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Consistent with the goals of the U.S. Strategy for Addresing the Root Causes of Migration in 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.
This project supports the dignified reception of returned migrants, linking them to employment and training opportunities so they can reintegrate into their communities. This project also produces key data and analysis on migration dynamics to inform policy-making and programming. Visit the website
This project ensures that all eligible people living with HIV receive treatment and achieve viral suppression through high quality and discrimination free care and treatment. Visit the website
This project supports governments and civil society to provide high risk individuals with prevention services such as non-discriminatory counseling and testing with a focus on connecting HIV-positive individuals to appropriate treatment. Visit the website
This project supports an increase in rights-based HIV policies, processes, and practices in Central American countries in order to reach UNAIDS 90-90-90 goals. Visit the website
The goal of this program is to strengthen labor rights, access to labor justice, and decent work conditions in the most needed sectors, including the informal sector, in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Visit the website
This project strengthens health information systems for HIV and improved HIV knowledge management among key population civil society organizations. Visit the website
This project promotes trade and investment, mobilizes financial services, upgrades productive infrastructure, and improves private sector competitiveness, benefiting poor and vulnerable populations, particularly Indigenous youth. Visit the website
This project supports youth in high migration areas of Guatemala access to education, employment, and entrepreneurship opportunities while providing youth with basic life skills so that they can actively contribute to their communities. Visit the website
This project uses a community-based development approach to strengthen the voices of underrepresented groups, facilitating inclusive bargaining processes to select priorities for development projects in the Western Highlands. Visit the website
This project reduces the levels of violence in municipalities most at risk of violent crime, located in three regions along the border regions of Mexico, El Salvador and Honduras, as well as in the central region around Guatemala City. Visit the website
This project safeguards natural resources by supporting the development of conservation value chains, the promotion of sustainable land use practices, resilience to climate change, and the strengthening of non-governmental organizations. Visit the website
This project creates educational, athletic, cultural, and employment opportunities for youth by supporting the efforts of the Vice Ministry of Violence Prevention, the National Police, municipalities, community development commissions, and the private sector. Visit the website
This project supports the growth and economic resilience of agribusinesses through training in agricultural and business practices and technologies, diversification of value chains, and private sector investment. Visit the website
This project strengthens municipalities’ management of public services, financial and procurement systems to increase their capacity to raise revenue and manage expenditures, deliver basic services and improve economic growth. Visit the website
This project strengthens Guatemala’s security and justice sector institutions to reduce criminal impunity and more effectively investigate, prosecute, and adjudicate crimes that drive illegal migration. Visit the website
This project supports targeted sector reform in the education, nutrition, and health sectors; and the development of civil society capacity to undertake advocacy and accountability efforts and promote a policy dialogue among national, departmental, and local stakeholders. Visit the website
This project improves coffee agricultural productivity, diversifies income generation alternatives, expands access to markets, and increases resilience through implementation of climate-smart nutrition sensitive agriculture, within a market-driven approach. Visit the website
This activity will improve the health and nutritional status of women and children in the Western Highlands by strengthening institutions implementing health and nutrition policies. Visit the website
This project aims to build a diverse cadre of future political leaders in Guatemala who are able to address the country’s most pressing challenges, by providing opportunities for youth to engage in civic and political processes, civic and political participation, and building civil leadership skills. Visit the website
This project brings together diverse sectors and stakeholders within communities in the Western Highlands to identify and address the main drivers of social conflict at the familial, community, and municipal levels. Visit the website
This project improves governance of key institutions and increases citizen voice and responsibility by enhancing dialogue and advocacy for key new reforms by civil society, the legislature, and the executive branch, in addition to supporting the implementation and enforcement of key recently approved reforms. Visit the website
This project supports field patrols and judicial processes to ensure enforcement of laws and prosecution of offenders; enhances public and civil society participation in governance; invests in tourism development; and protects the region’s archaeological heritage. Visit the website
This project integrates a women-centered ecological approach and other gender-specific methodologies with the Rainforest Alliance’s proven market-based conservation approach. Visit the website
This project helps to report improvements in food security and nutrition by providing technical assistance to establish the baseline for an impact evaluation and mid term survey of Zero Hunger Pact of the Government of Guatemala. Visit the website
This project promotes social behavior change interventions to improve health and nutrition outcomes among vulnerable populations. The project implements risk communication and community engagement interventions to provide the public with necessary information to reduce transmission risk. Visit the website
This project increases food security among rural households in Guatemala by strengthening the capacity of extension agents and community promoters in planning, organizing, managing, and delivering rural extension services. Visit the website
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.