1. The "Strategic Planning" workshop was held on 5-7 June 2004. About 40 people from Cochamarca Village participated in the workshop. The man in the blue shirt on the bottom right hand corner is the village headman Mr. Carrera.


2. The ICA PERU staff member inviting the participants to express their opinions on the issues at hand, solutions to the issues and their views on the development of the village`s future should be.

3. The villagers discussing and exchanging views on what should be done.


4. A representative from each group presents each group's strategic plan to the rest of the participants.

5. The coordinator, Mr. Alfaro, giving a lecture to the participants on how to use a bio-digester.


6. The participants listening earnestly to the lectures.



7. Group picture of all the participants in the "Strategic Planning" workshop. At the end of the workshop, the participants put together their own strategic plan for the village, learnt how to build a bio-digester and its operation, how to construct and maintain a nursery, how to change the domestic livestock (from guinea pig) and how to make compost.