Strengthening security with food sovereignty of vulnerable indigenous peasant families, with a comprehensive approach to gender and environmental protection in the municipality of Ckochas, in the context of a COVID-19 pandemic, Phase II

Bolivia

Justification

IPTK has been working in Ckochas for more than 6 years, but despite this, peasant families still have great problems in managing appropriate technologies for agroecology, food insecurity, water scarcity and capacities to generate local development with the exercise of their rights, especially women, who suffer domestic violence due to their low level of education, low self-esteem and personal development, causing a gap that does not allow their participation and inclusion within social organizations, articulation and planning spaces .

Location

Municipality of Ckochas

Local Partner

IPTK (Tomás Katari Polytechnic Institute)

Goals

General objective:Contribute to reducing the situation of poverty and social exclusion of the vulnerable rural indigenous population of the municipality of Ckochas, through the full exercise of their Rights and the promotion of Resilient Sustainable Development.

Specific goal: Improved security with food sovereignty through a focus on equity and gender equality, rights and environmental sustainability, of vulnerable indigenous peasant families in the municipality of Ckochas, in the context of a COVID-19 pandemic.

Main population

(310 women and 306 men).

Project duration

Budget

Financing

TAU, Government of Navarra (€ 110,000)

Activities:

  • Accompaniment to the agroecological production of crops.
  • Resilient practices, in management and conservation of natural assets.
  • Construction of reservoirs.
  • Installation of drip, sprinkler or flood irrigation system.
  • Fish pond construction.
  • Fish farming technical assistance.
  • Food practice workshops.
  • Construction of improved kitchens.
  • Workshops on new masculinities.
  • Nutrition Fairs.
  • Primary health care.
  • Community women’s mobilizations.