Avina Americas

Recycling: there are millions of latin americans who make their living by recycling. Despite their history of environmental and productive contributions to society, they continue to live in social exclusion and work informally, suffering economic exploitation. To achieve a vision for inclusive recycling, Avina works to promote separation and differentiated collection, to formalize the work of recyclers through the recognition and restitution of labor, social, and human rights, and to ensure fair compensation for the service that recyclers provide.

Migration: Avina Americas joined forces with open society foundations, walmart foundation and fundacion Avina to promote programs that will facilitate strengthening the labor migration system in the agricultural supply chain in mexico and the united states. This includes identifying opportunities and challenges involved in advancing fair work issues in the region, as well as successful strategies, actors, and movement building opportunities.

Innovation for democracy: Avina Americas joined forces with open society foundations, luminate, ford foundation, hewlett foundation and fundacion Avina, to increase citizen participation, co-construction practices, and public-community partnerships through the use of civic technologies and open data in order to accelerate social change in latin america and to achieve the sustainable development goals. Furthermore, Avina is supporting the regional initiative (indela) to strengthen digital rights and pulsante, which supports the empowerment of the citizens.

Future of work: Avina Americas seeks to articulate efforts, social capital, and resources (from philanthropy, cooperation, the private sector, civil society, organizations that represent workers, and other actors), to impact from the global south in the creation of new global and local agreements that take into account the perspective and interests of workers, companies, governments and other stakeholders, in the construction of rules of the game for productive and labor systems, which allow consecrate a dignified life and care for the planet in the creation of goods and the provision of services.

Water conservation: Avina, along with a growing number of allies, worked to achieve the visibility, recognition, strengthening, and articulation of community efforts for access to potable water through the "iniciativa+agua." Social organizations, businesses, and governments have joined the cause, along with hundreds of local allies and thousands of community organizations in the region, including the confederation of latin american community water and sanitation organizations. Avina also aims to strengthen democracy as a means of underpinning sustainable development in latin america; for this reason, Avina makes an effort to inform decision makers about the relevant role that community water management plays in development.

Climate action: there are substantial inconsistencies in the way humanity tackles the climate crisis. One of the most significant is that the funds designed to combat the crisis reproduce traditional finance flows and rarely reach the places and people most impacted by climate change: local communities in the global south. Local solutions led by communities in the global south need to gain traction if we are serious about a just transition. Avina builds shared agendas, conducting advocacy work, and promoting innovative approaches to benefit those populations who are most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, which includes building conditions for fast, effective local grant-making that leverages scale on climate issues.

Biomes: Avina seeks to improve the quality of life of the most vulnerable populations in the large biomes of south america (chaco, pantanal, amazonia) by supporting them to exercise their right to satisfy basic needs, ensuring their inclusion in resilient productive chains and defining participatory governance schemes that have impact within and between biomes. Avina considers the biomes to be a public good and seeks to guarantee the sustainability of the ecosystem and the quality of life of residents.

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