First Prize: Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir, Mexico.

Project: strengthening the movement of domestic workers in Mexico for the recognition of their labor rights.

The Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir (ILSB) is a feminist organization founded in the year 2000 that contributes to the strengthening of social leadership and citizen participation with a gender, intercultural and rights perspective, as a strategy to advance towards equality of gender and social justice. Its mission is the formation of a critical mass of committed leaders to social justice and gender equality from a perspective of rights and interculturality to influence the transformation of realities of discrimination and inequality. The Institute's vision is to be a benchmark at the national and regional levels in innovative research, training and advocacy models to advance the equality and women's rights agendas that contribute to a democratic society.

The work and career of the Simone de Beauvoir Leadership Institute have positioned her as a reference organization in gender issues. More than 10 thousand people in Mexico and Latin America have been part of some of our training and support processes. Currently the ILSB is part of the Civil Society Advisory Group of the UN Women Office in Mexico and the Civil Society Advisory Group of the Inter-American Development Bank (ConSoc-BID). "

The winning project seeks to promote the movement to defend the labor rights of domestic workers in Mexico, through the strengthening of the leading organization in this field. The project seeks to form a broad social alliance in favor of the rights of these domestic workers, articulating the domestic workers themselves, the employer sector, the media, companies, academia, governments and civil society to make this collective visible, change of legislation in the Federal Labor Law and place this issue on the public agenda through mass communication campaigns.

More information: ilsb.org.mx

Second Prize: Wingu, Argentina.

Project: Caminos de la Villa.

Wingu is a non-profit organization based in Argentina and Mexico that seeks to strengthen the work of nonprofit organizations and projects in Latin America through the incorporation of innovative technology and methodologies.

The Caminos de la Villa project aims to visualize the state of the poor settlements of Buenos Aires in digital maps (more than 20), and integrate them into the official cartography of the City in order to develop a formalization plan for them. In addition, the platform allows channeling the complaints and claims of the citizenship to the respective authorities. The project uses technology to give citizens a tool for empowerment and oversight, since the technological platform they present allows leaders and local organizations to influence public policy in a more effective way.

Third Prize: Tierra Grata, Colombia.

Project: Baño Grato.

Tierra Grata Foundation was born in 2015 in Cartagena and since then its members have been dedicated to finding environmentally friendly solutions for communities that lack access to basic services of electricity, water and sanitation.

Baño Grato, the program of ecological toilets that does not require water for its operation and that generate composting, is a model to solve the lack of sanitation in the poorest rural areas by creating and installing a type of bathroom that does not use water for its operation, but in its place a mixture of lime, sawdust and ashes. It consists of a sanitary unit that separates solid waste from liquids, in addition to having a space for the shower.

More information: www.reconcolombia.org/concurso-2017/tierra-grata-instala-sanitarios-ecologicos