Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Economic and Social:
Agriculture
Biodiversity
Children
Citizenship and Governance
Climate Change
Culture
Development
Education
Food
Indigenous Peoples
Women/gender Equality
Youth
Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
Advocacy and outreach
Capacity building
Education and training of women
Indigenous women
Information and communication technologies
Policy advice
Research
The girl child
Violence against women
Women and health
Women and poverty
Women and the economy
Women and the environment
Women and the media
Women in power and decision-making
Population:
Reproduction, family formation and the status of women
Social Development:
Indigenous issues
Information and Communications Technologies
Social policy
Youth
Statistics:
Population and housing censuses
Sustainable Development:
Agriculture
Biodiversity
Capacity-building
Climate change
Forests
Gender equality
Health
Rural Development
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| Geographic scope: |
National
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| Country of activity: |
Peru
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| Millennium Development Goals: |
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Ensure environmental sustainability
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| Mission statement: |
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| Year established: |
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| Year of registration: |
1985 |
| Organizational structure: |
CHIRAPAQ defines itself as an indigenous association, consists of Andean and Amazonian origin or by choice, likewise, is part of the national and international indigenous movement. Chirapaq Organic Structure is based on: General Assembly, Board of Directors, Executive Management Program and Project Coordination. Line bodies are made up its 5 Programs: Sovereignty and Food Security. Ñoqanchiq Integral Development Program of children, adolescents and young indigenous. Indigenous Women's Program, and Advocacy Program, Indigenous Culture and Politics. |
| Number and type of members: |
Chirapaq be composed of 13 members, Andean and Amazonian indigenous, non-indigenous, male and female, partner / os. The partners integrate the General Assembly is the highest body of the organization, responsible for establishing institutional policy. The team consists of 26 people, including 14 women and 12 men. Our staff is composed of 26 professionals and 3 support staff. Our professional team reflects the diversity of our country and the specificity of the areas where we work. We fight against all forms of discrimination and approaches that guide our actions are the rights, equality, gender and multiculturalism. Therefore, we believe that we have the team that responds to these expectations and committed to these approaches. We indigenous and non-indigenous men and women, Quechua-speaking and Spanish bilingual, who come from other social processes such as the Afro, young and old, religious believers and non-believers, committed to corporate goals. The diversity of the peoples with whom they develop the proposal-allows for a broad overview of the cultural diversity of Latin America and the specific problems of each village facing structural problems of society. This has been the constant in all this process interventions and leadership training. The diversity of our staff allows us to have professionals who are geographically and culturally belong to the people we work with, which allows greater communication and identification with the proposal. The diversity of our team operates in a climate of respect and appreciation for the other, this attitude is reiterated in the work we do with indigenous peoples. |
| Affiliation with NGO networks: |
Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas (ECMIA), Coordinator of Latin American Cinema and Communication of Indigenous Peoples - CLACPI |
| Funding structure: |
Foreign and international grants
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