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 New Grants
Asesoría Dinámica a Microempresas, A.C. (ADMIC)
$200,000 over one year, for this Monterrey-based microenterprise NGO to establish a working capital fund to support microenterprise credit and technical assistance offices in Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, and Matamoros, on the U.S.-Mexico border; conduct a feasibility study of a savings program; conduct a survey of "best practices" in microenterprise performance; and undertake training in fundraising. (ME-395)
www.admic.org/
Autonomía, Descentralización y Gestión del Sur Pacífico, A.C. (ASP)
$305,300 over one year, to establish a guarantee fund in collaboration with a Mexican commercial bank and a private Mexican foundation that will leverage a line of credit at a ten-to-one ratio from Fideicomisos Instituidos en Relación a la Agricultura (FIRA), a Mexican development bank. The line of credit will be used to finance small-sclae agricultural development projects in the $2,000 to $66,000 range, primarily among indigenous peoples in Oaxaca and Chiapas. (ME-401)
Centro Mexicano para la Filantropía, A.C. (CEMEFI)
$41,500 over one year, to investigate and document the scope, structure, and financing of the nonprofit sector in Mexico, and to design and implement a strategy for promoting Mexican corporate donations to development and other civil society institutions in the country. (ME-400)
www.cemefi.org/
Fundación Mexicana para el Desarrollo Rural (FMDR)
$77,000 over one year, to provide intensive courses in microenterprise management to peasant managers of agricultural cooperatives in southern Mexico. (ME-396)
www.fmdr.org.mx/
Instituto de Estudios para el Desarrollo Rural Maya, A.C. (Instituto Maya/FONGRO)
$122,000 over one year, to establish a new development fund, handling both grants and credits, to support the productive projects of peasant organizations in Guerrero, and to provide technical assistance and feasibility studies for those projects. (ME-399)
Invertir para la Sustentabilidad, A.C. (INVERTIR)
$247,700 over one year, to establish a new development entity to mobilize resources supporting enterprise development among organizations of small-scale farmers. (ME-397)
Pronatura Península de Yucatán, A.C.
$55,000 over 18 months, to support women's microenterprises, beekeeping as an income-generating activity, and family health activities with women's organizations in the buffer zone of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in southeastern Campeche. (ME-398)
www.pronatura-ppy.org.mx
Sociedad Cooperativa Cerro del Viento, S.C.L. (Cerro del Viento)
$66,372 over one year, to construct filtration dams and microirrigation systems in four communities of southern Oaxaca, allowing up to 700 beneficiaries to expand production of basic grains, fruits, and vegetables for domestic consumption and marketing. (ME-394)
Supplemental Grants
ANADEGES Sur Pacífico, A.C. (ASP)
$108,000, to continue operating a rotating credit fund and to provide technical assistance to productive projects in more than 100 indigenous communities in Oaxaca and Chiapas. (ME-325-A6)
Asociación Mexicana de Arte y Cultura Popular, A.C. (AMACUP)
$64,710, to strengthen the operational and marketing capacity of AMACUP; train and equip AMACUP and selected grassroots organizations in Mexico to use the Internet for international marketing; and research the potential of grassroots development groups in Haiti and Guatemala to use the Internet to access international markets, and help them take steps in this direction. (ME-370-A6)
Asociación Mexicana de Uniones de Crédito del Sector Social (AMUCSS)
$60,000, to introduce savings plans with loan facilities into the standard operations of credit unions, with total membership of over 1,000 small-scale rural farmers in central Mexico. (ME-363-A6)
Centro de Agroecología "San Francisco de Asís", A.C. (CASFA)
$32,000, to continue CASFA's assistance to more than 500 small-scale farmers in the Chiapas Sierra Madre to develop local, national, and international markets for their organically produced fruits and vegetables. (ME-364-A4)
Centro de Apoyo al Movimiento Popular de Oaxaca (CAMPO)
$85,000, to continue working on training and technical assistance in sustainable regional development for 26 peasant organizations, including nearly 25,000 beneficiaries in three ethnic regions of Oaxaca. (ME-369-A4)
Centro de Estudios para el Cambio en el Campo Mexicano (CECCAM)
$18,250, to continue helping six networks of Mexican small-scale farmers participate with local, regional, and national governments in consensus policy-making around agricultural and related rural development issues. (ME-367-A6)
Consejo Civil Mexicano para la Silvicultura Sostenible (CCMSS)
$73,300, to promote certification of sustainably harvested timber as a means to improve incomes and forest management in over 20 forest communities. (ME-390-A2)
www.ccmss.org.mx/
Convergencia Campesina del Centro Occidente del Michoacán, S.C. (Convergencia Campesina)
$35,000, to strengthen the capacity of the four member organizations to plan, design, and manage projects in forestry, organic agriculture, and export agriculture; and to improve collective management skills, technical support, and assessments among the peasant groups of the different farming nuclei, using the training-action strategy. (ME-376-A5)
Coordinadora Estatal de Productores de Café de Oaxaca, A.C. (CEPCO)
$63,842, to consolidate the organizational and administrative capacities of CEPCO, its credit union, and its member organizations; and create a "coffee university" training center, benefiting approximately 23,000 indigenous coffee producers in Oaxaca. (ME-362-A4)
Espiral Consultora, S.C. (Espiral)
$14,000, to consolidate INVERTIR para la Sustentabilidad, A.C., a new development entity in Mexico, by identifying, selecting, and contracting an executive director for INVERTIR and developing its corporate image; researching and identifying national and international funding sources; and providing training in administration and finance for board members and for those peasant-run social enterprises it will support. (ME-391-A4 and A5)
Grupo Dinámico de Consultoría Integral, A.C. (Grupo Dinámico)
$65,100, to continue providing training in business administration to more than 20 worker-owned enterprises, which employ over 6,500 persons in Mexico City and in south-central Mexico. (ME-343-A4)
Organización de Ejidos Productores Forestales de la Zona Maya, S.C. (Zona Maya)
$64,400, to define a plan for sustainable forest management for the forests in the Mayan zone in Quintana Roo (viable, ecological, social, and economic), raising the quality of life of the inhabitants of the Mayan zone, who are the owners and possessors of forests. (ME-361-A3)
Programa de Aprovechamiento Integral de Recursos Naturales (PAIR)
$65,055, to carry out studies, develop test plots, and explore marketing opportunities for nontimber forest products for several Chinanteca indigenous organizations in the Chinantla region of Oaxaca; and to participate in the Inter-American Conference on Public Participation in Decision Making for Sustainable Development (held in Montevideo, Uruguay, August 28–30, 1996). (ME-355-A6 and A7)
Proyecto Sierra de Santa Marta, A.C. (PSSM)
$32,825, to continue a technical assistance program in agroforestry, soil conservation, and development of nontraditional agricultural products primarily for export, such as vanilla and herbal teas, benefiting over 450 small-scale farmers and their families in the Popoluca/Nahuat region around the Santa Marta bioreserve in Veracruz. (ME-388-A2)
Servicios de Educación de Adultos, A.C. (SEDAC)
$15,500, to continue providing technical assistance in small-scale enterprise and organizational development to the Comunidades del Valle del Mezquital, A.C. (COVAC), a membership organization of 95 communities of Otomí Indians, benefiting over 1,000 small-scale farmers; and to support an institutional evaluation leading to participative restructuring of COVAC. (ME-273-A13)
Sociedad de Solidaridad Social Zanzekan Tineme (Zanzekan)
$77,974, to continue reforestation activities and to strengthen regional organizations, complementing an International Development Bank Small Projects credit and grant received by Zanzekan. (ME-349-A4)
Unión de Ejidos y Comunidades de Cafeticultores del Beneficio Majomut (Majomut)
$25,000, to provide seedlings and technical assistance in agroforestry, and training in financial management and agroecological technology, to more than 1,200 small-scale farmers in Chiapas, to qualify for international organic markets and to diversify production, in order to increase and stabilize their income. (ME-384-A3)
Unión de Pueblos Indígenas de la Sierra de Lalana, S.C.L. (UPISL)
$32,560, to continue agricultural diversification of small coffee farms, and further build their capacity to produce and market organic coffee, benefiting 876 peasants from 10 indigenous communities in the Choapán District of Oaxaca. (ME-382-A3)
Unión Nacional de Organizaciones Regionales Campesinas Autónomas (UNORCA)
$80,000, to continue technical assistance for small-scale economic projects and seed-money to establish 15 savings-and-loan entities, benefiting a network of women's community organizations active in 13 states of Mexico. (ME-345-A8)
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