What is Capacitar?

Capacitar is:

• A spirit of empowerment and solidarity
• A network connecting people on 5 continents
• An organization—Capacitar International with an office in California and an international team of trainers and multipliers
• Teams, coordinating groups and multipliers—in over 45 countries
• People who live with the Capacitar spirit multiplying the practices in their lives, work and communities.

The name “Capacitar” is a Spanish word meaning to empower, to awaken, to bring each other to life.

Capacitar:

• Responds to invitations based on needs identified by communities
• Collaborates with established groups and with other economic and social development effort
• Models alternative uses of power, as well as sensitivity to culture and traditions
• Develops programs collaboratively with local people recognizing that an idea conceived and born within a group has the energy to move that group
• Learns from local people’s experience in adapting practices to the needs and culture of their communities
• Trains and empowers people to be the popular educators and multipliers in their own communities
• Connects grassroots people through an international network of solidarity building relationships of cultural and personal understanding.