Working for Non-

Profits in Latin

Americamy experience

working in Practical

Action (LA Region)

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.

Practical Action in Latin America

Since 1985

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%)

Areas of work

•Disaster prevention

and environmental risk

management (adapting

to climate change).

Areas of work

•Making markets work for

poor people (agriculture,

farming, forestry, rural

agro industry, etc).

Areas of work

•Improving access to

services (energy, water,

sanitation).

•New technologies (ICTs,

nanotechnologies).

Areas of work

•Education in the use of technologies.

Supervising projects

Hydro power generation.

Cajamarca, Peru

Supervising projects

Lands and Natives

communities.

San Martin, Peru

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.)

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

Communication & development

ICT for development

PA system of information:

Million downloads per year

8,000 technical docs

download for free