To visit MPP’s internet website, click here It’s a Haitian agronomist, Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, who created the seed for this peasant movement 35 years ago on the High Central Plateau. Today this association includes more than 60 000 members. It’s end goal is to promote and innovate agriculture to adapt to small Haitian plantations and respect the environment. MPP educates and backs peasants by offering them the means of being actors and decision-makers of their futures. It intervenes in (...) Next ...

To visit Tusoco’s internet website, click here Tusoco is an association that coordinates and represents 18 tourist circuits put in place by the communities in all of Bolivia. In this way, Tusoco assists in offering an additional source of revenues to Bolivian village communities, and respects and puts in the spotlight local culture and the natural environment. Tusoco backs communities who wish to adopt solidarity tourism, by offering training for guides and translators, and training on (...) Next ...

To visit CIERIC’s internet website, click here Cieric,Information and Referral Center for Community Initiatives, is a Cuban NGO. Cieric focusses it’s work on social development: participating in local initiatives by offering assistance on administration of projects geared towards helping to improve the living conditions of inhabitants. Cieric also assists populations in exercising their civic rights by organising artisitic and cultural activities (workshops for youth on artistic (...) Next ...

Coraca-Protal is a peasant association that rallies and leads an extended project of local development in the Cochabamba region in the heart of Bolivia, by aiding the organisation of communities on arable lands with high yield potential and by organising the culture, production and marketing of produce. As thus the association puts in place training actions (agricultural techniques, plantation management, etc.), production plants (for locally grown chili peppers, garlic powder, honey, (...) Next ...

A merger between two foundations with related initiatives regarding the legislative defense of workers (Adec) and their continued education (ATC), Adec-ATC was born in 1986. Adec-ATC works on issues regarding employment, notably in the most vulnerable sectors (eg. small artisan business units), by conducting studies and offering training on workers’ and union rights, and offering aid in the professional reinsertion of laid off employees (for example due to the privatization of mineries) and (...) Next ...

Cresfed heads an ambitious project in Haiti to favour the realization of democracy through research and training. The objective is to develop the skills of the leaders of civil society (directors and administrators of on site associations) and public powers (elected officials and the technical and administrative personnel of local cooperatives), so they can encourage citizens to participate in social, economic and cultural life through various activities: community newsletters, discussion (...) Next ...

Founded in 1980, The Institute for Urban Development Cenca assists populations in situations of dire poverty or precariousness in developing economic activity and becoming active collectively, through farmers’ cooperatives, residents’ associations etc., and able to assert their demands and proposals in front of public powers. Cenca also works with municipalities to improve the institutional (local legislation), socio-economic and physical (infrastructures and equipment) environments of the (...) Next ...

To check out the Integration Committee of Peasant Economic Organisations of Cochabamba click here The Integration Committee of Peasant Economic Organisations of Cochabamba (CIOEC-CBBA) brings together Peasant Economic Organisations (EOCAs). Its strategic purposes are to federate, direct, and defend the EOCAs’ socio-economic interests, and to contribute to the institutional consolidation of these organisations, while backing up their production and the marketing of these products. With these (...) Next ...