Av. Salaverry 818
Jesus Maria, Lima
Tel: (0051 - 1) 433 6610
Fax: (0051 - 1) 433 1744
Contact: Fernando Eguren
www.cepes.org.pe/

CEPES is a civil-society organization, founded in 1976, which specializes in rural development and aims at bringing its professional expertise to the task of improving the lives of rural men and women of Peru and to shape a more just and democratic society.

Member of the International Land Coalition 2003

Report Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales - CEPES seminar "Campesino Communities Today". Bringing together more than 80 participants to discuss the context and direction of development in campesino communities in Peru and other Latin American countries.

Advocacy Events - ICARRD 2006 Engaging Governments and Civil-Society: the Experience of National and Regional Networks (Andean Forum)

Knowledge Programme

Organización Social y empresas transnacionales: conflictos existentes sobre los recursos del subsuelo

Strategies for supporting social organizations in their conflicts with trans-national companies. - Results and Lessons Learned

ARnet

Research and information dissemination. CEPES is concerned with creating and disseminating information and knowledge through publications, magazines, electronic bulletins and radio broadcasts. It has a regular monthly journal, Debate Agrario: Analisis y Alternativas and a magazine La Revista Agraria focused on land reform and rural development issues. Furthermore, it has a strong research and policy expertise and knowledge of how to effectively influence public policy, which can provide vital lessons for other civil-society organizations which are similarly involved.

Capacity building of rural communities. The new liberal agrarian legislation in Peru has faced rural communities - with the dilemma of whether or not to privatize communal lands. CEPES is working with communities in the southern Peruvian Andes to design methodologies and procedures to permit them to solve the complex problems of the rights of the comunera families over communal lands, the statutory regularization of communal lands, and solving boundary disputes.

Networking and linking with the grassroots and other civil- society organizations. It has strong grassroots affiliation and serves a central leadership role in numerous civil-society networks throughout the region.

Farmers' organizations
Indigenous peoples
Peasants
Women