Bolivia

NGO CONTACTS


Bridge (Development Gender)
Institute of Development Studies
BRIDGE is a non-profit making unit specialising in gender and development based at the Institute of Development Studies in the UK. BRIDGE seeks to transform development practice by supporting global gender mainstreaming efforts and by bridging the gaps between theory, policy and practice through appropriate knowledge creation, sharing, and management, in long-term collaboration involving mutual capacity-building with Southern and Northern partners
University of Sussex, Brighton BN 1 9RE, UK
Ph#: (01273) 606261 (Intl. +44 1273)
Fax#: (01273) 621202 or 691647
Email: bridge@ids.ac.uk
Websites: www.ids.ac.uk/bridge

Centro de Desarollo para las Mujeres de la 5ta Sección (CEDEMCA)
Issues: 1) To promote and support the initiatives of organized women; 2) To make possible the development of organized centers in communities possible; 3) To promote women's participation in social and political arenas in their local regions.
Casilla No. 9352, La Paz
Ph #: 315461
Fax #: c/o 591 2 36089 (OMAK)
Email: diazalex@LatinMail.com

Centro de Información y Desarollo de la Mujer (Center for Information and the Development of Women(CIDEM))
Issues: The goal of CIDEM is to contribute to bringing about equality and the development of women in society, particularly in working class sectors from a gender perspective.
Av. Villazon No. 1970, 2do. Piso, Of. 4, La Paz
Ph #: 591-2-31-52-49
Fax #: 591-2--39211
Email: cidem@utama.bolnet.bo, cidem@caoba.entelnet.bo
Website: http://www.cidem.org.bo/

Centro Integral de la Mujer (CIM)
Issues: Women's advancement, training and defense, legal and psychological support for women who are victims of violence, organization of small businesses for women.
Casilla No. 1245, Tarija
Ph #: 591 66 38517
Fax #: 591 66 33610
Email: dolores-v@usa.net

Colectivo Rebeldia
Issues: To contribute to the empowerment of women and their participation in decision-making in order to guarantee full exercise of human rights, social justice, and that public policies respond to women's interests.
Casilla Postal #4088, Santa Cruz
Ph #: 591 3 368101
Fax #: 591 3 368101
Email: core@mail.cotas.com.bo

Coordinación Departamental de la Mujer-La Paz
Issues: To contribute to the process of dissemination and socialization of the information and socialization of the information gathered in Beijing, while at the same time develop training and promotional activities on topics related to the identification of women within a social, work and family context in both rural and urban areas.
c/o CEPROSI
Casilla 9352, La Paz
Ph #: 591 2 315461
Fax #: 591 2 322713

Liga Internacional de Mujeres por la Paz y la Libertad (LIMPAL)
Casilla 4886, Santa Cruz
Ph#: 591-3-524089
Web-site: www.wilpf.int.ch/~wilpf/about/profspan.htm

National Women's Council of Bolivia
Umbrella Organisation
Casilla 2573, La Paz

Red Nacional de Trabajadoras de la Informacion y Communicacion, RED-ADA:
Group of Journalists
Av. Arequipa Shopping Sur 6BP
La Florida Cassilla Postal 9498
La Paz
Fax #: 591-2-770903
E-mail: geo@geo.bo
Website: http://www.amarc.org/brujas.htm

Servicio Paz y Justicia- SERPAJ Bolivia
Calle Viacha 385, Apartado 5807, La Paz
Ph#: 591 2 351-179
Fax#: 591 2 351-179

Women's Centre for Information and Development
Information Centre
Avenida Villazon 1958, Oficina 3a
30 piso, Casilla 22433
La Paz

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
The organization aims to bring together women of different political beliefs and philosophies who are united in their determination to study, make known and help abolish the causes and the legitimization of war; to work toward world peace; total and universal disarmament; the abolition of violence and coercion in the settlement of conflict and its replacement in every case by negotiation and conciliation
Calle Beni, 755 of 4,
Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Ph#: (+591 10) 33 366 203
Fax#: (+591 10) 33 66001
Email: kattylimpal@hotmail.com
Website: www.wilpf.int.ch

UNITED NATIONS CONTACTS

United Nations Development Fund (UNDP)
Av. Sánchez Bustamante esquina calle 14, Calacoto
La Paz - Bolivia
Teléfono: 591-2-795544
Fax: 591-2-795820
Email: registry.bo@undp.org
Website: www.pnud.bo

UNIFEM Regional Office
Countries Include: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela
Contact: Monica Muñoz Vargas
Regional Programme Director, UNIFEM
P.O. Box 17-03-4731
Edif. Naciones Unidas 2do. Piso
Avenida Amazonas 2889 y La Granja, Quito, Ecuador
Ph #: (593-2) 246-0329, 246-0334
Fax #: (593-2) 246-0328
E-mail: unifem.ecuador@undp.org
Website http://www4.ecua.net.ec/unifem/

GOVERNMENT CONTACTS

Viceministerio de Asuntos de Género Generacionales y de Familia
Sánchez Lima 2272 Head of National Machinery
P. O. Box 1375, La Paz, Bolivia
Ph #: (591-2) 375-487
Fax #: (591-2) 361-228

NEW YORK PERMANENT MISSION

Permanent Mission of Bolivia to the United Nations
211 East 43rd Street, 8th Floor (Room 802), New York, NY 10017
Ph#: 212 682-8132/ -8133/ -4113
Fax#: 212 687 4642
Email: bolivia@un.int