UNDP - United Nations Development Programme

Purpose

The ultimate outcome of the project is to strengthen the national capacities for intercultural dialogue and conflict prevention, ensuring effective participation of indigenous peoples, with a focus on indigenous women. To achieve this goal, the project aims to produce two outcomes: 1) strengthen the capacities of the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) to facilitate the monitoring of the implementation of the agreements reached between the Government and indigenous organizations; 2) reinforce the capacities of national actors to build and sustain a permanent dialogue network. This project has two levels of implementation: 1) contributing to the proper functioning of the monitoring mechanism of the agreements between the Government and the indigenous organizations. From this perspective, the final beneficiaries are the indigenous peoples of Ecuador, who will have a formal space to monitor the fulfillment of their demands; 2) generating a network of specialized dialogue and facilitation practitioners (women and men). This will allow the indigenous peoples, women, youth, and other Ecuadorian social groups, to have access to consensual facilitation and mediation solutions. This solution will be built from the local experience and approaches, promoting social cohesion and the peaceful resolution of conflicts.