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HEKS EPER

Swiss Church Aid (HEKS/EPER )

HEKS champions the cause of a more humane and just world and a life in dignity. Internationally, HEKS/EPER focuses on rural community development, humanitarian aid and inter-church cooperation. 

CALPI
El Centro de Asistencia Legal Para Pueblos Indígenas (CALPI) es una organización no gubernamental con personería jurídica otorgada por la Asamblea Nacional de Nicaragua por medio del Decreto No. 1316 del 27 de mayo de 1996, publicado en La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 135 del 18 de junio de 1996.
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Promover, a nivel territorial, nacional y centroamericano, modelos incluyentes de desarrollo con enfoque de género, mediante servicios no financieros e intervenciones en cadena de valor, mejor gobernanza de la tierra y los recursos naturales, combinando para ello experimentación de procesos novedosos, generación de métodos, investigaciones, formación académica y profesional, e incidencia en políticas públicas.

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Prilaka

Prilaka é um movimento social em defesa dos direitos das comunidades indígenas na Nicarágua, principalmente o direito à autodeterminação, com presença ativa nas comunidades indígenas da costa norte caribenha da Nicarágua, ancestralmente conhecida como Muskitia ou Toguzgalpa. Nasceu dos esforços comunitários para se organizar em nível de base para defender os direitos coletivos e territoriais diante das invasões dos colonos e da negação de justiça pelo Estado nicaraguense, e para proteger os direitos coletivos consagrados na Constituição da Nicarágua.

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Ecology Crossroads is a Kentucky-based non-profit organization (EIN: 61-1259384) established in 1994. Their mission is to promote environmental and social well-being through initiatives supporting Indigenous communities and biodiversity conservation. They achieve this by:

Fundraising: Accepting donations for environmental, Indigenous, and social causes.

Project Management: Distributing funds through professionally organized programs and projects.

Indigenous Empowerment: Helping Indigenous communities secure funding for ecosystem services and develop professional conservation and forestry skills.

Maya America

Maya America/Revista Maya America is an interdisciplinary and open access journal that publishes in English and Spanish. Academic essays are double-blind peer reviewed while the creative works are peer reviewed. Authors keep full rights over their work. Although the journal takes its name from the contemporary Maya Diaspora, we also welcome essays and commentary that discuss the Americas in additional ways.

Maya America is indexed in EBSCO and the Directory of Open Access Journals.

 

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Recuperar el entorno estratégico ambiental salvadoreño y reducir los riesgos socio-ambientales, a través de promover una vigorosa cultura ciudadana y coordinación interinstitucional bajo principios institucionales.

 

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El MARN cumple su mandato como rector que lidera una gestión ambiental pública, enérgica, articulada, incluyente, responsable y transparente.

Sulá Batsú nació en el 2005 como una empresa de economía social solidaria con el objetivo de fortalecer organizaciones, comunidades y empresas sociales de la región latinoamericana. Esta iniciativa se creó bajo un modelo de cooperativa autogestionaria, con la visión de explorar nuevas formas de gestión de emprendimientos asociativos interesados en la acción social.


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The Environment for Development (EfD) Initiative is a capacity building program in environmental economics focusing on research, policy interaction, and academic programs. The overall objective of EfD is to support poverty alleviation and sustainable development by building environmental economics capacity in policy making processes.


The Centre for the Indigenous Peoples’ Autonomy and Development (CADPI) is a social organisation dedicated to research and studying of issues related with the indigenous peoples in Nicaragua, regional in Central America and Latin America and on a global level.