Guatemala $858,000

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

The Centre for Development and Population Activities: $45,000 For support of its project Building Advocacy Capacity in Guatemalan Civil Society, which aims to help Guatemalan civil society organizations work together to develop and implement social change strategies, and train individual leaders to act as human rights advocates and agents of conflict transformation.

EcoLogic Development Fund (EDF): $30,000 For operating support of EcoLogic Enterprise Ventures, EDF's green loan fund that fosters biodiversity conservation and grassroots-based, socially equitable economic development. (Second installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.)

Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA): $25,000 For NISGUA's Human Rights Travel Fund, to support human rights leaders by enabling them to leave the country quickly and by providing them with human rights accompaniment and support.

Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA): $25,000 Recommended for Naleb', to provide operating support for its activities to promote intercultural mediation and conciliation, and to build respect for the country's different cultures within Guatemala's media, legislation, administration of justice, and political system.

Philanthropic Ventures Foundation: $30,000 Recommended for Asociación de Servicios Comunitarios de Salud (ASECSA), in particular its project to promote traditional medicine and ecological agriculture in indigenous communities in Guatemala.

Philanthropic Ventures Foundation: $20,000 Recommended for Centro de Investigación, Capacitación y Apoyo a la Mujer - Center for Women's Research, Training and Support (CICAM), a Guatemalan women’s organization working to use the new Social Development Law to advance reproductive health and rights in Guatemala.

Project Concern International: $30,000 For Building Local Capacity to Improve Women's Health in Rural Guatemala, a project that seeks to improve the quality of life for rural Mayan women by expanding access to integrated women's health care services, and strengthening the advocacy capacity of local NGOs.

Rights Action: $25,000 For its Guatemala program, which provides education, training, and financial support to human rights organizations working at the community level in the regions most affected by repression during the civil war. (Second installment of a two-year $50,000 grant.)

Rights Action: $25,000 Recommended for the Center for Research and Popular Education (CIEP), to support Phase III of its Training Program for the Empowerment of Women, which seeks to increase the level of women's civic participation and expand their role in both local and regional decision-making and development.

Rights Action: $20,000 Recommended for the Coordination of International Accompaniment in Guatemala - ACOGUATE - to coordinate a team of volunteer human rights observers in 22 communities that are bringing charges of genocide against Gens. Lucas García and Ríos Montt.

Support Team International for Textileras (STITCH): $20,000 For its project, Building Women's Leadership Among Maquila and Banana Workers and their Communities, to support Guatemalan women organizing against abusive treatment in the workplace.

World Neighbors: $35,000 For support of its Sustainable Agriculture Program in the Polochic Watershed, which promotes sustainable agriculture and community capacity building among Q'eqchi' and Pocomchi' Mayan farmers living in the buffer zone of the Sierra de las Minas protected area in Guatemala. (First installment of a two-year $70,000 grant.)

Yale University: $8,000 To support the review process of the manuscript, Memory of Silence: The Guatemalan Truth Commission Report, a project of the Schell Center for International Human Rights; the manuscript is an edited English version of the official twelve volume report of the Guatemalan Truth Commission.

B. Strengthening Capacity and Civil Society at the Local Level

ActionAid USA: $35,000 For its Rural Development Project, which seeks to craft a consensus in Guatemala on a comprehensive rural development proposal, and then use this proposal for the transformation of the rural economy to inform Guatemalan policy-makers and multilateral aid agencies.

Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL): $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, and to promote Guatemalan civil society.

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

EcoLogic Development Fund: $40,000 For support of its Guatemala project, which assists poor indigenous communities in that country to strengthen integrated natural resource management in areas of importance for biodiversity conservation.

Philanthropic Ventures Foundation: $40,000 Recommended for the Center for Human Rights Legal Action (CALDH), whose activities include working with indigenous communities to prosecute high officials of two past administrations for genocide and other crimes against Guatemala's indigenous peoples.

Philanthropic Ventures Foundation: $20,000 Recommended for Civic Political Scenario and Mayan Unity (EPUM), which aims to promote an increase in Mayan civic and political participation, with a view towards the construction of a multicultural State.

Rights Action: $25,000 Recommended for the Association of Family Members of the Detained-Disappeared of Guatemala (FAMDEGUA), whose mission is to work in the communities affected by the civil war to ensure that appropriate legal actions are taken against those responsible for kidnappings, abductions, murders, and genocide during the war.

Strategies for International Development (SID): $30,000 For support of SID's pilot project to help farm families in 20 communities in the Chimaltenango region to reclaim and protect their watersheds and farmland while at the same time increasing their income and productivity, and to use this effort as a demonstration project in SID's sustainable farming techniques.

Wildlife Conservation Society: $20,000 To support the Community-Based Forest and Concession Management Project in Uaxactún, Guatemala, helping this community generate income while conserving the environment in a critical wildlife corridor that is both ecologically fragile and important to three countries.

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

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

Center for International Policy:$30,000 Recommended for the Latin America Working Group, which works to achieve a more peaceful, just and humane U.S. policy toward Guatemala and other Latin American countries.

Center for International Policy: $20,000 Recommended for the Latin American Working Group for its ‘Lessons’ project, which seeks to bring cautionary tales about U.S. Cold War policy in Latin America and its costs to human rights, into the public debate regarding post-September 11 foreign policy.

Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA: $20,000 To support the transition to a paid director for this organization which seeks to monitor and promote human rights in Guatemala.

Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA): $35,000 For general support of NISGUA, whose activities include promoting human rights and the peace process in Guatemala, and a U.S. policy that supports these goals.

Rights Action: $15,000 For general support of this organization, which funds and provides technical support to development, human rights, and humanitarian relief projects in Guatemala, Chaipas (Mexico), and Honduras.

Washington Office on Latin America(WOLA): $30,000 For WOLA to respond to threats against human rights defenders in Guatemala: a) to support the efforts of Guatemalan human rights groups to promote the establishment of an international commission to investigate clandestine groups in Guatemala ($20,000); and b) to hire a media consultant to bring more media visibility to the human rights crisis ($10,000).

Washington Office on Latin America(WOLA): $40,000 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 United States and Guatemala.