DIACONIA Annual Report 2015

EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN AID ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Annual Report

Diaconía, more than 30 years sowing capacities and hope

EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN AID ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Annual Report

Table of Contents

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Letter to the Reader Introduction Timeline Who we are Lines of Action Area of Intervention

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Projects and Services l Project: Participatory territorial planning and natural resource management in the Peruvian Andes (Ac-Pic II) l Project: Improve food security and health promotion in rural populations in the districts of Santa Cruz, Andabamba, Chancay Baños, La Esperanza, Pulan, Yautucan, Saucepampa in the Santa Cruz province, Cajamarca department l Project: Use of purified fish protein to improve the nutrition of children (under 3) and pregnant women in Santo Toribio La Punta, Umari district, Pachitea province, Huánuco department l Project: Increase employment opportunities and revenue of quinoa, wheat, and barley producers in Aija province, Ancash department l Project: Healthy and sovereign Land: Peasant-to-Peasant methodology and positive deviation, family food security and sovereignty promotion strategies l Program to support the development of sustainable agrarian development in the Umari district l Project: Development of the productive supply of fine flavour cacao in a 700-hectare agroforestry system in three rural communities in the Cholón district, Marañón province, Huánuco department l Project: Improve resilience of the Monte Potrero forest and the provision of eco-systemic services for the Umari community in Pachitea province, Huánuco region l Project: Improve food security and climate change adaptation in the Peruvian Andes- MESAACC l Project: Promoting dialogue and participatory management for the safeguarding of water resources and sustainable protection of the Casma River basin (Dialogue III) l Consultancy: Mainstreaming a gender-perspective in water and sanitation projects

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Financial Report Our Board of Directors Our Staff Partnerships and strategic partners

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Letter to the reader But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

(1 John 3: 17-18) In the increasingly globalized world, it is hoped that better solutions can be found for problems since it is now possible to obtain experts that aim to, and can, provide us with examples and rules to overcome any difficulties regarding any topic. However, if we look around us, we will see that the majority of the problems that we face are the same that were faced by our parents, grandparents and many of these which were also faced in ancient times: hunger, despair, illness, to mention a few. All of civilization has had to face these scourges, without overlooking all the circumstances that derive from wars, which at the same time —as is observable in the present— provoke avalanches of people that seek asylum and survival, facing dangerous journeys through different countries, on sea and between continents.

Faced with this panorama, we ask the question: As a Christian development organization, what is our role?

The gospel, which guides us in our decisions, has a clear response: first care for your neighbour who is nearby.

Help this person with his/her needs; don't close your heart to your neighbours. Our labour has been and should continue to be to the people who we can see with our own eyes, not with imaginary people or those in theory, but rather with those who live with us day to day, who seek to find their path, attempt to overcome their poverty, and their despair.

This extremely beautiful but very difficult labour is only possible if we return to beginnings of our institutional foundations as a development institution sustained in Christian values, an organization that aims through the word of our Lord Jesus Christ to have the confidence to act and to implement our duties. It is due to this, above all, that we should recuperate the humility with which He, our Lord, attended to his flock, never aiming for personal benefit, but rather the love of His father. By providing a clear foundation to the real value of love for one's neighbour in practice is the manner in which we differentiate ourselves from other development institutions.

The apostle John in his first epistle gave wise counsel: to love in deed and truth. Let us be faithful to this precept because deceit or lies should not exist in our labours. In all that we do, let us be transparent always to demonstrate that it is possible to practice the task that our Lord entrusted us, as the apostle Paul reminded us in his letter to the Colossians: “And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him” (Colossians 3: 17).

I am fully confident that with these words we will receive our compensation, perhaps not in these times but in a promising future.

Rudolf M. Wüst President

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Introduction

Peru marked 17 years of uninterrupted economic growth in 2015, which was done with a 3.26% Gross Domestic Product (GDP), above the 2.4% measured the previous year in 2014.

Reality has demonstrated the importance of growth; yet, while prosperity and economic stability are necessary, these are insufficient to achieve a prosperous society. Economic growth in Peru has contributed to reducing poverty, but this has not diminished at the same rhythm as growth has occurred.

According to the National Institute of Statistics (INEI), in 2014, 22.7% of the Peruvian population (6,995,000 people) lived in monetary poverty. Percentage-wise, monetary poverty is more concentrated in the rural area where practically one of every two rural inhabitants is in this situation; in the urban areas one out of every six people lives in poverty.

In Peru, there are many gaps based on inequality and exclusion in access to basic services, a situation that is directly tied to the fulfilment of rights. In the field of education, this translates into illiteracy, unsatisfactory access to school registration, age-appropriate grade placement, insufficient years of schooling, and lack of educational opportunities for youth. In the field of health, progress is noticeable; a Peruvian born in 1950 had a life expectancy of 43 years while one born today on average can expect to live 73 years, which is nearly double. Alarming indicators still remain. According to ENDES, chronic malnutrition in children under the age of five in rural areas has been reduced; in 2014, this was registered at 21.9%. At a national level, anaemia affects

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46.8% of children under the age of one, with higher rates of incidence in rural areas (57.5%) than urban areas (42.3%).

Behind these figures are people: men, women, boys and girls, and families who endure this situation and embody these figures. As a society, we are responsible for these families.

Peru is one of the countries in the world with the highest level of biodiversity, which is a result of a cultural heritage that knew how to understand, value, manage, develop, and make sustainable what nature has offered. During all these years, rural populations have managed and preserved the agro-biodiversity in their surroundings, but the racism, discrimination, marginalization and exclusion that they have endured, and still endure, has led to the undervaluing of their knowledge. As a consequence, the complex systems that they developed for their use and conservation are deteriorating and being lost, which affects their food security, individual and cultural identity, and possibilities of autonomous development, as well as the reduction of resources that as a country we possess.

These are the people with whom we work based on a rights-based, gender-sensitive intercultural approach; this approach guides our work and our actions towards these families. It is done from their perspective and their view of their strengths, taking in account and valuing their prior knowledge combined with a high level of commitment and a desire to learn.

The 2015-2021 Strategic Plan, which we began to create in 2014 and was completed in 2015, gathers our experience, thoughts, and feelings that is expressed in a programmatic strategy aimed to contribute to the improvement of social indicators and the strengthening of development processes based on rights and equality. In this report, we share the spirit of this plan, as well as the primary actions and achievements of our intervention in 2015, which includes the testimonies of some of the people who are the primary actors in this process.

We are aware that we are challenged to build a new type of society where poverty, marginalization,

exclusion, and inequality between women and men are inexistent, where development is not a synonym of economic growth but rather of quality of living for all people, and where this quality of life is achieved in harmony with the environment and employs an approach favouring sustainability.

In spite of this enormous challenge, we know that the work of our team will enable us to achieve success because it is a shared labour. Our actions aim to coordinate with private and public initiatives that permit the facilitation of resources and enable families themselves to apply their remarkable knowledge and wisdom to achieve their well-being in the most complete manner of this concept.

RocĂ­o VidalĂłn Ugarte Executive Director

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Timeline

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Peru requested support from the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) to respond to the emergency resulting from the 31 May 1971 earthquake in the Ancash. In this manner, the Lutheran Church's Department of Community Development was created.

Its first actions were conducted in the Cordillera Negra, with work in 11 provinces and 22 valleys, as well in the right and left margins of the Marañón River in the Huánuco department.

1971

Outstanding Achievements: l Construction of 176 schools with anti-seismic adobe l Construction of small dams and 162 irrigation

Outstanding Achievements: l Training for alpaca-breeding peasant communities

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in animal health and shearing, selection, bathing techniques as well as sale of wool Construction of adobe schools, clean and safe water systems, aqueducts, and irrigation channels Training in artisanal weaving to female members of the mothers' clubs Capacity development on issues of health, hygiene, and domestic violence and for improved stoves and improved latrines Training in the management of Andean crops (sowing, cultural labours, management of plant health, harvest and post-harvest)

channels of up to 32 kilometres l Installation of a small hydroelectric plant in

Chacas l Production of potato seed in all of the area of Conchucos through an agreement with the International Potato Center (CIP) l Training of traditional midwives in peasant communities

Invited by the Catholic Church, the Lutheran Church's Department of Community Development moved its headquarters in Cora Cora, capital of the Parinacochas province, implementing activities in several districts in this province and in Lucanas province, both located in the Ayacucho department.

1974

After 12 years working as the Department of Community Development within the Lutheran Church and since the political violence in the country put the institutionalism of the Lutheran Church at risk, DIACONÍA was founded as a Peruvian NGO with its own statutes and registry in the National Public Registry. For the following ten years, DIACONÍA maintained a low profile without mentioning the locations and names of collaborators and withdrew from the Conchucos area for several years.

1983

Outstanding Achievements: l The continuation of infrastructure construction and improvement activities in schools, health posts,

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houses, irrigation channels, aqueducts, among others l Trainings in sowing and harvesting vegetables, root vegetables, tarwi, garlic, etc. l Improvement of pastures by introducing new crop species l Training to improve handloom weaving techniques

DIACONÍA responded to the emergency provoked by the El Niño phenomenon that led to the flooding of the city of Casma. A total of 26 irrigation channels were repaired as well as 12 clean and safe water systems were installed. A total of 8 schools were built to contribute to ending migration due to the lack of services.

1986

DIACONÍA actively participated in the emergency project for the cholera epidemic in the valleys of Ancash. With the Ministry of Health on strike, the most rapid action was the chlorination and cleaning of all the clean and safe water systems. At the same time, DIACONÍA hired doctors to provide medical care for 108 patients who were housed in a school. Norway responded to the request for support and provided 5,000 bottles of hydrating solution to give to patients with cholera.

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DIACONÍA worked in the Huarochirí province in Lima department and the Celendín province, Cajamarca department.

Outstanding Achievements in Huarochirí:

l Protection of the queen of the Andes plant (Puya

raimondii) that was cut and used for fire-wood with the introduction of the lupinus plant

Outstanding Achievements in Cajamarca: l Construction of a bridge for vehicles over the

Sendamal River l Construction of 11 clean and safe water systems, 8 irrigation systems, 3 mills and a mini-electric plant in combination with the irrigation channels for the district l Training in animal health, improvement of pasture lands with rye grass and white clover, planting of Pauna papaya and sale of its seeds to institutions and universities l Creation of female-led enterprises for medicinal herb production and cheese production

DIACONÍA expanded its work to the depar tments of Ancash, Huánuco, Cajamarca, Ayacucho and metropolitan Lima. DIACONÍA continues with work in infrastructure, health, education and other areas.

2003

Outstanding Achievements: l Over 10 consecutive years, the Ministry of Education

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l Construction of the Sunicancha dam and the

Tupicocha Lagoon channel that enabled the planting of 800 hectares of cacti plants (Opuntia indica and Opuntia oceanica) l Construction of clean and safe water systems and irrigation channels l Fruit cultivation was introduced and conservation of the Zárate forest was promoted, which began with raising awareness of and promotion of pig production, which decreased lumberjacks and cattlefarmers to continue to exploit the forest

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in a public bid process awarded DIACONÍA in collaboration with the Antúnez de Mayolo University of Huaraz the training of SpanishQuechua bilingual teachers in Ancash and Huánuco.

Creation of the Peruvian Institute of Leather and Related products (IPECAYA) to train small businesspeople in shoe production and repair Agricultural Production Unit Project (UPEA) in Cajamarca, Ancash, and Lambayeque departments Trout fish-farm project in the Palca valley in the Huancavelica province and department to relocate families who had been displaced due to the political violence to shantytowns like Huaycán Competitive capacity development for fruit production the upper basin of the Marañón River, Huamalíes and Dos de Mayo provinces in Huánuco department Food security, organization and training project in Huánuco

DIACONÍA provided care to the people affected by the 15 August 2007 earthquake in Pisco, which included the reconstruction of 70 homes in four districts of the Mangasca valley, implementation of a community kitchen, and psychosocial support to affected residents of this province.

2007

DIACONÍA incorporates new inter-vention areas through consultancies in water and sanitation in Ayacucho, Apurímac, Junín, Huancavelica and Puno departments. These consultancies cover a total of 8 departments and benefit thousands of rural families in food security, healthy homes, productive economic development, territorial organization, and water and sanitation, among others.

2008

Outstanding Achievements l Social accompaniment to water and sanitation projects and creation of project profiles l Environmental management projects such as the use of family bio-digesters in the Santa Cruz province in Cajamarca and the protection of private conservation areas in the Huánuco province and department l Territorial planning and territorial management project in the Shupluy and Cascapara districts,

Yungay province in the Ancash department and Santa María del Valle district, Huánuco province and Molino district, Pachitea province in Huánuco department. l Improvement of the output of native potato harvests in the Huamalíes province, Huánuco department.

One of the promoters trained by the project, Fausto Blas Caqui, was the winner in the “Good practices to address climate change” competition that was organized by the Ministry of Agriculture during COP 20 in 2014. Mr. Blas identified eight varieties of native potatoes that were resistant to drought and frost. l Competiveness of fruit production in the upper basin of the Marañón River (COMAFRUT), Huamalíes and Dos de Mayo provinces, Huánuco department. In this project, a processing plant to produce peach nectar was installed. l Project for the implementation and management of recreational play centres for small children in the Huari, Recuay, Bolognesi, and Huarmey provinces, Ancash department. This was done as a consultancy for the Antamina mining company in its areas of influence, which in an area in which it has worked for the preparation for schooling and comprehensive development of boys and girls under the age of 5.

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Who we are

DIACONÍA is a non-governmental not-for-profit organization, founded in 1983, as a social area of the Lutheran Church in Peru. During its VISION more than 30 years of work, DIACONÍA has promoted the compreWe aspire to be a hensive development of the most vulnerable families, supported just, inclusive, proactive healthy homes and facilitated processes that improve their quality of society that demonstrates living, using a rights-based and gender-sensitive intercultural solidarity and values and perspective. Furthermore, it has strengthened institutionalism, respects its cultural diversity, democracy, and sustainable economic development, protects its environment, promoting the exercise of citizens’ rights. and strengthens life.

DIACONÍA current considers it a priority to promote risk reduction and VALUES mitigation and adaptation to Wisdom: Share climate change, and places knowledge to contribute special emphasis on water to the construction of a just society. management and the Solidarity: Take on the problems of promotion of clean one's neighbour as if they were one's energy. own and act in consideration of

MISSION Inspired in the faith in Christ, as a facilitators we support populations in situations of vulnerability and at risk within their sustainable development processes and in favour of the full exercise of their civil, political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights.

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his/her aspirations.

Hope: Sow trust in a better future with increased justice and protection for those most in need.

PRINCIPLES Faith: Believe in God, trust His word, and be loyal to His will in institutional and personal tasks.

Love for one's neighbour: This is a willingness of the soul that is born from the inclination to help and assist others.

Lines of Action

1 Strengthening institutionalism: applying strategies and actions at the political and institutional levels that contribute to strengthen the workings, management and performance of public and private institutions involved in the development of a particular territory.

2 Social development: creating strategies and con-

Objectives: Overall objective, aim or purpose: Contribute to the management of sustainable development.

Strategic objective or purpose: Contribute to improve the quality of living of the population that we support.

ducting actions that contribute to improve the standard of living of the population through the development of their human and social capacities, the use of local potential, and the utilization of contextual opportunities.

nizations and State institutions concertedly work together for the management of local development.

3 Economic development: creating strategies and

Strategic objective 2: Vulnerable families improve

conducting actions that contribute to the improvement of the population's economic conditions in a sustainable manner, for the appropriate satisfaction of their needs through the development of their capacities, and the utilization of the opportunities in their surroundings.

their health, education, and food security and sovereignty.

4 Environmental management: applying strategies and actions that contribute to sustainable management of natural resources to guarantee environmental conservation, adaptation to climate change, and disaster risk prevention.

Specific strategic objectives: Strategic objective 1: Strengthened civil society orga-

Strategic objective 3: Organized producers and entrepreneurs improve their family economy through the increase of their productivity and competiveness in the areas of agriculture, livestock, agro-industry, and services.

Strategic objective 4: Organized communities and families sustainably manage their natural resources for environmental conservation and disaster risk reduction in a context of climate change.

5 Organizational development: applying strategies and actions that contribute to improve the organization's performance through the continual improvement of its processes and internal procedures as well as the permanent development of its human capital.

Strategic objective 5: DiaconĂ­a strengthens its organizational, technical, and financial capacity for the efficient implementation of projects and consultancies that contribute to the development of vulnerable populations and its collaborators' well-being.

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Area of Intervention

Due to the institutional commitment to the Lutheran Church's mandate, DIACONÍA prioritizes work in Peru with men, women, teenagers, boys and girls from peasant and native communities who live in rural areas and are face exclusion, poverty, and inequity.

The central headquarters is located in Lima. Work is implemented in 7 regions, bringing hope and capacities to the lives of thousands of people: l Ancash: Casma, Yungay, Huaraz, and Aija provinces l Cajamarca: Santa Cruz province l Huánuco: Huamalíes, Dos de Mayo, Pachitea, and Marañón provinces l Ayacucho: La Mar province l Apurímac: Abancay, Andahuaylas, and Cotabambas provinces l Huancavelica: Tayacaja and Angaraes provinces l Puno: Huacuyani, Kellullo, Pomata, and Zepita districts in Chuchito

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Cacao project in a 700-hectare agro-forestry system in three rural communities in Cholón district, Marañón province

Project: Food security and health promotion in rural communities in Santa Cruz district, Cajamarca.

Project: Use of PPP to improve nutrition in Santo Toribio La Punta

Project: Monte Potrero Forest, Umari province

CAJAMARCA

Ac-Pic II Project

Dialogue III Project

ÁNCASH

Umari Program

HUÁNUCO

Project: Healthy and sovereign land.

Peasant to Peasant. DP.

MESAACC project HUANCAVELICA APURÍMAC

Project: Quinoa, wheat, and barley in Aija province, Ancash.

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Consultancy : Gender mainstreaming in water and sanitation projects.

PROCOES

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Projects and services

Social Development

Project: Participatory territorial planning and natural resource management in the Peruvian Andes (Ac-Pic II) Project Objective: Community organizations and public authorities in a planned and organized manner and using consensus plan the use of their natural resources through territorial planning processes that considers the concerns and specific needs of women and men in these communities. This project is financed

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by the Belgian government through ADG-Aide au Développement Gembloux and it is co-implemented by Broederlijk Delen, Islas de Paz, CooperAcción, Bartolomé de las Casas Centre (CBC), and DIACONÍA, which implements the project in the Huánuco and Ancash departments.

To achieve this, a methodology was created that connects viewpoints, strategies, and actions to guide the Communal Territorial Planning (POTC) process.

Context that affected the project: l The package of laws issued by the Ollanta Humala

government, aimed to reactivate the economy, caused impacts on the territorial planning and management process. Primarily, the third package of laws for economic reactivation directly related to the project indicate that zoning use (ZEE) and territorial planning are no longer binding and instead are referential; territories are not assigned uses and are not linked to municipal management and citizen participation. The Ministry of Environment (MINAM) is no longer the governing body for this process. The Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM) now validates these processes, limiting the role of conservation and fostering environmental balance in these processes. l The first limiting factor for the implementation of activities was the regional, provincial, and local elections. When the project began, there were some authorities who were aware and informed about the focus of the project and the importance of their participation, providing them with a clear and comprehensive vision of territorial management and the creation of commitments and agreements. Since the mayors in the direct influence of the project were new, following the elections, it was necessary to again raise awareness, inform, and establish commitments and agreements to be able to move forward with the project activities. Much of the information from ACPic I was lost in the hand-over process between outgoing and incoming local authorities, leaving gaps in information that again had to be filled by working with and referring to information maintained by our organization.

Testimony Aquila Penadillo Liberato. Territorial Planning Promoter, 54 years old, Mirachi hamlet, Santa María del Valle district, Huánuco province and department.

I have held positions of authority in my hamlet for the past 21 years. When I began as a promoter, I was afraid when I had to speak. I did not know what to say, but I have always participated to training events to learn more. Sometimes I went alone or took my small child and sometimes I went with my husband who has always supported me. I have been responsible for the negations for the road to Mirachi and for food products for the mothers' club. I am now a territorial planning community promoter in DIACONÍA and a health promoter in the Santa María del Valle health post. I have gone to different locations and I have met with public authorities. I work with others. Sometimes they are stubborn, but with patience, they learn. I am knowledge about many things and I want other women to be able to work as I do. They are slowly learning. I am no longer afraid to speak to professionals and public authorities, which is the reason why I continue to negotiate more projects for my hamlet.

Huánuco At the start of the project in Huánuco, the plan was to work on district-level territorial planning, but after an analysis of the context and perceptions, it was decided to exert influence at the community or town level. After a selection process, the decision was made to work in:

l Santa María del Valle in the hamlets of Mirachi and

Chawarwasi; l And the Molino district in the towns of Jillaualla,

Picaflor Hierbabuena, and Linda Linda, which are part of the Apallacuy micro basin.

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Mirachi hamlet is part of Santa Maria del Valle and Chahuarwasi is part of the San Pedro de Choquecancha rural community. In Molino, the Jillaulla and Picaflor Hierba Buena hamlets do not belong to any rural community. The characteristics of the hamlets influence their format of organization and decision making.

DIACONĂ?A starts from the premise that territorial planning should be a participatory process, in which men, women, young adults and the elderly contribute to the planning of their territory and decide about their current and future use based on a perspective built through consensus. DIACONĂ?A develops processes according to need, tradition, worldview, and social structure of each population with the goal of creating an agreed-upon plan of action that outlines the path that could be followed, based on autonomy, after the completion of the project.

The planning processes created involved raising inhabitants' awareness, a visit throughout their territory to identify problems and opportunities, and the physical, economic, social, and organization assessment of their hamlet for the creation of a forward-

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looking view for the upcoming five years. This was done using three scenarios: the current, the trend, and the desired scenario. Later the participants proposed strategic actions that were translated into proposals that reflected the viewpoint of the inhabitants of the hamlet. Through this process in assessing a particular territory, the ancestral knowledge of men and women is used and is of great importance.

In 2015, the participatory planning processes for territorial use were consolidated in the consolidation of two plans for territorial planning in the Mirachi and Chawarwasi hamlets in Santa MarĂ­a del Valle and the promotion of a plan for territorial planning at the level of the Cuchimahay micro-basin, which includes the Jillaulla, Picaflor, and Linda Linda hamlets in the Molino district in the Pachitea province. Specific activities on natural resource use included forestation, water sowing and harvesting, capturing dew water, which uses the territory's potentialities and considers its limitations.

The goal in 2016 is to consolidate coor-dinated work with hamlets, local governments, and other institutions for the sustainability of the process, enabling it to be transmitted and reproduced in other locations.

Ancash The actions in Ancash were implemented in Putaca hamlet (Shupluy district) and Cashairca hamlet (Cascapara district) in the Yungay province.

The intervention in the project's second phase was based on the experience and lessons learned in the implementation process of the first phase of ACPic. Thus, to consolidate this work, the creation and writing of the communal territorial plans (POTC) were programmed in the Putaca and Cashairca hamlets. This proposal was necessary since documents no longer exist to demonstrate actions of the first phase of implementation; in the same manner, a systematization of the methodology used and the technical arguments that led to the implementation of the micro-projects were not available.

In this phase, we focused on the creation of technical documents that support the micro-projects implemented in the first phase and at the same time provide support for those implemented in this second phase.

Furthermore, actions were undertaken to consolidate two very important levels for territorial management: the community-level by training local facilitators and

promoters through internships and training sessions and the municipal-level through the incorporation of public servants and municipal counsellors as territorial planning promoters .

These actions and others have been able to consolidate the process so that this work is part of the POTCs for both hamlets.

As part of the implementation of the two hamlets' POTCs, the implementation of the first project focused on Putaca, “Improvement of the Pata Pata irrigation canal in the Putaca hamlet, Shupluy district in Yungay province, Ancash� achieved notable results. With this project, an average of 60 hectares will be irrigated, shuttling water from the collection point at the Teclle River canal to the lower altitude area of the hamlet, covering approximately 2,700 meters, which is the first step to promote the territorial development of the Putaca hamlet. The shuttling of water to lower altitude areas will improve avocado production, which will benefit all the households the hamlet since it reinforces agriculture as the primary economic activity and the three micro-projects implemented in the first phase of ACPic I complements this.

Testimony Policarpio Jimenez Llanto. President of the Putaca Hamlet territorial management committee We received more training, improved our knowledge, and strengthened our community organization in the second phase (ACPic II). In every meeting, we take notes for the official minutes with the signature of all those in attendance. In this phase, the geographers Susana and Antonio have provided a great deal of support for our organization and coordination with the municipal authorities. We worked on the territorial management plan that had the overall objective to prioritize microprojects. The first of these is the improvement of the Pata Pata canal, a project that we are implementing with support from DIACONĂ?A, the Shupluy municipality, and our commitment as townspeople.

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Social Development

Project: Improve food security and health promotion in rural populations in the districts of Santa Cruz, Andabamba, Chancay Baños, La Esperanza, Pulan, Yautucan, Saucepampa in the Santa Cruz province, Cajamarca department

Project Objective: Families improve their health and food security based on a perspective of food sovereignty and the promotion of gender equity.

The project, financed by the Church of Sweden, was implemented from January 2012 to December 2015 and had the following results: l Families increased their fruit production by implementing agro-ecological techniques; l Families adopted health practices and improved the nutrition of children under 5 years of age; l Local actors developed capacities for monitoring health and nutrition within the sphere of the project; and l Strengthened the family production system and insertion of fruit into the productive chain.

By the end of the implementation period, the following achievements were obtained: l 450 families (20% led by women) inserted their excess fruit production into the market; l 62.5 hectares of land produced an improved variety of passion fruit for the market; and l 200 hectares installed with fruit trees, the majority of the “Colombian” variety, and in lesser amounts: citric fruit, tamarillo (Solanum betaceum), banana, coffee, etc.; l 300 children improve their nutrition; l 4 producers' organizations (SAYARI from La Achira, coffee producers, producers of Tayapampa guinea

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pigs, Chancay Baños, “Niño Jesús de Praga” Producers' Committee from Santa Rita, and the Committee of Eco-Fair Vendors from Santa Cruz), have been strengthened and inserted into the chain for fruit production and guinea pig breeding; l 3 municipalities (Pulán, Saucepampa, and Chancay Baños) now support the management of water and sanitation administrative boards (JASS) to provide safe and clean water; and l Public authorities from Saucepampa, Andabamba, Yauyucán, and Santa Cruz learned about health indicators and have a plan Notwithstanding the progress, in the process to achieve the objectives, some challenges were encountered and addressed: l Climate variability that affects the production: heavy rains, rains that extended for longer than normal followed by drought; l Increased presence of fungus diseases and of the white fly (bemissia tabaci); l Producers aim to obtain immediate results, which is not always possible with agro-ecological practices; and l Dearth of supplies for some of the agro-ecological practices.

As part of this project, an agro-ecological fair (“Sunday Eco-Fair”) was organized and implemented each Sunday, as detailed in the following section.

Sunday Eco-Fair “Fruit of the Río Chancay Basin” After the identification and registry of producers—many of who are members of the project—who directly sold their produce in precarious conditions each Sunday in the streets surrounding the Santa Cruz municipal market, their situation was formalized with the establishment of an eco-fair where they would sell their agricultural produce in better conditions, guaranteeing quality, care, quantity, and adequate conditions for consumers.

harvest methods, organization and associations, creation of production plans, sale planes and channels, production costs, and basic accounting. To reinforce this capacity development, participants visited a postharvest fruit processing plant and an agro-export vegetable plant. They learned about the presentation and packaging of fruits and vegetables for added value.

They also visited a long-standing municipal agricultural fair.

Formalization was completed through the Municipal Ordinance Number 01-2015 MPSC that permits the use of the street and annexed by a regulation regarding the quality of the products; these should be produced naturally and be free from chemical products.

In the days leading up to its launch, the agricultural fair was publicized with banners in strategic areas (transportation companies, in the municipality, and on the authorized street). Printed flyers were distributed to invite people to the inauguration and to describe the quality of the products to be sold. All the produce has the Succhabamba (name of the provincial capital) sticker. Since then, from 7 am to 2 pm every Sunday, producers sell their products in stands on 28 de Julio Street, which are organized by vegetables, fruit, root vegetables, meat, milk products, and food. This agricultural fair has been well-received by the Santa Cruz public.

The project then implemented 10 canopy stands that included the name of the agricultural fair and sponsors as well as platforms, scales, stools, garbage bins, bags, nets, containers, etc. The eco-fair vendors' capacities were also strengthened through workshops on handling food products, leadership and conflict resolution, negotiation techniques, harvest and post-

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Testimony Registered Nurse July Mable Guevara Carranza, coordinator of the Coordinated Nutritional Program (PAN), Santa Cruz Health Network The Food Security and Health Promotion project in Santa Cruz served as a foundation in the Santa Cruz province for coordination between different social actors: local authorities, schools, health centres, grassroots social organizations, community promoters, and peasant families. The project also provided capacity strengthening for mothers, leaders, community health workers from the different target communities. The project promoted appropriate nutrition through a series of educational activities, including sessions to demonstrate food preparation, in sessions conducted in the health centre or in

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community installations, such as that in Tambos. Basic messages for mothers with small children and healthy recipes for the diets of children under the age of three, pregnant women, and women who are nursing children were disseminated. Mothers received information on their children's diet with the preparation of balanced meals based on local food products, hygiene improvement, washing fruit and vegetables, and hand washing, etc. DIACONĂ?A aimed to contribute to sustainable development by the empowerment of different social and local actors and strengthening Santa Cruz inhabitants' creative capacities through actions leading to positive changes in favour of the participating communities.

These actions had the sole aim of improving peasant families' standard of living and health in the Santa Cruz province.

Social Development

Project: Use of purified fish protein to improve the nutrition of children (under 3) and pregnant women in Santo Toribio La Punta, Umari district, Pachitea province, Huรกnuco department Project Objective: Improve the nutritional status of 100 children under the age of three and 12 pregnant mothers through the use of purified fish protein (PPP) in sachets in Santo Toribio La Punta, Umari district, Pachitea province.

This project is financed by the Americas Fund (FONDAM) and implemented in agreement with the Umari municipal district, with support from the Huรกnuco Regional Health Directorate, the Proteicos

Concentrados SAC (Bluewave Marine Ingredients) company, and the Huรกnuco Regional Government.

A baseline was created to gage the project's impact through the measurement of the weight, height, and haemoglobin levels of children and pregnant women in the area of intervention.

The Santo Toribio La Punta area has a 25% prevalence of chronic malnutrition in children under the age of

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three and 40% more are at risk of entering into this same situation. Thus, the project aimed to improve nutrition and increase the intake of animal protein, using purified fish protein, which is low-cost, easy to transport, and prepare. Sachet packages with protein are distributed to the selected mothers for their daily administration in children's food, mainly in breakfast and lunch.

In order to monitor and assess use, consumption and acceptability of purified fish protein, household visits

were conducted and the women who take their children weekly the childcare centre (warmahuasi) received food contained purified fish protein supplements. Different educational and teaching sessions were hold so the selected mothers could strengthen their capacities in balanced menus with the purified fish protein supplement. Once the project has been completed, follow-up will be conducted with the selected children to measure their weight, height, and haemoglobin levels, which will enable the identification of the project's results and impact.

Testimony Adelaida Martel Jesús (mother) and Amerli Úrsula Martel (son), Santo Toribio La Punta In the health post, we were told that there are many children with anaemia and small stature. I give a “vitamin” to my child so he does not get sick and he grows faster. My son likes to come to the centre since he can play with other children. He is used to coming.

In the morning he says, “Let's go. Let's go.” I think that the centre will only be open to June. I hope it can stay for longer.

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Economic Development

Project: Increase employment opportunities and revenue of quinoa, wheat, and barley producers in Aija province, Ancash department

Project Objective: Producers from the Aija, Coris, La Merced, and Huacllan districts in the Aija province increase their income and create new employment opportunities through the production and sale of quinoa, wheat, and barley.

This project is financed by FONDOEMPLEO and other partner entities such as AG and the La Merced and Coris municipalities.

This project is supporting 402 producers who receive training workshops given by field technicians and personalized training in their agricultural fields.

Agro-ecological techniques have been achieved in the two years that the project has been implemented.

These techniques include soil conservation through terrace cultivation, water management, and conservation through the building of reservoirs; implemen-

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tation of mechanized irrigation; the protection of water sources; creation of organic compost (compost, bokashi-organic fermented material, bio-fertilizer, and manure); and the promotion of agro-biodiversity in collective production and crop rotation; the training in ecological management of pests and illnesses (preparation of mineral mixtures, use of beneficial micro-organisms, and MIP techniques). These techniques are being reproduced by producers in their agricultural fields since they have seen their benefits to their production levels: reduction of costs, increase of output, production of organic products, and better prices. Furthermore, the project has strengthened the

technical capacities in entrepreneurial management and collective management in order to increase and improve competitive commercialization in local, regional, and national markets.

Currently and as part of the programmed activities, the project's technical plan is being used in the individual and collective sowing of quinoa, wheat, and barley with the aim to increase output and income. Producers' committees are also being organized and implemented to undertake agricultural activities in a competitive manner and to increase negotiating power for the selling of these products.

Testimony Eleucario Antonio Huรกnuco Leiva, Llactun Hamlet, Aija district, Aija province The project is very useful for us. We have learned to prepare pesticides such as sulpha calcium and fertilizers like bokashi. The internships were very useful in helping us learn other techniques. With these techniques, we are producing more and protecting our fields. I even have an idea to found my own company to produce these products and sell them for my personal income.

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Economic Development

Project: Healthy and Sovereign Land: Peasant-toPeasant methodology and positive deviation, family food security, and sovereignty promotion strategies

Project Objective: Promote food security, principally through Healthy and Sovereign Food Promoters (PASS) and agro-ecological promoters (PAE) in the Aija, Huaraz, Carhuaz, and Huaylas provinces in the Ancash Region.

Most of the project's funding comes from Aide au Development Gembloux ASBL-ADG and since 2015, HEIFER International. It is jointly implemented by ADG, DIACONIA, ANPE Peru, APRO-Ancash and the Pamparomรกs District Development Board.

As a result of the promotion and implementation of the agro-ecological and healthy and sovereign food appro-

ach by the promoters, many families have improved their food security and sovereignty through the increase in the diversity and availability of healthy food free of agrochemicals.

The peasant to peasant (CAC) and positive deviation (DP) methodologies were extremely important to these processes, which start by identifying the problem, proposing alternatives, and implementing them, which launches the cycle of resolving production and food problems. These strategies concurrently facilitate interaction among producers, thus generating cycles of permanent learning, promotion and horizontal transfer of knowledge.

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This project strengthens the traditional knowledge base while also incorporating new aspects that promote the understanding and leadership between male and female producers. The saying “if I only hear about it, I will forget it; if I see it I may remember it, but if I do it, I will never forget it” is used to explain the privileging of teaching by example.

and Sovereign Food (PASS) promoters such as Rosalia Leiva Mejia and Blácida Maguiña Huerta also use elements of the DP in their training sessions, experience exchanges, and other dissemination activities in which they promote a nutritious diet with appetizing, low-cost recipes using locally produced foods such as Andean grains and vegetables.

In this context, agro-ecological promoters (PAE) such as Florentín Polo Alvino and Moisés Reyes León skilfully use the tools and principles of the CAC methodology in the organization and implementation of the training sessions on agro-ecological techniques. The workshops also enable the sharing of experiences in which the classroom is the farmer's plot of land and where through an intensive and sustained process of conversion can achieve an “agro-ecological farm” as a manner of sustainable production. Similarly Healthy

The use of these participatory methodologies contributed to strengthen male and female promoters' technical capacities and leadership in favour of new knowledge based on positive experiences that optimize food production and consumption. In this manner, project participants improved their diet by consuming products free of agro-toxins and employing agroecological techniques such as organic fertilizers and bio-preparations to enhance soil quality, as well as sprinkler and micro-sprinkler irrigation methods.

Testimony: Rosalía Leiva Mejía, nutrition promoter from Santísima Trinidad CAE, La Trinidad Rural Community, La Merced District, Aija province.

I am a single mother; I have been able to provide healthy food to my children thanks to the food I produce in my organic vegetable garden and on my farm. The organic vegetable garden is like a mini-market for me, because I go there with my shopping bag and I collect everything I need to prepare a meal, from vegetables, to herbs, to fruits like purush (tumbo), or golden berry. The difference is that I don't use money to purchase these products. I just need to sow, fertilize, and cultivate in order to grow more products. I like it when visitors come and they admire my organic vegetable garden for its variety of products in addition to its high quality. I encourage them to do the same and I offer to help them.

Some time ago the women from the health post and the municipality came, they congratulated me, and enjoyed some of the products of my organic vegetable garden […] Now I have agreed to help the Trinidad School make its own organic vegetable garden, so that the boys and girls can produce vegetables for their school snacks.

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Economic Development

Program to support sustainable agrarian development in the Umari district

Project Objective: Increase the incomes of 500 families through sustainable natural resource management and with the active participation of women.

The project is financed by Islas de Paz and is comprised of three components related to hydrological resources, productive resources, and forestry.

Hydrological component: In order to ensure that local farmers have access to irrigation water, an awareness-raising campaign was conducted to include families into the district's four micro-basins. Women also have progressively taken on

important roles in the formalization of local committees for the local water authority and in the irrigation committees. The rehabilitation and improvement of irrigation canals increased the agricultural frontier by 47 hectares.

Productive component: In 2015, 420 families adopted agro-ecological innovation and production practices in their agricultural parcels. These practices include the production of organic fertilizer, agro-forestry activities, land conservation methods, crop rotation and association, and the management and raising of small livestock.

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These activities reduce the use of agrochemicals since families have changed practices and no longer produce mono-crops that create dependency and debts with the agrochemical distributors. Presently the agroecological perspective stresses crop diversification within each parcel, prioritizing food security and a value chain based on crops such as avocado trees, passion fruit trees, golden berry, apple trees, etc. to ensure sufficient food and improve the ecology, health and family income.

Forest resources component: After many years of not being organized, the Umari community reorganized with a formally-registered new board of directors. They discussed the possibility of receiving payment for environmental services in the San Marcos Private Conservation Area (ACP), identifying the “mechanism of retribution in ecosystem services and biodiversity in the San Marcos ACP as a viable service. The team will focus its action to make progress towards this objective during the time that remains of this program.

Testimony Yovana Carlos VĂĄsquez, Cachigaga hamlet, Panaococha micro-basin.

My parents and siblings gave us a chance to improve our living conditions by providing the opportunity to have permanent access to water for our daily consumption. In the past, we needed to walk 500 meters to fetch water from a spring. Water is life; my family really values the help that the project has provided. We no longer suffer from water shortages because we now have sufficient water to cook, wash the dishes, for the toilet, and for bathing. We also have sufficient water stored in our domestic tank. We installed a sprinkler irrigation system for the best use of the surplus. I like to grow vegetables. Until recently I couldn't have my own vegetable garden because water access was only sufficient to supply water for my father's crops. I am grateful to DIACONĂ?A and the engineer Robert Ramos who provided the support for these actions.

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Economic Development:

Project: Development of the productive supply of fine flavour cacao in a 700-hectare agroforestry system in three rural communities in the Cholón district, Marañón province, Huánuco department

Project Objective: Increase the production of fine flavour cacao under an agroforestry system with the participation of 500 producing families from the rural communities of Yanajanca, La Morada and Paraíso in the Cholón district.

The project, financed by FONDAM and the Cacao Peru Alliance, installed 238 family nurseries and trained

more than 400 farmers in the production of fine flavour cacao using the agroforestry and agro-economic management system SAF (Agriculture Forestry System), which seeks the most optimal use of land plots.

Similarly, the project planted 243 hectares of shortterm crops consisting of bellaco plantains and beans, one medium-crop such as cacao, as well as long-term

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crops such as Bolaina and Capirona trees. All of these efforts involved land preparation, which included cutting or paring vegetation, leaving land fallow, cleaning, flattening and preparing the land for 442 hectares.

The project concurrently implemented a process to trace crops so producers and their organization can offer crops with which production information can be known by buyers and/or the final consumers.

Testimony: Teodoro Brucman Tuanama, cacao producer Growing cacao and bananas in addition to the products for daily consumption allows us to live much better, calmly, and without distress.

It is not like when we used to harvest coca leaves, and we couldn't feel secure to live or even sleep. We used to worry that the [state anti-drug] helicopter would arrive or that their representatives would come to destroy plantations, but now we are free to leave and go where we want. With constant work and production is what it should be, then there is money, but there is no money if you don't work diligently. I have a favourable opinion of the project, and I think the credit funds are good.

We have to rotate crops based on our needs and care for these crops. The new things we are taught are important.

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Environmental Management

Project: Improve resilience of the Monte Potrero forest and the provision of eco-systemic services for the Umari community in Pachitea province, HuĂĄnuco region Project objective: Contribute to the conservation of the Bosque Monte Potrero ecosystem to achieve the sustainable provision of eco-systemic services to 120 families in the Montehuasi and Picahuay Hamlets of the Umari Community in the Pachitea Province.

The project, funded by the Fondo de las Americas, is located in the Umari Farming Community that shares an 824 hectare fog forest. This common area is considered to be “communal patrimony� which was structurally affected by the unregulated extraction of wood (mostly firewood), as well as the expansion of agricultural lands. The idea, thus, was to work on three

components: creation of the community committee, its registration as an Area of Private Conservation; and the reforestation of native species.

A Community Conservation Committee was established to promote the protection of the Monte Potrero Forest and to propel conservation strategies that help recover and maintain the quality of environmental services.

The organization, recognized by the community assembly, is incorporated into the organization's structure with written regulations and an annual operative plan.

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In order to achieve this, the community organization was restructured (in coordination with the Umari program), approving boundaries, and the owners' authorizations within the communal lands.

The effort required dialogue with the population to increase knowledge about the manner in which ecosystems work; the benefits of forest conservation and environmental services; and the creation and functioning of the private conservation area. Additional visits were made to the forest and discussions were held in the community assembly on the central issues regarding forest protection.

The community's effort to establish a private conservation area (ACP) began with the community assembly's unanimous decision to establish the Monte Potrero Forest ACP. It was agreed that all community lands should be part of a permanent conservation zone.

This required the updating of the community registry and bylaws, thereby fulfilling the State's National Protect Areas (SERNAP) requirements. Thematic maps of the communal lands were also created; the baseline

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map identifies the borders of the communal lands allocated for ACPs. After compiling the necessary documentation, a formal request for recognition of the Monte Potrero Forest ACP was presented in January 2016. The ACP's control and monitoring systems were concurrently established. A group of peasant men and women will serve as forest rangers. This group is receiving training in basic planning concepts for the natural resource conservation and protection, the use of global position system (GPS), and the registry of plant and animal life. Lastly, there have been efforts to reforest and repopulate native species by implementing two nurseries for forest species in Sillapunta and Sambras, with the production of 120,000 plants of nine native tree species: alder, quina, high altitude cedar, moena, wax palm, cunupa, magchi, ulcumano, and elderberry.

Four reforestation sessions, lasting one day each, were held between November and December 2015. A total of 200 community members from the Montehuasi, Picahuay, Panaococha, Ushmayo, La Punta, Huanin and

Guyan hamlets, as well as the Huanuco regional government, the Umari district municipality, and the Umari Agrarian Agency participated in these sessions.

These events enabled the planting of more than 42 thousand saplings in deforested mountain areas, which replace and enrich the forest areas.

The alliances with organizations and institutions were important for the project; and the sum of these forces

has enabled this year's achievements. Important lessons include the need to consolidate alliances and to overcome individual focuses in order to emphasize common institutional objectives. Another lesson was the need to maintain a unified community organization that does not require large unmanageable groups, but rather prioritizes responsibility and commitment for the creation of compact groups that are capable of sustaining any development project.

Testimony: Juliรกn Leรณnidas Atanacio Carlรณs, President of the Umari Peasant Community, 3 October 2015 community assembly.

We need to protect our heritage. For so many years people have come here to take firewood, wood, flora and we have not done anything for their protection.

What are we going to leave for our children? Many of us cannot understand this; we only want things for ourselves. But now we have DIACONร A and FODAM support. They helped in the process of formally registering the board of directors in the public registry, and with this, we can act to ensure the respect for our heritage. With the ACP we are going to protect the forest; we will earn this respect. Everyone should work towards this objective since all families benefit from the forest; we will have a greater right to do so if we really work to sustain it by planting trees, going to meetings, and caring for it.

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Environmental Management

Project: Improve food security and climate change adaptation in the Peruvian Andes- MESAACC

Project Objective: Peasant families improve food security, thereby reducing the effects of climate change in the Andean highlands.

The specific objectives include: 1. Organized peasant families increase the productivity of their Andean crops, fruit trees, and small livestock.

2. Organized peasant families experiment in their parcels, planting Andean crop varieties that adapt to the adversities of climate change.

3. Organized peasant families recuperate fragile ecosystems in basin headwaters with water collecting and harvesting.

4. Strengthened peasant organizations include gender-sensitive proposals to place the reduction of domestic violence on the local political agenda.

This project, financed by Bread for the World Protestant Development Service (PPM SD), was implemented between January 2013 and December 2015.

The project achieved the following: l The project's technical support personnel carried out an important effort to identify and describe eleven drought-resistant species: 6 native potato species, 1 oca (Oxalis tuberosa) species, 2 tarwi bean species, and 2 quinoa species. The resistant potato species are: Tumbay, which is resistant to drought and frost; Huayro Moro that is resistant to drought and potato blight; Peruanita that is resistant to potato blight, frost and drought; Iscopuro that is

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resistant to frost, potato blight and drought; Tarmeña that is resistant to potato blight and drought; and Sajsa Juito that is resistant to potato blight and frost. With regards to Oca, the Zapallo Oca variety is extremely resistant to frost and drought.

With regards to Tarwi beans, the Altagracia variety is resistant to the infestation of borers affecting stems and trips; the Mantaro variety is extremely resistant to drought. With regards to quinoa, the Rosada de Junín and Kancolla varieties are extremely resistant to birds feeding on them. l Installation of one germplasm bank with six varieties of quinoa in the Godor hamlet (in Marías) in 2014. The varieties are: Blanca de Junín, Pasahnkalla, Hualhuash, Kancolla, Salcedo y Rosada de Junín. l At the start of the project, quinoa plants had an average yield of 800 kilograms per hectare. Producers can now achieve a yield of 900 to 1,200 kilograms per hectare, and a producer can achieve a yield of up to 2,400 kilograms per hectare when using organic fertilizers (humus, compost, and biol), as well as carrying out necessary crop maintenance and care. l Five hectares reforested with native tree species (queñua, alder, and elderberry); 3 hectares with infiltration trenches in Chavin de Pariarca and Chuquis; and the recuperation of 4 hectares of land degraded by overgrazing. These actions are important since they enable the population to become more aware of the need to support the regeneration and protection of affected fragile ecosystems in their region.

l Women participated more than men in training

workshops on Andean crops (40.45% men compared to 59.55% women). Although this also represents their being overburdened with work, it can be viewed as an important achievement since women are taking on roles in production and the economy, which empowers them. This project thus enables women producers to develop their technical capacities and to obtain a clear vision of their role in developing and improving the family economy, which leads to their taking on prominent roles at the local level. l The men and women producers who participate in the project promote crop diversification and Andean fruit trees, developing their abilities to evaluate soil quality, the use of organic amendments, crop grouping, and ecologically-safe pest control. l 290 peasant families organized in their productive plots incorporated small livestock breeding (guinea pigs and domestic poultry), thereby increasing the daily protein intake from the baseline 30 grams to 79.1 grams per person. Additionally, women and men increased their caloric intake from the baseline

1600 Kcal/Kg to 2051.7 Kcal/Kg. (This data is taken from the study of the frequency of food consumption.)

The lessons learned in the process include: l The extensive geographical area covered by this project as well as the large number of farmers requiring assistance made it difficult to adequately monitor and accompany the target farming families.

It was necessary to focus efforts in order for the producers to truly understand the experiences transmitted and put them into practice. l The presence of social programs (FONCODES, “Sembrando”, and “Chacra Emprendadora”) in the intervention area distorts the conditions for project work since these programs provide hand-outs to peasant families. The context in which government programs affect our projects needs to be incorporated when establishing goals and indicators. l Government programs affect our projects due to the policies around hand-outs and since they require manual labour.

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l When there is a demand for paid work, agricultural

l Projects need to offer competitive salaries in order

activities become secondary, which in addition to the migration of youth to cities results in labour scarcity and scarce time for agricultural work. l Organizations are strengthened with the improvement of internal and external communication.

Adequate identification of leaders is required to provide support to the farmers' institutional structures.

to hire personnel with the necessary qualifications and avoid the high employee turnover rates. l Synergy or strategic alliances between institutions or organizations favour the resolution of problems or making the most of existing resources to obtain greater achievements.

Testimony Virginia Vera Martín, farmer from the Marías district.

I come from the Marías district and I am 44 years old. I have been participating in the DIACONÍA project for two and a half years. I live with my husband and my two daughters and two sons who are all minors. I am very grateful for the trainings and the other forms of support received. I have learned to recognize and control the blight that attacks the quinoa crop, as well as a better way to harvest it. We have new varieties of Tarwi beans and Kiwicha. The nutritionists taught us to better prepare our foods. We used to eat whatever we had, but now, with the hens received, there are eggs to prepare balanced meals so that our children no longer have anaemia, and grow taller and are heavier. We now understand now that women need to know their rights, and husbands should not physically or psychologically mistreat them.

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Strengthening institutionalism and Organizational Development

Project: Promoting dialogue and participatory management for the safeguarding of water resources and sustainable protection of the Casma River basin (Dialogue III)

Project Objective: Create opportunities to reach collective agreement, foster dialogue, and contribute to sustainable resource conservation.

The project “Dialogueâ€?, financed by the Church of Sweden, is implemented in the Casma River basin. It started activities in mid-2012 and the project's area of action currently covers five districts: Casma, YautĂĄn, Pariacoto, Colcabamba, and Cochabamba. The project

works with 520 people who are part of five municipal environmental commissions, six boards administering sanitation services and users of clean and safe water, human rights promoters, and environmental conservation promoters.

During 2015, the implementation process began with the local environmental management system (SLGA) from five municipal environmental commissions from

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the districts in the project's area of intervention; this system is made up of five environmental documents: local environmental assessment, local environmental policy, local environmental agenda, and local environmental plan of action. Six water and sanitation administrative boards (JAAS), training their board of directors in administration, operation, and maintenance of the water system.

This project has trained 65 human rights promoters in social and political rights and environmental

conservation through echo training sessions in nearby neighbourhoods.

During 2016, environmental documents will be presented to the municipal environmental commissions, which have the objective of serving as consultation and guidance documents for decision making and which contemplate environmental sustainability in the district. It is also planned to strengthen the water and sanitation administrative boards and improve the water system infrastructure so people can consume safe and clean water.

Testimony Alejo Henostroza Catalino, human rights and environmental conservation promoter, Pariacoto district, rural community Chacchan, Nueva Esperanza hamlet I have learned a great deal. I have learned how to provide guidance to my family and my hamlet and to make their rights respected so we can live together in peace free from selfishness and be united as a family. I have also learned to chlorinate water to live better and free from illnesses, particularly for children and the elderly. I have learned to take care of our natural resources and not burn garbage. Everything that I have learned I share with my community. This includes the right to education for mothers, women and girls. I thank DIACONĂ?A for being so good and thinking of us poor people. We are blessed. Thank-you.

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Consultancy:

Mainstreaming a gender-perspective in water and sanitation projects

DIACONĂ?A, selected as the consultancy group for the implementation of the social intervention component in PROCOES water and sanitation projects, implemented activities in 30 rural locations in Huancavelica and 23 rural locations in Apurimac. These actions targeted 5,763 families, 318 members of the water and sanitation administrative board (JASS), and 7 representatives from the municipal technical area (ATM).

As shown in the pie chart, 60% of the total families are headed by males and 40% by women.

Distribution of PROCOES water and sanitation projects

40% female users

60% male users

% of users according to sex in water and sanitation projects

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Even though women should be a central actor in water and sanitation projects since they are the ones who use, transport, and manage water and they have the largest responsibility for its domestic use, more men participate in these projects. Faced with this issue, DIACONĂ?A prioritizes a gender-sensitive approach in

obtaining the intervention's primary goal to design and implement social and institutional intervention for the sustainable management of water and sanitation services in the Program to Improve and Extend Water and Sanitation Services in the regions of Huancavelica and ApurĂ­mac in Peru.

Women are a central actor in water and sanitation projects since they are the ones who use, transport, and manage water and they have the largest responsibility for its domestic use.

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Financial Report INCOME AND EXPENDITURE STATEMENT For the year ending on 31 December 2015 (in US dollars)

INCOME IN 2015 Bread for the World Church of Sweden Aide Au Development Gembloux, ADG Fondo de las Americas Peru Cacao Partnership National Rural Water and Sanitation Partnership (PROCOES) National Fund for Employment Training and Promotion Finn Church Aid Islas de Paz Income for financial interest and recovery Balance from previous year projects and consultancies

3% 7% 7% 8% 0% 34% 5% 0% 9% 0% 26% Total (US dollars)

EXPENDITURE IN 2015 Central headquarters and other expenditures Small-scale aid: School libraries Project: Healthy and Sovereign Land Training in Organizational Assessment (OCA) Project: Participatory territorial planning and natural resource management in the Peruvian Andes Project: Improve food security and climate change adaptation in the Peruvian Andes Project: Community participation and fostering economic alternatives that contribute to the protection of private conservation areas in San Marcos Project: The Key program Project: Promoting dialogue and participatory management Project: Improve food security and health promotion in rural populations in Santa Cruz province, Cajamarca Project: Increase employment and income of quinoa, wheat, and barley producers Project: Support for Agrarian Development in Umari Project: Ecological rural housing Project: Capacity strengthening and building Project: Improve resilience of the Monte Potrero forest and provision of ecosystemic services for the Umari community, Pachitea province Project: Impact study of the Key Program Project: Development of the productive supply of fine flavour cacao in a 700hectare agroforestry system in rural communities in the Cholón district, Marañón province, Huánuco department Project: Use of purified fish protein to improve the nutrition of children (under 3) and pregnant women in Santo Toribio La Punta, Umari district, Pachitea province, Huánuco department Consultancy services in rural water and sanitation in Ayacucho Consultancy services in rural water and sanitation in Apurímac Consultancy services in rural water and sanitation in Huancavelica Consultancy services in rural water and sanitation in Puno Consultancy services in rural water and sanitation in Apurímac - 6 locations Consultancy services in baseline assessment- mid-term assessment FE Balance of projects and consultancy services

6% 0% 3% 0% 5% 2% 1% 0% 3% 3% 4% 8% 1% 1% 3% 0% 3%

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Our Board of Directors

Rudolf WĂźst Schneider President

Sylke Anna Sophie Ackert Giesecke de Llanos Director

Annerose Klemm de Iturriaga Director

Gerhard Mack Director

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Robert Jacob Funk Rymann Vice-President

Leena Hokkanen Hokkanen Director

Angel Pedro Veliz Marquez Director

Our Staff

Central headquarters- Lima Rocío Vidalón Ugarte, Executive Director Edelvis Rodríguez Cadillo, Administration and Finance Manager Ydalia Crisóstomo Pañera, Consultancy Services Manager Marleny Arango Lanazca, Coordinator of Project Monitoring Karim Díaz Villacorta, Assistant to the Director

Dina Cahuín Huamán, Accountant Jeniffer Ugarte Cuentas, Communications Jezabel Peña Romero, Project Assistant Yaneth Barragán Gómez, Logistics Assistant Helga Prieto Meléndez, Accounting Technician Jackeline Castillo Chávez, Assistant Accountant Pedro Aliaga Delgado, Office Assistant Pedro Cornejo Carreño, Office Assistant

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Regional Office- Huánuco

Regional Office- Ancash

Máximo Contreras Lobato, Regional Manager

Francisco Ouispe Argumedo, Regional Manager

Program to support sustainable rural agriculture in Umari Hilario Santos Miraval Robert Ramos Capcha Julio de la Cruz Torreblanca Flor de María Hidalgo Panduro Linder Daniel Ubaldo Chavez Daniel Samuel Rodriguez Rayo Alexander Crisostomo Ortega Ayder Luis Laurencio Simon Yonel Espiritu Retis Julio Melecio Javier Calixto Lisset Valeria Diego Duran Rudecindo Adriano Céspedes Huanca

Project: ACPic Ancash Susana Sono Alba Antonio Torres Benites

Project: Improve food security and climate change adaptation in the Peruvian Andes- MESAACC Armando Chumpitaz Napan Sofonias Mallqui Herrada Elizabeth Palacios Araujo Cecilia Alvarado Vega

Project: Increase employment and income of quinoa, wheat, and barley producers Fidel Crisóstomo Paucar Jill Luyo Villanueva Feliciano Vicente Melgarejo Ricardo Guayaney Cruz Marco Figueroa Medina Project: Promoting dialogue and participatory management for the sustainable conservation of natural resources in the Casma River basin GisseLle Alva Simeón Paola Pérez Ccama Project: Healthy and Sovereign Land Willi Valverde Salazar Annie Solis Escalante Thania Cueva López

Project: Purified fish protein Karen Ramos Carhuas

Regional Office- Cajamarca Project: Development of the productive supply of fine flavour cacao in the agroforestry system Winder Zevallos Cajañaupa Dennys Del Águila Paredes Bernandino Barrios Domínguez Mirella Justo Domínguez Project: Improve resilience of the Monte Potrero forest and provision of eco-systemic services for the Umari community Paúl Mendizabal Carlos Cirilo Vásquez Villareal Project: ACPic Huánuco Diana Orellana De la Cruz Cristian Florencio Saavedra

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Robert Rodríguez Salcedo, Gerente Regional Proyecto Seguridad Alimentaria Juana Panta Palacios David Beraun Baldeón

Consultancy: Water and Sanitation Profiles and Portfolio – Ayacucho Nadia Perlacios Vargas, Team leader Claudia Rondinel Sosa, Administrative Assistant Consultancy: Social intervention in water and sanitation project – Apurimac 1 Ricardo Cunya Acevedo, Coordinator of Social and institutional aspects Lourdes Puican, Strengthening institutionalism Reinalda Barrera Arias, Social Manager Cristina Rodríguez Vela, Social Manager Luz Camarena Cóndor, Social Manager Karina Bernal Hinostroza, Social Manager Celina García Baltazar, Social Manager Elva Peralta Figueroa, Social Manager Flor Lluén Sánchez, Social Manager Carlos Dipaz Saez, Social Manager Elizabeth Pastor Terreros, Engineering specialist David Rodriguez Dipaz, Engineering specialist Dina Cobarrubias, Administrative Assistant Isaias Daniel Canevaro, Social Manager´s Assistant Livia Torres Pacheco, Social Manager´s Assistant Consultancy: Social intervention in water and sanitation project – Huancavelica Alex Felipe Huamani Rodrigo, Coordinator of Social and institutional aspects Hilda Lourdes Gutiérrez Hinojosa, Expert on Strengthening institutionalism Raul Mejia Vilva, Social Manager Xiomara Castro Rondinel, Social Manager Ana Melba Galindo Mejia, Social Manager Lyda Pilar Parra Benavides, Social Manager Jhoanna Navarro Trejo, Social Manager Amelia Huamancayo Fernandez, Social Manager Jhonatan A. Borda Alvizuri, Social Manager Elio Gomez palomino, Social Manager Francisca carrasco Aguado, Social Manager Rosa Molina Córdova, Social Manager Yessenia Judith Meza Yauyo, Social Manager Hugo Azpur Salcedo, Engineering specialist Nadia Perlacios Vargas, Engineering specialist Víctor Paredes Atoche, Engineering specialist

Helí Amorín Ouispe, Engineering specialist Susan Segovia Hurtado, Administrative Assistant Edgar Guerreros Huacce, Logistics Assistant Noemi De La Cruz Conovilca, Social Manager´s Assistant Lisset Puente Bello, Social Manager´s Assistant Erich Robladillo Amaro, Social Manager´s Assistant Consultancy: Water and Sanitation Profiles and Portfolio – Puno Zulema Supo Payé, Team leader Hernán Quispe Pérez, Technical coordinator Gladys Clorinda Vega Saucedo, Formulator of studies on pre-investment Israel Ibáñez Navarro, Environmental Specialist Jorge Luis Asmat Teran, Civil engineer Bonifacia Cruz Sulla, Expert on Strengthening institutionalism Evelin Huacani Ouispe, Administrative Assistant Elard Mendoza Condori, Driver Consultancy: Social Intervention in water and sanitation project – Apurimac 2 Luz Camarena Condor, Coordinator of Social and institutional aspects Papias Taquiri Carhuancho, Expert on Strengthening institutionalism Fanny Elizabeth Ramos Martel, Social Manager Thacher Gladys Paihua Pishua, Social Manager Luis Alejandro Filio Bonilla, Social Manager Evelyng Nataly Ponce Galindo, Social Manager´s Assistant Edson Teofilo Carbajal Moran, Social Manager´s Assistant Dina Cobarrubias, Administrative Assistant

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