The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) awarded $390,500 under its Assistance for Overseas Programs (CFDA 85.750) Cooperative Agreement to Clac to establish a COVID-19 recovery fund supporting grassroots producer organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean. The fund will finance local solutions helping producer groups and their communities recover from COVID-19's impacts on livelihoods and increase economic resilience. As the Latin American representative of Fairtrade International's...
The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) awarded a $385,895 Project Grant to Empresa Comunitaria De Mujeres De Guapi Rios Unidos under the IAF Assistance for Overseas Programs (CFDA #85.750) federal grant program. The grant will support the grantee's efforts to consolidate the production and marketing of local products while strengthening local agricultural and economic initiatives for Afro-Colombian women's associations in Colombia through January 2025. Specifically, Empresa Comunitaria De Mujeres...
The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) awarded a $270,000 project grant under its Assistance for Overseas Programs to support digital inclusion and workforce development services for migrant women in Chile. The grant to Comite Para La Democratizacion De La Informatica (CDI Chile) will strengthen technology and data analysis skills while creating new job opportunities in the technology sector. This aims to improve social and economic integration as well as quality of life for migrant women and their...
The Inter-American Foundation (IAF), under its Assistance for Overseas Programs (CFDA 85.750), awarded a $232,175 project grant to the Asociacion De Mujeres Afroecuatorianas Timbire En El Futuro (AMATIF) in Esmeraldas, Ecuador. This 3-year grant supports community-led initiatives to address environmental degradation, economic and social exclusion, and gender-based violence impacting Afro-Ecuadorian residents. AMATIF is training women cacao producers to improve agricultural yields for food...
The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) awarded $304,750 under its Assistance for Overseas Programs (CFDA 85.750) Project Grant to Fideicomiso Ecuatoriano De Cooperacion Para El Desarrollo (FECD) to deliver capacity building and digital connectivity services to community-based tourism ventures and cacao cooperatives in Ecuador's Napo Province from July 2021 through July 2024. FECD will train representatives of these groups in sustainable agricultural production, community tourism provision,...
The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) awarded $215,950 under the IAF Assistance for Overseas Programs (CFDA 85.750) to Grupo De Estudios Sobre La Mujer Rosario Castellanos (GESMUJER) to advance economic empowerment and the human rights of indigenous, mestiza, and Afro-Mexican women in Oaxaca, Mexico through April 2025. GESMUJER will collaborate with women leaders to conduct assessments, develop action plans, train promoters, and fund economic initiatives. A key focus is supporting women as...
This $614,100 Project Grant from the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) under the IAF Assistance for Overseas Programs (CFDA 85.750) will support Asociacion De Mujeres Mayas Majawil QIJ Nuevo Amanecer's efforts to promote economic empowerment for indigenous women in Guatemala through April 2025. The grantee will diversify local production, train women in sustainable agriculture and small business administration, and support the development of community stores to increase market access and income...
The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) awarded a $206,205 Project Grant to Finca Triunfo Verde, SC (FTV) under the IAF Assistance for Overseas Programs (CFDA #85.750) to support community-led solutions expanding women's leadership and economic opportunities in southern Mexico. Specifically, the February 11, 2022 to February 11, 2025 grant will fund FTV, a Chiapas coffee farmer cooperative, to improve financial sustainability and members' access to credit while also supporting a women-led savings...
The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) awarded $460,000 under its Assistance for Overseas Programs (CFDA 85.750) to Humana People to People Belize (HPPBZ) to support community-led initiatives expanding economic opportunity in isolated rural communities in Southern Belize from August 6, 2021 to February 6, 2025. As part of the IAF's Women Investing in Growth and Security initiative and COVID-19 response strategy, HPPBZ will work with community groups in Stann Creek and Toledo Districts to increase...
The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) awarded $279,916 under the IAF Assistance for Overseas Programs (CFDA 85.750) to Fundacion Etnollano to implement a COVID-19 prevention and resilience strategy for indigenous communities in northern Vichada, Colombia. Working with seven communities from the Amor?a, Sikuani, and S?iva ethnic groups represented by the Organizaci? Regional de los Pueblos Ind?genas del Bajo Orinoco, Fundacion Etnollano will deliver a strategy based on local knowledge and customs...