Creating the Category of Indigenous and Communal Natural Areas in the Guatemala Protected Areas Law
Grantee Name: Asociación SOTZ'IL ONG
- Hotspot
- Mesoamerica
- Location
- Guatemala
- Amount
- $20,000
- Dates
- Nov 2008 – Oct 2009
- Keywords
- Biodiversity mainstreaming, Legal support, Policy/law, Protected Areas
Support the design, validation and promotion of community and indigenous reserves as a new category of protection in the Guatemalan System of Protected Areas. Activities will include meetings to design the law, workshops to validate it with local actors and meetings with the Guatemala Protected Areas Agency and Congressional representatives to discuss its approval.
1 Foster civil society participation in regional decisionmaking on select policies and investments to promote the conservation and sustainable development of the Selva Maya and the Selva Zoque and Chiapas/Guatemala Highlan
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