Guatemala
Guatemalan School Kitchens Reopen After COVID-19 Shutdown
By Chloe Pan For the first time in nearly four years, school meals are once again being prepared in Guatemalan school kitchens following their total or partial closure caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is...
CLEAR+ Gender Analysis and Action Plan
Global Communities is implementing the CLEAR+ project (2023-2028), funded by USAID’s Cooperative Development Program, in Kenya and Guatemala. It builds upon the successes, lessons learned, and partnerships developed under the recently concluded CLEAR project (2018-2023)...
Mother-Daughter Duo Hatch Success with Poultry Farming Business in Rural Guatemala
Elsa Carrillo and her daughter Debora have found that sometimes it’s worth it to put all your eggs in one basket – especially when you are selling both. With support from the United States Agency...
Pass the Mic: Growing from Our Roots: Exploring the History and Future of Cooperative Development Programming at Global Communities
By Paula Rudnicka, Sr. Manager for Public Affairs at Global Communities Global Communities’ history is deeply rooted in the cooperative movement. Our organization was created in 1952 as the Foundation for Cooperative Housing, and for...
New USAID-funded Program to Strengthen Worker Cooperatives in Guatemala and Kenya
Silver Spring, MD – Global Communities announces a new award from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to implement CLEAR+—the second phase of the Cooperative Leadership, Engagement, Advocacy and Research (CLEAR) program carried...
Social Capital and Resilience in Guatemala
Research Brief With support from USAID’s Cooperative Development Program (CDP), Global Communities has been studying social capital and its relationship with individual, household and community levels of resilience since 2013. This study builds on two...
Building a Foundation of Hope: Supporting Guatemalan Households to Combat Shelter Challenges and Food Insecurity
Over the past few years, vulnerable communities in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, have faced the triple shock of COVID-19, prolonged periods of drought and increasingly severe hurricane seasons. In 2021 and 2022, heavy storms affected 44% of...
Women Empowered: Championing Innovative Approaches to Savings Group Programming
Global Communities’ Women Empowered (WE) initiative is a global savings group program designed to promote financial inclusion and the social, economic, and political empowerment of women. In WE groups, 15-25 members come together to save...
Special Study on Migration for the MCGOVERN-United States Program
Unidos is a project funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program that aims to improve school-age children’s literacy, increase the use of health and...