SOCIALIZATION AND STRENGTHENING OF SEVEN (7) MODELS OF APPLICATION OF ANCESTRAL PRACTICES AND KNOWLEDGE AND AT THE SAME TIME REPLICATING THEM IN SEVEN (7) INTERESTED COMMUNITIES IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTRY.

Guatemala
2013 – 2014

Strengthening of the country’s capacity to reduce the effects of climate change in the poorest and most vulnerable communities, through the use of ancestral knowledge and practices of Indigenous Peoples, in the drafting of new sustainable rural development projects

ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT:

  • Socialization and strengthening of seven models of application of ancestral practices and knowledge as well as their replication in seven interested communities in the northern part of the country (Itza’ model, a Mopán in Petén, a Poqomchi, three Q’eqchies in Alta Verapaz and a Garífuna in Izabal)
  • Participatory diagnoses with the community which allowed the recognition, respect and application of their ways of life and their own processes
  • Community consultation processes
  • Identification of areas prioritized as vulnerable to climate change, natural disasters and poverty according to national and international diagnoses
  • Community exchanges
  • Strengthening of local models
  • Implementation of actions for the replication of successful local models for climate change adaptation