Other URACCAN-related projects,
with the involvement of other organizations

Infrastructure Development for URUCCAN
TecsChange: Technology for Social Change -  supplies recycled computer equipment and provides technical assistance to progressive organizations throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia; provide grassroots groups with computers and the ability to use e-mail and the Internet.

http://www.tecschange.org/international/index.html#uraccan
http://www.tecschange.org/uraccan/eric-reportback.html

Grassroots Support for URACCAN
Pastors for Peace/IFCO - organize caravans of material support and volunteer construction brigades

http://nativenet.uthscsa.edu/archive/nl/9510/0059.html
http://www.ifconews.org/uraccan.html

Introducing Gender at URACCAN, Nicaragua
Susan Heald - 1997 CIDA Project - Working together with URACCAN staff and students and community activists: exploring a variety of ways of increasing the capacity of URACCAN to incorporate a gender analysis in all its work.

http://www.cbie.ca/cida/cp7369.htm

GIS Training at URACCAN: A Workshop and a Curriculum
Conservation Imaging, Inc. - hands-on training workshop in GIS that will lead to the development of a new GIS curriculum at URACCAN. In this manner, we will foster the development of skills that allow indigenous groups to monitor the status and distribution of their natural resources.

http://ci.moscow.com/uraccan.html

Acompañamiento para el  fortalecimiento de la  Universidad de las Regiones Autónomas de la Costa Caribe de Nicaragua (URACCAN)
KEPA - Finnish Service Centre for Development Cooperation- has worked with Nicaraguan NGO´s and other organizations since 1989. (Details of the porject in Spanish only.)

http://www.kepa.org.ni/espanol/contrapa_inf98.htm

Computers for Nicaragua
Earth Links - computer course at URACCAN

http://members.cruzio.com/~yogi/nicatrip.htm

Business Training & Technical Assistance
UIC - Projects 429 & 433 at URACCAN

http://data.cued.uic.edu/cued/longterm.html

RED DE UNIVERSIDADES Y PROGRAMAS INDÍGENAS: PROPUESTA PARA EL ESTABLECIMIENTO DE UNA RED ELECTRONICA DE COMUNICACION ENTRE UNIVERSIDADES Y PROGRAMAS INDÍGENAS
Amada Puhiera of URACCAN - A Proposal for the Establishment of an Electonic Communications Network Among Indigenous Universities and Projects (in Spanish only)

http://www.idrc.ca/lacro/docs/conferencias/pan1.html

Primer encuentro de líderes y autoridades sobre poder local y derechos indígenas
URACCAN - participated in the First Encounter of Leaders and Authorities on the Subject of Local Power and Indigenous Rights (in Spanish only)

http://www.proeibandes.org/eventos.html

Regional Workshop on Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge
URACCAN - participated
http://www.iisd.ca/ramsar/cop7/chiapas-ramsar-e.html

Working for Health Rights in Nicaragua
CHRIA - Committee for Health Rights in Central America - articles on various Nicaraguan/Caribbean Coast Issues, events at URACCAN
http://www.brown.edu/Courses/Bio_Community_Health168C/chria.html

Seminario Internacional sobre la Biodiversidad, Propriedad Intelectual y Derechos Indigenas
Celebrado en URACCAN; URACCAN eligida como promotora y rectora del evento y como institucion educativa impulsora del desarollo de la region como la coordinadora de dicho Comite.
http://www.sdnnic.org.ni/documentos/seminario.htm
http://www.iucn.org/themes/ramsar/forum_nicaragua_seminar.htm

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