THE UNIVERSAL RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT
The IberoAmerican Foundation for Development ( FIDE ) focuses its efforts on development cooperation in communities that find it difficult to exercise their basic rights
The IberoAmerican Foundation for Development ( FIDE ), founded in Guadalajara , Castilla , Spain in 1991 , is realising its dream to equip people with the knowledge , methods and means to achieve development from below and from within . We have drawn up an ideal for sustained action , explained in the 17 books written by Antonio Vereda del Abril , President of FIDE . We have applied this to cooperative projects in Latin America and Spain through programs of communication , education , citizen activism and awarenessraising for development aimed at children , young people and university students . FIDE Foundation has been working for 22 years on the eradication of poverty , the promotion of democracy and the right of all people to develop .
The Foundation ’ s mission coincides with the values that inspired the Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ), and its achievements have supported the Goals :
MDG1 : Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
With more than 160 cooperative projects for development , which have contributed to the eradication of poverty for more than 4.5 million people in Latin America .
MDG2 : Achieve universal primary education
In the indigenous communities of Cochabamba in Bolivia and the Peruvian Amazon .
MDG3 : Promote gender equality and empower women
With the strengthening of the political , social and individual capacities of more than 70,000 indigenous women in Bolivia and Peru .
MDG5 : Improve maternal health
With the example of ‘ vertical births ’, which was awarded the global prize for good practice – mother and child by the World Health Organization .
From left : FIDE President Antonio Vereda del Abril , Queen Sofía of Spain and Dr Muhammad Yunus , Founder of Grameen Bank of Copan and Santa Barbara in Honduras , for 32,000 inhabitants in 30 rural communities .
Don Antonio Vereda del Abril , president and founder of FIDE , has contributed significantly to the achievement of MDG8 : Develop a global framework for development with ‘ development from below and from within ,’ which takes the wishes of the majority and ‘ Management Centers of R & D + i ‘ to configure networks of solidarity , knowledge , culture , communication , education , micro-credits , technology , entrepreneurs , access to markets and social benefits . He conceived the initiative ‘ Debt for Development ’, a model for debt exchange that was adopted by the Spanish Government ’ s official development program . He began promoting micro-credit in Lima in 1988 , he initiated ‘ communal banks ’ in Honduras and Bolivia , and has supported the formation of micro-finance institutions in El Salvador and Honduras . In Spain , FIDE is promoting a micro-credit fund to tackle unemployment .
MDG7 : Ensure environmental sustainability
With a special focus on water : during the last 10 years we have developed an ambitious program for access to healthy drinking water in the districts .