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The project strengthens the capacities of rural communities in Catamarca, Argentina, to protect their territory against the expansion of lithium mining and its socio-environmental impacts. In response to existing inequalities in the production and control of environmental information, the project promotes a participatory process to design and implement a community-based socio-environmental monitoring system as a tool for political advocacy and territorial protection. Through participatory assessments, mapping, training, monitoring and methodological support, the community will develop tools to produce and manage their own evidence, strengthen their organization and influence decisions affecting their territory.