| Approach |
Agricultural Department |
Department of Education |
Health Department |
Intercultural-Social-Spiritual Department |
| Mutual cooperation |
- Cooperation based on an agreement
- Preparation of a community budget
- Accompanying agricultural producers through visits of professionals and rural advisors
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- Elaboration of an agreement on school cooperation
- Community responsibility for the maintenance of the school buildings
- Joint elaboration of intercultural teaching texts
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- Coordination of the work with health care workers
- Communication with health committees
- Elaboration of an agreement on health services
- Cooperation with empirical midwifes
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- Involvement of mothers in the preschools
- Annual seminars for leaders
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| Intercultural encounter |
- Planning and exchange meetings
- Joint search for solutions in crisis and conflict situations
- Recognition of the nature-related knowledge of the indigenous tribes
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- Working in multicultural teams
- Bilingual and bicultural study programs
- Intercultural coexistence in the schools of the ASCIM
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- Teamwork with indigenous health care personnel
- Monthly meetings with health promoters from different villages
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- Seminars for the intercultural dialogue
- Intercultural exchange in the assemblies of the ASCIM
- Active participation in the administrative councils of the different communities
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| Leadership Development |
- Training in agricultural administration
- Promote organization among agricultural producers
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- Preparation in leadership through specific programs during Middle School
- Training of young people in different professions
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- Training for the empirical midwife
- Health seminars for male and female leaders
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- Seminars with female leaders
- Seminars to help communities find ways to grow and develop
- Accompanying community leaders in planning and evaluation
- Exchange at FRICC
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| Protection of the Environment |
- Raising awareness of the rational use of natural resources
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- Promote environmental awareness in schools
- Recognition of the indigenous people's environmental knowledge
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- Training in the use of latrines and proper garbage disposal
- Responsible use of drinking water
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- Defending community resources against massive exploitation through legal status and education
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| Protection of cultural values |
- Conservation of indigenous knowledge on the use of plants and wild animals
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- Use of mother tongues
- Bicultural curriculum
- Promote the history and natural sciences of the indigenous tribes
- Involvement of parents and leaders in the educational process
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- Health education through lectures and illustrative material in indigenous languages
- Assistance at home births by indigenous empirical midwives
- Meetings for dialogue and exchange
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- Seminars to project and plan for the future of the communities
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| Work at local and national level |
- Coordination with local and national programs
- Appropriate use of technology
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- Incorporate the study program into the current legal framework
- Participation in national projects, seminars and exchange rounds
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- Leadership seminars
- Coordination of the work with the responsible health region
- Broadcasting of radio programs about health topics in indigenous languages
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- Exchange of information with non-governmental organizations
- Collaboration with INDI, goveronrates and municipalities
- Transmission of information and publications through mass media and books
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| Reciprocal commitment |
- The ultimate goal is self-sustaining communities
- Cooperation based on transparent management
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- The communities are committed to ensure the maintenance of the school buildings and to provide scholarships for the students of their communitires
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- Mutual Hospital Aid (AMH - private insurance for indigenous people)
- Contributions from the community in primary health care
- Contributions from the communities for the salaries of health care workers in their community
- Acceptance of their responsibility of the health care workers
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- Mothers participate in the preschool classes
- FRICC assumes most of the expenses of its budget
- Reciprocal commitment, clarifying conflicts through dialogue and mediation
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