Women´s socio-economic contributions and entrepreneurial potential remain largely unrecognized and untapped in the communities of Quiché. USAID´s Communities Leading Development (CLD) project attends to the community´s most important needs as ...
Traditionally, indigenous Mayan communities, who are a majority in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, have been excluded from participating in the decision-making systems that shape their lives. Voicing the community’s ...
Eco Alianza, a small producer MSME supported by USAID´s Communities Leading Development (CLD) project exports macadamia nuts to the European market. The company focuses on marketing organic macadamia nuts but ...
USAID´s Communities Leading Development (CLD) project is supporting hibiscus farmers in Jacaltenango, Huehuetenango to expand their business possibilities, encourage entrepreneurship, and improve their family economy. Hibiscus is widely grown in ...
Water is an essential component of human health, economic growth, food security, and environmental sustainability. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in every four people in the developing ...
With 40% of the population ages 11 through 29[1], Guatemala has the largest youth share of the population in Latin America. The country–s youth face high levels of social and ...
CRS´s Private Service Provider (PSP) delivery channel, based on a fee-for-service and certification, became operational in conjunction with the Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILC) model. To help expand the ...
“CONSULTANCY ON STRATEGIC AND COMMERCIAL PLANNING FOR RURAL MSMEs” The objective of the consultancy is to strengthen the strategic, commercial and marketing planning of MSMEs through advice on the design, ...
The CRS country representative, Holly Inurreta, and USAID´s Communities Leading Development (CLD) project management team recently met with authorities from the Ministry of Economy (MINECO) to present CLD´s experience in ...
Hibiscus farming methods in communities of Jacaltenango, Huehuetenango have remained the same since the crop was introduced in colonial times to the area. The traditional cultivation system, based on low ...
To value a cup of specialty coffee, it is important to recognize the work and effort of coffee farmers like Gildardo Pérez, a small-scale producer and member of Cooperativa ...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO)[1], people with dignified homes are healthier, happier, more secure, and less susceptible to respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases that are endemic to the poor. ...
Traditional beekeeping practices inhibit honey producers in Chajul, Quiché to reach profitable production levels. To transition from subsistence honey production, farmers need at least 40 hives to produce 2,000 pounds ...
Rainwater harvesting is a simple yet effective method to access water; it consists of collecting and storing rainwater from the roof of a home for later use. For families in ...
USAID and CRS´s Communities Leading Development (CLD) project supports locally–led development by strengthening capacities that empower local actors to address their development challenges. CLD´s approach is vital to long-term, ...
Catholic Relief Services-USCCB Implementer of the Communities Leading Development Project, invites teams of consultants or individual consultants, legally established in Guatemala and with demonstrable experience in the subject, to participate ...
USAID and CRS´s Communities Leading Development (CLD) Project recognizes that economic development is intricately intertwined with social empowerment. The community of La Suiza, in Nuevo Progreso, San Marcos, took actions ...
Management and Monitoring of Projects with SNIP Codes in municipalities of Quiché and Huehuetenango CLD seeks companies, teams of consultants or individual consultants;legally established in Guatemala and with demonstrable experience ...
Traditionally, indigenous Mayan communities, who are a majority in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, have been excluded from participating in the decision-making systems that shape their lives. Their voices ...
Old and leaky water infrastructure in the community of San Antonio Las Nubes, Chiantla, Huehuetenango caused an estimated loss of 96 thousand gallons of water per year, yet many families ...
The COVID-19 pandemic turned Guatemalan homes into classrooms after “normal” classes were suspended in March of 2020. In 2021, schools and children adapted to a hybrid model of education ...
Inauguration of macadamia procesing plant in community of Nueva Alianza, El Palmar, Quetzaltenango Small-scale macadamia producers in Guatemala typically do not have access to international buyers, a market ...
Small holder coffee organizations served by USAID and CRS´s Communities Leading Development (CLD) project are currently struggling to make ends meet and earn a sustainable livelihood, making it difficult to ...
The purpose of this award is to strengthen the family economy of 125 families in the municipality of Cuilco Huehuetenango through the establishment of vegetable production units and technical, organizational, ...
Potato crop is a major economic generator (due to its high value) and a food security crop for families in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. However, its productivity continues to be very low ...
USAID and CRS´s Communities Leading Development (CLD) project, within its framework of humanitarian action is committed to its accountability with project area communities and participants. Under the principle of protecting ...
Signing of alliance with MICOOPE and Heifer International. From left: Santiago Saavedra, Project Manager for MICOOPE; Holly Inurreta, Country Representative for CRS and Gustavo Hernandez, National Director Heifer International. Precarious ...
Poor families in the Western Highlands who concentrate their activity in the agricultural sector lack collateral and are unable to meet standard loan terms. According to the Communities Leading Development ...
USAID and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) through the Communities Leading Development (CLD) project and FUNDACIÓN FUNDASISTEMAS (FundaSistemas) recognize a common objective: to improve the quality of life of people in ...
Over the next decade, the World Bank estimates one billion young people, in developing countries, will try to enter the job market, but less than half of them will find ...
In November 2020, two category four hurricanes touched ground in Central America and in the community of Chortis, a remote village of just 40 families located at the top of ...
Catholic Relief Services USCCB Implementer of the Communities Leading Development project, invites companies, teams of consultants or individual consultants, legally established in Guatemala and with demonstrated experience on the subject, ...
Limited access to markets beyond their communities leaves farmers trapped in subsistence production systems as most producers sell only part of their production. USAID´s Communities Leading Development (CLD) project in ...
Soil preparation, seed quality, crop management and the use of chemical inputs such as pesticides are all factors that help farmers increase their production and productivity. However, the use of ...
Catholic Relief Services USCCB Implementer of the Communities Leading Development Project, invites companies, teams of consultants or individual consultants, legally established in Guatemala and with demonstrated experience in the matter, ...
Consulting: “TECHNICAL SUPPORT IN THE EXECUTION OF THE PROJECT SAFE RETURN TO CLASSES IN THE DEPARTMENTS OF HUEHUETENANGO AND QUICHÉ” Last date to receive questions: July 15, 2021 Closing date ...
USAID / Guatemala informs that their professional opportunities are only published in the following official link: https://www.usaid.gov/guatemala/work-with-us/careers USAID / Guatemala does not work with outside recruiters. Do not trust people ...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), diarrheal disease is a leading cause of child mortality worldwide. Water treatment with chlorine significantly reduces morbidity due to waterborne diseases; this was ...
Chemical use along with new technologies have allowed CLD potato farmers to produce more food at lower prices. Although these developments have many positive effects, they also demand a conscientious ...
Catholic Relief Services-USCCBImplementer of the Communities Leading Development Project, invites companies, teams of consultants or individual consultants, legally established in Guatemala and with demonstrable experience in the field, to participate ...
Last date to receive questions:June 21, 2021Closing date to receive proposals:June 29, 2021 You are cordially invited to send a technical and financial proposal to Catholic Relief Services-USCCB for the ...
The community of Nuevas Maravillas in Sibinal, San Marcos with just over 250 villagers have longed access to their most basic need: clean water. Years without running water in their ...
Little to null employment opportunities in CLD served Western Highland communities are forcing the more abundant youth populations in these areas to consider migration as a solution to the economic ...
Sheep production is a common practice throughout the Cuchumatanes region in Huehuetenango, however traditional sheep varieties, ancestral production methods and resource limitations in rural communities like Tuilam, in the municipality ...
The 2018 Guatemalan census shows the reality of the precarious conditions in which a large part of the rural Guatemalan population lives. In a joint effort to bring solutions, Progreso ...
High malnutrition rates, poverty and degradation of natural resources are some of the effects of the prolonged drought in the semi-arid areas of the country, known as the dry corridor. ...
The economic empowerment of women is a central objective of CRS and USAID´s Communities Leading Development (CLD) Project. CLD recognizes the potential of the female entrepreneurial force, as well as ...
Mayan communities in Guatemala´s Western Highlands have been excluded in decision making systems that shape their path. USAID´s Communities Leading Development Project (CLD), through an inclusive and participatory approach, supported ...
Guatemala has the sixth highest rate of chronic malnutrition in the world, and the highest in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to data from the United States Agency for ...
Saudi, 20, and Luis, 18, with support from CRS´s Communities Leading Development (CLD) partner Caritas San Marcos, and in coordination with the Technical Institute of Training and Productivity (INTECAP), completed ...
When people think of improving education, they usually think about hiring better teachers, increasing funding, and buying new school supplies. However, for the community of Nicajá, in the municipality of ...
The pandemic has strongly impacted families´ livelihoods, and without stable sources of income the damage the virus will create is uncertain. What is sure is that people will not survive ...
Washing hands with soap and water is the single most efficient measure against COVID-19, but in Guatemala 40 % of the population does not have access to clean water in ...
The macadamia market in Guatemala is dominated by three large buyers and exporters; these companies control pricing because of their unique access to international buyers. Small-scale producers do not have ...
The coronavirus pandemic has moved the Communities Leading Development (CLD) Project to adapt distribution procedures and include COVID-19 spread prevention measures to deliver over 37,450 pounds of potato seeds to ...
Paul Townsend, Country Representative for Catholic Relief Services – United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (CRS-USCCB), and Germán González, Chief of Party for PRO-INNOVA Agropecuaria Popoyán S.A., signed a Memorandum ...
At the heart of the CLD project is cultivating, connecting and working with alliances to mobilize resources that enable communities to respond to their own priorities. Through these efforts and ...
Paul Townsend, Country Representative for Catholic Relief Services – United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (CRS-USCCB), and Henk-Jan Gerard, Country Director for Helvetas Guatemala, recently signed a MoU to benefit ...
Representatives of Catholic Relief Services, through its Communities Leading Development (CLD) Project, recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Intelligentsia Coffee, Inc. to support smallholder coffee farmers in the Western ...
CLD´s inclusive value chain strategy strengthens 20 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises’ (MSMEs) capacities based on an integrated, participatory assessment that evaluates MSMEs’ structure, functionality, organizational processes, strategic orientation, business ...
With the support of local partner ADIPO in Huehuetenango, CLD recently organized a positioning event for Rosalia Sales, a Private Service Provider (PSP), so that she could introduce herself and ...
CLD recently kicked-off a three-month training plan for 26 community leaders from Quetzaltenango, Totonicapán, Huehuetenango, and Quiché, who volunteered to learn about the Paravet model and put it into practice ...
Catholic Relief Services (CRS), through its CLD project kicked off a six-month training process with a workshop on investment and business acceleration and professionalization. The training is aimed for agricultural ...
With support from local partner Caritas San Marcos, CLD recently delivered basic equipment kits to Community Development Councils (COCODEs) in seven communities in the municipality of Sibinal, San Marcos that ...
Through a participatory community project development process, the Communities Leading Development (CLD) project completed a feasibility study for domestic rainwater catchment projects in eight communities in Totonicapán, Huehuetenango and Quiche, ...
In partnership with the specialty coffee company Intelligentsia, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), through its Communities Leading Development (CLD) project, invited Guatemalan coffee producers to participate in the Extraordinary Coffee Workshop ...
Joselito Merida, the recently elected president of the Community Development Council (COCODE) in Santa Rita, in the municipality of San José El Rodeo, San Marcos, is confident that the skills ...
CLD and the municipality of Chiantla, in the department of Huehuetenango, recently signed a memorandum of understanding to invest in the access, improvement and rehabilitation of water systems in the ...
Elder López and Evelin Sales, from CLD participant communities, were able to access non-traditional education opportunities through CLD´s technical training programs. The trainings provide educational opportunities that accommodate and fairly ...
CLD´s value chain team recently trained 19 field technicians in the use of tools for designing value chain programs and establishing business models in communities served by the project. In ...
CLD recently participated in the annual FLII, a meeting of reference in the Latin American region, specialized in strengthening the social entrepreneurship and impact investment ecosystem. CLD used the forum ...
The CLD project, together with implementing partners ADIPO Quiche and Caritas San Marcos, recently built three improved stoves in the communities of Xetzac, in the municipality of Cunen, Quiche; Tibancuche, ...
The CLD approach is built on a development hypothesis that economic development is intricately intertwined with social empowerment and change. CLD promotes community-led development with market-driven economic growth, employing inclusive ...
CLD has worked with the community of El Tizate in the municipality of San Juan Ostuncalco, Quetzaltenango for over two years to mobilize and empower them to lead their own ...
Full participation of vulnerable groups often excluded from local decision making, including persons with disabilities, indigenous persons, youth and women will present challenges, but are essential for reaching CLD´s goal ...
In June 2019 Pablo Chivalán was certified as a Private Service Provider (PSP) as a result of CLD´s strategy to promote sustainable access to microfinance services; Pablo ratified his commitment ...
CLD´s Families with Dignity groups are responsive to the strategic actions outlined in the Community Development Plans (CDPs) related to the need for values-based psychosocial support for families, improved inter-generational ...
The CLD Project is raising awareness among Community Development Council (COCCODE) members and the general community about the importance of representative participation in COCODEs, including positions with decision making roles. ...
The SILC methodology is a holistic, savings-led microfinance approach that provides vulnerable households with the structure to save and borrow to increase their income, which is promoted by Catholic Relief ...
CLD conducted 4,657 surveys in 200 communities in five departments of the Western Highlands from April to November 2018, which produced results that increase our understanding of migration dynamics in ...
CRS’ Families with Dignity methodology implemented in the Communities Leading Development Project is strengthening equitable interpersonal relationships in communities of Guatemala’s Western Highlands. This global methodology promotes inclusion, participation, and ...
In 2018, the Communities Leading Development Project has promoted the creation of 43 community-level Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILC) groups in the five departments where the project is implemented. ...
Communities Leading Development (CLD) supports the empowerment of 200 communities and the design of their development agendas. Communities create their own Community Development Plans (CDP) through a participatory process that ...
The Communities Leading Development Project (CLD), proactively involved a community of investors in the Latin American Forum on Investment for Impact (FLII, in Spanish) conducted from November 8th to 9th, ...
