Restoring multidimensional security for youth in the Chiquitania region, to promote a sustainable COVID-19 recovery that leaves no one behind

The Joint Programme aims to empower and promote protective measures for youth in vulnerable situations in the Chiquitania affected by multidimensional insecurities. The JP are focus on strengthening the capacities of 150 local youth to influence social processes and dynamics of their region, in turn reducing the vulnerability of communities in the face of current human insecurities and promoting a sustainable post-Covid-19 recovery. The Joint Programme work with the communities surrounding the Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1990, through the Escuela Taller de la Chiquitania, a flagship project of the Asociación Civil Plan Misiones. The IPCC 2021 report places Bolivia among the countries most affected by climate change worldwide (environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity and the growth of drug trafficking, among others), has been aggravated by the Covid-196 pandemic. This multidimensional crisis has overwhelmed the capacity of the Escuela Taller project and municipal governments to protect the most vulnerable population, particularly young women, and men. The Human Security Approach offers a multidimensional framework and comprehensive solutions to address these challenges in an integrated manner. It also promotes a human rights-based approach, putting the local population at risk and those in vulnerable situations and consequently, facing greater risk, first. Also, the Human Security Approach is cross-cutting to this Joint Programme to ensure that insecurities are addressed jointly, comprehensively and through the articulation of partners, who in turn can jointly promote the protection and empowerment of young people in situations of multidimensional vulnerability. The most important partner of this Joint Programme is the Asociación Civil Plan Misiones and its project Escuela Taller de la Chiquitania. The main objective is to multidimensionally increase the security of young people in the Chiquitania region, affected by COVID-19 and the environmental crisis, through empowerment and protection measures that leave no one behind. To achieve this objective, the following results are expected: The participation of youth has increased in the development of human security related policies, strategies, and actions in the Chiquitania. Young people from the heritage municipalities of the Chiquitania are empowered to take bold actions aimed at enhancing their economic, food, personal, environmental, climate and community security with multipartner support.

Project symbol

BOL/22/01/HSF

Admin unit

DWT/CO-Lima

Start date

28/02/2023

End date

15/05/2024

Total allocation

93536

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

91736

Development Partners

United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security

Country/Countries

Bolivia

Outcomes

Outcome 3: Full and productive employment for just transitions