Promoting local socio-economic development in 2 rural communities of the Anta district

Development cooperation · Women's leadership and farming production associations

Project summary

The project reduces the exclusion and vulnerability faced by women and children, made worse by the Covid-19 crisis, by building the capacity of rural women in the communities of Tancarhuaylla and Chacán and their leadership within the farming production associations.

Areas of work

  • Strengthening two farming production associations.
  • Provision of facilities, water and supplies for greenhouse crops and for rearing and managing guinea pigs.
  • Building up the growing and selling of vegetables and other crops.
  • Supplying local school nutrition education programmes with home-grown produce.
  • Action against domestic and sexual violence alongside the Anta Women’s Emergency Centre.

Results

  • Two farming production associations firmly established.
  • A balanced, nutritious diet and less child malnutrition.
  • Income that directly benefits families.
  • A programme against domestic and sexual violence active in both communities.

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