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Bolivia Country Card -2020 09 - UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2020 HI -Bolivia Country Card -2020 09 - UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2020 Country card Bolivia 1 HI -Bolivia Country Card -2020 09 - UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2020 HI Team and intervention areas HI BOLIVIA, in the Latin America Regional Program, has 13 staff members 2 HI -Bolivia Country Card -2020 09 - UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2020 General data of the country a. General Data Country Bolivia Peru Belgium Population 11.5 32.5 11.5 HDI 0.7 0.75 0.9 IHDI 0.53 0.61 0.84 Gender 0.94 0.95 0.97 development index Maternity 268 157 mortality) GINI Index 42.2 42.8 27.4 Population under 810 2.529 42.168 HCR mandate INFORM index 4.2 4.7 1.9 Fragile state 75 67.6 27.1 index Development 726.93 441.54 0 aid (in millions USD) b. Humanitarian law instruments ratified by the country Humanitarian law instruments Status Mine Ban Treaty Ratified on 09/06/1998 Ratified on 30/04/2013 Convention on Cluster Munitions UN Convention on the Rights of Ratified on 16/11/2009 Persons with Disabilities 3 HI -Bolivia Country Card -2020 09 - UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2020 c. Geopolitical analysis As a middle-income country, Bolivia remains one of Latin America’s poorest nations. Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, was first elected in 2005. Since then, progress has been made in the areas of poverty reduction, education, health, recognition and inclusion of the country’s 36 ethnic groups and indigenous cultures. Bolivia is going through a post-electoral crisis since the presidential elections of October 2019. Evo Morales had declared himself the winner of the presidential election for a fourth term, but the opposition had cried fraud. After weeks of protests, the president resigned and fled Bolivia, leaving the police and army behind. He fled first to Mexico and then to Argentina, and Añez became interim president in November 2019. She promised to lead a transitional government in order to call new elections in 2020. The general election, postponed twice because of the Covid-19 pandemic, will take place in a context of strong political polarization and health crisis. Former President Evo Morales, exiled in Argentina, is polarizing a deleterious and violent Bolivian election; the vote is scheduled for October 18, 2020. Despite this progress, the economic model implemented in Bolivia, based on extractivism, has failed in many aspects and is not meeting the basic needs of the population. Bolivia still ranks highest in percentages of: poverty (38,6%) and extreme poverty (16,8%), teenage pregnancies, violence against women, etc. Limitations are observed in the quality of health and education services, there is no food security, increased citizen insecurity, high rate of unemployment, particularly in youth. Bolivia is regularly affected by natural disasters and effects of climate change on agricultural activity are already visible, upsetting the economy of the country. 4 HI -Bolivia Country Card -2020 09 - UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2020 Summary of HI presence in the country HI initiated activities in Bolivia in 2011 implementing an inclusive local development (DLI) project in the department of Potosí with a local NGO, Ayninakuna until the end of 2013. Between 2014 and 2016, the HI program thrives with 3 projects: - Support to establishing 7 pilot rehabilitation centers in 2 country’s poorest regions aimed at supporting the national strategy. - Access to decent work for persons with disabilities and parents in the Municipality of El Alto. - Inclusive disaster risk management (DRM) in the departments of Potosí, Oruro and La Paz. As of 2017, the following projects are being implemented: "Nationwide scaling up of rehabilitation centers" (7 of the 9 departments of Bolivia) and "Access to decent work for persons with disabilities and parents in the municipalities of El Alto and La Paz”. 5 HI -Bolivia Country Card -2020 09 - UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2020 Overview on ongoing projects Sectors of services where HI conducts projects and focus on beneficiaries and operational partnerships Objective of Dates of the Main sectors of Partners Location project in the Main activities Beneficiaries Final beneficiaries project and intervention sector donors HUMANITARIAN Address the most Distribution of food kits and 375 families 30,000 who will have Departmental Municipalities LUXEMBURG ASSITANCE urgent needs of hygiene kits to the most (approximately 1,500 access to better Secretary of of Caracollo, MOFA April – RESPONSE TO vulnerable vulnerable households people) will benefit information on the Health of Huanuni, September COVID-19 populations, from the distribution of prevention of COVID- Oruro Oruro, El Alto. 2020 SITUATION particularly people Implementation of a support the kits. 19 and whose with disabilities and fund for access to basic Municipal the elderly, affected health services 100 people with communities will be Autonomous by the COVID-19 disabilities and older less affected by the health crisis, and Supply of personal protective people with better virus Government contribute to the equipment against COVID- access to health of El Alto prevention of the 19 for health personnel and services virus in Bolivia authorities/partners Municipal Unit 100 Health for the Training sessions on professionals in the Attention of prevention and protection department of Oruro Disabled measures against COVID-19 People in for partners 25 members of Caracollo and government 6 HI -Bolivia Country Card -2020 09 - UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2020 authorities, civil society Huanuni and community leaders trained in prevention and protection Covid 19 Physical & Develop accessible, Training of health/rehab 15 Rehabilitation 15 rehabilitation center in Ministry of Departments DGD 2017- Funcional comprehensive and service providers centres (RC) in 6 6/9 dept. Health: of , Oruro, 2021 Rehabilitation quality Strengthening quality of departments national & Potosí, Beni, rehabilitation service and access Direct: 6,000 users – departmental Pando, Santa UNICEF services for all Implementation of an Direct: 6 from the Ministry of Health levels Cruz, December throughout the community outreach 4,535 people with -10 from SEDES (Dept Cochabamba. 2019 - March country. approach disabilities (PwD) level)- 15 Rehab 2021 Support to Ministry of Health 137 rehab 40 rehab. professionals (RC) centres professionals & 314 - 80 primary health workers primary health workers Network of trained Indirect: local health 51 children clubfoot 342,000 people (population) services 23 professionals from 4 target municipalities trained on clubfoot Universidad 1173 children early Population potentially Mayor de San detection reached: 555,130 Andrés 136 rehab (UMSA) and professionals trained Universidad Indirect: Tecnológica 5 18,140 family de Oruro members of users of (UTO) rehab centres Livelihoods Improve access to Training of service providers Direct: 323 PwD, 10 Direct: 350 PwD & care Municipal El Alto DGD 2017- inclusive vocational Support to municipal service providers, 140 keepers Autonomous La Paz 2021 training and job inclusive employment HR managers 40 public servants – Government placement services services Indirect: 30 company managers and of El Alto 7 HI -Bolivia Country Card -2020 09 - UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2020 for PwD enabling Support to private sector for 1615 family members HR personnel - (GAMEA) labor inclusion. inclusion of PwD of PwD - 25 facilitators 10,000 population Municipal Awareness raising of training processes - Autonomous Policy work with Ministry of 5 media mobilized in Indirect: Government Labour favour of inclusion - 1750 family members of La Paz Linking PwD to employment 13 companies with (GAMLP) opportunities employment Population potentially FAUTAPO opportunities for PwD reached: 3430 Foundation 23.425 people (NGO) sensitized Universidad Mayor San Andres (UMSA) ICCO: Manqa Schools Ministry of Labor SHR Promote the full Participatory construction of 280 people between 2,500 people Ministry of Oruro, UNFPA exercise of Sexual inclusive and accessible Service Providers Population potentially Justice and El Alto, 2021-2022 and Reproductive material on Comprehensive 200 parents, guardians reached with awareness : Institutional Sucre, Rights of persons Education on Sexuality, and young people with 50,000 Transparency Cochabamba, with disabilities, Gender-based Violence, disabilities - National Potosi, Cobija. including the right Sexual Rights and members of the Directorate for to a life free of Reproductive Rights Disability Unit Persons with violence and access Disabilities to comprehensive Training of service providers sexuality education of integral care for people Municipal with disabilities, parents, units for guardians and young people people with with disabilities disabilities Technical support to Municipal Municipal Disability Units Government 8 HI -Bolivia Country Card -2020 09 - UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2020 of El Alto- Communication strategy for Direction of the visibility of persons with people with disabilities and the exercise disabilities. of their sexual and reproductive rights Strengthening of the General Directorate for Persons with Disabilities of the Ministry of Justice and Institutional Transparency (MJTI) GVB Community-based Systematize the model of n/a Women with The Gregoria Bolivia World Bank strategy with an community agents in disabilities/mothers/caretaker Apaza October 2020 inclusive approach prevention and care of of children with disabilities, Women's – June 2022 for the prevention gender-based violence migrant and indigenous Promotion and care of violence women, girls and Center against women Improve the current model adolescents (CPMGA) with regard to the inclusion of particularly vulnerable State and civil society The Bolivian groups such as women with organizations working in the Catholic disabilities/mothers/caretaker field of protection against University of children with disabilities, violence and abuse in Bolivia. "SAN PABLO" migrant and indigenous women, girls and adolescents. Analyze the institutional and financial sustainability of the model and develop guidelines for its adaptability and replicability. 9 HI -Bolivia Country Card -2020 09 - UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2020 Disseminate the inclusive model 10 HI -Bolivia Country Card -2020 09 - UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2020 Donors DGD UNICEF European Commission - ECHO UNFPA PQDI Banco Mundial 11 .
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