Guatemala $800,000

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

ActionAid : $40,000 Recommended for the Plataforma Agraria, a coaliton of grassroots organizations and national non-governmental organizations, which will use its comprehensive rural development proposals to inform Guatemalan policy-makers and multilateral aid agencies about the need to transform the rural economy in Guatemala, especially in the agro-coffee sector, as well as to create a broad consensus on strategies for such a transformation within Guatemalan civil society.

Center for Development and Population Activities: $40,000 For its Building Civil Society in Post-Conflict Guatemala Project, 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.

Center for Justice and International Law : $65,000 a)Recommended for the Myrna Mack Foundation, which aims to strengthen the administration of justice and the rule of law in Guatemala, and promote Guatemalan civil society ($40,000); and b) Recommended for the Myrna Mack Foundation to support the joint efforts of Guatemalan human rights organizations to obtain the establishment and monitor the subsequent functioning of the Commission for the Investigation of Illegal Bodies and Clandestine Security Apparatus – CICIACS ($25,000).

EcoLogic Development Fund : $25,000 Recommended for Tropico Verde, a Guatemalan environmental organization working to educate Guatemalan policymakers on environmental issues, mobilize broad social participation in environmental protection, and promote conservation and rational use of Guatemala’s ecosystems.

NISGUA : $25,000 Recommended for Naleb', a Guatemalan indigenous organization that promotes intercultural mediation and respect for the country's different cultures within the Guatemalan state and society.

Philanthropic Ventures Foundation : $135,000 To promote human rights and socioeconomic justice in Guatemala. Recommended for:

Asociación de Servicios Comunitarios de Salud (ASECSA) , an indigenous-led association of 60 community-based healthcare programs working to promote integrated healthcare and development, including organic agriculture, access to land, the midwifery model of care and traditional medicine. ($30,000)

Asociación para la Promoción y el Desarollo de la Comunidad (CEIBA) , a Guatemalan development organization whose activities include providing technical assistance for community-based development and conducting public education on the threats posed by corporate-led globalization to indigenous small producers in Guatemala. ($20,000)

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. ($40,000)

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

El Consejo de Organizaciones Mayas de Guatemala (COMG), which aims to promote the integration and coordination of Mayan organizations, and organize their participation in the development of a multicultural, multiethnic and multilingual society. ($25,000)

Rights Action : $85,000 To promote human rights and socioeconomic justice in Guatemala. Recommended for:

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. ($25,000)

Coordinación de Acompañamiento Internacional de Guatemala (CAIG/ACOGUATE) to coordinate a team of volunteer human rights observers in the 22 communities that are bringing charges of genocide against Gens. Lucas García and Ríos Montt. ($20,000)

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)

B. Strengthening Capacity and Civil Society at the Local Level

EcoLogic Development Fund : $35,000 For support of its Guatemala project, which assists poor indigenous communities to strengthen community-based natural resource management while increasing sustainable income generation.

EcoLogic Enterprise Ventures, Inc. (EEV) : $30,000 To support the operations of EEV's loan fund in Guatemala, which fosters biodiversity conservation and grassroots-based, socially equitable economic development.

Project Concern International : $27,000 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 healthcare services and strengthening the advocacy capacity of local NGOs.

Rights Action: $35,000 a) For its Community-based Human Rights Defenders Project in Guatemala, 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 ($30,000); and b) For general support ($5,000).

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 of SID's sustainable farming techniques.

Wildlife Conservation Society: $20,000 For the Community-Based Forest and Concession Management Project in Uaxactun, Guatemala, an internationally recognized model project that helps this community to generate income while conserving natural resources.

World Neighbors : $55,000 a) 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 ($35,000 second installment of a two-year $70,000 grant); and b) Recommended for Asociación Ija'tz, which provides training and technical assistance to indigenous small producers around Lake Atitlán to strengthen sustainable farming practices, increase income, and demonstrate innovative techniques to local farmers and visitors from across Guatemala ($20,000).

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

Carter Center: $30,000 For support of its four-month election assistance project in Guatemala; the project was designed to supplement the efforts of Guatemalan civil society organizations and international observers, focusing on the human rights environment and campaign finance.

Latin America Working Group Education Fund : $40,000 For its project Rights Matter: Asserting Human Rights in the Post-September 11 Context, which identifies the ways in which the war on terrorism has affected U.S. policy towards Latin America, and promotes human rights in U.S. policy towards Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico and Nicaragua.

NISGUA: $38,000 a) For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting human rights and the peace process in Guatemala and a U.S. policy that supports these goals ($35,000); and b) Recommended for Civic Political Scenario and Mayan Unity (EPUM) to support its multilingual community radio program ($3,000).

Washington Office on Latin America : $45,000 For Keeping the Promise of Peace: Defending Human Rights, Strengthening Democracy and Promoting Equitable Development in Guatemala, 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.