CEDLA, Enhanced knowledge for action: MDPA +sustainable use of natural resources

CEDLA’s strategic objective ONE: To generate critical knowledge on social transformations as a consequence of unequal appropriation and use of common goods and subsequent effects on environment, multidimensional poverty (including social inequalities), and urbanization processes (interrelationships between countryside and the cities). The most relevant studies/titles delivered under this objective in 2020 were: - Agroindustria y amazonia boliviana: el caso de la Empresa Azucarera San Buena Ventura. - Pando: ¿hacia la agroindustria de granos y carne?: Políticas públicas y norte amazónico. - La resistencia de mujeres indígenas y campesinas frente a mega centrales hidroeléctricas en Bolivia. -Mujeres y energía. - La lucha por la vida. El drama de los enfermos con cáncer.  - Impactos ambientales y socioeconómicos en la gestión de recursos hídricos: cuenca estratégica río Katari - ciudad de El Alto y municipios urbanos y rurales de influencia.  Also, the irruption of the pandemic has motivated the following materials: - Control Ciudadano 34: Crisis sanitaria, economía y políticas públicas. - Control Ciudadano 35: Producción agrícola y estado de emergencia sanitaria. - Control Ciudadano 36: Dilemas del teletrabajo en Bolivia: ¿ventajas o explotación laboral? - Control Ciudadano 37: Transgénicos: ¿uso soberano de la biotecnología o sumisión a las empresas trasnacionales? - Revista Fiscal 30: Deuda Externa Pública: Crisis del COVID-19 y financiamiento público. - Cómo afectará la crisis en las desigualdades que generan pobreza en Bolivia. - Alerta Laboral 87: Trabajadores y crisis del COVID-19: “llueve sobre mojado”  All the above mentioned publications and others are available in https://cedla.org/publicaciones CEDLA’s strategic objective TWO:To deepen the citizen participation by promoting spaces to debate about the relevance of public policies oriented to achieve a sustainable management of common goods, the reduction of social inequalities and the full exercise of human rights. Under this objective and despite of the restrictions as consequence of the pandemic, in 2020, networks and plattforms of knowledge were implemented to continue discussing about alternative public agendas in different topics. Further details can be seen in the following link:   https://docs.google.com/document/d/19-FHAOiyk2r7DuFP7QDyygBdIz9Z67A_/edit Also under this objective, CEDLA's research agenda within the scope of the MDPA perspective, continued to provide elements to debate and understand the country's situation on inequalities, multidimensional poverty and the role of public policies under the country’s ongoing development model. Together with the National Statistics Office (INE), CEDLA has concluded a national households survey necessary to release an updated version of the new MDPA index, most likely by the middle of 2021.   CEDLA’s strategic objective THREE: To promote dynamic actions through innovative processes (using media, technologies and virtual communication networks), in order to stimulate public debates and political involvement on different issues. Under this objetive, despite the COVID-19 restrictions, CEDLA has been innovative in gathering and disseminating qualitative and quantitative information to achieve the project's objectives. Several radio programs on different topics have  been produced and are available in the following links: - ¿Qué es el Coronavirus?             https://soundcloud.com/cedla/que-es-el-coronavirus - Estamos preparados para hacer frente al coronavirus?              https://soundcloud.com/cedla/estamos-preparados-para-hacer-frentre-al-coronavirus - La pobreza en tiempos del Coronavirus               https://soundcloud.com/cedla/la-pobreza-en-tiempos-del-coronavirus - Teletrabajo ¿respuesta ante el Covid-19?               https://soundcloud.com/cedla/teletrabajo-respuesta-ante-el-covid19 - Trabajadores en Salud y su lucha con el Covid-19 https://soundcloud.com/cedla/trabajadores-en-salud-y-su-lucha-con-el-covid-19

The intended outcome of the intervention is to enhance a critical knowledge to discuss about the sustainable use of natural resources and mutidimensional poverty issues in Bolivia.