SHARE Foundation 2006-07 Grassroots Projects
In 2006-07, SHARE is lending its support with over $250,000 to community-based initiatives that encourage women’s empowerment, leadership development and community participation in partnership with already established Salvadoran organizations. Grassroots projects are supported by various churches and schools in the United States who develop a sistering relationship of solidarity to work together in fundraising, community development, women’s empowerment and youth organizing. Over $75,000 is being contributed to the following projects thanks to the generosity of SHARE’s US sistering communities. SHARE currently partners with CRIPDES regions to create and carry out projects for our Grassroots base.
1. Project Name: Strengthening CRIPDES-San Vicente’s Integral Youth and Women’s Organizing (“Fortalecimiento de la organización integral de mujeres y jóvenes del trabajo de CRIPDES San Vicente”)
Local Partner: CRIPDES-San Vicente
Location: Tecoluca and San Vicente Municipalities, San Vicente Province
Amount: $18,973.42
Duration: 2 enero 2006 – 30 abril 2007
Description: This 16-month project promotes capacity-building and new leadership with women and youth through organization, training, formation, recreation, and advocacy for public policy and social and economic issues. 1,100 youth from 32 communities are directly benefiting from activities including: organizational support for community youth committees through technical assistance and wider gatherings and exchanges; education through five academic scholarships and five youth leadership and formation trainings; advocacy support for local employment opportunities and athletic infrastructure; and recreational-educational outlets such as an environmental–awareness hike, and painting and drawing classes. 1,200 women from 29 communities are directly participating in activities including: organizational support for community women’s committees through technical assistance and wider gatherings and exchanges; education through four leadership and formation trainings; and ten organic home vegetable gardening economic initiatives with six months of technical follow-up.
2. Project Name:Strengthening Integral Development in CRIPDES-San Vicente through Institutional Education (“Fortalecimiento educativo institucional de desarrollo integral de CRIPDES-San Vicente”)
Local Partner: CRIPDES-San Vicente
Location: Tecoluca and San Vicente Municipalities, San Vicente Province
Amount: $5,760.00
Duration: 1 julio 2006 – 30 junio 2007
Description: This one-year project provides university education for four community leaders in the region, with the aim of strengthening institutional capacity with which to further promote true local development in the region. Each of the four leaders currently working towards a college degree has committed to bringing education earned back to bear on efforts for development in the communities of San Vicente.
3. Project Name: Community Organizational Strengthening and Leadership Development in the Communities of the CCR, Chalatenango (“ Fortalecimiento de la organización comunitaria y desarrollo de Nuevos lideres y liderezas de las Comunidades de CCR, Chalatenango ”)
Local Partner: Association of Communities for the Development of Chalatenango (CCR)
Location: Northeastern Chalatenango province
Amount: $20,000.00
Duration: 1 January – 31 December 2006
Description: This one-year project strengthens civil participation in grassroots structures (women’s committees, youth committees) and develops new men and women leaders with the ability to direct and advocate in public institutions in order to resolve the economic, social, and cultural problems of their communities. In the women’s area (230 women participating in 48 community women’s committees), there is special focus given to increasing knowledge of rights and other issues, thereby permitting the practice of full citizenship, free of discrimination or marginalization. The youth organizing (135 youth participating in 28 community youth committees) focuses primarily on the building of new leaders with a vision for change and based on the values of solidarity, cooperation, equity, and pride in cultural identity.
The project contains three basic elements: 1) Resource Strengthening (full-time regional youth and women’s promoters with teams of stipended volunteer promoters, regional staff trainings in fundraising, project administration, and funding diversification); 2) Organizing and Leadership Development (support and follow up to community and regional youth and women’s committees through visits, annual planning, and inter-regional forums), and 3) Broad-based training and formation (regional and sub-regional assemblies for women and youth designed to promote analysis, information sharing, and inter-community coordination, theater presentation by youth for youth on HIV/AIDS, the creation of three new youth theater groups that will further educate on themes relevant to youth, and trainings in disaster response and mitigation.)
4. Project Name: Defending the Human Rights of the Northeastern Communities of Chalatenango from Mining (“Defender los derechos humanos de las comunidades del nor-oriente de Chalatenango ante la explotación minera”)
Local Partner: Association of Communities for the Deve lopment of Chalatenango (CCR)
Location: Northeastern Chalatenango province
Amount: $12,500
Duration: August 2006-July 2007
Description: This project aims to educate, organize and mobilize the population of affected communities of northeastern Chalatenango regarding the impact of mining exploitation, empowering these communities to advocate for and defend their water sources, crops, environmental health, and human rights. The project also promotes alliances with other local and national organizations concerned about the impacts of mining. While project activities are being executed in seven northeastern municipalities of Chalatenango, with a total of 14,890 residents, approximately 20,000 additional residents of neighboring municipalities are indirectly benefiting from this project as well. The need for this project arises within the context of exploration activity by several national and foreign companies in the hills of Chalatenango for its potential for gold, silver, copper, and other minerals, despite the polluting and toxic impact of open-pit mining on the local water supply, forests, air purity, and soil.
Project components include: 1) Education (14 informational municipal assemblies, an international gathering in Honduras where mining experiences are more advanced, and community trainings including theater performances), 2) Strengthening of Alliances (Participation in the National Working Group Against Mining, Radio Sumpul promotional spots, t-shirts and promotional materials, and two strategic petitions with support from mayors, citizens, and other local actors), and 3) Administrative Support (promoter, gas, and office costs).
5.Project Name:Strengthening Youth Organization, Culture and Recreational Sports in Northern San Salvador and La Libertad (“Proyecto de fortalecimiento de la cultura y el deporte a través de la organización juvenil de la Región Norte de San Salvador y La Libertad”)
Local Partner: Union of Communities of Northern San Salvador and La Libertad (UCRES)
Location: Northern San Salvador and La Libertad provinces
Amount: $8530.18
Duration: 1 September 2005 – 28 February 2007 (extended end date)
Description: This project reaches out to approximately 500 youth in 30 UCRES communities. It seeks to promote sustainable youth leadership and participation in UCRES’s overall Youth Organizing Program by focusing on elements which both attract youth participation as well as promote educational, productive, and fun outlets for rural youth. In a country were over half the population is under age 25, this project represents one piece of a growing, organized response to the flight of youth from the rural sector and from El Salvador in general, the lack of access to educational and employment opportunities, as well as basic resources in the countryside; a steady rise in gang violence in all parts of El Salvador; and the vital need for new leadership and vision for development in El Salvador’s rural sector and beyond.
This project is comprised of 1) Advocacy (further develops and promotes a youth platform initiative and youth needs assessments, powerful tools with which UCRES youth can lobby, advocate, and seek out funding for their needs), 2) Organizational strengthening (visits and technical support to 26 community youth committees, a regional youth promoter to ensure overall coordination, a regional youth assembly, and fundraising and project administration trainings to the regional staff, and 3) Recreational and commemorative activities (the formation of a theater and a folkloric dance group, the celebration the anniversary of Father Rutilio Grande, and a soccer tournament).
6.Project Name: Education and Advocacy Regarding Potential Impacts of Mining Exploitation in the Municipality of El Paisnal (“Educación e incidencia sobre los posibles impactos de la explotación minera en el municipio de El Paisnal”)
Local Partner: Union of Communities of Northern San Salvador and La Libertad (UCRES)
Location: El Paisnal municipality, San Salvador province
Amount: $10,000.00
Duration: 1 August 2006 – 31 July 2007
Description: This project aims to educate, organize and mobilize the 12 communities in the municipality of El Paisnal regarding the impact of mining exploitation, empowering these communities to advocate for and defend their water sources, crops, environmental health, and human rights. The project also promotes alliances with other local and national organizations concerned about the impacts of mining. The need for this project arises within the context of exploration activity by several national and foreign companies in the municipality of El Paisnal for its potential for gold, silver, copper, and other minerals, despite the polluting and toxic impact of open-pit mining on the local water supply, forests, air purity, and soil.
Project components include: 1) Education, advocacy, and exchanges (trainings with 33 representatives of each of the 12 communities, replica trainings in each of the 12 communities, radio spots, t-shirts, educational materials, a municipal forum and an exchange with other actors), and 2) Strengthening of Alliances (Participate in the National Working Group Against Mining, build alliance with local and national actors and government officials, create a municipal committee on mining), and 3) Administrative Support (Promoter, gas, and office costs).
7. Project Name: Organization and Leadership Strengthening with Women of Ten Communities in Southern La Libertad (“Fortalecimiento de la Organización y Capacidades de Liderazgo con Mujeres en 10 Comunidades del Sur de la Libertad”)
Local Partner: CRIPDES Southern La Libertad
Location: Southern La Libertad province
Amount: $18,520.28
Duration: 1 November 2004 – 31 October 2006
Description: This two-year project aims to strengthen participation and leadership of women in community organization and local development. It works with 230 wmen from ten communities in five municipalities of the Southern La Libertad province to: build and strengthening women’s organizational structures; promote women’s participation in the analysis of local and national current events and issues; facilitate the proactive leadership of women in the proposal of solutions to problems faced by women in the region; and promote coordination with private organizations and government bodies at the municipal and regional level in the acquisition of funds for community development. The projects parts from the basic belief that local inhabitants most no longer be treated as spectators, victims, or recipients of assistance, but rather as proactive leaders and decision makers for development in their communities.
Project components include: 1) a series of trainings on topics of importance to women such as gender perspective, human rights, and how to propose and develop projects, 2) support to ten community women’s committees (eight of these were created where none existed) through visits, technical assistance, community assemblies of coordination and analysis, and the promotion of women to community council structures, 3) Survey studies in each community analyzing factors related to the development and well-being of women in those communities to be used in seeking funds for local development initiatives, 4) Presentation of plans for advocacy and funding for local development -- at least one created by each of the ten women’s committees -- to organizations and municipal governments in the region, and 5) Administrative support (full-time Project Coordinator, a full-time Women’s Promoter, and a half-time accountant).
8. Project Name: Strengthening Mental Health Among Women and Youth of 51 Rural Communites in 8 Municipalities of the La Libertad Province (“Fortalecimiento a la salud mental de las mujeres y jóvenes de 51 comunidades rurales en 8 municipios del Departamento de La Libertad”)
Local Partner: CRIPDES Southern La Libertad
Location: Southern La Libertad province
Amount: $ 11,553.00
Duration: 1 February 2006 - 31 January 2007
Description: This prevention project arises within the environmentally vulnerable coastal region of southern La Libertad, prone to flooding and mudslides in times of heavy rain. Through this project, 208 women and youth from 51 communities in 8 municipalities pass through a series of 24 trainings geared towards building organization and capacity to assume leadership in disaster response and prevention. Each then assumes the responsibility of replicating these training within his or her own community (roughly 300 residents each). Trainings include topics ranging from: Self-esteem, Assertiveness, Stress Management, and Emergency Response. The project also contains an organizational strengthening component for community women’s and youth committees, and provides human resources (Youth Promoter, Project Administrator, and Psychologist). Municipalities included in the project are: La Libertad, Chiltiupan, Tamanique, Comasagua, Zaragoza, Santa Tecla, Teotepeque and Huizucar.
9. Project Name: Community Organization and Scholarships Granting in Five Municipalities of La Libertad ("Organización Comunitaria y Entrega de Becas en cinco municipios de La Libertad”)
Local Partner: CRIPDES Southern La Libertad
Location: Southern La Libertad province
Amount: $6,000.00
Duration: 2 January – 1 December 2006
Description: This one-year project promotes youth education and leadership development by providing partial scholarships to 18 junior and senior high school students in five municipalities of Southern La Libertad. At the same time, the scholarships program is incorporated into the overall youth organizing program, through youth trainings, participation in community service and regional organizational and advocacy activities, promotion of youth into community council positions, and a regional youth theater group of approximately 15 members.
10. Project Name: Local Organizing and Training with a Focus on Gender and Citizen Participation with Young Leaders in the Rural Area of Tenancingo (“Organización Local y Capacitación con Perspectiva de Género y Participación Ciudadana de Lideres y Liderezas Jóvenes del Área Rural de Tenancingo”)
Local Partner: Association for the Municipal Development of New Tenancingo (ADMNT)
Location: Tenancingo municipality, Cucatlán province
Amount: $15,564.12
Duration: 1 December 2004 – 31 March 2007
Description: Strengthening youth leadership and organization in Tenancingo is part of an ongoing process led by CRIPDES to seek long-term solutions to the problems faced by rural communities by building transformative for local development. This project focuses on equipping youth with the tools, capacity and resources necessary to analyze and advocate for an improved quality of life in the communities. It provides resources and support to the central Municipal Youth Committee as well as toward the formation and support of 12 community youth communities.
The main components of this project are: 1) Strengthened Organization (structuring and providing support to 12 new community youth committees and a new central Municipal Youth Committee; 2) Training (five workshops in themes of particular interest to rural youth with 32 participants, and 10 participant-led replica trainings in the communities covering 300 total participants), 3) Advocacy (through the organization of two yearly Day Against Violence forums), 4) Culture and Recreation (two soccer tournaments and the formation of a pilot municipal youth theater project), and 5) Human Resources (two youth promoters).
Upcoming Projects 2006-2007:
1. Project Theme : Sustainable Development and Agriculture in San Vicente: Women’s Organic Home Garden Economic Initiatives, Levy Maintenance and Advocacy
Local Partner: CRIPDES-San Vicente
Location: Tecoluca and San Vicente Municipalities, San Vicente Province
ProjectedAmount: $20,000.00
ProjectedDuration: June 2007- May 2008
2. Project Theme : University Scholarship and Leadership Capacity Building
Local Partner: CRIPDES-San Vicente
Location: Tecoluca and San Vicente Municipalities, San Vicente Province
ProjectedAmount: $12,000.00
Projected Duration: July 2007- June 2008
3. Project Theme : Junior and Senior High School Scholarships and Youth Organization
Local Partner: CRIPDES-San Vicente
Location: Tecoluca and San Vicente Municipalities, San Vicente Province
ProjectedAmount: $8,000.00
Projected Duration: January-December 2007
4. Project Theme : Micro-Credit for Women’s Economic Initiatives
Local Partner: Association of Communities for the Development of Chalatenango (CCR)
Location: Northeastern Chalatenango province
ProjectedAmount: $20,000.00
Projected Duration: December 2006- November 2007
5. Project Theme : Strengthening Women’s Organization, Empowerment, and Leadership for Development
Local Partner: Association of Communities for the Development of Chalatenango (CCR)
Location: Northeastern Chalatenango province
ProjectedAmount: $10,000.00
Projected Duration: March 2007-February 2008
6. Project Theme : Education and Organization for the Environmental Protection of the Northeastern Communities of Chalatenango from Mining
Local Partner: Association of Communities for the Development of Chalatenango (CCR)
Location: Northeastern Chalatenango province
ProjectedAmount: $15,000.00
Projected Duration: September 2007- August 2008
7. Project Theme : Protecting the Río Sucio River from Industrial Pollution and Strengthening Youth Organizing in Northern San Salvador and La Libertad
Local Partner: Union of Communities of Northern San Salvador and La Libertad (UCRES)
Location: Northern San Salvador and La Libertad provinces
ProjectedAmount: $ 20,000.00
Projected Duration: April 2007- March 2008
8.Project Theme : Education and Organization for the Environmental Protection of the Communities of Northern San Salvador and La Libertad
Local Partner: Union of Communities of Northern San Salvador and La Libertad (UCRES)
Location: Northern San Salvador and La Libertad provinces
ProjectedAmount: $ 10,000.00
Projected Duration: September 2007- August 2008
9. Project Theme : Strengthening Youth Organizing and Youth Theater Initiatives
Local Partner: Association for the Municipal Development of New Tenancingo (ADMNT)
Location: Tenancingo municipality, Cucatlán province
ProjectedAmount: $ 15,000.00
Projected Duration: May 2007- April 2008
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