LearnLink Projects: ECUADOR

NGO Strengthening/Sustainability in Ecuador

In recent years, USAID/Quito has intensified a strategy of strengthening key institutional partners for long-term sustainability. One aspect of this effort involved building the electronic communication capacity of important NGO partners to enable them to network with and provide services to other partners in Ecuador and the Andean region. An increased capacity for publicity via the Internet has increased the NGOs’ ability to find continued funding sources for their initiatives.

USAID/Quito provided support to LearnLink to help strengthen the electronic communication capacity of the Centro de Estudios de Población y Paternidad Responsable (CEPAR), an NGO partner providing family planning research and related services in Ecuador. LearnLink’s technical support to CEPAR included:

• assisting in the creation and maintenance of a Web site for CEPAR to improve existing communication among national and regional population and health organizations;
• producing an online version of CEPAR’s Correo Poblacional y de la Salud newsletter;
• developing CEPAR’s electronic networking with health and population NGOs in Ecuador and the Andean region in general;
• assisting in the creation of other electronic informational products; and
• developing strategies and models to improve cost recovery.

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