Bolivia

Our projects in Bolivia

Bolivia data
Human development index (out of 182 countries in the world) *	113^th position
Total population (2010 estimate) **	9.947.418
Urban and rural population (2008) **	66% 33- %
Average age **	22,2 years -21,5 men -22,9 women
Per capita GNP * ***	$ 4,206 * ($ 10,7 a day) $ 1,363 ***
Population living under the poverty line (1.25$ a day) *	19,6%
Population living with less than 2$ a day *	30,3%
Life expectancy at birth (years) **	67 years
Infant (under 5 years) mortality rate (2007)* (2003)***	5,7% * 23% ***
Rate of underweight children (under 5 years) *	8%
HIV rate (adults) (2007 estimate)**	0,2%
Unemployment rate (2009 estimate)**	8,5%
Employment workforce **	40% agriculture 17% industry 43% services
Literacy rate **	86,7% - 93,1% men - 80,7% women)
Primary school attendance (2007 estimate) *	61,6%
Population with access to safe drinking water * ***	86% * - 96% urban - 69% rural 75*** - 95% urban - 39% rural
Population with access to sanitation	43% * - 54% urban - 22% rural 71% *** - 84% urban - 47% rural

* fonte UNDP 2009
** fonte CIA
*** fonte INE (Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Bolivia)

PROJECTS

Officially ACRA is in Bolivia since 1985. The main needs ACRA tries to meet are mainly related to access to health and natural resource management - often not sustainable and achieved without the participation of local people - trying to reduce the marginalization of local producers in market access and encouraging their participation in the creation of added value in the production chain (llama, Amazonian nut, coffee, milk).

Currently ACRA is working for water infrastructures and models of community self-management, environmental education, development of the llama productive chain and support to the OECAs (Peasant Economic Organizations.) In the last years ACRA has also worked in rural electrification, supporting the productive chain of Amazonian nut and coffee, dairy farming activities and supporting higher education.

ACRA has worked in six out of nine departments, with particular intensity in those of La Paz, Potosí and Pando.

The methodology of ACRA in Bolivia has always aimed at strengthening the capacity for self-management and appropriate use of resources.

At the production level, ACRA tried to increase the participation of small producers at different stages of value creation, facilitating the commercialization of processed products rather than raw materials.

ACRA project partners in Bolivia are essentially grassroots community organizations (committees and trade unions,) OECAs and Municipalities. At different levels ACRA converses and builds relations with government agencies: Ministries, superintendents and other realities of civil society (NGOs and local networks representing grassroots organizations active in the areas of intervention).