Project profile — Health Education and Disease Prevention

• Nicaragua (100.00%)

• Basic Health: Health education (12261) (100.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (significant objective)
• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• Indigenous Issues (significant objective)
• Disability (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

The purpose of this project is to provide health education and disease prevention programming for the Miskito people of the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) of Nicaragua through a partnership with the Metis National Council and the Association of Indigenous Women of the Atlantic Coast (AMICA). This is achieved through a training program for trainers from 10 communities, workshops, knowledge exchanges, the creation of a health network, and the dissemination of information on maternal and child health. This project is funded through the Indigenous Peoples Partnership Program (IPPP), a pilot program that supports the development priorities of Indigenous peoples in the Latin America and Caribbean region. The IPPP supports initiatives conceived both by Indigenous organizations in that region and by their Canadian Aboriginal partners. The partnerships created through the IPPP contribute to the sustainable development of Indigenous peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean through an exchange of knowledge, experience, expertise, and existing models.

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• Proactive disclosure
• Related activities:
• A Nation is Not Conquered - Phase II
• Awajun/Wampis Ancestral School Recovery
• Capacity Building in Development of ICTs by Indigenous Peoples, Phase II
• Cultural Ecotourism with the Cabécares, Phase II
• Indigenous Peoples Partnership Program (IPPP)
• Mining Sector - Indigenous Capacity Building
• Partnership Between the Métis National Council and Bartolina Sisa