Our aim is to strengthen organizations as tools for local management to ensure the sustainability of actions in the long term. Through training in leadership and conflict mediation, formalizing associations, financial education, access to credit, and supply chain management, we strive to achieve greater autonomy for associations in the territory.
We facilitate business models that promote sustainable, competitive, and inclusive development by valuing natural and cultural capital, combining innovation with local knowledge in the Gran Chaco region.
Objectives
- Consolidate grassroots organizations and local leadership as a strategy for local development.
- Showcase the productive and innovative potential of indigenous and Creole women's organizations and associations.
- Strengthen networks of indigenous and Creole organizations in the region to benefit producers in the Argentinean Gran Chaco.
Based on the study of the reality and characteristics of the communities, we promote the formation of organizations arising from local leadership, jointly designing the management and conflict resolution strategy. Through activities led by key actors in the themes, we foster the development of institutional and commercial capacity for organizations and improve the operational dynamics of their networked work. We encourage associativism as an organizational model with training programs that add value to their artisanal, agricultural, and silvopastoral products through technological innovation and improved production and marketing techniques.
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Impact
The reach of our work in numbers:
foresters, livestock producers, and artisans from the region participate in various projects in this program.
Projects
Tools for each program
EXPERIENCES, REFLECTIONS, AND KNOWLEDGE
Systematizations documented in publications
2025 Annual Report
The year 2025 marked a milestone in the consolidation of our region. At the Gran Chaco Foundation, we reaffirmed our role as a bridge enabling
CHACRAS INTEGRALES
The Chacras Integrales project seeks to scale up a sustainable production model in isolated communities in the Gran Chaco region of Salta, combining agriculture, forestry,
Saving Lives, Reducing Loss: Women’s leadership in disaster risk reduction
This W20 South Africa policy brief underscores that climate-related disasters are not gender-neutral — they amplify existing inequalities and disproportionately affect women and girls, who
Empowering Women in Small-Scale Aquaculture and Fisheries for Resilient Food Systems
Policy brief by W20 South Africa highlighting the critical role of women in small-scale aquaculture and fisheries as key actors in achieving food security, climate
2024 Annual report
Throughout 2024, we strengthened a development model based on the active involvement of local communities, innovation and networking. Against a challenging global backdrop, we supported
Rural women and care in the Gran Chaco, Province of Formosa
Study elaborated by UN Women and Asociación Civil Lola Mora, carried out by the research team of Fundación Gran Chaco in the communities of Campo
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