农民研究促进中心 Centro de Investigación y Promoción del Campesinado

Welcome to the page of the Center for Research and Promotion of the Peasant (CIPCA) is a non-governmental development organization, founded on May 29, 1972. Its headquarters are in the city of Piura, in the extreme north of Peru. It is registered in the Public Registries of Piura under the Non-Profit Civil Associations regime; Likewise, it is registered in the registry of non-governmental development organizations receiving international technical cooperation from the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation; APCI Presidency of the Council of Ministers. CIPCA is a Social Work promoted by the Society of Jesus, located in Piura-North of Peru. Its actions are inspired by the prospective vision of the mission of the Company in relation to its preferential option for the poor. Institutional principles express our identity and convictions. It is what all of us who make up CIPCA feel and practice. And they must be the first thing that each of us must know, assume and practice as an indispensable requirement to belong or continue to form this institution. The CIPCA is a Work promoted by the Society of Jesus. His actions are inspired by the Jesuit mission based on the promotion of justice and a preferential option for the poor. CIPCA, in its 46 years of institutional life, based on its professionalism and the support of international cooperation, has developed capacities to promote and support social, economic, cultural and political processes for the benefit of excluded sectors; and it has also facilitated and promoted the protagonism of the actors of rural societies in the Piura region For this, depending on the changes in the environment and the periodic definitions of its objectives, it has been restoring and re-registering, permanently in its socio-educational functionality, but always at the service of the rural population: peasants, organizations, authorities, local leaders . In this evolutionary process, without losing its institutional awareness, it has built the capacities of a relevant regional actor, a role that the regional society recognizes; and that it is in the clear process of consolidating its regional and national positioning. Below we highlight the main milestones of this process, in which three large differentiated stages are identified, corresponding to the changes that have occurred from its origins to today: - In the first stage, from the origins to the beginning of the 90s, the rise and fall of the Agrarian Reform followed. This still remains as a social and constitutional reference even after the democratic transition from the military regime to the civil regime. However, the economic and political crisis, which intensified in the mid-1980s, undermines the capacity of the State to assume its promotional role. - In the second stage, from the 1990s to the beginning of this century, adaptation to new international conditions, the generalization of structural adjustment policies, as well as the collapse of the party system and the weakening of union organizations , change the rules of the game and force to rethink the modalities of integration of small agriculture and the rural population in the development of the region and the country. - In the third stage from the end of the democratic transition that followed the fall of the Fujimori regime until the beginning of the '10s, new challenges and opportunities are presented for institutional action with the implementation of the decentralization and regionalization process, within the framework of an exclusive growth model. In this decade, inequalities between regions and social classes have increased, showing the gap between the economic and the social, which generates numerous tensions. Despite the political context favorable to decentralization, the small coastal farmers inherited from the Agrarian Reform continue to be marginalized from the agricultural development policies. However, three promising dynamics are emerging.

CIPCA is committed to the defense and integrity and dignity of all people, especially the most vulnerable. As part of our institutional mission, we promote the creation of safe and healthy environments for children and adolescents. Therefore, all staff have the duty to defend rights and commit to maintaining an environment that prevents violence against children and adolescents.