Lobby and Advocacy

This program promotes the building and consolidation of a strong civil society. It empowers the civil society to negotiate, find consensus and interact with the local governments to initiate processes of local and regional development, political influence, citizen participation, environmental issues, commissions of transparency, social audits, strategic community planning and more.

Pastoral and Equality

This program has as a strategic objective to promote the concept of social responsibility of local governments and actors in the civil society. And to commit them to the development of communities practicing the right principles, social values and ethics and to take action against social exclusion, individualism, corruption and social and economic inequality.

Management of Social and Economical Projects

In this program CASM helps and encourages the social actors to initiate projects to overcome problems that affect the social and economical development of communities. This program seeks to satisfy immediate needs such as food security, the use of natural resources, and income-generating initiatives.

Risk Management

In this area the focus is on a culture of prevention and preparation for natural disasters. This requires changes in the structure of local and regional organizations. Because of the dynamic character of the environment in Honduras, there is a need for a systematic approach on the issue of risk management that contributes to a better exertion of the natural resources and other elements that affect the environment. This means more care for prevention, modification and risk-reduction.

We strive for an increase of knowledge and consolidation of organizational capacity of communities. The focus is on the implementation of risk management in the development policies of local and regional communities with a high vulnerability.

Organizational Development

The implementation of processes of organizational strengthening is focused on the improvement of organizational methods, internal processes and work style. CASM continuously trains its human resources at all organizational levels in order to consolidate its organizational knowledge and experience. In this way CASM is able to maintain a high and sustainable quality of work and obtain optimal use of the available resources.

Citizen Participators

Civil Society:
Citizens, commissions of transparency and other organizations, social development committees, emergency community advisors, foundation networks, production associations, cooperatives and micro-businesses.

Local Governments:
Mayors, members of the council, The Municipal Development Counsel and some detachments.

Alliances:
The local governments collaborating as micro-regions to solve regional problems and to interact with the national government.

The Churches:
They have a God-given mandate to protect the moral values and the spirituality of the society.

The Media:
Newspaper, radio and television are used to inform the society about Christian ethics and other aspects of the society.

The Technical Advisers:
To facilitate change processes and objectives.

Central Government Institutions:
Important participant in the implementation of development projects.

Private Institutions:
Participants in an inter-organizational cooperative process.