On March 6 and 7 we had the great pleasure of meeting with representatives of all the projects supported by the first call of Fair Climate Solutions Fund with a Gender Perspective.

Let us remember that the context of alarming socio-environmental crisis prompted us to design new strategies that support and strengthen local communities and organizations through concrete tools and solutions to promote collective power from the territory. We became a Socio-Environmental Fund to contribute to strengthening the capacities of environmental activist organizations (OAS) from a gender and environmental justice perspective, in the fight against the climate crisis for the preservation of the environment.

During this meeting, in addition to evaluating the impact and procedure of the fund to improve practices, we created a space for analysis of the current situation and common strategies. Two days of hard work to socialize the experiences of each organization and strengthen and weave new networks.

In general the impact was positive and there were very good results. What stood out most was the flexibility of the fund that could be adapted on the fly to the real needs of the territory at that time, beyond its original destination. That was one of our main objectives because we have more than 20 years of work and we know that on many occasions interventions through the system of projects and programs are not enough to respond to the demands and needs for strengthening and impact of local, rural and indigenous communities and organizations.

Development aid and international cooperation projects impose very rigid institutional frameworks that are alien to realities; this is aggravated by their complex contextual conditions. That is why we want to work on the direct and flexible allocation of funds that strengthen the capacities of local communities to make decisions autonomously and carry out actions based on their practices and knowledge, adapted to their specific context.

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