B’atz Local Institutional Strengthening Project
This project seeks to strengthen USAID’s engagement with Indigenous Peoples and local communities by supporting their development priorities. Visit the website
Consistent with the goals of the U.S. Strategy for Addressing 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.
Country Programs
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Justice and Transparency Project
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
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Peacebuilding Project
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
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Electoral Governance and Reforms Project
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
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Addressing the Root Causes of Irregular Migration
This project implements activities based on a detailed understanding of affected communities and the specific causes of irregular migration that influence them. Visit the website
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National Institutions Strengthening Project
This project supports the Guatemalan Government's reform efforts to create an effective and transparent public financial management system. Visit the website
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Protection of Victims of Trafficking in Persons and Unaccompanied Migrant Children Project
This project strengthens national capacities to provide protection services for victims of trafficking in persons and unaccompanied migrant children, while preventing human trafficking and irregular migration in Guatemala. Visit the website
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Creating Economic Opportunities
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
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Innovative Solutions for Agricultural Value Chains Project
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
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Guatemala Entrepreneurship Development Initiative GEDI
This project seeks to foster a stronger entrepreneurial ecosystem to bring economic prosperity to regions and communities heavily affected by migration. Visit the website
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Strengthening Governance in the Maya Biosphere Reserve
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
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Rural Extension Project in Guatemala
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
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Puentes Project
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
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Basic Education Quality and Transitions
This project seeks to improve foundational reading, writing, math, and social and emotional skills acquisition for children and youth through the formal education system. Visit the website
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National Youth Service Corps
This project seeks to improve opportunities for young people, ages 15-29, to advance and contribute to their communities’ development; increase their leadership skills; and lead to greater resilience and hope for youth and their communities. Visit the website
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Health and Nutrition Project
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
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Breakthrough Action
This project designed to increase the practice of priority behaviors that improve the health and nutrition status of the Guatemalan population. Visit the website
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Integrated Water Sanitation and hygiene I-WASH
This project seeks to expand and integrate quality water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and water resource management (WRM) services in the Huehuetenango and Quiche Departments of Guatemala. Visit the website
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Safe Return To School Plus
This project seeks to support a safe return to schools after facing the impacts of tropical storms, Eta and Iota, and the consequences of COVID-19 in Guatemala’s education sector. Visit the website
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Regional Programs
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HIV Care and Treatment in Private Networks Project
USAID is funding a five-year activity with Asociación Pro Bienestar de la Familia (APROFAM) to implement activities in a consortium with Asociación Hondureña de Planificación de Familia (ASHONPLAFA) and Asociación Panameña para el Planeamiento de la Familia (APLAFA) in three Central American countries (Guatemala, Honduras and Panamá).
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HIV and Opportunistic Infections Care and Treatment Project
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), in coordination with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Guatemala, funds the USAID HIV and Opportunistic Infections Care and Treatment project, implemented by Asociación de Salud Integral (ASI). The activity carries out interventions that support the implementation of the HIV care continuum to achieve the global 95-95-95 goals (that at least 95% of people with the virus know their diagnosis, 95% of people with HIV who know their diagnosis receive antiretroviral treatment (ART), and that 95% of people on ART achieve viral suppression) in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Panama, with an emphasis on the diagnosis and treatment of opportunistic infections. Visit the website
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HIV Prevention Care and Treatment Project
This project supports El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama in reaching the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) 95-95-95 targets by 2030 such that 95% of people living with HIV know their HIV status, 95% of people living with HIV who know their HIV-positive status will access treatment, and 95% of people on treatment will have suppressed viral loads, resulting in epidemic control. Visit the website
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Global Health Supply Chain for Procurement and Supply Management
This project aims to strengthen the supply chain to effectively manage the medicines and products necessary to support the HIV Strategy 95-95-95. Visit the website
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Prevention Services Against HIV
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
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Sustainable HIV Response in Central America Project
This project proposes reinforcing public health policies in accordance with international agreements and treaties on the protection of human rights and promoting the equitable allocation of resources for the response to HIV. Visit the website
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Translating Data for Implementation (Data.FI)
This is a global project that helps countries strengthen and sustain access to key, high-quality data to accelerate and maintain HIV and COVID-19 epidemic control and guide informed decision making on other health priorities at the national and subnational levels. Visit the website
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USAID/El Salvador - Central America and Mexico Regional Programs
For information on regional awards managed by USAID/El Salvador, please visit: https://www.usaid.gov/central-america-and-mexico-regional-program
USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) activities in Guatemala
For information on the activities in Guatemala managed by USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), visit: https://www.usaid.gov/humanitarian-assistance/guatemala