Local partners

CARE
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CARE serves individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing strength from our global diversity, resources, and experience, we promote innovative solutions and advocate for global responsibility. We facilitate lasting change by strengthening capacity for self-help, providing economic opportunity, delivering relief in emergencies, influencing policy decisions at all levels, and addressing discrimination in all its forms. CARE Peru is an arm of CARE International.

CARE Peru | Emergencies
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CARE's mission is to serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing strength from our global diversity, resources and experience, we promote innovative solutions and are advocates for global responsibility. We facilitate lasting change by strengthening capacity for self-help, providing economic opportunity, delivering relief in emergencies, influencing policy decisions at all levels, and addressing discrimination in all its forms. CARE Peru is an arm of CARE International.

Center of Indigenous Cultures of Peru
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CHIRAPAQ is a civil association formed by indigenous civilians who work to construct a plural and equitable society in Peru where the rights, dreams, and aspirations of indigenous people are respected. This work is of special importance to indigenous women, who are keepers and preservers of cultural inheritance. CHIRAPAQ is part of the national and international indigenous movements, participating in various networks for the vindication of their people in social, economic, and cultural development.

Central Indígena de Comunidades Originarias de Lomerio
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CICOL is composed of 28 Chiquitano communities of Lomerío, within the department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Dedicated to improving the living conditions of its member communities, their projects center around the demarcation and titling of communally-held lands, and the collective management of these lands and resources as a way to defend the fundamental rights of Lomerio's indigenous peoples.

Central Indígena Paikoneka de San Javier
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Centro Andino de Desarrollo Agropecuario
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During the past decade, CADA has worked in the departments of La Paz and Oruro, assisting Aymara indigenous communities in local agricultural development initiatives and the revival of traditional cultures. CADA conducts training programs to support the development of greater political and productive capacities, and contributes to the generation of new proposals of appropriate rural development strategies in the Bolivian highlands.

Centro Cultural Sartañani
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The Santañani Cultural Center is an NGO composed of Aymara-speaking professionals from different indigenous communities in the highlands of Bolivia who seek to revive and reproduce the cultural values of the Carangas nation (an ethnic group within the Aymará language family).

Centro de Derechos Económicos y Sociales
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Based in Quito, the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CDES) promotes and defends economic, social, and cultural rights. From a human rights perspective, CDES analyzes Ecuador's huge foreign debt and debt repayment strategies employed by the government and provides educational materials to stimulate greater popular participation. With Oxfam's support, they provide legal assistance to indigenous communities in the Amazon region facing oil development projects.

Centro de Estudios Jurídicos e Investigación Social
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CEJIS was founded in 1978 as a human rights organization dedicated to "the legal development of society, starting from the interests and legitimate claims of the most disadvantaged social sectors." CEJIS works directly with indigenous communities in the Amazon region of Bolivia in support of local efforts to secure access to their territories, mainly by means of land titling. CEJIS also works to create broad legal and policy changes at regional and national levels.

Centro de Estudios Multi-disciplinarios de los Aymara
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The Center for Multi-disciplinary Aymara Studies (CEMA) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization working with indigenous peoples. It is run by indigenous professionals and activists.

Centro de Estudios para el Desarollo Laboral y Agrario
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The largest NGO in Bolivia, CEDLA is a think-tank focused on the issues affecting the most marginalized social groups in Bolivia. Their work in earlier years has focused on labor concerns; more recently they have dedicated considerable attention to indigenous and rural issues. Oxfam supports CEDLA's research project about water, its significance to indigenous peoples, and the threats to this precious natural resource.

Centro de Estudios Pluriculturales
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CEPCU was formed by 20 indigenous professionals who have extensive experience working with indigenous organizations that face environmental conflicts and other development challenges. Based out of Otavalo, Oxfam supports CEPCU's work to support community-based natural resource management in the nearby San Pablo watershed.

Centro de Estudios y Prevención
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PREDES is a Peruvian non–governmental organization which promotes the prevention approach in development, encouraging those working in development to take on the responsibility and the commitment not to create conditions vulnerable to natural hazards. Society–and to a greater extent leaders in the spheres of economics and politics–are causing changes in nature and altering the way it works, creating new hazards for development sustainability. PREDES's chief goal is for the prevention approach to be factored into sustainable development.

Centro de Investigación de los Movimientos Sociales del Ecuador
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CEDIME, one of the oldest NGO's in Ecuador, seeks to contribute to the establishment of a democratic and equitable society in Ecuador that would improve the local conditions and increase the society's participation in the global world. For this reason, CEDIME supports several civil organizations, specially those that work with social or ethnic minorities and gender issues. Its methodology includes education, research, training workshops, project planning and execution, social development plans, and political leaders' training.

Centro de Investigación y Documentación para el Desarrollo del Beni
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Founded in 1984, CIDDEBENI is an NGO that conducts research, planning, and training with various communal and inter-communal indigenous organizations of the Beni province in the Amazonian lowlands of Bolivia. Their assistance supports the diversified and sustainable use of natural resources in order to improve indigenous people's quality of life.

Centro de Investigación y Promoción del Campesinado - Regional Beni
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CIPCA contributes to the campesinos and indigenous people--men and women--so that they may participate within the mechanisms of power and decision making in their culture in an equitable and coherent manner , and in the production and distribution of goods and services. CIPCA develops their actions with a gender focus; they require the implementation of activities which will bring about equal gender relations between men and women.

Centro para el Desarrollo del Indígena Amazónico
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For more than 20 years, CEDIA has supported Amazonian indigenous peoples in community land titling and community-based resource management. With a progressive and integral vision of long-term territorial and resource management, CEDIA supports organizational strengthening of indigenous groups seeking to defend their territories and effectively manage their natural resources and biodiversity.

Colectivo de Estudios Aplicados al Desarrollo Social
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CEADES is committed to the empowerment of indigenous peoples in development projects that affect their livelihoods. Since 1999, they have supported the Chiquitano Indigenous Organization (OICH) and other indigenous organizations of Santa Cruz in evaluating the existence and operations of mines and natural gas concessions in indigenous territories, areas where Chiquitano groups are attempting to sustainably manage their unique forest ecosystems.

Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas de la Amazonia Ecuatoriana
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CONFENIAE is an integral part of the national indigenous organization of Ecuador (CONAIE). They bring together the Amazonian indigenous groups and form a main political force in the CONAIE and the country. In 1997, CONFENIAE fought to reform the national Constitution by including the issue of territorial rights. Today they face the increased presence of oil companies in indigenous lands and are working to increase standards of community participation and corporate accountability for businesses operating in the region.

Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador
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Established in 1986, CONAIE is the representative body of Ecuador's indigenous organizations and provides a crucial political voice that has resulted in a dramatic increase in political participation. Oxfam has supported CONAIE since its earliest days in helping move indigenous peoples from a marginal position to one of central importance in Ecuadorian society, as evidenced by the recent appointments of two CONAIE indigenous leaders to the new government of this country.