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Our Partner
El Centro para la Participación Democrática y el Desarrollo (Cenzontle) and El Fondo para el Desarrollo de la Mujer (Fodem) are sister organizations working to lay the foundation for women's economic security and political empowerment through credit, organization, education, and technical assistance.
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Activities in Nicaragua
Curriculum Development:
In 2005, WLP began a new partnership with Cenzontle/Fodem to produce a Spanish adaptation of Leading to Choices, designed for use in grassroots workshops with Latin American women.
Leadership Workshops:
Cenzontle/Fodem tested the manual in leadership workshops with both agricultural and urban workers in Nicaragua, blending the WLP Partnership leadership methodology with training on successful borrowing and financial management as part of a microcredit program. Cenzontle/Fodem will continue to use leadership training as a central component of their work to support women's economic empowerment in 2006.
Stories and Reports
WLP Convenes First Regional Institute in Central America
Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) and Fondo para el Desarollo de la Mujer (FODEM) convened the first Central America Regional Training of Trainers Institute for Women's Leadership from January 28th-February 1st in Managua, Nicaragua. The Institute brought together twenty-four participants from seven countries in the region: Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and El Salvador. Facilitators included Malena de Montis, founder and current Board member of FODEM; Sonia Morin and Luz Veronica Flores, members of FODEM’s training team; and Amina Lemrini of Association Démocratique des Femmes du Maroc (ADFM), WLP’s partner in Morocco.
FODEM held a book launch event on the first day to introduce Liderazgo Para La Toma De Decisiones, the spanish version of Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women. Leading to Choices outlines WLP’s leadership concept which is participatory, horizontal, and dialogue-based, and is the foundation for workshops and Institutes.
Malena de Montis, Nicaragua: Fodem/Cenzontle’s Economic Empowerment Programs for Women
Malena de Montis is founder and board member of WLP’s affiliate partner in Nicaragua, Fondo para el Desarrollo de la Mujer (Fodem)/Centro para la Participación Democrática y el Desarrollo (Cenzontle). Fodem/Cenzontle is a non-governmental organization which seeks to support the economic and political empowerment of women with scarce resources through financial, business, and citizenship programs which have earned them the Central American award for Best Practice from INTERCAMBIO.
Malena is also founder and member of the National Women’s Coalition in Nicaragua, and served as Latin American Coordinator of the Women’s Political Network (1995-2000) which was launched at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. At present she is actively involved in the structural organization of the Women´s Autonomous Movement in Nicaragua.
Program Associate Siobhán Hayes spoke with Malena de Montis about women’s economic position in Nicaragua and Fodem/Cenzontle’s microcredit programs for women’s empowerment.
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Nicaragua | Issue 18 (Winter 2007) )
