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 New Grants
Fundación Kechuaymara
$188,550 over three years to work in conjunction with the Association of Men and Women Horticulturists, the communities of Ambana, and the municipality of Carabuco, assisting 350 Aymara families in organic agricultural production, processing and marketing, and microenterprise development. (BO-482)
www.aymaranet.org/kechuayma1.html
Oficina del Artesano Microempresario (OFAMI)
$282,980 over two years, to provide an integrated program of training, technical assistance and loans to 750 artisans in 250 shops in La Paz and El Alto. Eighteen new consortia of artisan shops will be created to enable individual shops to increase production efficiency through joint efforts toward identifying and filling market niches, demonstrating the effectiveness of coordinated production and marketing as a development strategy for broad replication among the thousands of artisan shops in Bolivia. (BO-481)
Servicios Alternativos de Desarrollo (JATHA)
$370,735 over three years, to collaborate with the municipal governments of Umala and Patacamaya (department of La Paz), 54 community organizations, the Light and Power Company (ELFA, S.A.), the Aroma Association of Milk Producers (ASPROLPA), and Pil Andina, Bolivia's largest dairy plant, mobilizing an additional $772,494. The program will provide electrification to 46 rural communities, 46 primary and secondary schools, and health posts in four rural centers; will construct and operate seven milk collection and storage centers serving 175 families affiliated with the ASPROLPA; and will establish an irrigation system for 14 peasant farms. (BO-483)
Supplemental Grants
Centro de Acción Social para el Desarrollo Comunitario (CASDEC)
$189,255 over three years, to assist 370 families and 10 community organizations in the municipality of Tiraque in reversing problems of poverty, environmental degradation and depletion of natural resources through integrated resource management and improved agriculture and livestock production. (BO-469-A2)
Centro de Investigaciones de Energía y Población (CIEP)
$113,825 over one year, to continue a training and technical assistance program toward the sustainability of three training and sales centers servicing some 1,300 artisans belonging to the Unión de Ceramistas Aymara y Quechuas de Bolivia and incorporated in local development strategies in the municipalities of Batallas and El Alto. (BO-466-A2)
www.ciep.1go.dk/basico.htm
Grupo de Asesoramiento Multidisciplinario en Medio Ambiente y Agroecología (GAMMA)
$103,995 over one year, to continue training and technical assistance to 234 families in eight ayllus, or indigenous territories, in the municipality of Choquecota, as part of a program to increase family income from llama production, build the capacity of producer organizations to manage and market llamas and llama products, and strengthen the participation of community leaders and representatives in municipal development planning and resource allocation. (BO-464-A3)
Inti Raymi Foundation
$21,100 over 14 months, to undertake an assessment of the participation of civil society -especially small-scale producers in the artisan, mining cooperative, small business and rural enterprise sectors -in Bolivia's National Dialogue aimed at defining the National Poverty Reduction Strategy under the multilateral Highly Indebted Poor Countries Initiative. A final document will be produced and disseminated in print and on the Internet. (BO-461-A9)
Taller de Historia Oral Andina (THOA)
$50,000 over 11 months, to conclude its three-year program to strengthen the participation of indigenous communities in municipal government and local development programs in Umala and Ayata, two predominantly indigenous areas of La Paz department, Two land-titling initiatives will be completed in these areas and the Consejo Nacional de Ayllus y Markas del Quillasuyo (CONAMAQ) will be assisted in generating a plan to secure title in the departments of La Paz, Oruro, Chuquisaca and Potosí, according to the guidelines of Bolivia's 1996 Agrarian Reform Law. (BO-457-A3)
www.aymaranet.org/thoa.html
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