Creation of a Network to Strengthen Local Capacities for Community and Environmental Development: the RUECA Project

AMOUNT: $12,000 US

PROJECT LEADERS: Mark S. Spalding, Francisco Lara Valencia

INSTITUTIONS: University of California, San Diego and Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

RUECA is a project to update, establish and promote a binational network of professors, researchers, students, and local community agencies in Tijuana, northern Baja California and California in order to build local capacities for community and environmental development and focusing on the Baja California/California - U.S./Mexico border. RUECA was designed to further develop networks, coordination and alliances to share knowledge concerning border issues, training opportunities as well as information that improve the efficiency of community and environmental programs and projects.