Panama

This article discusses a field-tested financial mechanism developed by the Huairou Commission, the CRF resources grassroots women’s organisations across the Asia, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) regions to build their collective leadership, analyse climate and disaster risks, prioritise actions, publicly demonstrate resilience practices, and collaborate with the government to institutionalise or scale up […]

Governments in Latin America and elsewhere have implemented conditional cash-transfer programmes to improve standards of living in populations defined as vulnerable and excluded from the benefits of development, in order to improve access to education and health services, and to improve human capital. Qualitative research conducted among three indigenous groups in Panama provides lessons for […]

Patronato de Nutricin introduced a range of 18 optional agricultural technologies in the indigenous community of Chalite, Panama. Three of the technologies were adopted by more than half of the farmers surveyed, while an additional eight technologies were adopted by between 20 per cent and 50 per cent of the farmers. Farmers were more likely […]