Guatemala
Guatemala
Type of intervention
- Food and nutritional security
- Water and sanitation
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Disaster prevention and emergency response
Places of interventions
- Departments of Jalapa
- El Progreso
- Chiquimula
- Escuintla
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San Marcos
Effects of the global economic crises, which continue to have an impact on the country through exportations, investments flows and tourism revenues fall, are adding to the high vulnerability of Guatemala due to the seasonal food shortage occurring each year between April and August and also a high rick of cyclones.
ACF has intervened in Guatemala since 1998 by setting up water and sanitation, food and nutritional security, disaster prevention and emergency response programs in the departments of Jalapa, El Progreso, Chiquimula, Escuintla and San Marcos. These programs were developed and implemented with the participation of beneficiaries, the state authorities at municipal and departmental level, and the central government.
Funding
- AECID
- Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA)
- Government of Navarra
- Pamplona City Council
- ECHO
Key figures of the country
- Beneficiaries: 108,540
- Population: 13.7 million
- Life expectancy at birth: 70.8 years
- Human Development Index: 0.560 (116 of 169)
Il n'y a pas de résultat
MAIN ACTIVITIES
Food and Nutritional Security
- Support to production of basic grains to ensure a minimum of food availability over the year
- Promotion of Workforce Intensive Program as social safety net against hunger
- Monitoring and treatment of chronic malnutrition
- Promotion of national and municipal institutions fighting against hunger, according to the right of access to food
- Strengthening of local health services
- Cultural approach to understand and fight against chronic malnutrition
- Promotion of food security and autonomy of indigenous women
Water and sanitation
- Rehabilitation of drinking water systems for human consumption
- Strengthening the municipal management of water
- Micro level approach to face droughts and climatic change
Disaster prevention and emergency response
- Preparation to natural disasters (droughts and floods)
- Improving of the knowledge to monitor hydrometeorological risks
- Alert and warning systems
- Emergency water supply (tanks and reparation of wells)
- Epidemiological monitoring
- Distribution of emergency food, seeds and tools
HUMANITARIAN CONTEXT
Effects of the global economic crises, which continue to have an impact on the country through exportations, investments flows and tourism revenues fall, are adding to the high vulnerability of Guatemala due to the seasonal food shortage occurring each year between April and August and also a high rick of cyclones. Food security, migration, drug traffic, education, basic water and sanitation services are others challenges in the next years for this country which more than half the population lives below the national poverty line.
In Central America, 50% of the population lives in poverty and 23% lives in extreme poverty according to the UNPD. Half the population is concentrated in rural areas (concentrating also 37% of poor in the region) and the basic activity is subsistence agriculture. this scenario, aggravated by others problems related to land management, natural resources and lack of diversity of crops and jobs, lead to a high food insecurity in the Central American population Indigenous population, which represents 36% of the global population, is particularly vulnerable.
This last years, periods of heavy rains and droughts caused by el phenomenon La Nina led to reduced crops, which added to rising prices of basic food, regularly cause food crises. At political level, there has been progress in the right of access to food with a law on food security in 2005 protecting this right.