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Media for Development in Democracy - UNESCO

     We have known about your institution and have a great
interest in contact you. Our interest is to contact international
institutions that help grassroots organizations in financing
projects on comummication and information basis, with the purpose
to help them in building up local capacities in search for rural
development.
     We are COICAP (Coordinadora Agroforestal indigena y
Campesina del Peru), an organization which practices agroforestry
for the benefit of the social and cultural development of
indigenous and peasant communities in Peru.
     COICAP is formed by grassroots organizations who dedicate
themselves to forestry and agroforestry activities, associations
and committees of producers, cooperatives, peasamt and indigenous
communities, youth an women organizations and NGOs of peasants
and indigenous people.

COICAP's objectives are:
. To strengthen the capacity of analysis and reflection from the
  local reality towards other much broader levels, starting from
  agroforestry activities with a ecological approach

. To realize a larger and effective participation of rural
  populations in decision-making about access to and management
  and control of natural resources and management of natural
  environments with the intention to unite the local interests
  with the regional and national interests.

. To propose technical, normative administrative and other
  assistance leading to increase the planning and management
  capacity of grassroots organizations.

. To encourage such capacity building which contributes to the
  social, economic and cultural advancement of the population
  starting from agroforestry activities and appropriate use of
  natural resources.

Our present tasks:
. To stregthen and build up local capacities through a permanent
  training process of local leaders in Managerial and
  organizational aspects, and other matters like management of
  forest and agroforestal resources.
. To formulate a legal proposal of Forest Law, through a
  participatory approach i.e. including the interest of major
  participants in forest development: indigenous and peasant
  communities.
. To prepare the proposal for Creation of a New Educational Space
  for Indigenous and Peasant Communities, a kind of
  Indigenous University as further step of the existing Rural
  Agrarian Schools.

Our main necessity:

Local capacity building will need implementation of apropiate
information and communication technology and equipment. This
will help enormously the expectations of COICAP's goals in:


     - enhancing the exchange of experiences between grassroots
     organizations and other members and

     - accelerate the process of developing propositive capacity
     through enhancing intercommunication between COICAP and
     other external organizations and other rural development
     actors at regional and national level.


     In name of COICAP community, we thank you before hand for
your kind attention to our demand and will be waiting for your
prompt response.

Yours sincerely

MANUEL HUAYA PANDURO
COICAP NATIONAL COORDINATOR
AV GENERAL SANTA CRUZ 550 LIMA 11
TELEFAX (51-1)432-6705 / (51-1) 424-0847
E MAIL:COICAP@SIFOCOM.ORG.PE



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