Empowered and Organized Indigenous Rural Women Participate in Local Development and Environmental Resilience in the Municipality of Ravelo, Phase II

IPTK

Justification

The project aims to strengthen the promotion of social, political (organization, participation, advocacy), and economic rights of indigenous rural women in Ravelo from Phase I, through: Personal and socio-political empowerment of women leaders from the Bartolina Sisa political organization at the community and regional levels, to ensure their participation and advocacy in local public policies focusing on women’s rights, environmental resilience, and shared responsibilities in care work. Strengthening rural women-managed economic organizations in production, processing, and marketing, including contributions to school meal programs that are environmentally friendly, supporting their economic empowerment and the right to a life free of violence.

Location

Ravelo

Local Partner

IPTK

Objectives

General Objective: Contribute to sustainable, integrated social and economic development with gender equity, in collaboration with public-private institutions, to ensure full rights for indigenous rural women in the municipality of Ravelo.

Specific Objective: Promote the exercise of social, political (organization, participation, advocacy), and economic rights for indigenous rural women in Ravelo by enhancing their personal and economic empowerment, strengthening their community and productive organizations with an agroecological approach, and ensuring municipal compliance with Law 348 (VLV) and Law 622 (ACE) with affirmative action for women’s economic organizations (OECAs).

Target Population

(287 women and 208 men)

Project Duration

Budget

Funding

TAU, AVCS-GobVasco (355.743€)

Activities:

  • • Conduct workshops for community women representatives on political training, self-determination, decision-making, personal and collective empowerment, political strategies, and rights.
    • Facilitate reflection, deliberation, and critical analysis dialogues among women regarding rights violations, including feminist agenda-setting.
    • Organize training sessions for women leaders on proposal advocacy, focusing on municipal operational plans, development plans, and social oversight.
    • Implement advocacy actions, technical assistance, and social oversight targeting municipal governments to incorporate women’s rights and increase budget allocations.
    • Conduct training workshops for men (partners of women leaders) on masculinities, paternal responsibility, and care economy.
    • Provide technical and productive training in areas relevant to the OECAs (beekeeping, dairy farming, baking, maize processing, and fruit farming).
    • Install ecological technologies and solutions for OECAs’ producing families (e.g., water systems and reforestation) to support agricultural and apicultural production.
    • Host political gatherings for women leaders and members of Bartolina Sisa political organizations to draft a feminist agenda focusing on the exercise of rights under Law VLV and Law ACE.