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Practical Action Peru
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30/01/2015
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Water and Sanitation
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Our aim is to develop the capacities of the communities settled in the Alto Mayo area to face and reduce the crisis that affects their livelihoods. The destruction of the forest, together with conflicts between the Colono (impoverished landless peasants from the highlands) and the Awajun (native communities of the Amazon region) lifestyles, reduces productivity and perpetuates poverty among the Colono, and at the same time destabilises the Awajun social system, threatening their culture and identity. Objectives • Promoting effective cooperation between these groups, designing and implementing an equitable and sustainable land tenure system. • Implementing technologies that allow better use of forest resources and the recovery of the forest by increasing Colono productivity. • Implementing water and sanitation systems, vegetable gardens, and farms that will reduce malnutrition, mortality and morbidity among the Awajun. • Developing the groups’ political capacities by strengthening their organisations, promoting leadership skills, and connecting them with the experiences and agenda of the national indigenous movement. The project’s direct beneficiaries include 14 Awajun native communities in the Alto Mayo area, with a total population of 4,559 inhabitants and 17,000 Colono living in conflict and pressure areas in the Awajun territories. The indirect beneficiaries are the native communities living in other Peruvian Amazon regions: and around 48 ethnic groups, belonging to 12 language families.
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