Technical Assistance to Rural and Local Development Project in Guatemala

The Specific Objective aims to “Improve the management of Local Policies and Public Programmes throughout the strengthening of capabilities of Local Authorities at Municipal and Inter.-municipal level in order to achieve the improvement of life condition of rural populations, increasing socio-economic investments and social and productive infrastructures ”. The intervention concerns 22 Municipalities and the two Inter.-municipalities of MAMSOHUE and Huistas in the development of new policies both at social and economic level.

Result 1: Capacity building for participative Land Planning: Support in the creation of proper policies and tools for participative planning and implementation of sustainable territorial development strengthening capacity building of regional and local authorities.
Result 2: Sustainable strategic production systems: Validation and extension of strategic production systems in the territories covered by the two Inter.-Municipalities of Huista and MAMSOHUE, strengthening rural and local development in the area of intervention according to the new legal framework
Result 3: Food Security: Identification of sustainable policies and actions for food availability, access and use. The project support the design, planning and implementation of public policies at national, regional and local level; strengthening of local committees for early warning of food crisis; strengthening of producers associations and organizations; strengthening and improvement of production systems; support to national Authorities in planning new policies to support proper producers organizations in order to facilitate agro-export.