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IV REGIONAL MEETING I.A.D.B. - CIVIL SOCIETY Great Sport Villa - Eight Rivers, Republic of Jamaica 16 and 17 of February of 2004
VISION OF THE COICA ON THE COOPERATION WITH INDIGENOUS TOWNS
General vision:
The situation of poverty and marginalization that oppresses to us in the countries of the Amazonian River basin is dramatic, to each action impelled so much by the governments as by other actors they make our existence more difficult; according to study of the Bottom the Agricultural International of Development, FIDA, they are multidimensional phenomena of cultural, social and economic nature that is characterized by the exclusion, social and economic discrimination due to the ethnic origin and the sort; deficiencies to services of quality like health, education, etc.
In the same way, a study of the Cepal, indicates that 72 indigenous million we are of origin, on the base of the maintenance of the ancestral language, monolingües or bilingual, those that we lived in conditions of relative or absolute poverty. The invasion and sacking of our territories, adding with the migration, exclusion, assimilation and discrimination, are fundamental causes of the social explosion and the instability of the countries of the region.
Situation that the cooperation has contributed of direct way for several reasons, one of the main ones is not to consider, environmental the diversity and the priorities human that we have like towns and countries. Soon the speech came from the reduction of the poverty But like reducing it if actually they entail to increase them?
Specifically on us, the progress, development and integration have meant our gradual and continuous elimination; consequently if they recognized our existence and rights, but this does not justify to make businesses of million and million Euros; that in the end the beneficiaries are solely the owners of the projects and transport companies, feeding and hotelkeepers, and in spite of our transmission of wisdoms, knowledge and information single are appropriate without our consent and benefits.
b. The cooperation must act based on taking care of our necessities and proposals. The imposition of programs and projects, often fail not to respect and to not know our demands and priorities.
2. - Approach of the cooperation with Indigenous Towns: a. - The objective of the international cooperation must be to fortify and to harness autodesarrollo and the affirmation of our ideals like Indigenous Towns. This means that the cooperation must recognize, respect and fortify our rights like indigenous towns to determine our modalities and alternatives of development.
b. - The cooperation with the indigenous towns does not have to limit the economic field then our demands are integral and complex. They must also affect the fields organizational, cultural and political. Our problematic it is not single poverty and marginalization, but political also authoritarian, exclusion and assimilation.
3. - Relation of the cooperation with the national states a. - The cooperation does not have to replace the States in its obligation to take care of our demands. On the contrary, it must be added to that they perform one's duty to fortify the cooperation with fairness.
b. - The cooperation with the National States must be subject a: respect of our rights like towns, against the discrimination and the poverty, the respect to the indigenous self-government and the fulfillment of the international instruments.
4. - Involution of Indigenous the Human Resources: a. - The cooperation must recognize and respect our legitimate institutions, organizations and authorities that we have like indigenous towns. b. - The programs and projects of autodesarrollo will have to consider our culture, espiritualidad, own legal system, etc. With this it is guaranteed that the cooperation contributes with autodesarrollo with the vision of the real actors.
Initiative of cooperation with the Indigenous Towns:
In the scope of Policies of State in the Amazonian Region, we know that Brazil and Venezuela impel programs exclusively to finance projects in indigenous towns.
The PDPI in Brazil counts with 22 million USD. It was created after the Summit of River 92, with support of Germany, Japan and Brazilian England and one contraparte.
These bottoms come like donations, reason why it does not increase the debt external of the country. The PDPI in Venezuela, was created in October of 2003, denominated Guacaipuro Mission, with the objective to provide direct social and economic attendance to our Towns in Venezuela.
Not yet we know to the amount and mechanisms that will be used to finance such actions, but watched the policy of President Chávez, the resources will come from the State and donations of cooperation organisms. Although both experiences are insufficient, we create advisable to socialize them in other countries and to improve the weak points.
This would allow that a state policy is developed to us on the subject and to avoid the wastes of resources, where we are only justificatory of these expenses
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