Location: Municipalities of Aguilares and San Pablo Tacachico (El Salvador)

Local partner: Association Foundation for the Cooperation and communal development of El Salvador.

Justification: This project is part of the strategic lines of the Freedom Program, which was designed by Communities, CORDES and municipalities, through a participatory processes performed in each of the communities where CORDES works, identifying problems and needs as:

• Lack of consolidation of the organization.
• Subsistence farming.
• Low income.
• Undernourishment.
• Unemployment.
• Among others.

Specific aim: Establishing sustainable farming systems with an equity approach in rural communities of El Paisnal and Paul Tacachico.

Activities:

• Socialization of the project. Reporting the population of the communities about  different  activities performed during the project.
• Identification and selection of women beneficiaries.
• Materials, supplies and cows purchase.
• Establishment of 35 banks ranchers with equal numbers of women.
• Application of  2,000 Prophylactic plans.
• Technical support.
• Identification and selection of women beneficiaries.
• Materials and supplies purchase.
• Planting 25 acres of fruit trees.
• Technical support.
• Sowing 50 acres of pasture, with 65 women.
• Technical support
• Preparation of training material.
• Scheduling of training.
• Development of 7 days of training.
• Development of 2 field trips.
• Preparation of training material.
• Scheduling of training.
• Development of 8 workshops on masculinity and local economic development with equity.

Target population: 165 women and 100 men from 16 municipalities.

Project length: 12 months

Budget: 182.470,60€

Funding: TAU, Government of Gipuzkoa and Pamplona Town hall.