Adelco – Association of Local Development in Co-production, founded in 2001, is a civil non-profit organization, based in Fortaleza-Ce.
Discover our lines of action:
– Ethnodevelopment
– Inhabitability
– Participation and political organization
– Institutional Development
– Environment and Agroecology
– Food and Nutrition Security
– Human Rights
– Technical Assistance and Rural Extension (ATER)
– Social environmental Technologies to cope with the semi-arid.
Transversal subjects
– Gender Equality
– Gender, Generation and Ethnicity
– Environmental sanitation
– Environmental Education
– Ethno-ecological / Community-based tourism
Development of Social Environmental Technologies:
– Bioseptic tanks
– Rainwater Cisterns
– Agroforestry Systems
– Ecological trails
– Forest restoration
– Productive gardens
– Water quality Monitoring
– Participatory Environmental Inventories
– Environmental and Territorial Management plans in Indigenous Lands (PGATIs)
– Quick Participatory Diagnosis (DRP)
– Business Plans and elaboration of productive and cultural projects.
Along these years, we have carried out projects of solidarity-based and ethnic tourism, highlighting the local handicraft, the structuring of ethno-ecological trails, mapping, and flora and fauna participatory inventories. In the field of culture, we have facilitated trainings on museology; we have also supported the structuring of indigenous museums and the constitution of environmental acquis. In the field of family agriculture, we have invested on agroecology by supporting the organization of the crops from productive gardens and agroforestry systems; we have also endorsed the commercialization of products and the elaboration of Business Plans for Cooperative Enterprises. In the field of citizenship, Adelco also supports its partners in the institutional strengthening and in the social control with communication actions, trainings on human rights, lobby and advocacy campaigns. As for ecological sanitation, we have built cisterns to capture rain water and bioseptic tanks. We have also developed actions both of water resources monitoring and environmental education. Along these years, we have also carried out a model program for indigenous housing, and we have developed microcredit projects for housing; we have implanted the Emergency Fund for renovation and construction of popular houses and projects with productive microcredit.
Adelco in figures:
- 827 contracts of housing improvement;
- 236 of productive microcredit,
- 30 houses built using Adelco’s emergency fund;
- 67 with productive gardens;
- 574 bioseptic tanks;
- 371 rainwater cisterns,
- 2 Agroforestry Systems;
- 24 ecological trails;
- 4 indigenous museums promoted;
- More than 500 trained people.
Our mission: Contribute to improve the social and environmental conditions, by means of the political and cultural strengthening of the traditional communities in situation of vulnerability.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President: Sandra Araújo Oliveira
Treasurer: Adelle Azevedo Ferreira
Secretary: Geny Marques da Silva
SUPERVISORY BOARD
Silvia Barbosa Correia
Ricardo Figueiredo Bezerra
