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GRAEME THOMPSON FOR UMG GUATEMALA URBAN MUNICIPAL GOVERNANCE (UMG) PROJECT

Quarterly Report, January to March 2018

This report was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by Tetra Tech through the Guatemala Urban Municipal Governance Project Task Order under the Making Cities Work (MCW) Indefinite Quantity Contract (USAID Contract No. AID-OAA-1-14-00059, Task Order No. AID-520-TO-17-00001).

CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION 5 COLLABORATION WITH NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, OTHER DONOR PROJECTS, OR OTHER USAID PROJECTS 28 MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION 30

2 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1.1 PROJECT OVERVIEW The Urban Municipal Governance (UMG) project was awarded by USAID to Tetra Tech on January 27, 2017. UMG is a five-year project designed to reduce levels of violence in municipalities most at risk of violent crime through enhanced municipal governance, increased coverage and quality of municipal services, and greater citizen participation and oversight. The project will provide municipal governments with improved technology solutions and technical assistance to achieve transparent and participatory planning, financial management, and effective service delivery implementation. UMG will also provide technical assistance, capacity building support, and resources for direct improvements to community- based organizations working in partnership with municipalities to improve services that will help reduce crime and violence. The goal of UMG is to reduce levels of violence in municipalities most at risk of violent crime through enhanced municipal governance, increased coverage and quality of municipal services, and greater transparency and accountability through citizen participation and oversight. UMG will result in 1) Strong public budgeting and municipal service delivery processes in place, 2) High-crime, urban marginalized communities are improved through citizen-driven improvements in living conditions and municipal services, 3) Citizens and civil society especially in the most at-risk communities are actively involved in municipal decision-making and accountability processes.

UMG made important progress this quarter in its programmatic implementation. It advanced negotiations and signing of 16 of 17 municipal partnership agreements (MOUs) and subsequent 15 Functional Organization Capacity Assessment (FOCAS) assessments. UMG also developed and validated Public Financial Management Plans (PFMs), which lay a roadmap for customized UMG program assistance to partner municipalities. To meet the training needs of these municipalities, UMG signed agreements with two highly-respected Guatemalan universities to improve the municipal capacity in planning, financial and administrative management, and leadership training to Municipal Councils. Additionally, to support the Ministry of Finance (MINFIN) to improve Municipal Transparency, UMG supported Amatitlán in improving its Financial Management System SICOIN GL, the MINFIN Integrated Accounting System for budget execution, recording revenues and spending of programs and projects. Five other municipalities will receive support in the coming quarter. Advances to support cadastral systems in five municipalities has also been designed and approved by the municipalities.

Together with partner municipalities, UMG has identified all high-crime, urban, marginalized communities where primary and secondary violence prevention activities will occur. Within these communities, UMG began a two-pronged approach to preparing Crime and Violence Prevention Plans (CVPP). In six communities, UMG will work side by side with Unidad para la Prevención Comunitaria de la Violencia (UPCV) delegates, using their established methodology. In the other communities, UMG will experiment with a methodology focused on increased municipal involvement and one that significantly reduces the time needed to develop a CVPP. Once both processes are completed, UMG will present results to the Vice Ministry for possible adjustments to the status quo.

Lastly, UMG advanced the design of its secondary violence prevention strategy by considering different at innovative methodologies to be implemented in high-crime municipalities. The strategy looks to measure results on five different methodologies that include:

3 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 1) Violence Interrupters (VIs) that specialized in detecting and interrupting conflicts in the community (Cure Violence). 2) Structured Leisure Time Activities for at-risk youth that include the psychosocial and life skills training behind them 3) Vocational training programs that will help a child or a teenager increase his employability 4) Improved parenting skills designed to improve the relations between parents and children 5) Cognitive Behavior Therapy where therapeutic approaches based on counseling, skill building and multiple services are geared to reduce and/or mitigate against criminal behavior.

Major program results for the past quarter include:

• Signed three additional Municipal Partnership Agreements; • Completed five FOCAS and completed and four PFMs • Digitalized over 11,000 taxpayers in Amatitlán from the water, cemetery, and IUSI (La Dirección de Catastro y Administración del Impuesto Único sobre Inmuebles) property tax services. This represents 50% of the total current taxpayers • Signed first two sub-awards with Guatemalan Universities FLACSO and InterNaciones to improve municipal capacities • Entered all but two communities (Zacapa and Mixco) to advance in the preparation of CVPPs • Finished two Community Assessments (Jocotillo and Tableros) which will provide inputs for the preparation of their CVPPs • Reviewed over 50 concept notes and 20 full proposals focused on crime and violence prevention activities in different geographic locations

Reflecting on program implementation and coordination with USAID and other stakeholders, UMG is highlighting the following critical constraints, that will be incorporated into future program implementation.

In terms of security challenges, on March 17 the mayor of Zacapa, Mr. Julio Alberto Enrique Sánchez, was murdered near his home. From a security perspective, this is another reminder of the important reason to carefully plan municipal and community development interventions in the region. In other areas of the country, such as the municipality of Chinautla, the main concern is the arrest warrants and raids on the homes of young people who are allegedly linked to youth gangs. With these raids, UMG took steps to meet with community leaders in controlled spaces and under basic security measures with the presence of municipal authorities. Since the program is just starting community activities, there is concern that the presence of the violence prevention activities is directly related to the raids hindering programmatic interventions. Security issues are also prevalent in the municipality of Coatepeque, specifically in the Chuatuj community where community relations with municipal authorities are tense. With the community showing some resistance to violence prevention interventions, UMG is currently holding community meetings outside the community to better understand the overall environment and discussing the most appropriate and effective way to enter the community.

4 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION

2.1 COMPONENT 1: STRONG PUBLIC BUDGETING AND MUNICIPAL SERVICE DELIVERY PROCESSES IN PLACE

2.1.1 COMPONENT 1 KEY ACTIVITIES ACTIVITY 1.1: FORMALIZE RELATIONSHIPS WITH MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES AND NATIONAL COUNTERPARTS

UMG signed MOUs with the municipalities of Puerto Barrios, Chiquimula and Jocotan this last quarter bringing to 16 the total number of municipal authorities committed to promoting urban violence prevention through municipal strengthening, improved public services and increased citizen engagement This leaves only the municipality of Zacapa unsigned due to the security issues discussed in the Executive Summary.

MUNICIPAL AND COMMUNITY SELECTION

With the signing of MOUs with municipal governments also came the selection of partner communities. Based on lessons learned from the community selection process in previous quarters, UMG adjusted its methodology to depoliticize the process. Instead of relying on the municipalities to select a site where they could “earn additional votes”, UMG provided them with two to three of the most violent sites from which to select. UMG determined these sites based on primary and secondary data including interviews with:

• National Civil Police • Municipal Traffic Police • Ombudsman for Indigenous Women (DEMI) • Presidential Commission against Discrimination and Racism (CODISRA) • Ministry of Health • Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman (PDH) • Regional Offices of the Attorney General (PGN) • Ministry of Education • Volunteer Fire Department • Prosecutors Office (MP) • Commission for the Integral Protection of Children and Adolescents

Based on the data UMG received on crime and violence, the municipalities provided additional information which was added to the criteria, such as:

• Level of community organization; • Presence of primary or secondary school; • Proximity to cemetery, prisons, markets or garbage dumps (areas in which young people are vulnerable to being recruited by gangs).

Then based on that information the municipality selected the community and the Municipal Violence and Crime Prevention Committee (COMPURE) validated that selection. Additional time was need in this

5 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 process, but the sites better fit the initial criteria. Below is the updated list of the communities in their respective municipalities:

Community Municipality Estimated Community Population* 1 Colonia El Mezquital Villa Nueva 18,480 (within the prioritized area where UMG Will implement) 2 TBD Mixco 3 Aldea El Jocotillo Villa Canales 17,000 4 Colonia Altos de la Cruz Amatitlán 1,000 5 Cantón Rincón de la Piedra Palencia 3,000 6 Aldea Socobal Chimaltenango 4,350 7 Colonia San José Jocotales Chinautla 3,000 8 Colonia Modelo I Escuintla 1,500 9 Cantón Tableros Retalhuleu 5,000 10 UMG will only focus on Component 1 as Community Roots will cover Colomba all high violence communities 11 Barrio Chuatuj Coatepeque 25,000 12 Cantón Santo Domingo Belén Malacatán 2,400 13 Colonia El Zapotillo Chiquimula 384 14 Colonia Los Pinos Esquipulas 1600 15 UMG will only focus on Component 1 as Community Roots will cover Jocotán all high violence communities 16 Two communities – Caserío El Manantial and Caserío San Agustin, Puerto Barrios 10,095 with a combined population of 10,000. They share a community Violence Prevention Committee (COCOPRE) 17 TBD Zacapa Source: COCODES and Municipalities

ACTIVITY 1.2 IMPLEMENT THE POLITICAL ECONOMY ASSESSMENT IN SIX MUNICIPALITIES

UMG submitted the Political and Economic Assessment (PEA) contract deliverable for 10 of 17 municipalities. After some difficulty defining the scope of the first-round assessment, the UMG MEL team became more involved in field visits and verifying data collection. USAID expects that the completed PEA will provide useful information for their nationwide PEA. UMG and ASIES will be called on to help prepare survey questions and data analysis for the nationwide assessment.

ACTIVITY 1.3 IMPLEMENT THE FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION CAPACITY ASSESSMENT (FOCAS) IN SIX MUNICIPALITIES

During the last quarter, UMG conducted five municipal-level FOCAS to identify capacity gaps and needs which formed the basis for the definition of ten Public Financial Management (PFM) and Training Plans. The four-hour workshops involved 130 officials and technical staff from the five municipalities, including 65 men and 65 women. The assessments normally included municipal employees from the departments of planning, financial administration, public services, municipal policy, internal security, project coordination, logistics, youth coordination, social works, community organization, municipal transit police, Municipal Council members and delegates from the Community Violence Prevention Unit of the Vice Ministry. The municipalities in eastern Guatemala also included representatives from the Community Roots project.

6 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 UMG assessed the same five operational areas (except in Villanueva) that were used in the previous ten municipalities. These are Planning, Financial Management, Revenue Generation, Citizen Engagement and Outreach, and Violence Prevention. The gaps and needs for these municipalities were like the previous ten.

For the Planning operational area, the Annual Operating Plan (POA) was prepared only by the Director of Planning with little to no involvement from other departments and the municipal budget is not linked to programmatic planning and municipalities do not utilize participatory planning processes that engage citizens at the community level. The assessment also demonstrated the need for support in modernizing land use and ownership planning and management.

The Financial Management issue causing the most delays in budget execution is procurement management; including public contracts and purchases. Additionally, municipalities are struggling to update the application of SICOGIN GL which enables the Ministry of Finance to oversee municipal spending which improves transparency.

For Revenue Generation, all municipalities are experiencing issues with the collection and management of municipal service users’ fees for water, sanitation, electricity, public markets and other services. Additionally, municipalities need to update and innovate their property tax collection. Most are lacking the needed information to properly apply the tax, an income that the municipalities could use.

Related to the Citizen Engagement and Outreach operational area, by law all the municipalities have an office for public access to information but they are not functioning the way they should. As explained by the municipal officials they understand that the offices should engage in a two-way dialogue, however they function as a monologue- municipality provides information to the citizens but citizen participation does not exist. Additionally, none of the communities in the municipalities have community development plans as expressed by law.

In terms of municipal capacity and knowledge of Crime and Violence Prevention, there is a noticeable misunderstanding or lack of knowledge of the role of the municipality in violence prevention. Most municipal staff see these interventions as the role of the Central Government and Police. Additionally, they claim they do not have the budget to cover what is needed to reduce the levels of violence in their jurisdiction. In municipalities where crime and violence prevention plans exist they are not linked to the formal planning and budgeting processes and they tend to focus on security (law enforcement) vs. prevention.

Based on prior meetings with the municipality of Villanueva and the Convivimos project, and the understanding that Villanueva already was implementing Violence Prevention programs that were prioritized in the Operational Plan, UMG and Convivimos agreed to divide the work based on the five major themes of the Municipal Violence Prevention Plan (1. Women 2. Youth 3. Environment 4. Health 5. Citizen Security). Convivimos would continue to work with activities prioritized in the Women, Health and Citizen Security section of the plan whereas UMG would focus on Youth and Environment. This would ensure that the interventions would not be duplicated. For Villa Nueva, the FOCAS assessment approached three key areas of work: planning; human well-being and citizen peaceful coexistence (Youth activities within the Municipal Violence Prevention Plan) and use of public space (Environment activities within the Municipal Violence Prevention Plan). UMG will prepare the PFM for Villa Nueva next quarter and present it to the authorities for validation.

7 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 2.1.5 ACTIVITY 1.4: IMPLEMENT CAPACITY-BUILDING PLANS IN TARGET MUNICIPALITIES

After completing an extensive grants selection process, UMG signed and publicly inaugurated their first two grant agreements this quarter which respond directly to the needs of the municipal PFMs. The two grants will both provide academic diploma programs to ten municipalities1 which will strengthen municipal governance, and support more effective and efficient delivery of public services to urban communities at risk of violence and crime. The courses will be implemented by the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO in Spanish) and InterNaciones University and will include some 400- municipal planning and finance department staff, and 80 Municipal Council members over the next two years.

FLACSO will implement three courses – two 60-hour Diplomas for 200 planning and programmatic employees, and one 24-session course for 80 Council members. One Diploma is on results-based management; the other on municipal tax policy. The course for Council members includes sessions on tax policy, income generation, and economic and social policy in local government.

InterNaciones will begin with a rapid assessment in each of the ten municipalities, to tailor courses to specific municipal needs but with more emphasis on financial management: effective delivery of public services; annual operating plans; ethics and transparency. The two-year course will provide university credit and will be implemented in virtual and physical classrooms. InterNaciones will focus on building capacity and guiding staff towards a more complete, and integrated process leading from planning to implementation.

One of the other gaps that the municipalities prioritized during the FOCAS was a review of their organizational and service manuals. This quarter UMG reviewed and commented on the organizational manuals in Colomba, Coatepeque, Retalhuleu, and Malacatán. The review of organizational manuals showed where manuals were outdated in terms of current organizational structures, or misaligned with new laws and regulations governing municipal operations. UMG used the opportunity to make recommendations for further work, including: technical assistance to update specific manuals and procedural guides in each municipality; support to socialize operating manuals with all staff; and technical assistance to develop new manuals and procedures for services which have changed significantly over time, such as control of motor-taxis and rental of sound systems for events.

As part of the Financial Management support to the Municipality of Amatitlán, UMG provided technical assistance to help the migrate information from the SIAF system to the GL System. This is a requirement of the Ministry of Finance so that they can monitor municipal expenses. At the end of this quarter, UMG helped digitalize 11,000 taxpayers in Amatitlán from the water, cemetery, and IUSI (property tax) services. This represents 50% of the total current taxpayers.

1 Participating municipalities are: Amatitlán, Villa Canales, Palencia, Chinautla, Escuintla, Chimaltenango, Retalhuleu, Malacatán, Coatepeque and Colomba

8 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 Last year, the Vice Ministry requested support in preparing the overall strategy for the newly formed National Commission for the Prevention of Violence and Crime. Part of the strategy is the preparation of technical discussion roundtables including those for the women, adolescents and youth. The Vice Ministry´s goal is to also establish these roundtables at the local level, where UMG could play a vital role. During this quarter, UMG and Community Roots met with the Mayors from the Department of Chiquimula and the mayors of Western Guatemala and all have confirmed their interest in a Technical Round-Table on Violence Prevention, which will be inaugurated at a USAID-supported Forum on Violence and Crime Prevention in April in Guatemala City.

As part of a process to emulate best practices in good governance for municipal authorities, UMG has catalyzed regular briefings with municipal authorities to demonstrate project accountability. This quarter, UMG staff engaged leaders from Palencia and Amatitlán, both in the Department of Guatemala in which the municipal authorities had the opportunity to express their thoughts on UMG program implementation. Whereas Palencia expressed satisfaction with UMG and its activities, Amatitlán, was more concerned. Their comments were directed at their perception that the program grew to quickly into the other 16 municipalities, diluting the Amatitlán, interventions. Where before UMG had an almost permanent presence in their municipality, UMG staff presence now was scarce. UMG management agreed with the comments as operating out of 17 municipalities throughout Guatemala without the regional staff has created the necessity for Central staff to attend to the other municipalities. This should improve with the hiring of regional staff.

2.1.2 COMPONENT 1 CONSTRAINTS AND CRITICAL ISSUES There was a delay in signing final two MOUs in Zacapa and Mixco. Although both municipalities are distinct, both are concerning. The levels of crime and violence in Zacapa are high and support to the municipality and their communities is a priority. UMG has visited the municipality of Zacapa on various occasions to expedite the signing however the Municipal Council would not allow the mayor to sign the MOU. Tragically this quarter the mayor of Zacapa was murdered. UMG understands that signing a MOU now might not be possible but that assistance to the crime- ridden communities is still needed. To establish a presence, UMG met the Governor of Zacapa, Mr. Salvador Cordón to measure his interest on technical assistance. Discussion focused on possible violence prevention interventions in the identified community. The Governor commented on the problems they have with the nearby Jocotes prison and the lawsuit they filed against the Ministry of the Interior for the lack of water and drainage system. He also offered the project to present to the Departmental Councils for Development (CODEDE) next quarter with the newly appointed Mayor of Zacapa present.

Trying to advance activities in Mixco has been challenging at times, in part, due to the 10-month delay from the initial presentation to the Municipal Council to the MOU signing. There have also been additional delays in scheduling a FOCAS presentation. There is concern about UMG’s ability to obtain tangible results in Mixco given the pace of progress over the first year. UMG will continue to program activities in collaboration with the Mixco municipal government.

2.1.3 PLANNED FOR NEXT REPORTING PERIOD • Co-sponsor a Violence Prevention Forum in which 30 mayors will have the opportunity to interact with international violence prevention experts and the Vice Ministry of Violence Prevention can articulate their strategy moving forward.

9 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 • Two grantee UNI and FLACSO will start training courses in the 10 prioritized municipalities. • Implement PFMs in the remaining 7 municipalities through consultancies, and national level institutional support. • Start migration from SIAF to GL Services in the municipalities of Chinautla, Escuintla and Chimaltenango. • Provide technical assistance for the municipalities of Amatitlán, Villa Canales, Palencia, Chimaltenango and Escuintla to help streamline their processes. • Provide Technical Assistance for electronic payment of public services for the municipalities of Amatitlán, Villa Canales, Chinautla, Palencia, Escuintla and Chimaltenango. • Provide support to the National Comptroller (CGC) training course focused on Municipal Procurement best practices. This course will be directed at UMG municipalities. • Provide Technical Assistance to the National Comptroller (CGC) to develop the updated version of the SAG-UDAI system which will improve municipal transparency. This intervention will benefit the 340 municipalities of the country. • Assess the current municipal complaints concerning the CGC audits and facilitate constructive conversations between the majors and the Comptroller to improve the situation. • Support the municipalities of Amatitlán, Villa Canales, Chimaltenango, and Escuintla in implementing their Cadaster and Land Management projects which includes SIG training, support for imaging, cadastral surveys, technology infrastructure and technical expertise. • Assess the current Social Communication Units with the 17 municipalities to provide future support where there are issues.

2.2 COMPONENT 2: HIGH CRIME, URBAN MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES ARE IMPROVED THROUGH CITIZEN-DRIVEN IMPROVEMENTS IN LIVING CONDITIONS AND MUNICIPAL SERVICES

2.2.1 COMPONENT 2 KEY ACTIVITIES ACTIVITY 2.1 IMPLEMENT COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY VULNERABILITY ANALYSES

Over the past six-months, UMG has been in discussion with the Vice Minister of Violence Prevention about testing different methodologies to conduct violence risk analysis and the preparation of Crime and Violence Prevention Plans. With UMG´s involvement in these processes, two concerns were evident in the methodology. The first was the lack of a sustained presence of municipal officials in the assessment and CVPP preparation. UMG sees this as critical as the plans also contain municipal budgets which make it difficult for the municipality to appropriate the CVPP if they are not involved or in agreement. The second issue is the time the current UPCV methodology takes to complete. Currently from the time needed from the initial step of forming Crime and Violence Community Commissions (COCOPRES) to the time that a CVPP is developed and validated is approximately six months. In addition, there are only 36 UPCV delegates in the country and reaching all communities is near impossible. UMG believes this methodology can be enriched by involving strategic members of the municipality and by streamlining the processes. This also puts less stress on the community to participate in a long stung-out ordeal.

UMG´s methodology is based on engaging important community stakeholders such as women community leaders, youth leaders and COCODES to learn about and identify key places, times and activities which make their communities unsafe for them. The methodology also includes 5-10 members

10 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 of the municipality. The vulnerability analysis process will utilize participatory mapping techniques that will:

• identify areas of low, medium and high risk; • reach consensus among the larger group on primary risk factors and how to best address them

UMG´s methodology also takes into consideration many of the UPCV steps such as the transect walks which provides an opportunity for separate groups to identify risks from their own perspective, and then build compound maps identifying all risks. UMG is also using primary and secondary data to help develop the community Crime and Violence assessment. UMG collects the information through interviews with officials of public institutions and non-governmental organizations, using a guide that allowed qualitative and quantitative information on:

• Types of violence • Area or areas with the highest incidence of violence. • Urban marginalized communities suggested for the interventions of the UMG Project. • Sectors most vulnerable to violence. • Proposed operational solution • Future Contacts for the community

Based on these findings, UMG negotiated with the Vice Ministry and UPCV to engage in both methodologies and then report back on lessons learned and best practices once all CVPPs were complete. But to best support the UPCV delegates in the region, UMG field staff partook in a two-day training on the UPCV methodology. Additionally, UMG and Community Roots together with the Vice Ministry of Violence Prevention facilitated a best practice in violence prevention workshop. More than 30 UPCV Delegates from around the country identified the following series of successful municipal experiences in violence prevention: well-organized and collaborative awareness-raising campaigns such as the motorcycle ‘rally for violence prevention and peace’ around Lake Atitlan in Sololá; a new Center for Capacity building on Violence Prevention in El Progreso; municipal offices offering psycho-social support to women in Alta Verapaz; and interventions to control illegal alcohol sales in Huehuetenango. These examples will be used moving forward in future CVPPs.

The following is a description of each methodology and estimated time for each step:

UPCV Methodology UMG Methodology

Assessment • Collection of Primary and Secondary • Collection of Primary and Secondary Data Phase Data • Train COCODE in the modules: (1) Citizen • Conformation of COCOPRE, with Participation; and, (2) Citizen Security. COCODE members and other • Focus groups community leaders. (COCODEs • Train COCOPRE in the modules: (1) Women leaders Citizen Participation; and, (2) Citizen Youth Leaders) Security. • Community Assessment completed with • Open Conversation with Citizen, to Community identify risk factors that affect the inhabitants of the community.

11 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 • Transect Walk, to identify the areas of the community most vulnerable to violence. • Focus groups of women and young people, to discuss risk factors that affects these vulnerable sectors • Community Assessment completed at UPCV Central Unit Planning Stage • Train COCOPRE in Community • Workshop to prepare CVPP (with special participative planning focus on Municipal Service Delivery for VP) • Workshop to prepare CVPP with COCODE, women and youth leaders • Validation of CVPP • Transect Walk • Validation of CVPP

Estimated 27 12 total days

Municipalities • Chimaltenango • Villa Canales • Retalhuleu • Malacatan • Escuipulas • Puerto Barrios • Amatitlán • Palencia • Chinautla • Coatepeque • Zacapa

Over the last quarter, UMG advanced in both methodologies, working at the pace of both the community and the UPCV delegate. In was encouraging to see in the communities of Tableros (Retalhuleu) and Jocotillo (Villa Canales), two communities where UMG is working side by side with UPCV. Of concern are the communities of Chuatuj (Coatepeque) and Modelo 1 (Escuintla) where UMG has yet to enter. Chuatuj is due to security concerns while in Modelo 1 UPCV has not yet assigned a delegate. The following chart is a summary of the situation in the preparation of the CVPP in each community

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Municipal Methodol # Community ity ogy Plannin Assessm Assessm g Create Train Commu Trans Focus Train Plan ent ent Worksh COCOP COCOPRE/COC nity Risk ect Grou COCOP Validat complet Validate op to RE ODE Analysis Walk ps RE ed e d prepare CVPP

Colonia Altos de la 10/20/1 10/20/ 11/15/1 1 Amatitlán UMG N/A 10/31/17* 10/20/17 11/15/17 11/15/17 N/A 10/20/17 Cruz 7 17 7

UMG will utilize CVPP already prepared 2 Villa Nueva Mezquital (PBS) by N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Convivimo s and support Youth programs Villa 01/24/1 02/13/ 03/25/18* 3 Aldea El Jocotillo UPCV 12/14/17 12/15/17 01/13/18 3/5/2018 Canales 8 18 *

4 Mixco TBD

11/21/1 11/21/ 11/28/1 5 Palencia Rincón de la Piedra UMG 11/21/17* 11/21/17 11/28/17 11/21/17 7 17 7

6 Escuintla Colonia Modelo I UPCV 4/26/18

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Chimaltena 12/11/201 2/10/20 4/26/1 7 Colonia Socobal UPCV 12/27/17 2/10/2018 ngo 7 18 8

01/287 2/21/1 03/25/18* 8 Retalhuleu Cantón Tableros UPCV 12/8/2017 12/17/17 1/28/18 18 8 *

No community was selected as Community Roots 9 Colomba N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A will cover high crime and violence communities

1 Santo Domingo 4/12/20 Malacatán UPCV 3/1/2018 3/11/2018 3/23/18 0 Belén 18

1 Coatepequ Barrio Chuatuj UMG 1 e

1 Colonia San José 4/27/1 Chinautla UMG 3/20/18* 4/27/18 4/27/18 2 Jocotales 8

1 Zacapa TBD UMG 3

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1 Chiquimula Colonia El Zapotillo UPCV 2/26/18 4/12/2018 4

No community was selected as 1 Community Roots Jocotán N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 5 will cover high crime and violence communities New COCOD 1 Esquipulas Colonia Los Pinos UPCV E will be 6 created 4/26/18

Caserío San Agustín 1 Puerto - Caserío El UPCV 3/18/18 4/26/18 7 Barrios Manantial

*Working through COCODE and not COCOPRE ** Community Violence Assessments Prepared by UPCV Investigation Unit

15 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 ESTABLISH AT LEAST TWO PROJECT PREPARATION FACILITIES (PPFs)

This activity will be managed by SEGURA Consulting. It was decided that to provide sufficient technical assistance to INFOM and Commonwealth of the Southern Municipalities of the Department of Guatemala, a three-person team is needed. This quarter, UMG and SEGURA identified and selected personnel for the position of PPF coordinator, Financial Analyst and Engineer in charge of project design. SEGURA is currently in the process of hiring a local payroll firm that will administer these personnel contracts.

2.2.2 COMPONENT 2 CONSTRAINTS AND CRITICAL ISSUES UMG is committed to the institutionalization of methodologies and processes and is currently supporting the UPCV´s community Implementation Model. Unfortunately, this methodology is cumbersome and can take up to four to six months from forming the COCOPREs to having a completed CVPP. Part of the issue is that one delegate covers an entire region which includes more than one municipality and hundreds of communities. By working through the UPCV, we have earned good political capital with the Vice Ministry and the UPCV, which has value, but we are behind schedule with planned activities as a result. Ideally, violence prevention activities should start after a prepared plan to ensure their relevance. However, communities are impatient and looking for tangible results, which may lead UMG to starting activities prior to the completion of the CVPPs.

UMG has two communities that have completed CVPPs where violence prevention activities can now start. It is anticipated that community improvement projects will include small-scale infrastructure improvements and construction. However, UMG could not advance on the identification of these projects until the Civil Engineers are approved by USAID. These approvals were submitted in February and were just recently approved.

2.2.3 PLANNED FOR NEXT REPORTING PERIOD • Complete at least 10 CVPPs. • Design Service Delivery Improvement Plan participatory development process. • Start the construction of small scale infrastructure projects in at least four municipalities. • Implement EIAs and mitigation plans for small infrastructure projects considered to be of risk to the environment. • Mexico Study Tour which includes UMG staff and select counterparts (Vice Ministry of Violence Prevention and municipalities). • PPF staff will work with INFOM and Commonwealth of the Southern Municipalities of the Department of Guatemala to prepare work plan for first year interventions.

16 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 2.3 COMPONENT 3: CITIZENS AND CIVIL SOCIETY ESPECIALLLY IN THE MOST AT-RISK COMMUNITIES ARE ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN MUNICIPAL DECISION-MAKING AND ACCOUNTABILITY PROCESSES

2.3.1 COMPONENT 3 KEY ACTIVITIES ACTIVITY 3.1 STRENGTHEN REPRESENTATION AND EFFECTIVENESS OF DEVELOPMENT COUNCILS: COCODES, COMUDES, COMUPRES

This quarter, using local staff in the regional office, UMG started an analysis of the situation of the various Development Councils (COMUDEs, COMUPREs and COCODES) in Esquipulas, Jocotan and Chiquimula. This analysis includes their ability to work with municipal government and meet community needs, challenges, and representativeness. UMG has also prepared Terms of Reference for an outside organization that will conduct this analysis on the remaining 14 UMG municipalities. This analysis will be conducted next quarter and subsequent training to build their capacity to better respond to their constituents will occur in the final quarter of the fiscal year.

ACTIVITY 3.2 IMPROVE THE ABILITY OF CITIZENS TO ADVOCATE FOR AND ENGAGE WITH THEIR MUNICIPALITIES AND COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVES TO ULTIMATELY BENEFIT FROM VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES

UMG has advanced in identifying civil society organizations (CSOs) that can implement secondary violence prevention activities in the identified communities. More than 60 organizations presented concept notes via the Annual Program Statement (APS) that was published last year. Many of those were dedicated to secondary violence prevention programs. UMG is currently in a process of reviewing the different full proposals and preparing the needed documentation for USAID review. The different methodologies that UMG is considering are the following:

• Violence Interrupters (VIs) that specialized in detecting and interrupting conflicts in the community (Cure Violence). • Structured Leisure Time Activities for at-risk youth that include the psychosocial and life skills training behind them. • Vocational training programs that will help a child or a teenager increase his employability. • Improved parenting skills designed to improve the relations between parents and children. • Cognitive Behavior Therapy where therapeutic approaches based on counseling, skill building and multiple services reduce criminal behavior.

Organizations that implement these activities will be invited to participate in UMG´s first community- based crime and violence prevention “community of practice”. UMG expects to have regular sessions with these organizations to share lessons learned and best practices to enhance interventions while in progress.

Other grants will focus their interventions on Primary Violence Prevention, Gender based Violence (both prevention and attention), and citizen participation. Most of the grantees proposed working in more than one municipality. Those that are regionally based proposed working in the municipality where they are based.

17 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 Through this component, UMG will strengthen women and youth leadership and networks that enable participants to conduct critical and collective analyses of their interests. This quarter, UMG took advantage of International Women´s Day, March 8th to help better position the DMMs in their leadership role to mobilize and advocate for women´s rights and violence reduction against women. In eight municipalities2, UMG facilitated activities that were prioritized by women´s groups and civil society organizations that ranged from theater presentations, to women empowerment through entrepreneurships. A total of 3725 people participated in these Women´s Day events, including 580 men.

UMG also supported activities for the International Social Justice Day in the municipalities of Escuintla and Retalhuleu where there are active local CSOs. These events were organized by the Social Work Office of the Mayor’s Wife (SOSEP), and the Municipal Women’s Department (DMM). CSOs representatives and SOSEP and DMM officials spoke from institutional experiences on protective factors which reduce vulnerabilities to violence, such as: implementation of integrated services for children and youth in the home, school and community; fair pay and adequate hours.

2.3.2 COMPONENT 3 CONSTRAINTS AND CRITICAL ISSUES The constraints in Component 3 are like those of Component 2, as community interventions are reliant on the completion of the CVPPs. UMG understands these dynamics, but to advance the grants that will respond to community risk factors, UMG looked for common themes within each community. Common Risk Factors evident in Assessments and CVPPs

• Parental Neglect • Victim of Child Maltreatment • Absent Father • Lack of Social Skills • Spend the day/night in the streets of unsafe neighborhood • Exposure to gangs and violence in the area • Poor academic results/excluded from schools • Unemployed no qualifications

Individual communities had other unique risk factors as well which may also be covered depending on the grantee´s proposal. These common risk factor then led to selection of Primary and Secondary Violence Prevention Strategies that were evident in many of the proposals presented to UMG.

2.3.3 PLANNED FOR NEXT REPORTING PERIOD • Start the assessment of the situation of the Development Councils (COMUDEs, COMUPREs and COCODES) in remaining 14 municipalities.

2 Retalhuleu, Villa Canales, Chimaltenango, Esquipulas, Jocotan Escuintla, Chiquimula, Malacatan

18 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 • Based on the assessment, identify a training/capacity building strategy that will improve Council members’ skills and effectiveness in representing and responding to their constituencies. • Implement a rapid analysis of the institutional capacity and strengthening needs of the Municipal Women´s Department (DMM). • Contract services of CSOs in primary and secondary violence prevention as defined in the CVPPs of each community. • Engage CSOs in a community-based crime and violence prevention “community of practice”.

19 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 2.4 CROSS-CUTTING ACTIVITIES

2.3.1 CROSS-CUTTING KEY ACTIVITIES CONTRACTS/GRANTS UNDER CONTRACT

Subcontracts Awarded

Subcontractor Name Title of Activity Period of Performance

Asociación de Investigación y Estudios Perform "Presentation of PEA results in 10 5-Mar-18 31-May-18 Sociales - ASIES Municipalities"

Subcontracts Paid

Subcontractor Name Title of Activity Period of Performance

Asociación de Investigación y Estudios Perform "Political and Economic Assessment" 10 6-Jun-17 23-Oct-17 Sociales - ASIES Municipalities

Grants Awarded

Grantee Name Title Period of Implementation

Universidad InterNaciones Training of key stakeholders in Finance and 21-Feb-18 20-Feb-20 Administrative Management in Selected Municipalities

Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Strengthening Decision-Making Capacity in 10 21-Feb-18 21-Oct-19 Sociales en Guatemala Municipalities

Grants Activities Performed

Grant Number Grantee Name Activity Title Date of (task code) Activity

UMG-GT-SG-001-UNI Universidad InterNaciones Kick-off meeting and training on UMG Project 5-mar-18 UMG-GT-SG-002-FLACSO Facultad Latinoamericana grants management and compliance: technical, de Ciencias Sociales en MEL and financial reporting requirements Guatemala

20 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 UMG-GT-SG-001-UNI Universidad InterNaciones Launch of the Grantees´ activities with the 14-mar-18 participation of local partners and donor: UMG-GT-SG-002-FLACSO Facultad Latinoamericana SEGEPLAN, Mayors from the targeted de Ciencias Sociales en Municipalities, USAID Guatemala

MONITORING, EVALUATION AND LEARNING

The revised Monitoring and Evaluation Plan (MEP) was approved January 9, 2018. Four additional indicators were suggested by USAID and were included in this revised version.

UMG´s M&E team participated in three working group sessions with the Mission's Monitoring and Evaluation Project (implemented by DevTech) and implementing partners under DGO's portfolio. These working groups focused on reviewing the Performance Indicator Reference Sheets (PIRS). UMG also participated in a one-day workshop with the Democracy and Governance Office (DGO) staff to complete and validate the PIRS for 13 new indicators that were recently included into the results framework.

During this quarter, UMG´s M&E team presented the results of a municipal employee and citizen perception survey to Mayors, Council Members and key municipal staff in five municipalities (Palencia, Malacatán, Coatepeque, Colomba y Retalhuleu).

2.3.2 CROSS-CUTTING CONSTRAINTS AND CRITICAL ISSUES GRANTS UNDER CONTRACT

In August of 2017, UMG launched an Annual Program Statement (APS) to receive concept notes from local organizations that could implement programs in UMG selected municipalities and communities. The response was better than expected as close to 60 organization applied. UMG has reviewed all concept notes and has requested full proposals from 16 organizations. These organizations have since submitted proposals, and have passed the UMG criteria. These grants now need to be submitted to USAID for approval. However, UMG does not currently have the grants staff to prepare these RFA to USAID. Due to this gap, UMG will contract additional grant consultants for 3-6-month contracts to help prepare the documentation to submit to USAID for approval.

21 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 2.3.3 CROSS-CUTTING ACTIVITIES PLANNED FOR NEXT REPORTING PERIOD CONTRACTS/GRANTS UNDER CONTRACT

Subcontracts scheduled for award during next quarter

Subcontract No. Subcontractor Name Title of Activity Period of Performance

003-S-FO-1869- Asociación de Investigación y Perform "UMG Project Base Line" 2-Apr-18 31-Aug-18 ASIES (FPS) Estudios Sociales - ASIES Q973,880.85 at Q7.35 e.r.

004-S-FO-1869- Asociación de Investigación y Perform "Political and Economic TBD-Apr-18 5.5 months ASIES (FPS) Estudios Sociales - ASIES Assessment" 7 Municipalities

Q462,549.20 at Q7.35 e.r.

Grants scheduled for submission next quarter

No. Potential Grantee and Anticipated Grant Type Period of Performance

1 Fundación Sida i Societat (SG) 24 months

2 FEDENMURG (FAA) * 24 months

3 ACJ-YMCA (FAA) * 24 months

4 CEIPA * (TBD) 24 months

5 Asociación por una Vida Digna – AVD * (FAA) 24 months

6 CICAM * (FAA) 24 months

7 NERAK, S.A. * (TBD) 24 months

8 Paz Joven * (TBD) 18 months

9 PROPAZ * (TBD) 24 months

10 FUNDAECO * (TBD) 18 months

11 Municipality of Escuintla (IKG). Computer equipment, promotional materials and publications 12 months to update tax payers’ information in SERVICIOS GL system, as required by law

22 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 No. Potential Grantee and Anticipated Grant Type Period of Performance

12 Municipality of Chinautla (IKG). Computer equipment, promotional materials and publications 12 months to update tax payers’ information in SERVICIOS GL system, as required by law

13 Municipality of Chimaltenango (IKG). Computer equipment, promotional materials and 12 months publications to update tax payers’ information in SERVICIOS GL system, as required by law

14 Municipality of Amatitlán. Promotional materials and publications to update tax payers’ 12 months information in the SERVICIOS GL system, as required by law

2.5 TRAINING EVENTS OVER REPORTING PERIOD UMG held the following in-country training events over the reporting period.

NAME OF FIELD OF RELATIONSHIP TO START END TARGET FEMALE MALE TRAINING STUDY THE OBJECTIVES DATE DATE GROUP PROGRAM

FOCAS Municipal Learned about FOCAS January March Mayor, 65 65 workshops Strengthening and make the review the 2018 2018 Council Political Economy Members, Assessment and Municipal Functional Organizational Units Capacity Building Managers and Assessment processes. Techniques

Esquipulas, Jocotán, Chiquimula y Puerto Barrios

Citizen Violence Learned about citizen March March Community 16 18 Security and Prevention participation. 11 11 leaders of Violence Santo Prevention Domingo Belén, Malacatán

Women´s Violence Woman and Man learned March March Women and 7 7 Rights Prevention about violence types, and 20th 20th men from El how to use the Women´s Jocotillo, Villa Rights. Canales

23 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 Citizen Violence Learned about citizen March March Community 24 6 Security and Prevention participation and Citizen 20th 20th leaders of San Violence Security José Jocotales, Prevention Chinautla

24 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 2.6 INDICATOR/ACTIVITY PERFORMANCE

DO & IR CURRENT CURRENT % VARIANCE NEXT FY TWO FY REASON INDICATOR NAME AND THAT THE BASELINE FY FY RESULT BETWEEN TARGET OUT FOR +/- 10% NUMBER PROJECT VALUE TARGET TARGETS TARGET VARIANCE SUPPORTS

1. Degree of citizen satisfaction DO1 TBD 0 0 8% 0 with service delivery provided by target institutions

2. Number of municipalities with DO1 0 5 0 11 16 demonstrated improvement in institutional capacity for public financial management

3. Number of municipalities that DO1 0 5 0 11 16 practice participatory planning and budgeting

4. Number of public DO1 0 3 0 6 9 accountability and transparency mechanisms implemented

5. Number of municipalities and DO1 0 10 0 26 41 communities that are implementing strategies for crime and violence prevention

6. Number of municipalities with DO1 5 5 0 5 5 Municipal Crime Prevention Committees

7. Number of awards made DO1 0 10 2 10 10 directly to local organizations

25 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 8. Number of youth who have DO1 0 250 0 750 1,250 participated in a USG-supported activity to improve municipal services within their communities

9. Number of vulnerable people DO1 0 500 0 1,500 2,500 benefitting from USG-supported municipal services improvement

10. Number of vulnerable people DO1 0 250 0 750 1,250 benefitting from USG-supported social services

11. Percentage of USG-funded DO1 0 50% 0 50% 50% NGO or other international organization projects that include activities or services designed to reduce specific risks or harm to vulnerable populations

12. Number of individuals who DO1 0 250 0 550 800 received USG-supported training, including municipal performance, service delivery improvement and transparency, to strengthen local government and/or decentralization

13. Number of citizens engaged in DO1 0 75 0 225 375 developing community plans and/or implementing political reforms

14. Number of community DO1 0 5 0 15 25 proposed initiatives implemented by community and municipal governments

15. Number of Civil Society DO1 0 6 0 6 6 Organizations receiving USG assistance engaged in advocacy interventions

26 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 16. Number of USG-supported DO1 0 10 0 22 32 activities designed to promote or strengthen the civic participation of women (

27 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 COLLABORATION WITH NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, OTHER DONOR PROJECTS, OR OTHER USAID PROJECTS

3.1 LINKS WITH RELEVANT GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES

Government Entity Levels of Coordination

Ministry of Finance Coordination to strengthen municipal officials in online training, a new methodology for knowledge transfer through the MINFIN platform https://educacion.minfin.gob.gt

• SICOIN GL Contracts Module • Conformation of SICOINGL-SERVICESGL files • Water module for SERVICIOS GL.

Coordination to define the support that UMG will provide in the development of the new Portal GL, this to give the financial information in a friendlier way to the population.

National Institute of Coordination for municipal officials in Municipal Management, likely in Eastern Municipalities. Public Information – (INAP)

General Comptroller’s Support of the pilot of the Municipal Contracting which begins in April 2018 and is aimed at Office (CGC) personnel of municipalities in the central area (Amatitlán, Palencia, Chinautla, Villa Canales, Mixco, Villa Nueva, Chimaltenango and Escuintla)

Coordination for the support that the UMG project will provide in the development of the UDAIM / SAG portal, which will be used for the rendering of accounts of local governments and support for municipal internal auditors.

Instituto de Fomento Coordination to carry out the process of project preparation mechanisms, which will be carried Municipal (INFOM) out with the company SEGURA

Commonwealth of Support the development of the Land Management and Cadaster Plan with POT approach in Southern Municipalities the municipalities of the Villa Canales and Amatitlán and support from SEGURA in Project Preparation for Villa Canales, Amatitlán, Villa Nueva and Mixco

3.2 LINKS WITH OTHER DONOR AGENCIES

This quarter, UMG contacted the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GiZ). GiZ is supporting both the Vice Ministry of Violence Prevention and the municipality of Chinautla. Both GiZ and UMG have similar program activities. With the VM, GiZ has already prepared training manuals for the municipal authorities. However, these manuals have not been accepted by the VM, who has asked UMG to also produce training manuals. UMG has agreed to continue the conversation with both GiZ and the VM to come to an agreement on what manuals can be used for what training and to ensure that

28 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 no duplication is taking place. UMG also agreed to accompany GiZ in Chinautla, and to only fill in the gaps where they will not work.

3.3 LINKS WITH OTHER USAID PROJECTS

USAID Project Coordination Efforts Convivimos UMG has worked closely with CONVIVMOS to determine activities in Villa Nueva. It was determined that UMG would base its implementation plan off the Municipal Violence Prevention Plan, where Convivimos would continue to support Women´s Issues, Health and Citizen Security line items. UMG would cover Youth and Environment. Community Roots UMG maintains a close working relationship with CR, as the programs share various municipalities in both the West and the East. CR has been actively involved in the selection of the UMG communities in those municipalities. The programs have also agreed on which organization will lead the strengthening of the COMPUPREs in shared municipalities. CR and UMG have jointly designed the Mayor´s Conference. Nexos Locales UMG has met with Nexos Locales to share methodologies and lessons learned on topics such as DMM, COCODE and COMUDE strengthening. This has been very beneficial for UMG as Nexos Locales has previous experience in these areas, where UMG has just started. UMG and Nexos Locales have also met to discuss the replication of the APP they recently launched in Chaintla Participacion Civica Both UMG and PC are working with Open Government. Although PC is taking the lead on these interventions, UMG has been in discussions to see how best to roll out these interventions at the local level. Both organizations are also working with CGC and have made efforts to ensure interventions are complementary and repetitive. INL/RTI INL is now working in almost all of UMG municipalities. The two programs have met on various occasions to discuss complementary activities. There are usually no issues as INL focuses its work with the police and UMG with the municipalities. The only areas that cross is the preparation of the Municipal Violence Prevention Plans and strengthening the COMUPREs. Up until now, INL has already advanced in these areas, so UMG works off what is already completed.

29 | GUATEMALA UMG: QUARTERLY REPORT, JANUARY TO MARCH 2018 MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION

4.1 PERSONNEL As of March 31, 2018, the project field office has 37 staff members (including 1 U.S. National, 3 Third Country Nationals and 33 Cooperating Country Nationals).

During this quarter, Mrs. Silvia Vasquez was promoted from Violence Prevention Specialist to Component 3 Coordinator, and Mr. Guillermo Cuevas was promoted from Procurement Officer to Grants Specialist. Also, the project field office hired the following positions:

Name Position

Santiago Guadalupe Girón Coatepeque - Component 2 Specialist

María Elena Barrios Barillas Receptionist

Luis Fernando García Méndez Chiquimula - Component 3 Specialist

Sayda Marvila Alvarado Mazariegos Coatepeque - Component 1 Specialist

Ana Gabriela Anzueto Carranza Coatepeque - Administrative Assistant

Otto Fernando Recinos Guerra Procurement Officer

Alejandro Tellez DCOP Technical

The Project’s Communication Outreach Coordinator, Mr. Graeme Thompson left the project on March 16, and his replacement is pending CO approval.

The project has started operations in its Coatepeque Regional office since February 15. We are recruiting for Component 3 specialist, and project driver to have the regional office fully staffed.

In late March, an office lease was signed for Chiquimula Regional office. The lease will be effective on April 12, we already hired the Component 3 specialist, and next April 16 the Administrative Assistant for this office is joining the Project. Recruitment efforts are being made for Component 1 and 2 specialists for this regional office. UMG is also recruiting for a full-time position to cover Puerto Barrios.

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