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HEKS/EPER is making a difference in the «Good governance» in Latin America

In Latin America HEKS/EPER operates in Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, Honduras and Venezuela. Most of the people in these countries live below the poverty line and cannot meet their basic needs. The reasons for this include land evictions, political instability, insufficient government investment and recurring natural disasters. HEKS/EPER is helping to improve livelihoods and bring about a more just and peaceful society. This entails helping the rural population to obtain land titles and improve agricultural production and disaster preparedness, buttressing civil society in the defence of human rights, and supporting the government in implementing development plans. HEKS/EPER is also currently providing humanitarian aid in Haiti.

HEKS/EPER in Latin America

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Swiss Church Aid (HEKS/EPER)
Communication
Seminarstrasse 28
8042 Zurich
Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 360 88 10
E-mail: projektdienst@heks.ch

A properly functioning State is transparent and accountable in that it ensures legal certainty, peace, human rights and participation and creates economic and social conditions that ensure the population's well-being. HEKS/EPER and its partner organizations strive to ensure that civil society is involved in economic and political processes – more specifically also minorities and other communities on the fringes of society, as inclusive governance fosters stability and sustainability.

Ländliche Entwicklung und Aufbau einer starken Zivilgesellschaft (Bild Nr. 381200) TEASER
Brazil Country Programme
Rural development and empowerment of civil society

HEKS/EPER supports rural communities in improving food security and incomes, and in the building of a strong civil society.

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HEKS in Haiti
Haiti Country Programme
Promoting local development

HEKS/EPER assists rural communities in building up agricultural production chains so as to enable them to meet their basic needs with the additional income.

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HEKS in Honduras
Honduras Country Programme
Strengthening self-determination and autonomy

In southern Honduras, HEKS/EPER supports projects for the development of rural communities, the protection and defence of human rights, as well as disaster preparedness programmes.

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Stärkung ländlicher Gemeinschaften und intern Vertriebener in Konfliktregionen (Bild Nr. 984.200) TEASER
Colombia Country Programme
Rural development and peacebuilding

In Colombia, HEKS/EPER is contributing to a more just and peaceful society and to improving the livelihoods of internally displaced families and rural communities.

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