My experience working in Practical Action (LA Region). For know more about Practical Action visit https://www.facebook.com/solucionespracticas.org http://www.solucionespracticas.org

1. Working
for Non-
Profits in
Latin
America
my experience
working in Practical
Action (LA Region)

2. Practical Action in the world
• Since 1966 we have proved that poverty can be reduced by using technology in an
appropriate and sustained manner.
• Founder: Ernst Fritz Schumacher, the author of Small is beautiful, we work to
demonstrate that the simplest ideas can have profound, life-changing effects on
poor people across the world.

3. Practical Action in Latin America
Since 1985

4. Some words about Peru
Population: 29,496,000
(density 23/km)
Area: 1,285,216 km2
Literacy: 92,9% (men:
96,4% / women: 89,4%
(2007 Census)
Human Development
Index: (High) 0.723 / 63rd
6.5 millions without access to energy.
(about 22%)

5. Areas of work
•Disaster prevention
and environmental risk
management (adapting
to climate change).

6. Areas of work
•Making markets work for
poor people (agriculture,
farming, forestry, rural
agro industry, etc).

7. Areas of work
•Improving access to
services (energy, water,
sanitation).
•New technologies (ICTs,
nanotechnologies).

8. Areas of work
•Education in the use of technologies.

9. Supervising projects
Hydro power generation.
Cajamarca, Peru

10. Supervising projects
Lands and Natives
communities.
San Martin, Peru

11. Communication & development
Bolivia,
Machacamarca
Technical Enquiry Service for Rural
Areas
Allows to create stronger links between
the producers of information and the final
users in rural areas with high poverty
(developing particular tools for this, like
campaigns, use of local media, etc.)

12. Communication & development
We help the local people to make themselves
(the local technical leaders, for instance
kamayoqs or similar), the primary source of
information, providing them with efficient and
innovative ways to access, process and
disseminate technical information

13. Communication & development

14. ICT for development
PA system of information:
Million downloads per year
8,000 technical docs
download for free