Quality education for a sustainable future and full living in the Peruvian Amazon

Project period:

01.07.2022 - 30.06.2025

Granted amount:

2,663,568,- DKK

Total budget:

2,837,018,- DKK

Organization:

CICED

Partners:

FORMABIAP

Pool:

Civilsamfundspuljen

Grant type:

Udviklingsindsats

World goals:

Goal 4: Quality Education

Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Goal 13: Climate Action

Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Efforts take place in:

Peru

Resume

The intervention aims to strengthen the intercultural citizenship of the Peruvian Amazonian Kichwa, Kukama-Kukamiria and Shawi indigenous populations through a culturally relevant quality education that focuses on the exercise of their rights and the socio-environmental management of their territories for sustainable living. The Amazonian indigenous peoples of Peru and other countries of the Amazon basin have been invisibilized and ignored in national society for centuries. At the same time, their fundamental rights have been systematically violated by the colonization and occupation of the Amazon. In this context, the role of education is fundamental and can contribute to increasing their public participation, organization and their capacity to manage social, economic and cultural changes from a position of critical interculturality, which based on at the same time strengthens the cultural identity of the Amazonian peoples, based on their ancestral link with nature and territory.