Our development workers in Honduras

Eli Escoto works with COOMUPL women's cooperative, supporting small-scale farmers from Marcala Zone to gain access to markets for their produce.

Jose Ramos supports the creation and legalisation of the new municipality of Nahuaterique on the border of Honduras and El Salvador (see page 11 of Interact Summer 2009). He is advocating for the Nahuaterique population (7,000 people) to get dual nationality and land tenure.

Jubenal Quizpe supports the Christian development organisation OCDIH in the development of advocacy schools on environmental issues including watersheds protection, monitoring of water resources, climate change and alternatives for agro-production.

Lincoln Villanueva works with Grupo Sociedad Civil to help civil society organisations make their voices heard in the development of the alternative national plan and regional poverty reduction strategies.

Maria Pasquale works with Movimiento Madre Tierra (Mother Earth Movement) in Tegucigalpa, helping to build the capacity and skills of the Movement and to develop the Escuela EcovidaCompa, an alternative educative model involving the inhabitants of poor communities in the capital.

Marvin Zavala Ruiz works with COOMULP, a women’s co-operative for personal, social and business development, to train small-scale farmers in agro-ecology techniques that won’t harm the environment.

Read an interview with Marvin Zavala Ruiz

Oscar Danilo Davila works with Popol Nah Tun to stop illegal logging on the Atlantic coast, providing training to the local forest committees on the implementation of the new Forestry Law, and supporting new agro-ecology initiatives.

Roger Diaz works on irrigation and water resource management and the marketing of farmers’ produce.