This year 2024, the Comparte network has expanded its collaboration with other organizations committed to the emergence and strengthening of economic alternatives based on good living and care for life. Within this framework, a project has been initiated with Cáritas Latin America and the Caribbean, focused on strengthening its regional Livelihood and Food Security team. Between May and July, a mapping of the capabilities of the National Caritas teams will be carried out in at least 10 countries, to evaluate their ability to support economic-productive programs and make recommendations for their strategic plans.

In the second half of the year, two virtual workshops will be carried out, a field visit and an in-person workshop at a SELACC meeting, to expand knowledge based on the mapping. A coordinating team, made up of technical members of the Comparte network and representatives of national Cáritas and SELACC, will guide these activities.

For Comparte, this collaboration is an opportunity to exchange and learn new ways of supporting and managing economic alternatives, reinforcing its work in building more humane and sustainable economies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Created in 2011, the Comparte network includes 16 social centers in 11 countries and the Jesuit Service for the Pan-Amazon Region, working with peasant communities, indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants and people from urban-marginal environments, benefiting 56,094 people, of which 55% are women and 80% reside in rural areas.

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COMPARTE is a network created in 2011 and made up of 16 social centers present in 11 Latin American countries (Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay), and by the Jesuit Service for the Pan-Amazon Region (SJPAM), Training for Work of the Fe y Alegría Federation, and ALBOAN.

The network seeks to build, together with producer organizations and other allied entities, economic alternatives to the dominant development model based on reflection on our economic-productive processes to help us improve what we do from alternative economic logics. The COMPARTE Network develops a common identity and sense of belonging, promotes the exchange of experiences and methodologies, enables the relationship of different actors and energizes economic-productive processes, ensuring that they move towards a shared horizon: another more humane and sustainable economy.