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2020-04-20
Tiny Beam Fund;
KEYWORDS: Chickens and eggs. Industrial production. Consumption. Guatemala. HIGHLIGHTS: *This report or Guidance Memo explains the major role played by: (1) a few powerful home-grown businesses and brands, (2) cross-border and international trade and policies, in flooding Guatemala with industrially-produced chickens in the last half century. *It brings to the fore public health, food justice, and other significant issues that should be emphasized in campaigns to defeat "industrial chicken" there. *The Guidance Memo also exposes assertions and myths that help to hold in place chickens' current popularity with consumers (e.g. the claim that producing chickens industrially is important to the country's economy, but the fact is that economic benefits accrue mainly to the country's most powerful families like the Gutiérrez-Bosches who own Pollo Campero and Pollo Rey). *Provides practical strategies and actions that one can take to turn things round (e.g. challenge industry claims through magazine articles and social media, valorize indigenous culinary knowledge and promote consumption of nutrient-rich native legumes, form alliance across permaculture and other food movements).
2019-03-01
Belize Fisheries Department;
Across the Caribbean, the invasion of red lionfish (Pterois volitans) poses a pervasive threat to marine ecosystems and coastal fishing communities. First recorded in Belize in 2008, lionfish have become well established across the country's entire marine environment. Uncontrolled, invasive lionfish populations disrupt marine food webs, negatively impacting coral reef health and fisheries productivity, thereby undermining the resilience of coral reefs and reef-associated systems to global change.This document describes how to design and implement an integrated approach to lionfish management – incorporating environmental, social and economic wellbeing goals – and provides specific recommendations for the adaptive management of lionfish in Belize.
2018-03-01
Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative;
Over the past 10 years, we have conducted rigorous science in support of management. Our reliable measures of reef condition allow us to identify the most urgent threats and responses. HRI training workshops continue to strengthen scientific capacity. Our partners are scaling-up and improving management in 47 MPAs spanning almost 60,000 km2. Through our Regional Coral BleachWatch Network, we have quickly mobilized and supported teams of partners across the region to monitor coral bleaching. HRI convenes annual partner meetings, enabling us to achieve a common voice and collectively accelerate conservation action. Together, we have shaped policy, such as protecting herbivorous fish in 3 of 4 countries. It has been 20 years since the four country leaders signed the historic Tulum Declaration, committing to protect the MAR's shared resources. Our science-based knowledge and collective management efforts need to be accelerated—particularly to reduce pollution and increase replenishment zones. Our 2018 Coral Reef Report Card includes a 10-year perspective on reef health and conservation aimed to ensure our reefs will endure and thrive into the future.
2018-03-07
Migration Policy Institute;
North America and the Central American countries of the Northern Triangle—El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—represent one of the world's most dynamic migration corridors, with millions traveling from, through, or to these countries in recent decades. The United States has the world's largest immigrant population; Canada has one of the highest immigration rates per capita; and Mexico and Central America have significant shares of their nationals abroad, primarily in the United States. However, policies and public perceptions around immigration, especially in the United States, are not keeping up with emerging shifts in the region's migration.
2018-10-22
Foundation Center;
This report examines grantmaking in 2014 and 2015 for Latin America by large U.S.foundations, with a closer look at philanthropy for Central America.
2017-01-25
Center for Economic and Policy Research;
This report is a response to Vanderbilt University's Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) critique of our report, "Have US-Funded CARSI Programs Reduced Crime and Violence in Central America?" released in September 2016. That September report was an examination of the only publicly accessible impact assessment of USAID-funded anticrime and community-based violence prevention programs carried out under the umbrella of the US State Department's Central American Regional Security Initiative (CARSI). LAPOP took issue with our illustration of certain methodological flaws in LAPOP's study, as well as with the manner in which we presented our conclusions. LAPOP's criticisms appear to be largely based on misunderstanding and misinterpretation of our arguments and fail to address our main findings. The problems with the LAPOP study that we identified still stand, as does the validity of our conclusion: LAPOP's study cannot support the conclusion that intervention caused the areas subject to treatment in the CARSI programs to improve relative to those areas where no intervention took place.
2008-01-01
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
The goal of this sustainability evaluation was to determine the sustainability of the water and sanitation interventions implemented by the American Red Cross (ARC) in Central America post-hurricane Mitch in 1998. A 3-year survey of the health improvements of the interventions was completed by CDC in February of 2000, 2001, and 2002. The survey was done in eight communities in four countries - El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. This sustainability evaluation was conducted in 2006, four years after the 3-year survey was completed in 2002, and was conducted in six of the eight communities that received ARC interventions.
2013-01-01
Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres (FCAM);
2012 was a year filled with new challenges, opportunities and learning, responding to the changing needs of FCAM, the regional context and the women's groups that the Fund supports. FCAM is grateful to all of the individuals and organizations that have helped make achievements possible, and for the opportunity to learn and work together. FCAM is pleased to share the work the Fund has accomplished in 2012 and organizations with which FCAM shares a vision of social justice in Central America.
2014-01-01
Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres (FCAM);
Women's funds are creative and innovative organizations that seek and distribute resources. FCAM is a feminist organization which has an approach that enhances empowerment, alliances, collaboration, and participatory decision-making. We firmly believe that it is indispensible to guarantee the work of grassroots organizations, since they help further social movements.We have come very far in 10 years. We have learned so much and we are sure that we will continue to learned. We are pleased to share withyou highlights from the past 10 years, including the progress we havemade and reflections and perspectives on the fight for wome's rights.
2014-01-01
Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres (FCAM);
In 2013, FCAM's model of collaboration was evaluated. This evaluation included several components: the impact of FCAM on its grantee partners and women's movements, as well as the impact of its grantees partners on their communities. Other components were: our contribution to feminist philanthropy, our relationship with donors and other women's funds, and our communicational efforts. In 2014, the results of this evaluation were validated with our grantee partners through national meetings. In this report, a brief analysis of aspects of the regional context relevant to the reality of Central American women and their organizations is presented. Later, the work model of FCAM is described to give insight into its operations.The following sections focus on the main contributions and challenges identified by the evaluations and systematization. We finish with a synthesis of reflections regarding the evaluation principals and recommendations that have arisen from the different perspectives.
2015-01-01
Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres (FCAM);
We invite you to share in our excitement by taking a look at our activities and accomplishments of 2014, a year marked by the celebration of our 10th anniversary, the strategic planning for the next 10 years and the validation of the evaluation results of our work. The delivery of donations and the support to organized grassroots groups of women is the essence of the work of the FCAM. During 2014, we continued providing financial support to our grantee partners so that they were able to achieve their goals and strategies, based on their priorities. The FCAM is flexible and works to provide a guide to its partners instead of a more rigid strategic plan.
2013-01-01
Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres (FCAM);
The purpose of this document is to describe and systemise the implementation of theplanning, monitoring, evaluation and learning model designed by the FCAM and a team of supporting consultants. The ultimate goal was to create a permanent and evolving system of evaluation-learning-action that responds to FCAM's feminist and systemic social change perspective, as well as the unique characteristics of women's fund sthat are not always reflected in the dominant impact evaluation methodologies.
