Project summary
The project strengthens the role and participation of forty indigenous women in the development of their community, securing their economic, political and social empowerment and promoting income generation and greater gender equity. To give women access to the management of resources, a farming production association has been set up, equipped with facilities and with the skills to grow and sell vegetables and to raise small livestock – guinea pigs and chickens – activities that are part of Andean life.
Areas of work
- Farming facilities: construction and equipping of two 200 m² greenhouses and two sheds (for guinea pigs and poultry), along with the purchase of 125 hens, 150 guinea pigs, 125 chickens and pasture seed.
- Farming training: workshops in the communities themselves covering the whole cycle, from building the facilities and growing and rearing through to selling the finished products.
- Reducing workload: building an improved cooking stove from local materials in each participating home, to cut down on firewood collection and smoke.
- Access to water: piping to a tank on the farmland, securing irrigation for the crops.
- Women’s rights: workshops on gender, sexual and reproductive rights, teenage pregnancy, domestic and sexual violence and community organisation, run by a facilitator from the Ministry for Women for men and women aged 15 to 49.
- Work in schools: equivalent workshops for children in the final year of primary school and in secondary school across the district.
Results
- Stronger economic capacity among the women of the community taking part.
- A reduced workload for the women who are members of the production associations.
- The rights and freedoms of indigenous women and girls promoted.
- Sound delivery and accounting of the project assured.
