During the first three
years of our work in
We contributed to
recuperating the historical memory of the organizations and social movements
through the publication of 1,000 copies each of three research projects: “Straight as Pine Trees,” which narrates the
life, thought and action of six outstanding environmental directors who were
assassinated in the last 10 years because of their struggle to defend the
environment; “They Chose Life,” which systematizes the work experience and
struggle of the Olancho Environmental Movement (MAO); and “Emerging
Citizenship,” which tells about the organizational experience, action and
advocacy of the Western Regional Patronage (PRO) association.
Together with the
Center for Human Development (CDH) and the Seed Foundation, we contributed to
the emergence of the Popular Community Movement of the Southern Zone (MPC) that
seeks to be a unifying force for articulation and alliances of community
organizations in the southern region, which includes the departments of
Choluteca and Valle and the southern part of the department of Francisco
Morazán.
We held National
Conferences of Community Organizations in which the directors of four regional
organizations and three national organizations participated, which contributed
to an exchange of experiences, drawing closer together and coordination between
the organizations. This resulted in the
creation of common agendas that will serve as the basis for carrying out joint
actions.
In the framework of
the new program strategy for 2008-2010, we will develop a territorial
experience in the department of Olancho, specifically in the Río Telica
watershed, which includes 10 municipalities.
We will begin organizing community agroforestry businesses in six communities
as a pilot experience related to other organizational, formation and
mobilization processes.
We will develop
another pilot experience in the southern region with fruit trees and vegetable
gardens in two communities in the
The strategic vision
is to form the territorial areas into a kind of “organizational spiral” in which
the local community is articulated in the sectoral, municipal and/or regional sphere,
and from there to the national, in which there are no isolated actions from the
territorial point of view. This strategy
will promote the strengthening of regional social movements and, at the same
time, will promote coordinated contacts and alliances in a national perspective
and dimension.
