GUATEMALA  $665,000

A. PROMOTING HUMAN RIGHTS THROUGH U.S. POLICY 

Latin America Working Group Education Fund  (LAWGEF):  $60,000   For general support of this organization, which seeks to promote human rights in U.S. foreign policy towards Latin America. www.lawg.org

Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA):  $45,000  For its Protecting Human Rights in Guatemala project, which supports human rights, democratic consolidation and social and economic justice in Guatemala through analysis, policy advocacy and media outreach in the United States and Guatemala ($40,000); and for general support ($5,000).        www.wola.org

Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA):  $40,000  For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting human rights and social and economic justice in Guatemala, including implementation of the 1996 Peace Accords, and promoting a U.S. policy that supports these goals.

B. RESOURCE RIGHTS FOR INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES

ActionAid International USA (AAI USA):  $35,000  For Action Aid Guatemala’s project to strengthen the campesino movement ($20,000); and recommended for support of the Sector de Mujeres (Women’s Sector), a national advocacy network whose member organizations monitor the implementation of policies intended to benefit women, promote gender equality, and build greater economic, political, cultural and social agency among Guatemalan women ($15,000).       

Asociación para la Promoción y el Desarrollo de la Comunidad—“Ceiba”:  $100,000  For its Defending the Resources of Indigenous Communities project, which works with municipal and indigenous communities and organizations opposed to mining, educates communities about the role of trade agreements in promoting resource exaction, and advocates at the national and international level for more equitable trade rules.

E-Tech International:  $10,000  For its activities in conjunction with Guatemala and U.S. advocacy organizations to develop a long-term independent environmental assessment of the impacts of the Marlin Mine, as well as the potential impact of other nearby concessions, on surrounding communities in Guatemala.

Fund for Global Human Rights:  $20,000  Recommended for  the Asociacion de Desarrollo Integral San Miguelense - ADISMI (Association for Integral Development of Sam Miguel).  A community based organization in San Miguel that works with residents to assert their rights and defend the community. 

Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA):  $30,000  Recommended for Trópico Verde, an environmental organization that mobilizes popular participation in environmental protection efforts; promotes the conservation of forests, wetlands and biodiversity; and educates policymakers on environmental concerns. 

Rights Action:  $40,000  For its Struggle Against the Goldcorp Mine project in Guatemala, to provide training, financial and international advocacy support to community-based human rights defenders working to break the impunity of past repression, and to protect the natural resources of indigenous communities from threats such as mines and dams ($10,000); and recommended for the National Coordination of Indigenous and Campesino Organizations (CONIC), an indigenous organization working with indigenous and campesino communities for economic justice and legal rights to their lands ($20,000) and the CONIC Women’s Commission, to promote the greater involvement and leadership of indigenous women within the greater indigenous campesino movement ($10,000).  

Tufts University: $30,000 For the Global Development and Environment Institute, in its Marlin Mine Economic Assessment project, which will conduct an economic assessment of Goldcorp's Marlin Mine in Guatemala.  

C.  PROMOTING ACCOUNTABILITY AND THE RULE OF LAW

Center for Human Rights Legal Action (CALDH):  $20,000  For its Justice and Reconciliation project (DEJURE), which works with indigenous communities to prosecute former government and military officials for genocide and other crimes.  

Fundacion Myrna Mack:  $25,000  For its Justice and Democratic Security project, which seeks to strengthen the rule of law in Guatemala and promote military reform through research and advocacy.   

Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA): $20,000  Recommended for the Coordinating Committee of International Accompaniment in Guatemala  (ACOGUATE), which coordinates the work of human rights observers and accompaniers for civil society organizations at risk of human rights abuses and in communities whose members have filed charges of genocide against past government officials.

Rights Action:  $30,000  Recommended for the Asociación para el Desarrollo Integral de las Víctimas de la Violencia en las Verapaces Maya Achí (ADIVIMA), a grassroots organization founded by survivors of Guatemala’s civil war that provides legal support to communities and individuals who seek justice for human rights violations. 

D. PROMOTING LOCAL ORGANIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Rights Action:  $60,000  Recommended for the Asociacion Comunitaria de Desarrollo Integral Mam (ACODIMAM), a grassroots, community development organization promoting community action, health and sustainable development in Quetzaltenango and San Marcos ($20,000);  the Asociacion Nacional de Mujeres Guatemaltecas "Ixmucane," a grassroots organization of indigenous and campesina women in the department of the Peten, which promotes rural women's leadership and land rights ($20,000); and the Asociacion de Servicios Comunitarios de Salud's (ASECSA) project to promote sustainable agricultural practices and food sovereignty and security in central-western Guatemala, by training small-scale farmers in eco-friendly farming methods and advocating for local and national agricultural policies that respond to the needs of these producers ($20,000).     

Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala  (NISGUA):  $30,000  Recommended for the Pop No'j Educational Program, which strengthens grassroots, indigenous people's organizations in Guatemala by providing leadership training and opportunities for learning and exchange, with an emphasis on women and young people.

Sinergia No'j:  $20,000  For its Women's Policy Advocacy Training Program, a new initiative to build the advocacy capacity of members of three grassroots women's organizations in Guatemala, as well as strengthen each organization's capacity to launch and sustain on-going advocacy efforts.

Strategies for International Development (SID):  $25,000  For its Guatemala Project, which helps small-scale farmers in Chimaltenango, Guatemala to maximize their income from sustainable coffee production while reclaiming land from erosion.