Strengthening of the women’s organization “Sumaj P'unchay”

JPIC

Justification

The Inter-District Network of Women’s Organizations (REIDOM) brings together 1,020 people and has promoted several women-led productive ventures to improve their living conditions and overcome labor informality, begging, domestic violence, and/or gender-based violence.

One of these ventures, led by the women’s organization “Sumaj P’unchay” (Good Dawn) from the Bolívar neighborhood of Cochabamba, has ventured into the processing and artisanal transformation of recycled materials. To achieve a positive turning point in the living conditions of the women who are part of this organization, it is necessary to strengthen their capacity to: 1- Produce efficiently and in series: humus, worms, leachate, microbial broths; 2- Competitively market the products obtained in the local market within a framework of integral ecology and circular economy.

Location

Cochabamba (Bolivia)

Local partner

JPIC Bolivia

Objectives

General objective: Promote the socioeconomic development of the Cochabamba community by enhancing its participation in environmental protection with a gender approach, integral ecology, and circular economy.

Specific objective: Strengthen the industrial and commercial capacities of the women’s organization “Sumaj P’unchay” (Good Dawn) from the Bolívar neighborhood of Cochabamba in order to improve the living conditions of women heads of household.

Target population

( 20 families with women heads of household).

Project duration

Budget

Funding

TAU, Town Hall Iruña (33.925€)

Activities:

  • Ongoing socio-family support for the women of the “Sumaj P’unchay” women’s organization.
  • Development of workshops for the systemic strengthening of the women of the “Sumaj P’unchay” organization.
  • Construction of 20 vermiculture beds.
  • Advisory support and accompaniment to strengthen the industrial capacity of the productive venture for organic matter transformation of the “Sumaj P’unchay” organization.
  • Training, advisory support, and accompaniment for the standardization and implementation of industrial processes for organic matter transformation.
  • Advisory support and accompaniment to strengthen the commercial capacity of the “Sumaj P’unchay” women’s organization.
  • Training, advisory support, and accompaniment for the implementation of business, commercialization, and marketing plans for the transformed products obtained.