our partners

Institute for Latin American Concern/Centro de Educación para la Salud Integral (ILAC/CESI)

The Institute for Latin American Concern is a collaborative health care and educational programme of Creighton University in Santiago. CESI (the Education Centre for Integral Health) is the local agency which implements and follows up the health projects.

Both organisations, with Progressio, work on a project producing organic vegetables in the Arroyo del Toro zone. The project aims to enable a total of 30 farmers to gain certificates. A training process has been developed within this project which will be a model for other communities interested in creating a programme of organic agriculture.

Red Orgánica: Cafesa y Junacas (Organic Network: Cafesa, Junacas and COOPASOL)

This is a network which aims to unite the efforts of different associations to produce and market organic products. It comprises three main associations: JUNACAS, CAFESA and COOPASOL.

JUNACAS

Unites 101 families of small and medium-sized farmers in the mountainous area of the province of Salcedo. It currently has organic and fair trade certification for its plantations. Their main crops are cacao, coffee, avocado and sapodilla plums.

CAFESA

A peasant organisation which has been in existence for nearly 30 years in the province of Salcedo; it has administered programmes on livestock, agriculture, democracy strengthening, handicrafts, finance, and women's rights, among others.

COOPASOL

A peasant organisation, whose main aim is to secure economic and social improvement for its members and for the surrounding communities, in a sustainable way, and with gender equality. It was established on 20 September 2001, with the aim of replacing the traditional cultivation system, especially that of coffee, with an agroecological system.

COMUS (Colectiva Mujer y Salud)

The Women and Health Collective is a non-profit-making organisation which has been working since 1984 to defend the sexual and reproductive rights of Dominican women in rural and urban areas.
The collective offers services of integral care and health (physical, mental and emotional), training, produces information materials and promotes public debate on gender issues.

Solidaridad Fronteriza

Frontier Solidarity is an organisation working on the northern border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Its mission is to defend the rights of refugees and persons obliged to move across the border. It therefore has headquarters in two frontier towns: Dajabón in the Dominican Republic and Ouanaminthe in Haiti.

Fundación para el Desarrollo de Villa Altagracia (FUDEVA  - Foundation for the Development of Villa Altagracia)

FUDEVA is a civil society organisation which aims to improve the economic, social and cultural situation of the municipality of Altagracia through collaboration and dialogue with the city council and local institutions.

Red Jacques Viau - Jaques Viau Network

The mission of the Dominican-Haitian Encounter Network Jacques Viau is to defend human rights and promote more just migration policies, by advocating for the development, adoption and application of public policies which improve the quality of life of migrants, refugees and vulnerable people, especially people of Haitian origin and their descendants.

Fundación Solidaridad

The Solidarity Foundation has since 1998 been uniting grassroots organisations and cooperatives from the Cibao Region. Its aim is to promote and strengthen these organisations so that they can participate in the political and social decisions which affect them at local and national level. Together with Progressio it is carrying out a programme of municipal development in the municipality of Villa González.