EMPODER - Indigenous People and Empowerment - GODEL Area Good Governance and Local Democratization (EMPODER - Pueblos Indígenas y Empoderamiento - COSUDE Bolivia - Área GODEL Buena Gobernabilidad y Democratización Local)

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Objectives

Ensure that the rights of vulnerable communities are properly reflected in the constitutional process. A unit of the Ministry of Justice promotes respect for human rights of indigenous and rural population in particular, seeking the social and political legal balance between the population and the state. Strengthen mechanisms for citizen participation. Collective management and legal advice. To promote forums conducive to exchange, reflection and proposals of public agenda items, such as the Constituent Assembly. It makes feasible normative legal aspirations of the target population.

Beneficiaries
general public
Country
Bolivia
Funding amount committed
CHF 875,000
Donor country
Switzerland
Preparatory stage/phase
Drafting stage
Ratification/promulgation stage
Implementation state
Regional focus

Oruro, abarcando las provincias Ladislao Cabrera, Avaroa y Sebastián Pagador

Committed amount in 2007 USD
781037
Support category
Civic education
Participation
Advocacy
Thematic focus
Human Rights
Disbursed amount
CHF 875,000
Disbursed amount (in 2007 USD)
781037
Donor name
SDC
Start of engagement
1995
Donor type
Bilateral
End of engagement
30/08/08
Receiving institution/body
Ministerio de Justicia
Year of funding decision
1999
Implementing agency
Ministerio de Justicia
Contacts

Pueblos Indígenas y Empoderamiento. Viceministerio de Justicia Av. 16 de Julio Nro. 1469,  Edif. Ministerio de Justicia, Piso 4, Tel/Fax: (+591-2) 2312226, La Paz, Email: empoder@gmail.com