Tag: Latin America
CAFE Livelihoods underway in LACRO
Four LACRO country programs are now implementing Coffee Assistance for Enhanced Livelihoods (CAFE Livelihoods). The three-year, $8.2 million project is designed to help more than 7,000 smallholder farmers in El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Nicaragua expand their participation in high-value coffee markets, with a special focus on “sustainable coffee” exports to the United States.
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters and CRS-LACRO Redefining Reinvestment at Origin
This summer CRS will start work on two innovative projects in LACRO funded by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. These initiatives reflect the company’s growing engagement with issues lying beyond the coffee chain, including food security, migration and climate change.
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- HIV and AIDS
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- Water and sanitation
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- M&E Standards
CRS’ M&E Standards define the key elements of project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) and an organizational environment in which M&E can improve program quality and positively impact the people
Amani Mashinani
This publication, rooted in creative initiatives to overcome ethnic violence in Kenya’s Rift Valley, is a primer in effective approaches to building peace in divided communities anywhere.
Access to HIV services for women and c…
Profiles the Maryknoll PMTCT (prevention of mother-to-child transmission) program in Cambodia.
News from CRS.org
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31 Dec 2009, 4:12 pmExcerpts from Pope's 2010 message for the World Day of Peace - Nigerien Farmers' New Menace: El Ni�o
29 Dec 2009, 3:12 pmFind out how a little concrete and a fence spares nomadic farmers a desperate search for water during a disappointing rainy season.