Mexico

In response to the recent earthquakes, our staff team in Mexico is calling for a reconstruction that is led by the affected communities themselves.

At an event at Mexico’s Foreign Ministry on August 3, The Hunger Project launched the Mexican chapter of the Movement for Community-led Development (CLD).

At The Hunger Project, we believe that engaging community members with data is crucial to setting priorities and monitoring outcomes. By involving the local communities through data, The Hunger Project-Mexico is able to not just raise awareness, but provide our partners with the information needed to take charge of projects in their region and ensure they meet the needs of their community.

Community-led approaches to development has been critical to improving water and sanitation in in our program areas in Mexico. Learn more about the sustainability and rainwater harvesting projects led by our community partners.

The Hunger Project-Mexico opened a new leadership school that fosters an environment for collaboration among community members to resolve social issues.

The Hunger Project-Mexico participated in Semana de Evaluación (Mexico Evaluation Week 2015) to share our participatory monitoring and evaluation practices to a wider group of stakeholders.

When discussing an imagined future for a baby boy in their communities, women from the Sierra Mazateca of Oaxaca all agreed that he would probably not learn how to make tortillas. In early June, The Hunger Project-Mexico program staff visited community partners in the...

Traditional stoves in the villages where we work in Mexico fill houses with smoke that the whole family breathes in, creating poor health conditions from poor air quality. Read how The Hunger Project-Mexico is partnering with Water for Humans to improve community health and support environmental sustainability.

On September 24, 2013, during the week of the UN General Assembly, The Hunger Project and UN Democracy Fund launched the inaugural State of Participatory Democracy Report; the product of a two-year partnership between the organizations to cultivate a global community of practice among individuals striving to build capacity for effective, responsive local governance. The Executive Head of UNDEF and a representative for Mexican President Peña Nieto spoke at the event, highlighting their commitment to this project and the prioritization of local democracy in global development.

In Oaxaca, THP-Mexico, with community partners, installed ecological stoves, dry latrines and rainwater collection cisterns. THP-Mexico also coninued its work towards empowering youth by inviting youth calalysts from Zacatecas to a centralized animator training in Mexico City

During the last half of 2012, THP-Mexico had its first Inter-regional meeting and worked with 21,380 grassroots partners across 22 communities of nine municipalities in three states: Oaxaca, Chiapas and Zacatecas. In Chiapas, community partners received training from the National Institute for Cooperatives Development to begin to commercialize products in New York. In Zacatecas, THP Mexico helped revise current plans for the poultry farm. Additionally, THP Mexico joined advocacy campaigns and participated in advocacy meetings

We are proud to announce that The Hunger Project-México has been awarded the 25th annual Premio Compartir (Share Prize) in the Category of Community Development Institutions. Awards are given based on the social impact the programs have achieved, highlighting sustainability as a key factor in alleviating social challenges.

In response to the recent earthquakes, our staff team in Mexico is calling for a reconstruction that is led by the affected communities themselves.

At an event at Mexico’s Foreign Ministry on August 3, The Hunger Project launched the Mexican chapter of the Movement for Community-led Development (CLD).

At The Hunger Project, we believe that engaging community members with data is crucial to setting priorities and monitoring outcomes. By involving the local communities through data, The Hunger Project-Mexico is able to not just raise awareness, but provide our partners with the information needed to take charge of projects in their region and ensure they meet the needs of their community.

Community-led approaches to development has been critical to improving water and sanitation in in our program areas in Mexico. Learn more about the sustainability and rainwater harvesting projects led by our community partners.

The Hunger Project-Mexico opened a new leadership school that fosters an environment for collaboration among community members to resolve social issues.