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Strengthening and training the indigenous communicators network of Peru

Year when project approved: 
2013
Approved budget: 
US$14 300.00

Peru has about nine million indigenous citizens, who speak 43 different languages. However, there are high rates of extreme poverty among the indigenous population and they suffer constant violations of their fundamental rights. In this context, timely access to information is a means for these peoples’ progress and integrated development. Indigenous communication makes sense when practiced within the framework, world-view, language and culture of each native community, so the indigenous peoples themselves must produce, manage and disseminate information on their peoples in the media – both conventional media and their own. In this way, the national and international society will be able to better perceive and understand indigenous peoples’ reality, needs and aspirations.

Discrimination and exclusion in the media, an almost total absence of indigenous issues on the public agenda, lack of any legal normative framework to encourage indigenous media, and even in some cases government aggression, all harm and limit the exercise of indigenous communication.

To address the situation, strengthening the Indigenous Communicators Network of Peru through technical training for its members in four decentralized meetings – to be held in the regions of Lambayeque, Junín, Moquegua and Ucayali – and a central event in Lima, will position an integrated indigenous agenda in the national political debate through quality community journalism and promote public policy-making to native peoples’ right to information, communication and access to the media. The training provided under this project will take inter-cultural, gender and rights-based approaches into account.

Project details
IPDC Bureau meeting nº: 
57

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Beneficiary
Beneficiary name: 
Servindi – Intercultural Communication Services
Beneficiary description: 

Servindi, a non-governmental organization with over ten years’ experience working in the field of indigenous communication. Servindi’s team of communication professionals have experience working with indigenous communities in the Andes and Amazon regions, featuring specialties in different areas: print, radio, audiovisual and organizational communication. Servindi also has experience in designing and implementing communication strategies and plans, media plans, campaign design and other public advocacy work; as well as experience in training indigenous communicators and leaders; and organizing and coordinating forums and seminars on varied topics from the indigenous agenda, at the national and international level.

Beneficiary address: 
Calle El Parque 211, Segundo piso Urbanization San Roque, District of Surco Province and region of Lima

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Beneficiary phone: 
Tel: 51-1-557-7121
Location and contacts
UNESCO
Responsible UNESCO Regional advisers: 

Guilherme Canela, Communication and Information Adviser (gcanela@unesco.org.uy)

UNESCO Field Office:

Project contacts: 

Jorge Luis Agurto-Aguilar, Director of Servindi (E-mail: jorgeagurto@gmail.com)

Servindi (E-mail: servindi@gmail.com)

Project place: 
Lima