Promote the participation, leadership and events of childhood in the municipal and national areas so that they will be recognized as full members of society with their specific human rights.
Strategies of the Program:
Impact pre-school and primary education with a non-sexist focus.
Child participation with gender equality.
Communication, promotion and social sensitizing within the framework of their human rights.
Methodological and political impact.
Youth Development
Promote in the territories where Cantera is working, the leadership and impact of youth in all those areas where they are involved so that they are recognized as citizens with rights.
Strategies of the Program:
Youth participation with gender equality.
Communication, promotion and social sensitizing within the framework of their human rights.
Formation to enable them to enter into the work force.
Methodological and political impact
Local Rural Development
Strengthening of the abilities of the residents in order to reduce the vulnerability and raise the level and quality of life of the farming communities with whom Cantera works, emphasizing the perspectives of: agro-ecology, productivity, gender, intergenerational relationships, ethics, spirituality and social justice.
Strategies of the program:
Training, research, diversification, experimentation, innovation, and accompaniment in farming production and agro-ecology with the vision of safeguarding of alimentation and commercialization.
Organization of groups, collectives and/or cooperatives for the production, processing and/or commercialization with a priority for women and youth.
Health, environmental and community hygiene with the perspective of agro-ecology.
Support for educational, social, sport, cultural, ethical and spiritual development of people in the communities from the perspective of gender.
Strengthening of the promotion of sectors and communities.
Equality and democracy within the relationships of gender, organization, community management and municipal impact.
Integral development of rural youth.
Local and municipal communication.
Community Health and Alternative Medicine
To promote consciously healthy communities in the urban and rural population in order to improve the concepts, attitude and customs related to the environmental situation and health, from the perspective of gender.
Strategies of the program:
Training – Formation of groups, community leaders, health promoters and patients of the clinics.
Sensitizing, disclosure and spreading of information along with the interchange of experiences of community health.
Research of methods and useful techniques.
Accompaniment in the network of leaders of Natural Medicine and formation of local health networks .
Coordination of international institutions and events.
To contribute to the construction of a more just and equitable society beginning with the development of methodologies and organization of learning that allows for the strengthening of the capacity for critical analysis and the personal and collective transformation of those involved.
Strategies of the program:
Systematizing of learning of our social practices and other experiences.
Elaboration and distribution of methodologies (concepts and techniques).
Support in the formation of participants in the other programs of Cantera and other organizations.
Methodological accompaniment for Canter’s programs.
Interchange of information learned.
Institutional Strengthening
To strengthen the internal developmental processes in order to obtain an institutional coherence with the Mission, Vision and Objectives.
Strategies of the program:
Institutional coherence with the institutional Mission, Vision and Objectives.
Organizational strengthening and sustainability.
Processes of Alliance incidents.
Relationship with agencies with whom we cooperate and groups who contribute to our programs.
Planning, follow-up, monitoring and evaluation.
Administrative/financial follow-up and institutional sustainability.
Child Development 
Youth Development 
Local Rural Development 
Community Health and Alternative Medicine 
Methods of Popular Education 