Partners in Central America

Created in 1993, ADES has accompanied repatriated communities along the El Salvador-Honduras border as well as their neighbors, in the quest for social justice and transformation. ADES motivates local communities to assume a pro-active role to transform the economic, political, and social reality of Cabañas, one of El Salvador´s poorest provinces. ADES has prioritised efforts with youth, particularly in the areas of political analysis, alternative media, HIV Aids and leadership. ADES has played a leading role in anti-mining issues in Cabañas.

ADROH is a member-based organization with 2,230 affiliated small producers, mainly belonging to the Lenca Ethnic group. ADROH is working with commercialization, credit, production and advocacy towards local government and it is member of COCOCH, a national network and also a MS partner.

CAFENICA is an association of 12 cooperatives comprising more than 7000 small Nicaraguan coffee producers. It was formed to bring together and strengthen its member’s cooperatives to raise the economic and social sustainability levels of their affiliates and their families.

Founded in 1980 at the outset of the civil war, the environmental NGO, CESTA, defines its overall mission as contributing to the integral sustainability of El Salvador through generating a change of attitude in the Salvadoran population to adapt a lifestyle which is compatible with sustainability. CESTA is a member of International Friends of the Earth, and is the national coordinator of the campaign, “Victims of Climate Change.”  CESTA runs information and advocacy campaigns and an ecological school with curriculum around national and global economic policies, and the implications for humanity, communities and natural resources.

COCOCH is the the most influential Farmer Gremial Organization in Honduras through advocacy in politics regarding production, representativeness, conquests, proposals and participation in national and international social movements.

COMUCAP is an association of Lenca peasant women of La Paz Department, working with promotion and defence of their rights, as well as the production, transformation and commercialization of organic products aimed at reaching access to fair trade.

COMUS, was formed in 1990 in a rural war zone in eastern El Salvador, as a response to the human rights situation and survival needs of 38 communities, including repatriated families. As a local organization, COMUS aims to implement a rural development program, focused on social justice and equity. Following the war, COMUS has specialized in economic alternatives including organic coffee production and essential oils and natural medicines. COMUS has a significant rural community health program component, featuring health and political advocacy support to handicapped children, people with disabilities related to the war and their families. COMUS works  in several municipalities included in El Salvador´s poverty map in the Bajo Lempa area. Since 2008, COMUS has hosted young Danish Volunteers.

The civic coordinator is a national network of CSO. It main role is to influence the definition of public policies through citizen participation in the formulation process and monitoring of their implementation.

The territorial Network brings together the municipal network of civil society organizations in the municipalities of Siuna, Rosita, Bonanza, Prinzapolka and Mulukuku. The main aim is to develop advocacy work towards the regional parliament and regional government of the Northern Atlantic Autonomous Region.

Prior to any ceasefire of El Salvador´s blazing civil war, the CRC formed in 1986 in order to assist the repatriation and resettlement of a rural population returning from refugee camps in Honduras and elsewhere. Since then, the CRC has accompanied this population as well as demobilized combatants in meeting basic survival and development needs during the on-going democratic transition process in this highly polarized former conflict zone. The CRC hosts the Global Platform El Salvador.

Fundación DESAFIOS is a Nicaraguan non governmental organization that works for the youth empowerment. The main purpose is to contribute to the improvement of living conditions of youth and the exercise of their rights and duties as full citizens.

FUMDEC is an NGO in the Department of Matagalpa that fosters rural women’s development as full citizens with economic, politic, and social leadership. It supports them in learning processes, gender awareness, and giving them access to resource such as credit services and technical assistance.

The Foundation for the development of Women and Children, “Blanca Aráuz”  FUNDEMUNI, works in the promotion of the economic, social and political development and empowerment of women, children and youth from a gender perspective. Fundemuni accompanies grass roots organizations in citizen’s participation processes including participative budget planning of the municipality, social watch and the implementation of municipal gender policies in four municipalities Mozonte, Dipilto, Macuelizo y Santa Maria.

Ipade promotes the development of democratisation processes at the local and national level. Ipade supports the consolidation of local organization in order to promote citizen´s participation and civic education. Ipade does advocacy work for the improvement of the functioning of the democratic institutions with emphasis in the electoral law.

IPADE is a NGO that promotes the development of democratic processes  at the local and national levels by supporting grassroots organisations that  promote citizen participation and civic education. Ipade has a national office in Managua (see Ipade Nacional in the partner database) and a regional office in Siuna, Northern Atlantic Autonomous region.  This card is about Ipade in Siuna.

The women movement includes all women coffee producers members of Cafenica. The movement aims at promoting gender equity at all levels of the cooperative members, from the family up to the main decisions bodies of Cafenica.

Pop No’j is an NGO in the process of institutional strengthening. It aims at facilitating training and coordination processes between youth organizations or organizations working with indigenous youth in Guatemala and Central America. Its efforts aim at contributing to the development of the indigenous movements in the region through training, learning and exchange processes. The vision is to contribute to the development of societies and states that value and respect diversity and the specific rights of indigenous people.   

The RDDL is a network which promotes participation in processes of building citizenship, negotiation and overview of public policy related to municipal development and decentralisation of the state.

COMAL is an association of farmers and consumer`s organizations working together to establish fair channels of markets for small farmer‘s.  This process is carried out within the mainframe of constructing economic solidarity. COMAL has a training program on administration and marketing issues, in the same way COMAL has a second program on product development to aggregate value to the products, like organic sugar cane, coffee, products from alo-vera,(zabila), and organic fertilizers, a third program called ECOMAS,  is about fair trade, this program works as a social enterprise to buy and sell collectively basic needs products, this model of community development is being carried in two hundred communities, specially in the south and western region of Honduras.

SIMAS works for the promotion of  sustainable agriculture and the construction of sustainable and democratic ways of life for the rural world, based on information management and the articulation of rural actors.

Jesuit Service for Migrantes is a Central American network of organizations which work with migrants and their families. We focus our work in three realms: advocacy (to improve migration policies), research (to provide inputs for policy makers and scholars), and social-pastoral care.

Unión Nacional de Agricultores y Ganaderos (UNAG) is the biggest peasant organization in Nicaragua, represents particularly small and medium size agricultural producers all over the country.

Unión Nacional de Agricultores y Ganaderos (UNAG) Siuna is the municipal branch of this peasant organization in Nicaragua, represents particularly small and medium size agricultural producers of Siuna.

UTC La Paz is a member- based organization with 600 families working to improve the quality of life and living conditions of indigenous and farmer’s families of the region of La Paz. UTC La Paz is a member of the National UTC, which is a strategic MS relationship.