Sustainable Project in “27 de Octubre” Community of Chimbote

By Francesca Carnesella (Camposol and Copeinca), Copeinca
09:48 AM, July 15, 2013

By mid-2011, COPEINCA made contact with the Stromme Foundation and the NGO Tierra de Niños with the aim of evaluating sustainability projects with surrounding communities. The company wanted to contribute toward the development of the surrounding families near the Chimbote industrial plant. They began working together in order to define a meaningful strategy for the future of the “27 de Octubre” residents.

In order to establish appropriate lines of action, they proposed the development of a Participatory Social Diagnosis in order to promote dialogue with key community groups to identify and analyze their problems, needs, practices, knowledge, feelings, attitudes, and perceptions regarding development issues. With these diagnosis outcomes, we shared the information with the community to set the path for the prioritization of activities.

 

Key Facts

InitiatorCopeinca
Project start
2011
Statusongoing
Region
Peru
Contact person
Francesca Carnesella
Awards
-

Project benefit

  • Strengthen local communities
  • Developing sustainable social management skills

Main Issue

Anti-Corruption -
Business & Peace -
Development X
Environment -
Financial Markets -
Implementing UNGC Principles in your Corporate CSR Management -
Human Rights -
Labour Standards -
Local Networks -

Project Type

Advocacy of global issues -
Business opportunities in low income communities/countries -
Project funding -
Provision of goods -
Provision of services/personal -
Standards and guidelines development X

Partner

To ensure that development plans were articulated with the community, we decided to support them in developing their Local Development Plan, linking it with the District Development Plan and Regional so they could align national policies and budgets and the “27 de Octubre” community could be included formally in local priorities. We also designed a training plan to develop sustainable social management skills and leadership in the leaders and people of the community – in 2012 more than 10 working sessions were held in order to strengthen the bond with them. Within this plan, needs and interests were considered and prioritized. After establishing benchmarks and indicators to measure each project, they voted, validated, and chose to work in the following:

Project Status Comments
Technical support for obtaining legal titles In progress Two attorneys are working to identify and obtain sanitary approval of the properties
Legal technical support to implement drainage projects Done Was submitted to the community
Building a recreational family park Done Recreational space that allows healthy recreation. Inaugurated on October 27, 2012
Legal technical support to implement drainage projects Starting 2013 Allow access control, trailers and evil perpetrators to avoid accidents and thefts
Healthy Homes Project Starting 2013 Training and implementation of improvements in practices and customs of the community

The progress of these projects is the just the beginning of many successful future activities for this prosperous community – and COPEINCA is proud to be able to support them.

This project description was originally presented in the Global Compact International Yearbook 2013.

About the Authors
Carnesella, Francesca

 Francesca Carnesella works as a Corporate Affairs Manager manager for Camposol as well as Copeinca in Peru.

 
Copeinca

Copeinca is a Peruvian company that owns several fish processing facilities in Peru and operates its own fishing fleet.

 
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect CSR Manager's editorial policy.
 
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