We promote women’s autonomy by enhancing their economic activities, organizing their own associative spaces where they can share experiences, improve self-esteem, and enhance their quality of life. These spaces provide women with a supportive environment where they can exchange skills and knowledge, fostering personal and professional growth. By coming together, women can build strong networks that lead to collaborative projects and increased economic opportunities. Additionally, these spaces empower women to advocate for their rights and influence decision-making within their communities.
In recent years, rural women have demonstrated leadership within their communities while simultaneously empowering themselves, receiving training, and influencing other areas of community life such as sexual and reproductive rights and adult education. Advocacy plays a crucial role in advancing women’s rights by raising awareness and pushing for policy changes that address gender inequalities. Through collective action, women are able to articulate their needs and demand fair treatment in areas such as education, healthcare, and employment. As a result, advocacy efforts help create a more equitable society where women’s voices are heard and their contributions are recognized.
“Atchinai” means “women” in wichí language
GOALS
- Encouraging women to play a leading role in community political life.
- Promoting processes of transformation to actively involve rural women in decision-making spaces at the local, national, and international levels.
- Improving the quality of life, economic development, and empowerment of rural women as a social group.
We create associative spaces for women based on their cultural characteristics. The goal is to reclaim their own spaces, strengthen them as social and political entities for economic autonomy, and enable them to participate in decision-making processes with state, non-state, and community actors, generating public policies.
We facilitate spaces for meetings, training, awareness, and empowerment to prevent and eradicate all forms of violence against women, involving various government sectors, international cooperation, and the private sector.
We highlight the work of rural women and their transformative capacity through the use of technologies.
We establish and participate in networks to influence public policies with an intersectional vision. Thus, Fundación Gran Chaco is part of the Women20 delegation, a G20 working group on the economic empowerment of women. We participate in the Women and Gender Constituency, the official civil society group on gender and climate change at COP, and are part of the Civil Society Advisory Council of UN Women. As an organization, we focus on training state and non-state actors in territorial approach methodology, intersectionality, gender, and climate change.
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Impact
The scope of our work in numbers:
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EXPERIENCES, REFLECTIONS, AND KNOWLEDGE
Systematization 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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