Meeting Report: Jamie Choto (Procomes)
Meeting Report: Jamie Choto (Procomes)
Location: Procomes office
Date: 14/04/09
Time: 09:00-10:30
Main topic: Working methods of Procomes (in Mejicanos)
Participants: Jamie Choto, Eduardo, Victor Perez (Barbara, Dieuwer & Wouter)
Introduction
We were already familiar with some of the work that Procomes did in multiple communities in Mejicanos. They currently work in 9 out of the 14 departments.
Jamie Choto explained that they work closely with the Municipality and with national government in shelter response. Procomes has connections with different actors, see figure ##. The chair is formed by people from the community.
Organization
The main interest is to prevent, secondary is to react and they also help during the emergency phase. The organization has been working for 24 years in 4 programs:
- (local) people development
- basic houses
- enterprises/businesses
- microcredit
The process of covering needs:
1. Intercommunity (Intercommunal) center, group of people belonging to each community
2. Talk to mayor of Municipality
3. Organize principals
4. Decide with Municipality how to use funds
They make ‘Inventory-trips’ to define problems for community meeting. Choto explained that they are forced to first define 5 main problems, formulate solutions, project development, get funds and then solve. About the financial capacity they repeated the situation of last year, when there was 1500$ to be distributed over 16 communities for interventions.
Capacity building
They explain their way of capacity building: assist and guide people with building houses, so later on they can help other and/or take on a new job. There are success stories about this and we have the opportunity to meet two women who experienced this incentive, implemented by Procomes.
Risk prevention/reduction
They explained that since 2008 the efficiency of the alarm system improved. With the help of a metrological system, they get information about floods, strong winds and earthquakes. The information goes through SNET (national government) to inform the Municipality and communities.
During the summer they have scenario trainings and programs in the schools to raise risk awareness. During this time they have the opportunity to focus more on prevention, e.g. they go around the neighbourhood checking on trees which form a risk. The added with an example where heavy rains caused erosion and electricity poles and wires were damaged last summer.
Documentation
We received documentation in the form of educational guides and digital information on CD with lectures. We can contact them through e-mail, find more information their website and request information about the necessities lists, work plans and the places of resettlements in the community of Montreal.
We planned to visit to an area in Cuscantancingo accompanied by people of Procomes. They constructed a settlement there to move 32 families from a high risk zone to safer environment. With observation and interview as our main tool we aim to gather information about what incentives this response caused.
Location: Procomes office
Date: 14/04/09
Time: 09:00-10:30
Main topic: Working methods of Procomes (in Mejicanos)
Participants: Jamie Choto, Eduardo, Victor Perez (Barbara, Dieuwer & Wouter)
Introduction
We were already familiar with some of the work that Procomes did in multiple communities in Mejicanos. They currently work in 9 out of the 14 departments.
Jamie Choto explained that they work closely with the Municipality and with national government in shelter response. Procomes has connections with different actors, see figure ##. The chair is formed by people from the community.
Organization
The main interest is to prevent, secondary is to react and they also help during the emergency phase. The organization has been working for 24 years in 4 programs:
- (local) people development
- basic houses
- enterprises/businesses
- microcredit
The process of covering needs:
1. Intercommunity (Intercommunal) center, group of people belonging to each community
2. Talk to mayor of Municipality
3. Organize principals
4. Decide with Municipality how to use funds
They make ‘Inventory-trips’ to define problems for community meeting. Choto explained that they are forced to first define 5 main problems, formulate solutions, project development, get funds and then solve. About the financial capacity they repeated the situation of last year, when there was 1500$ to be distributed over 16 communities for interventions.
Capacity building
They explain their way of capacity building: assist and guide people with building houses, so later on they can help other and/or take on a new job. There are success stories about this and we have the opportunity to meet two women who experienced this incentive, implemented by Procomes.
Risk prevention/reduction
They explained that since 2008 the efficiency of the alarm system improved. With the help of a metrological system, they get information about floods, strong winds and earthquakes. The information goes through SNET (national government) to inform the Municipality and communities.
During the summer they have scenario trainings and programs in the schools to raise risk awareness. During this time they have the opportunity to focus more on prevention, e.g. they go around the neighbourhood checking on trees which form a risk. The added with an example where heavy rains caused erosion and electricity poles and wires were damaged last summer.
Documentation
We received documentation in the form of educational guides and digital information on CD with lectures. We can contact them through e-mail, find more information their website and request information about the necessities lists, work plans and the places of resettlements in the community of Montreal.
We planned to visit to an area in Cuscantancingo accompanied by people of Procomes. They constructed a settlement there to move 32 families from a high risk zone to safer environment. With observation and interview as our main tool we aim to gather information about what incentives this response caused.
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