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Servicios Ecuménicos para Reconciliación y Reconstrucción

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
Economic and Social:
  • Aging
  • Climate Change
  • Culture
  • Debt Relief
  • Decolonization
  • Development
  • Economics and Finance
  • Environment
  • Extreme poverty
  • Financing for Development
  • Food
  • Governance
  • Habitat
  • Human Rights
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • Least Developed Countries
  • Micro-Credit
  • Migration
  • Peace and Security
  • Religion
  • Sustainable Development
  • Values
  • Violence
  • Water
  • Women/gender Equality
  • Youth

    • Financing for Development:
  • Addressing systemic issues
  • Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development
  • Mobilizing international resources for development

    • Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
  • Human rights of women
  • Indigenous women
  • Millennium Development Goals
  • Violence against women
  • Women and poverty
  • Women and the environment

    • Social Development:
  • Aging
  • Indigenous issues
  • Poverty
  • Youth

    • Sustainable Development:
  • Agriculture
  • Climate change
  • Consumption and production patterns
  • Desertification and Drought
  • Disaster management and vulnerability
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Freshwater
  • Gender equality
  • Major Groups
  • Mining
  • Sustainable development in a globalizing world
    • Geographic scope: International
    Country of activity:
  • El Salvador
  • United States of America
    • Millennium Development Goals:
  • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • Achieve universal primary education
  • Ensure environmental sustainability
    • Mission statement:
    Year established:
    Year of registration: 2002
    Organizational structure: SERR – Board or Directors; Executive Committee includes 5 members of the Board. Officers: President: Marta Benavides; Secretary/Treasurer: Dr. Cheryl Desmond Financial Committee: Marilyn Weaver, Cheryl Desmond and President UN Advocacy: Marta Benavides, Cheryl Desmond El Salvador National Level headed by: Marta Benavides US/Regional Committee headed by: Cheryl Desmond, Marilyn Weaver Board of Directors holds annual meetings as dictated by the ByLaws, as well as meeting/calls every 4 months. Board Members: Marta Benavides, President (El Salvador) Dr. Cheryl Desmond, Treasurer/Secretary (USA) Marilyn Weaver, Board Member (USA) Elsa Comerota, Board Member (El Salvador) Ana Elizabeth Rooney, Board Member (USA) Partners: César Neftalí Artiga Cartagena, El Salvador, DOB 4/12/1980 Deysi Cheyne, El Salvador, DOB 08/27/57 Joel Arriola, El Salvador, DOB 09/29/1980 Sofio Luna, El Salvador, DOB 03/12/1965 Catalino Reyes, DOB 06/22/1972 Jamil Smith, USA, DOB 05/17/1981
    Number and type of members: The board has an executive committee of 5 five members (listed above). SERR committees for programmatic work: Financial/Administrative, Cultural Educational/Free Universities-national issues, and UN Advocacy. SERR partners are volunteers and carry out the work of the organization, including administrative work. SERR reach has been broad given the experience and history of the founder Marta Benavides, a long-time activist from El Salvador who has become internationally known with her work primarily in El Salvador and the US. SERR has several components. Partners in El Salvador make up about 450 people each working on different projects on the ground, the Ecological House, the Permaculture Farm, the Folk Arts and cultures AJA Museum (http://www.museoaja.org.sv/sigloxiii.html), and the 3 Free Universities for Culture of Peace. In the U.S. there is a network of over 3000 people who are connected with SERR and receive our information /materials , participate in workshops, educational/exposure trips for US delegations, relations with social movements/civil society organizations at various UN meetings. In addition to relations in the US and El Salvador, there are partners in France, Australia, Germany, England, Italy, Kenya, India, Nepal, China, Philippines, Switzerland, through out the Latin American Region, Mexico and Guatemala are the largest. The organizations that have supported our work in El Salvador include the Global Call to Action on Poverty, Feminist Taskforce, Green Peace International, the Huairou Commission, Millersville University, Messiah College, Drew University, University of San Diego, the Highlander Center, the Ecology and Arts Center, the Esperanza Center, Agricultural Missions, American Friends Service Committee, and many others.
    Affiliation with NGO networks: GCAP, Feminist Task Force, Women Major Group, Gender Action on Climate Change; Civil Society working Group on FfD, Exec.Comm. of Int'l Treaty of Env. Educ., Agricultural Missions, ICAE, Bahai's, Social Watch, Brahma Kumaris Univ.
    Funding structure:
  • Fundraising campaigns
  • Donations and grants from domestic sources
  • Other sources
    • Funding structure other: SERR is committed to practice 'sustainability', to this effect all work is carried in alliances with and supported by educational entities both public and private, social and culture of peace movements, human rights and economic, social and cultural righ
     
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