmental development of the Afro-Caribbean communities in Colombia. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-435
Amount: $5,000
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Fundación Agroecológica Andina de Colombia
To improve an agroforestry nursery and farming plots; to implement better systems of caring for livestock; and to purchase farm plots, fertilizer and seeds for two farming schools in the Canca region. The group works to protect forests and local bodies of water through conservation activities and alternative income opportunities, with a particular focus on alternative agricultural techniques. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-433
Amount: $5,000
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Corporación Caminos de Mujer
To organize a Mangrove Festival which will raise awareness about the importance of the mangroves in the Puerta del Sol, Nuevo Milenio, California, and Puente Humberto Mansi neighborhoods. As part of the festival there will be mangrove site visits for women and children and an evening of story-telling about myths and legends of mangroves. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-432
Amount: $5,000
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Asociación de Mujeres Afrodescendientes y del Caribe Graciela Chaines
To organize a workshop on proposed laws that will manage the beaches in Cartagena and how these laws will affect the women who work on them and the environment, with the goal of ensuring the women's rights are respected. Additionally, workshops will be held to inform beach-goers about the benefits of the area's natural products and the importance of environmental awareness. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-137
Amount: $5,000
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Grupo Asociativo y Comunitario de Trabajo Sembradores de Vida
To conserve water and soil by implementing an environmentally sustainable, silvopasture, system of razing sheep - an alternative to the traditional culture of raising cattle - in the community of Nazarena. The group will buy supplies to build corrals and pastures, sheep, food, and vitamins. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-405
Amount: $5,000
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| South America : Ecuador : 2010 |
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Federación de Organizaciones Campesinas y Ingígenas de Azuay
To inform citizens about Ecuador's Constitution and proposed water law, community rights, and mechanisms that ensure that decisions about water rights remain in communities. The organization will share successful experiences in local water management and models that can be used in the region and country. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-427
Amount: $2,500
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Comité Interisntitucional Poblacional Ambiental de Santa Ana
To conduct a socio-economic and environmental assessment of the micro-watersheds of the Pata de Pájaro and Mineral rivers in order to declare the county of Santa Ana "Free of Agrotoxins". The organization will also purchase audiovisual equipment; organize capacity-building workshops; and design and print informational materials - all to promote their campaign. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-027
Amount: $5,000
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Fundación Altervia
To organize workshops on the use, benefits, and implementation of biodigesters - which produce a clean source of heat energy and liquid fertilizer - in the regions of Valdivia, Manglaralto, and Olon. The organization seeks to promote clean and affordable energy technologies that use renewable sources. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-431
Amount: $5,000
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Coordinadora Nacional de Usuarios del Agua
To conduct an environmental assessment of the Jobones and Duale rivers to identify and monitor where industrial pollution is entering the rivers. Additionally, the group will organize a network of environmental monitors; establish a multi-sector team to discuss environmental policies; publish environmental education material about pollution and conservation; and prepare a proposal about environmental conservation and management for local authorities. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-026
Amount: $5,000
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Producciones Behiquealto
To create artistic materials that will document the struggle of Ecuadorian campesino communities as they fight for their rights to land, water, and food sovereignty. The organization seeks to spread information about and strengthen social movements in Latin America through the creation and dissemination of audiovisual and other creative materials. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-025
Amount: $5,000
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Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon
To support two workshops in Orellana and Pastaza, Ecuador to raise awareness among indigenous communities of the potential impacts of government development initiatives. The workshops will specifically focus on the implementation programs related to the United Nation's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation program and climate change, in order better equip local communities to respond to these initiatives, and to protect their cultural autonomy and local natural resources. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-024
Amount: $5,000
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Agencia Ecologista de Información TEGANTAI
To produce and distribute informational materials and to maintain the organization's website so that the voices of environmental movements and local communities can be heard in national environmental debates. The agency seeks to supply indigenous and rural organizations resisting natural resource exploitation with tools that allow them to share their struggle. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-424
Amount: $5,000
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Alternativas de Desarrollo Humano y Estudios Antropológicos
To organize and host three workshops on nutrition and food sovereignty for women from the Salango-Manabí and surrounding communities focusing on understanding food and nutrition issues at the local, national, and international level. The group stresses the important role women play in transferring knowledge about traditional foods, nutrition, and food sovereignty. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-425
Amount: $5,000
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Latinoamerica Grupo de Objecón de Conciencia Ecuador
To send three representatives from Latin America grassroots groups to the War Resister's International Conference on Nonviolent Livelihood Struggle and Global Militarism: Links and Strategies, which took place in India in January 2010. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-066
Amount: $5,000
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Nacionalidad Shiwiar del Ecuador
To organize a seminar for Shiwiar community representatives that will inform participants about the Circunscripción Territorial de la Nacionalidad Shiwiar (Autonomous Territory of the Shiwiar Nation). The seminar took place in Curintsa from April 5-7, 2010 and discussed the importance, objective, vision and mission of the Autonomous Territory, investigated the renewable and non-renewable natural resources that exist within it, and shared information on the Ecuadorian government’s policies and strategies for oil exploration and exploitation in the Ecuadorian Amazon. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-426
Amount: $4,250
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| South America : Peru : 2010 |
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Red de Comunicadores por la Educación y Defensa Ambiental
To raise awareness about hazardous material spills and what to do in the event of a spill in the districts of Cajacay, Pampas Chico, and Antonio Raymondi - all places hazardous waste is commonly transported. Additionally, funds will be used to create a network of environmental monitors and implement campaigns for the communities affected by large mining projects. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-434
Amount: $5,000
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Centro De Promoción y Desarrollo Rural Amazónico
To create logistical support related to the "Extraordinary Congress of the Asháninkas Communities" held in March 2010 in Aerija, Peru. The aim of the meeting was to bring together more than 300 elected delegates from indigenous communities to discuss an array of issues, including floodplain management on the Urubamba and Ucayali rivers; the environmental and cultural impacts of oil operations in Atalaya; and other challenges to indigenous rights. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-422
Amount: $5,000
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Federación Regional de Comunidades Campesinas y Nativas de Pasco
To send members of the group to the Fourth National Congress of Mining Affected Communities in Peru in April. The group defends the collective rights, territories, environment, and cultural identity of the communities in the Pasco region. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-428
Amount: $5,000
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Colectivo Manos Limpias
To create a Mining Truth Commission that will investigate the legitimacy of the activities of mining companies such as Yanacocha and Doe Run Perú. Raising awareness about the socio-environmental impacts that these companies have had on surrounding communities will help Colectivo Manos Limpias advocate for mining practices that respect human rights and the environment. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-021
Amount: $5,000
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Colectivo de Semillas de Diversidad Vs. Transgénicos
To organize six meetings of eleven organizations to develop a strategy to strengthen the collective's ability to educate decision makers about the dangers of transgenic seeds and the benefits of native seeds. Additional activities include raising awareness amongst the general public about the risks of transgenic seeds through activities, such as the development of a blog and DVD. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-023
Amount: $5,000
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Comité de Viginalncia del Presupuesto Participativo de la Provincia de Ilo
To reinstate the city’s environmental management plan, and to monitor the governance of the current mayor, who entered office after corruption scandals forced the resignation of his predecessor. The organization will hold workshops to build community monitoring and oversight teams, and will initiate public campaigns calling for improvement in the city’s environmental management plans. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-022
Amount: $5,000
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Coordinadora Regional de Comunidades Afectadas por la Minería de Moquegua
To organize several community meetings, one regional meeting and a public forum about water resource problems, how they are related to mining activities, and the impacts of climate change. Additionally, funds will be used to: produce a weekly radio show about water, mining and climate change; create and disseminate a newsletter; and to support the general expenses of the organization. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-279
Amount: $5,000
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