Guatemala
- History
- Our Approach
- Our Work
- Programs
- Advance Project
- Biodiversity Project
- Breakthrough Action [COVID Response]
- Central America Regional Labor Rights Program
- Climate, Nature, and Communities
- Coffee Value Chains Project
- Communities Building Peace Project
- Communities Leading Development
- Community Roots Project
- Creating Economic Opportunities
- Electoral Governance and Reforms Project
- Global Communities, Sigamos!
- Grant to the International Food Policy Research Institute
- HEP+
- Improved Health and Nutrition
- Innovative Solutions for Agricultural Value Chains Project
- Integrated Response on Migration in Central America
- Justice and Transparency Project
- Lifelong Learning Project
- Nexos Locales
- Protecting Victims, Providing Services & Preventing Human Trafficking
- Puentes Project
- Rural Extension Project in Guatemala
- Strengthening Governance in the Maya Biosphere Reserve
- Transformative Action Project
- Urban Municipal Governance Project
- Women’s Prosperity Through Productive Value Chains
- Youth and Gender Justice Project
- Migration
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Consistent with the goals of the U.S. Strategy for Central America, and in broad alignment with the Northern Triangle Countries’ Alliance for Prosperity Plan, USAID programs in Guatemala seek to address the drivers of irregular migration to the United States, including high levels of violence and insecurity, pervasive poverty, and chronic malnutrition.
Projected investment totals included below represent an estimate at the time of award, but do not ultimately reflect the total funds expended on these projects. Holds on U.S. foreign assistance for Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador will result in reductions to these totals across all USAID programming. In short, the amounts listed represent an estimate at the time of award, but do not ultimately reflect the total funds expended on these projects.
Program Pillars
Citizen Security
Governance
Prosperity
Prosperity
- Feed the Future Guatemala Innovative Solutions for Agricultural Value Chains Project (PRO-INNOVA)
- Feed the Future Guatemala Coffee Value Chains Project
- Creating Economic Opportunities (CEO)
- Research Grant to the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- Rural Extension
- Climate, Nature, and Communities in Guatemala Project
- Strengthening Governance in the Maya Biosphere Reserve
- Biodiversity Project
- Lifelong Learning Project
- Puentes Project
- Global Communities, Sigamos!
- Advance Project
- Health and Education Policy Project Plus (HEP+)
- Global Health Supply Chain for Procurement and Supply Management
- Support to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Water Quality Improvement in the Mam Territory and Institutional Strengthening of the Mancomunidad de la Cuenca del Rio Naranjo (Mancuerna)
- Breakthrough Action Nutrition Project
- Breakthrough Action COVID-19 (Infection Prevention and Control, Case Management and Risk Communication)
- Improved Health and Nutrition Activity
- Accelerate At-risk Women’s Prosperity Through Productive Value Chains In Latin America
Global Health Supply Chain for Procurement and Supply Management
- Implemented by: Chemonics International, Inc.
- Duration: October 1, 2016 – November 28, 2023
- Total Projected Investment: $3,250,000
This activity supports the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) efforts to improve the health supply chain’s performance and expand the availability of micronutrients, vaccines, family planning methods and other essential medicines. The activity assists the MOH to enhance the new Central Logistics Unit, work with MOH staff to develop medical supply forecasts at the central and local levels, support the development of a Logistics Management Information System for primary and secondary levels of care, analyze and use essential logistics data to improve the availability of health supplies, and develop and implement procedures to improve storage conditions.
Accessibility of family planning commodities is critical to families managing their desired family size. Without them, the gap of unsatisfied demand among people requiring effective family planning methods increases, increasing numbers of unwanted pregnancies. Families with an unmanageable number of children will be more eager to migrate to the USA in search of jobs and services for their families. Additionally, a functioning supply chain ensures vaccines are available. If the system fails, vaccination coverage will decrease and migrant children could represent a threat for re-emergence of vaccine-preventable diseases in the USA.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inter Agency Agreement II
- Implemented by: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Duration: April 1, 2015 – September 30, 2022
- Total Projected Investment: $1,450,000
The Epidemiological Surveillance System in Health and Nutrition is an annual national survey that evaluates outcomes of health and nutrition programs. This activity supports the Guatemalan Government’s efforts to carry out a household survey surveillance system using a representative national sample and will continue the transfer of critical survey processes, monitoring and analysis to SESAN (the Food and Nutrition Secretariat).
Chronic malnutrition remains a critical development challenge for Guatemala where stunting rates are the sixth highest in the world. The survey results will help the GOG track its progress on implementing the National Strategy to Decrease Chronic Malnutrition in order to increase health and nutrition throughout the country.
Water Quality Improvement in the Mam Territory and Institutional Strengthening of the Mancomunidad de la Cuenca del Rio Naranjo (Mancuerna)
- Implemented by: Mancomunidad de la Cuenca del Río Naranjo (Mancuerna)
- Duration: September 25, 2017 - September 30, 2021
- Total Projected Investment: $3,000,000
The purpose of this activity is to decrease the incidence of diarrhea and therefore contribute to reducing chronic malnutrition through the provision of safe water and basic sanitation services in Mancuerna’s member municipalities. The activity also aims to strengthen MANCUERNA as an implementing institution so it can develop and carry out additional water and sanitation projects and share the organization’s successful community-based methodology with other municipalities and rural communities.
Breakthrough Action Nutrition Project
- Implemented by: Johns Hopkins University
- Duration: March 4, 2019 – September 30, 2021
- Total Projected Investment: $500,000
This activity helps increase the practice of priority behaviors, such as eating nutrient rich foods, consuming their own agricultural products and better hygiene that improve the health and nutrition status among the Guatemalan population living in select municipalities throughout the Western Highlands.
Breakthrough-Action supports USAID/Guatemala’s Feed the Future Initiative by working with the implementing partners that are focusing on nutrition-sensitive agriculture activities in its Zone of Influence. As both health and agriculture activities intend to reduce stunting, chronic malnutrition, and improve the health status of its beneficiaries, using an integrated approach whereby both sectors reinforce the same behavior change messaging is critical.
HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS
- Central American Project for Sustaining and Championing the Human Rights Response to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
- Global Health Supply Chain for Procurement and Supply Management
- Strengthening Care and Treatment Cascade Project
- Sustainable HIV Knowledge Management
- Sustainable HIV Response in Central America
- HIV Prevention for High Risk Individuals Activity
USAID/Guatemala also implements the following activities which aim to contain HIV prevalence in Central America:
Central American Project for Sustaining and Championing the Human Rights Response to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
- Implemented by: Plan International
- Duration: March 15, 2018 – March 14, 2023
- Total Projected Investment: $9,999,961
The objective of this activity is to enable Central American countries to fulfil commitments to implement Test and Start (antiretroviral therapy) and achieve the 95-95-95 goals. In partnership with diverse regional and national stakeholders including governments, civil society, key populations, the private sector, cooperation agencies, and academic institutions, the project will increase coordination, partnership, and reforms, and support for evidence- and rights-based HIV policies, processes, and practices.
Global Health Supply Chain for Procurement and Supply Management for HIV
- Implemented by: Chemonics International, Inc.
- Duration: October 1, 2016 – September 30, 2021
- Total Projected Investment: $4,420,000
The objective of this activity is to provide technical assistance to the National AIDS Programs to support ministries of health efforts in five Central American countries to improve the health supply chain’s performance and expand availability to improve their anti-retroviral supply forecasts, logistics management information systems, and storage conditions in health facilities. The activity assists the ministries of health to enhance Central Logistics Units, work with MOH staff to develop medical supply forecasts at the central and local levels, support the development of a Logistics Management Information System for primary and secondary levels of care, analyze and use essential logistics data to improve the availability of health supplies, and develop and implement procedures to improve storage conditions.
Strengthening Care and Treatment Cascade Project
- Implemented by: IntraHealth International, Inc.
- Duration: August 13, 2018 – August 15, 2023
- Total Projected Investment: $15,000,000
The objective of this activity is to support countries to ensure that all eligible people living with HIV are on treatment and achieve viral suppression through high quality and discrimination free care and treatment services. The emphasis of the activity is to strengthen HIV care and treatment services for key populations (KP) and priority populations (PP) with an emphasis on increasing treatment adherence and improving quality of life.
Sustainable HIV Knowledge Management
- Implemented by: Centro para la Educación y Prevención del SIDA (CEPRESI)
- Duration: October 1, 2019 – September 30, 2024
- Total Projected Investment: $3,000,000
The objective of this activity is to strengthen the ability of five Central American countries (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama) to track UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets through strengthened health information systems on HIV and improved HIV knowledge management among key population civil society organizations, aligned to global, regional and national strategic information requirements.
Sustainable HIV Response in Central America
- Implemented by: Fundación para la Alimentación y la Nutrición de Centroamérica y Panamá (FANCAP)
- Duration: February 28, 2020 – August 31, 2021
- Total Projected Investment: $2,113,898
The purpose of this project is to move Central American countries towards a technically, politically and financially sustainable stage, in order to contain the HIV epidemic and the fulfill of the 95-95-95 goals.
HIV Prevention for High Risk Individuals Activity
- Implemented by: Pan American Social Marketing Organization (PASMO)
- Duration: September 1, 2020 – August 31, 2025
- Total Projected Investment: $15,000,000
This activity will support government and civil society partners in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama to provide comprehensive prevention services targeted to high risk individuals, including but not limited to non-discriminatory counseling and testing services with a focus on strengthening linkage of HIV-positive individuals to appropriate clinical care and treatment.
Last updated: April 13, 2021
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