1. SUSTAINABLE RURAL COMMUNITY RESILIENCY
CANTERA – Center for Communication and Popular Education
OpenIDEO 2017
Planet, Prosperity,
and Peace
Faced with high rates of violence against women, women and men work towards Gender Equity in home, work, and education.
Popular Education presents horizontal teaching methods promoting the community’s dream for its sustainable development.
Agroecology’s environmentally friendly production techniques improve food security, increase family income, and strengthen resilience to climate change.
Leadership is strengthened through a holistic education model which includes gender equity, self-care, self-esteem, non-violence, and spirituality workshops.
At the local level, Community Organizing supports community rights through
critical analysis and the Train the Trainer model.
GUIDING
PRINCIPLES
HAND-IN-HAND
WITH CANTERA
YEAR 1
YEAR 2
YEAR 3
COMMUNITY AUTONOMY
Analyze context and challenges
Continue to take steps towards community goals
Rural Youth Leaders
Network Created
Community Promoters facilitate workshops they participate in
Community Promoters facilitate steps to achieve community goals
Community
Promoters train
farmers in Agroecology
and lead Human
Values workshops
Popular Education Methodology for completeing goals cotinually led by Community Promoters
Gender Equity, Leadership, Non-Violence and Agroecology workshops regurally facilitated by Community Promoters
Community Promoters learn and demonstrate agroecology practices and teach other community farmers
Gender Equity, Leadership,
and Community Advocacy
Workshops for Rural Youth Leaders
Participants identify a vision for their future
Propose solutions to challenge to achieve goals
Farm Administration & Commercialization workshops
Add products to seed banks, establish as cooperatives
Train to Trainer model implemented
Strengthen seed Banks
Communities, led by Community Promoters,
develop plan for autonomous development in the future
Advancement in sustainable
development limited with
4 years of drought
Success and stability in
established seed banks
Introduce cooperative products in creative markets
Create network of cooperatives across Nicaragua
Coopertative strengthens position in market
Coopertative expands
in market
Investigate creative market opportunities
CANTERA workshops strengthen Community Promoters’ commitment to sustainable development in their communities.
In CANTERA workshops, Community Promoters analyze their context--economic, familial, environmental and community instability--and then commit to solutions they see feasible.
Alongside CANTERA, Community Promoters begin to facilitate workshops on agroecology, gender equity, nonviolence and leadership for
the whole community.
CANTERA oversees and gives advice as Community Promoters appropriate the role of workshop facilitators and autonomous community leaders.
Community Promoters autonomously continue
workshops in their communities,
holistically adapting them to
constantly evolving challenges.
Community Promoters take Agroecology
Courses and, with CANTERA, teach techniques
to develop community resilience to
climate change.
Community Promoters learn about and put into practice gender equity, self-esteem, self care, leadership, and spirituality. CANTERA
Guidance devlops well-rounded leaders.
Cooperative promotes resource
stability, community accountability,
equal access to resources, and
peaceful coexistence.
Communities analyze dream articulated two years ago, revise action steps based on current reality, and create a future plan for community
work without CANTERA’s guidance.
Community Cooperatives create equal access to capital, increases production, and guarantees food security in the face of
increasingly unpredictable climate patterns.
Despite unpredictable weather patterns,
seed banks succeed in maintaining a level
of Community farming production.
Addressing the holistic person strengthens all aspects of the community’s dream for stability. Individual prosperity can be achieved when community prosperity is.
Women and men commit to equality
between genders and practice this
side-by-side leading workshops and
running the cooperative.
Cooperative promotes mutual support across the country, maximizing economic stability during climate change.
Cooperatives’ presence in new,
creative market fills farm-to-table
niche in Nicaragua, securing community income.
5 COMMUNITIES
100 FAMILIES
OF 8 MEMBERS 30
PROMOTERS
PLANET
PROSPERITY
PEACE+
POPULAR
EDUCATION
MODEL
NON-LINEAR,
TIME-BASED
OBJECTIVES
LINEAR
OBJECTIVES
PARTICIPANTS
SYMOBLS
HOLISTIC,
INTERCONNECTED
PROCESSES
ANALYZE
GENDER
EQUITY
REFLECT
ACT
COMMIT