Guatemala $800,000

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

ActionAid USA: $40,000 Recommended for the Plataforma Agraria (Agrarian Platform), a coaliton of grassroots organizations and national non-governmental organizations that will use comprehensive rural development proposals to inform Guatemalan policy-makers and multilateral aid agencies about the need to transform the rural economy in Guatemala , and create a broad consensus on strategies for such a transformation within Guatemalan civil society.

Center for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA): $40,000 For its program in Guatemala , which seeks 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 Human Rights Legal Action (CALDH): $50,000 a) For the DE JURE project, 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); and b) as a contribution toward the down payment for an office building, which will significantly reduce overhead costs and contribute to the long-term sustainability of this critical human rights institution. ($10,000)

Ecologic Development Fund: $25,000 Recommended for Trópico Verde, an environmental justice 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.

Myrna Mack Foundation: $50,000 For its Strengthening the Rule of Law in Guatemala project, which seeks to fight impunity by reforming the justice system, strengthening civilian control of the military and working with other human rights organizations to press for the establishment of a Commission for the Investigation of Illegal Bodies and Clandestine Security Apparatus -- CICIACS.

Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA): $45,000 Recommended for Naleb', a Guatemalan indigenous rights organization that promotes intercultural mediation and respect for the country's different cultures within the Guatemalan state and society ($25,000); and recommended for 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)

Philanthropic Ventures Foundation (PVF): $105,000 a) Recommended for the Asociación de Mujeres Madre Tierra, a grassroots organization of indigenous and campesina women from the South Coast, whose activities include organizing a leadership training seminar for women activists ($25,000); b) recommended for the 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); c) recommended for 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 food security in Guatemala ($30,000); and d) recommended for 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 Social Development Law to advance reproductive health and rights in Guatemala. ($20,000)

Rights Action: $40,000 Recommended for the 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.

B. Strengthening Capacity and Civil Society at the Local Level

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

Ecologic Finance: $30,000 To support the operations of EcoLogic Finance's loan fund, which fosters biodiversity conservation and community-based, socially equitable economic development. (First installment of a two-year $60,000 grant)

Philanthropic Ventures Foundation (PVF): $50,000 a) Recommended for the Ascociación Comunitaria de Desarollo Integral Mam (ACODIMAM), a grassroots community development organization working to promote community action, sustainable development and reproductive health in Mam communities in the states of Quetzaltenango and San Marcos ($20,000); and b) recommended for the Center for Research and Popular Education (CIEP) to support its efforts to train women in rural communities to expand their role in both local and regional decision-making and development processes, and to increase the level of women's civic participation in the communities. ($30,000)

Rights Action: $37,000 a) For Rights Action's 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. ($7,000)

Strategies for International Development (SID): $30,000 For its pilot project to help farm families in 19 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 (WCS): $20,000 For its Community-based Forest and Concession Management Project in Uaxactún , Guatemala , an internationally recognized model project that helps this community to generate income while conserving natural resources.

World Neighbors: $55,000 a) For its Guatemala program, which provides technical assistance to community-based organizations in sustainable farming techniques that conserve natural resources while increasing families' income, trains reproductive health promoters, and brings the concerns of local communities to the national dialogue on rural development strategies ($35,000); 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

Latin America Working Group Education Fund (LAWG): $40,000 For general support of LAWG, which works to promote human rights in U.S. foreign policy towards Latin America, including Colombia, Mexico, and Guatemala.

NISGUA: $58,000 a) For general support of this organization whose activities include promoting human rights and the implementation of the Peace Accords in Guatemala and a U.S. policy that supports these goals ($48,000) and b) for the Human Rights Travel Fund ($10,000)

Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA): $50,000 For Human Rights and Equitable Rural 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.