Centro de Investigación y Promoción del Campesinado (CIPCA) Regional Beni

CIPCA Beni Regional (Centro de Investigación y Promoción del Campesinado) works in the multiethnic territories of the Moxos Plains in Bolivia, where indigenous peoples live in territories that were mostly occupied by livestock ranches and logging companies. It began its work in 1997 and since then has been supporting the agendas and proposals of organizations representing five communities that inhabit the southern Amazon: Mojeño Trinitario, Mojeño Ignaciano, Movima, Yuracaré and Tsimane.

Since 2004, CIPCA Beni has expanded its work to four municipalities in the Amazon region, with a more diverse composition with the presence of peasant and indigenous populations of diverse origins and types of organization, and with the presence of agribusiness entrepreneurs expanding agribusiness sector, the conflict over land and natural resources continues to be acute and the productive models, logics and interests are in conflict against each other. CIPCA Beni currently accompanies indigenous and peasant organizations at different levels, with a focus on the grassroots at the community level.

CIPCA's Mission (Strategic Plan 2022-2027): Contribute to the effective exercise of civil, cultural, economic, political, social and environmental rights of Indigenous Peasant and, from this perspective, contribute to the construction of a democratic, equitable and intercultural Bolivia, economically and environmentally sustainable.

Target population: Indigenous and peasants

Focus Area(s) of Work

• Collective rights of indigenous peoples
• Individual rights
• Intercultural Democracy
• Food security
• Territorial management
• Agroecology
• Environmental Governance
• Climate resilience
• Research
• Policy advocacy

Method(s) Used to Achieve Objectives

• Education and training
• Awareness-raising
• Accompaniment and technical advice to community, territorial and regional social organisations.
• Policy education
• Research-Action

Project(s)

• Project: Amazonian native cacao value chain (2023)
• Project: Exercise of rights and environmental governance in the Bolivian lowlands (2023-2025)
• Project: Sustainable Territorial Governance Models in the Bolivian Amazon (2022-2025)
• Project: Promoting just ecological transition in indigenous and peasant territories of the Bolivian Amazon (2023-2024)
• Project: Preserving critical wetlands in the Bolivian Amazon (2023-2024)

Funding

Misereor; Fundación Ayuda en Acción; CCFD – Terre Solidaire; Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS); Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (AECID)