GUATEMALA
cAMPESINO cOMMITTEE OF THE hIGHLANDS
The Campesino Committee of the Highlands (CCDA) is an indigenous and peasant organization founded in 1982 in the highlands of Guatemala. CCDA was created to promote the integral human development of the rural population and foster gender equality through social, cultural, economic, and political actions that respect the different cultures of the country. The CCDA advocates for a country with integral and ecologically sustainable rural development. It currently has a presence in twenty departments of Guatemala and represents more than one hundred thousand families.
CoDev Program Area: Human and Labour Rights
Canadian partners: Pacific Transit Cooperative (2022)
nuevo horizonte
The New Horizons Cooperative (Nuevo Horizonte) followed the process of demobilizing after the Peace Agreements were signed in 1996 which ended 36 years of internal armed conflict in Guatemala. It is located in northern Guatemala in the Department of El Petén, Municipality of Santa Ana.
Around 100 families organized themselves into a Coop in order to begin a new chapter in life and in Guatemalan history. The community is comprised largely of families internally displaced by the war, who after more than three decades in the mountains had no homes to return to.
Dreaming of building a model for a new Guatemala, the families settled on the lands of a former cattle ranch to start their new lives with almost nothing- no possessions, no housing, no safe drinking water, no electricity. After years of hard work and devotion, Nuevo Horizonte is today a thriving community. Developing a model of cooperation, the people of Nuevo Horizonte have changed their history and the community now serves as an example to neighboring communities.
The New Horizons Cooperative brings a model of solidarity community hoping to inspire other communities. La Cooperativa Nuevo Horizonte has also become a place where travelers from around the world can learn about Guatemalan history.
CoDev Program Area: Human and Labour Rights
Canadian partners: Capacidad (since 2019).
SECTOR DE MUJERES
The Guatemalan Women’s Sector is an alliance of 32 different women’s organizations from throughout the country that collaborate to promote campaigns and legislation related to women’s rights and combatting violence against women, to support one another’s work, and to promote women’s leadership.
The women’s sector’s main goals are to prevent and eradicate Violence against women and girls, through training, awareness, communication and mobilization for the fulfillment of women’s rights to a life free of violence at the territorial and national level; To strengthen strategies to defend women's rights, denounce violence against women and promote actions of prevention, communication, training and mobilization at the territorial level for the free exercise of women’s rights and citizenship as women and youth.
CoDev program Area: Human and Labour Rights
Canadian partners: Hawthorne Charitable Foundation (since 2018)