Indigenous communities living without violence

Countries:

Nicaragua

Start project:

2016

The project aims to contribute to prevent violence in Waspam and 2 communities on the shore of Rio Coco (Kiwastara and Andris) The project has a well-developed approach to realize actions to raise awareness on violence prevention in the communities, to involve children, adolescents and youth in the communities’ social-political life and to realize advocacy actions for the promotion and adoption of preventive measures to reduce violence.

Background

Acción Médica Cristiana or AMC has been a long time ICCO’s partner implementing projects to prevent violence in the Nicaraguan Autonomous Region of Northern Caribbean Coast (RACCN for its acronym in Spanish), specifically in Waspam and indigenous communities located in the shores of Rio Coco. With previous projects, they have carried out activities involving children, adolescents, youth, women and local authorities to prevent violence (including gender-based violence) in rural/indigenous contexts in a geographical area of difficult access.