|  The
program stimulates community participation
and learning in the area of technical-political
knowledge leading to more transparent government
activity and a broad integrated perspective
to inform decision making.
The
program aims to strengthen traditional values,
indigenous organizational practices (system
of communal duties, assembly, tequio-communal
work tasks, council of elders, etc). We
write up and disseminate documentation of
these practices especially to the younger
generation with the hope that this will
contribute in improved political functioning
of Oaxaca’s municipalities.
The
Program aims to bring about the following
changes:
•
Indigenous Governments capable of generating
resources, capacity to initiate and carry
out projects to build infrastructure for
their communities and constituencies.
•Indigenous local governments which
respond to the needs of indigenous women
• Increase the involvement of local
citizens in local decisión making.
• Strengthen traditional local government
functioning around the central value of
respect and service to its electoral constituency.
• Strengthen local governments especially
in the areas of creativity, imagination,
political capability, and administrative
ability; local governments which in addition
to being competent administrations are also
capable negotiators imbued with attitudes
of respect, listening and tolerance.
• Strengthen traditional indigenous
forms of self-government including community
assemblies, council of elders, and ad-hoc
committees which sustain a healthy diversity
of local government.
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Four
principles of political practice undergird
the Program of Municipios and Indigenous
Peoples: autonomy, local government,
communal participation, and traditional indigenous
institutions. The Program strengthens local
governments through training, improving administration
and through the development of legislation.
The Program strongly promotes transparency
of decision making and financial management.
Program
Coordinator: