Community-based Ecodevelopment and Environmental Health

Results obtained as of the end of the project include: (i) Through its collaborative approach the project strengthened cultural identity among the 168 eco-leaders in 13 communities targeted by the project; (ii) 72 community projects were designed including 28 that received funding from the municipalities (e.g. environmentally sustainable family gardens waste management establishment of a municipal landfill reforestation the greening of schools community production of sugar communal fish farms an ecological park a seed bank); (iii) Three educational resource centres were established one in each of the participating universities. These results are contributing to increased capacities of the three university partners in the Bolivian Amazon for training research and community outreach in the areas of community-based eco-development and environmental health related to water and nutrition.