We are the Christian Organization for Integrated Development in Honduras - OCDIH. We are a private non-profit non-governmental development organization (NGO). OCDIH supports integrated development processes, with a focus on the promotion of human capital in socially disadvantaged communities. We provide assistance in the following areas: rural development, marginalized communities, in case of disasters and in cases of social, ethnic, religious or political conflict.

OCDIH was founded on the 6th of December 1993, in Santa Rosa de Copán.

Mission

To sustainably potentiate the capacities and promote the rights of women and men and their organizational expressions, based on Christian principles.

Vision

To be a Christian organization - a national point of reference - that generates changes within the families of Western Honduras, from a perspective of justice and well being.

Our components

Sustainable management of natural resources Strengthening local processes that guaranty the access to and sustainable use of water, land and forest. 

Primary focus

• The sustainable use of small natural water springs
• Water as a human right

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sustainable production systems Promoting sustainable production systems that promote the right and liberty of the people to chose their own food

Primary focus

• Food security
• Production for the market  

 

 

Agricultural businesses and local economic initiatives Promoting innovative economic initiatives that generate employment and income within the light of equality and justice   Primary focus

• Small community bank
• Agricultural businesses

 

 

 

Citizenship and Democratization Strengthening the effective participation that guarantees democratic and transparent decision making processes in public and private spaces.

Primary focus

• Participation and citizenship
• Local management
• Social audits with a focus on transparency

 

 

                                                       

Knowledge Management and positioning of the institution in its context Strengthening the process of knowledge management and institutional sustainability that allow us to increase the quality of the services that we provide, and to guarantee the impact of the processes that we support

Primary focus

• Learning and communication
• Resource management

 

• Strengthening capacities
• Strengthening organizations - 13 different types of organizations
• Recognizing the gradual character of processes
• Implementing phases in the community processes that we support
• Strategic alliances
• Lobby

Specific strategies

• A specific working strategy for the indigenous communities
• Gender strategy
• Sustainability strategy  

 

We are interested in your help. You can help us in different ways. With voluntary work or helping us in our campigns. We are always interested and open for new ideas. Share your ideas with us! Contact.

In the light of the decentralization of our work, OCDIH is working according to a regional division: Region I with the regional office in Nueva Arcadia, and Region II with the regional office in Florída.

 OCDIH is promoting change in what we call Western Honduras, specifically in the four departments: Lempira, Copán, Cortes and Santa Barbara. Within these four departments, OCDIH is attending 10 Sectors in which we have our offices and from which we work in the communities.

From our Head Office in Santa Rosa de Copán we are monitoring the institutional development and the progress and lessons in our projects, we promote de communication of OCDIH and we organize the institutional administration.

We are working with 224 communities, 5167 families, and a total of 449 organizational structures.

 

 

We are the Christian Organisation for the Integrated Development of Honduras – OCDIH.

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Our institutional values

• Faith in and love for God, which we express in our commitment
• Families are the base, principle and end of development processes
• Reestablishing harmonic relations between God, Human Being and Nature
• Respect for the dignity, cultural values and idiosyncrasy of the human being