Caap Ecuador

Founded in 1977, Caap Ecuador is a non-governmental organisation based in Ecuador working on community development, human rights, health +3 more.

Caap Ecuador, formally the Centro Andino de Acción Popular, is a private, non-profit national institution based in Ecuador. Founded as a working group in 1975 and formally established in 1977, it designs and implements development projects that aim to improve living conditions for the most vulnerable populations in Ecuador, particularly rural and indigenous communities, women, children, people with disabilities and people in human mobility. Its areas of work include human rights, health and environmental sanitation, natural resources, productive development and organisational training. It also conducts social research, maintains a long-running register of socio-political conflict in Ecuador, and publishes the academic journal Ecuador Debate.