Guatemala $778,000

A. Strengthening Guatemala's National Level Civil Society Institutions and Policies

Center for Justice and International Law: $40,000
Recommended for the Myrna Mack Foundation, which aims to strengthen the administration of justice in Guatemala as well as the Inter-American human rights system, through prosecution of the Myrna Mack case.

EcoLogic Development Fund: $25,000
Recommended for support of Trópico Verde, a new Guatemalan environmental organization working to influence national environmental policy, mobilize broad social participation in and commitment to environmental protection, and promote conservation and rational use of Guatemala’s ecosystems.

• Mujeres Kaq’la, a Mayan women's rights and leadership development organization in Guatemala ($25,000).
• Naleb', which seeks to build respect for the country's different cultures into Guatemala's political organization, administration of justice, legislation, and media, as well as to promote intercultural mediation and conciliation ($25,000).

• Civic Political Scenario and Mayan Unity (EPUM) in its efforts to promote and encourage Mayan civic and political participation, with a view towards the construction of a multicultural State ($20,000).
• Council of Mayan Organizations (COMG), to support an institutional strengthening process which will improve its capacity to promote the integration and coordination of Mayan organizations, and organize their participation in the development of a multicultural, multiethnic and multilingual society ($34,000).
• Center for Human Rights Legal Action (CALDH) in support of its legal program, 'Justice and Reconcilation - De Jure,' which works directly with indigenous communities to prosecute high officials of two past administrations for genocide and other crimes against Guatemala's indigenous peoples ($40,000). (First installment of a two-year $80,000 grant.)

Rights Action: $65,000 To support of its human rights program in Guatemala. Recommended for:

• ACOGUATE - a coalition of international organizations that work in Guatemala - to coordinate a team of volunteer human rights observers in 20 communities that are bringing charges of genocide against Gens. Lucas García and Ríos Montt ($25,000).
• National Coordination of Campesino and Indigenous Organizations (CONIC), a Guatemalan organization that works with Mayan campesinos for economic justice and supports their struggles for legal rights to their land ($40,000).

U.S./Labor Education in the Americas Project: $20,000
Recommended for the Support Team International for Textileras (STITCH), which supports Guatemalan women organizing against abusive treatment in the maquilas.

Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA): $30,000
To support the Guatemala component of WOLA's Central America Advocacy Training Program, which aims to strengthen the advocacy capacity of civil society organizations, including those focusing on women's rights, the rights of campesinos and of indigenous people. (Second installment of a two-year $60,000 grant)

B. Strengthening Capacity and Civil Society at the Local Level

Concern America: $20,000
For the Women's Health Component of its Integrated Community Health Project, which is designed to provide access to quality health care for Guatemalan women in returned refugee communities and neighboring communities in the Las Cruces region of Petén, through the training of health promoters, water and sanitation technology specialists, midwives, and women's health/rights workers.

EcoLogic Development Fund: $40,000
To promote sustainable livelihood generation in areas of importance for biodiviersity conservation by strengthening integrated natural resource management. (Second installment of a two-year $80,000 grant.)

EcoLogic Development Fund: $30,000
Recommended for EcoLogic Enterprise Venture, which provides loans to community-based eco-enterprises. (First installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.)

Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA: $20,000
For support of its Puentes de Paz (Bridges of Peace) project to strengthen skills and leadership of local health promoters while meeting the urgent need for mental health services among indigenous women.

Philanthropic Ventures Foundation: $30,000
Recommended for ASECSA for its Agriculture for Health and Traditional Medicine Project, which provides training in food security and traditional medicine within a sustainable agriculture framework, working with 20 community health programs in 20 rural communities in the Highlands region of Guatemala.

Project Concern International: $45,000
To improve the quality of life for rural Mayan women by expanding access to integrated women's health care services, strengthening the advocacy capacity of local NGOs, and increasing the local awareness of and response to violence against women.

Rights Action: $25,000
To provide education, training, and financial support to human rights organizations working at the community level in the regions most affected by repression during Guatemala's civil war. (First installment of a two-year $50,000 grant.)

Seva Foundation: $20,000
Recommended for Nueva Vida, a community-based organization that organizes Mayan women in Aguacatán, Huehuetenango and provides them with training in a wide range of areas from leadership development to health promotion.

Strategies for International Development (SID): $30,000
For support of SID's project to help 1,800 farm families in 60 communities in the Chimaltenango region to reclaim and protect their watersheds and farmland while at the same time increasing their income and productivity, in partnership with ALTERTEC, a Guatemalan NGO.

Wildlife Conservation Society: $20,000
To support the third year of the Community-based Forest and Concession Management Project in Uaxactun, Guatemala.

World Neighbors: 30,000
To promote sustainable agriculture and community capacity building through the Sustainable Agriculture Program in Sierra de las Minas, which works with Q'eqchi' and Pocomchi' Mayan farmers living in the buffer zone of the Sierra de las Minas protected area in Guatemala ($30,000).

World Neighbors: 20,000
Recommended for Asociacion Ija'tz, which works to strengthen the community organizing, agro-ecologic production and commercialization of Mayan small producers in San Lucas Toliman and around Lake Atitlan.

C. Promoting a Just U.S. and Multi-lateral Policy toward Guatemala that Fosters Human Rights and Socioeconomic Justice

Center for International Policy: $54,000
Recommended for the Latin America Working Group for a) its general activities, which include pressing for the implementation of the peace accords in Guatemala, calling international attention to important outstanding human rights cases, and advocating for judicial and military reforms in Guatemala ($25,000); b) a strategy development program to enable to Guatemala subgroup to work more effectively towards improving U.S. and multilateral policy towards Guatemala for the next two years, while at the same time increasing the coalition's internal cohesion, effectiveness and coordination ($26,000); and c) a project to investigate lessons that can be drawn from previous outcomes of U.S. policy toward Latin America, particularly its human rights implications, for application in current U.S. policy toward the region and the rest of the world ($3,000).

Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA): $50,000
For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting human rights and implementation of the peace accords in Guatemala and a U.S. policy that supports these goals ($35,000), and for its Emergency Travel Fund ($15,000).

Washington Office on Latin America: $20,000
For Keeping the Promise of Peace, a project to support human rights, democratic consolidation, and social and economic justice in Guatemala through policy advocacy and media outreach in both the U.S. and Guatemala, focusing on the fifth anniversary of the peace accords.