We currently work with four partner organisations, supporting programmes at local level as well as helping implement longer-term policy changes.
Such partnerships enable Bolivian women to:
- Participate in the decision-making process through human and civic rights education
- Have access to basic health and legal services
- Receive practical vocational skills training
- Generate an income through credit and community based projects
- Challenge and change attitudes towards violence against women
Red Ada
Red Ada is a non-governmental organisation which acts as a women's media watchdog, monitoring how the country's various media represent, and report on, women's issues. With a membership of over 300 women, from journalists to those working in film, radio and television, Red Ada produces publications to support a number of human rights campaigns. Local women's experiences and stories are included in national human rights campaigns to challenge Bolivia's perceptions on women and ethnic minorities.
Fundacion La Paz
Fundacion La Paz works at local level with women leaders from Mothers' Centres throughout the region. Providing basic health, social and legal services as well as micro projects to help generate income, the Fundacion also works with young people and neighbourhood watch committees and has a network of some 40 women who speak for their communities on issues regarding domestic violence and women's education. In addition, they provide rights awareness training to some of the region's poorest, most marginalised women, helping them become their own advocates and able to lobby local authorities on issues of health, education and violence against women.
CEPROSI
Founded in 1987, CEPROSI runs training workshops to educate women and young people on issues such as health and rights awareness, enabling them to lobby for changes to public policy that reflect their needs and concerns. Additional projects include assistance with family planning, the development of a pharmacy and grocery store, as well as the creation of micro credit schemes to generate income and help women move out of poverty.
Coordinadora de La Mujer
Coordinadora has been working to promote Bolivian women's rights and freedoms for over 20 years. With long experience in supporting and developing local women's organisations at grassroots level, they also work at national and international level to promote women's development and address policy issues that reflect the genuine needs and concerns of the country's women.
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