All stories related to Nicaragua
Closing the gender gap
Oct 02, 2012
A new series of gender integration workshops shed light on how women are often shortchanged in development – and take aim to close the gender gap at each level in the value chain of production.
What do farmers need?
Oct 01, 2012
In Uganda, it was pangas and seeds; in Colombia, land titles and roads. In Kenya? Irrigation. What farmers need in different countries is not standard and is never static.
New farming techniques produce more food, while protecting land in Nicaragua
Aug 22, 2012
An indigenous community in northern Nicaragua is using new techniques to grow bigger and better crops – while sustaining its commitment to the environment.
Nicaragua: working for sustainable development
Mar 01, 2011
ACT member LWF/DWS is working closely with communities for sustainable development
Nicaragua: Campesinas and campesinos together to end violence
Mar 10, 2010
Nicaraguan men and women know they have to work together to overcome domestic violence.
The work of CEPAD in Nicaragua
Mar 07, 2010
Nicaragua: improving the livelihoods of local communities
ACT in Nicaragua
Organisations with HQ in Nicaragua
- Centro Intereclesial de Estudios Teológicos y Sociales (Inter-ecclesial Centre of Theological and Social Studies) (CIEETS)
- Consejo de Iglesias Evangélicas Pro-Alianza Denominacional (Council of Evangelical Churches) (CEPAD)
- Iglesia Luterana de Nicaragua Fé y Esperanza (Nicaraguan Lutheran Church of Faith and Hope) (ILN)
International organisations in Nicaragua
- Consejo Latinoamericano de Iglesias (Latin American Council of Churches) (CLAI)
- Kerk In Actie (KIA)
- Lutheran World Relief (LWR)
- Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA)
- The Lutheran World Federation (LWF)
- World Renew (WR) - formerly Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
Organisations funding work in Nicaragua
- Brot für die Welt (BfdW) (Bread for the World)
- Christian World Service (CWS)
- Church World Service (CWS)
- DanChurchAid (DCA)
- Diakonie Austria
- Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe (DKH)
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
- Inter-Church Organisation for Development Cooperation (ICCO)
- Norwegian Church Aid (NCA)
- Presbyterian World Service & Development (PWS&D)
- Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, The (PWRDF)
- United Church of Canada (UCC)
About Nicaragua
- Population: 5.7 million (UN, 2009)
- Capital: Managua
- Area: 120,254 sq km (46,430 sq miles)
- Major languages: Spanish, English, indigenous languages
- Major religion: Christianity
- Life expectancy: 70 years (men), 76 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: 1 gold cordoba = 100 centavos
- Main exports: Coffee, meat, shellfish, sugar, tobacco, cattle, gold
- GNI per capita: US $1080 (World Bank, 2008)