Environmental brochure 2018

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAM

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Who we are

We are a FUNDAP program that was constituted in 1993, which executes innovative projects, not paternalistic, within the framework of alternative technologies, oriented to the sustainable management of the renewable natural resources and environmental improvement, directed to organized groups and poor communities of Guatemala, with the purpose to improve their quality of life, providing related support and focused on the sustainable management of renewable natural resources.

What we do

We support beneficiaries of the different projects we execute with: strengthening of social organization for environmental purposes, environmental infrastructure (nurseries, forest nurseries, agroforestry, improved stoves, potable water systems), forest management (protection plans, reforestation, agroforestry and production) and environmental education (recycling, environment, clean energy, etc). In a specialized manner, the program supports the preparation and presentation of forest management plans before the INAB National Forest Institute, in order to be included in the different forest incentive programs of the State of Guatemala.

How we work

• Encouraging owners and owners of small areas of forest land for the sustainable use of renewable natural resources.

• Strengthening social and environmental organization.

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Supporting environmental infrastructure of a social nature.

Stimulating the protection and use of renewable natural resources.

Strengthening the process of forest governance.

Recovering degraded areas.

Where we work

The Environmental Forestry Program has its area of action in the western highland region of the country of Guatemala, focusing its attention on the communities, organizations and families in the rural area.

The territory served covers an area of 14,205 km2, which represents 13.04% of the national territory.

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ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES

Forestry Management

Environmental Education

The support is aimed at individual and collective users who own land with a forestry vocation, so that they can enter the programs offered by INAB in its 4 modalities: forest protection, reforestation, agroforestry and exploitation.

The support consists in carrying out the technical studies prior to the elaboration of the management plans that will be submitted to INAB, within the framework of the current Forestry Law.

This support consists of concrete training initiatives on: recycling, environmental issues, clean energy (hydroelectric, renewable energy, among others), construction of gray water filters, use of sawdust as fuel, formation of brigades against forest fires, and topics on agroforestry.

Environmental Infrastructure

Social Organization

Consists of the establishment of forest and fruit nurseries, potable water systems, basic sanitation infrastructure, and improved stoves.

Consists of supporting producers interested in organizing themselves to collectively overcome their production and marketing problems. Subsequently, the project supports the strengthening of organizations to meet their founding objectives.

Results since 2000

68,921

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aid provided through the Environmental Program.

Results in

Life quality improvement

2017

689

people were served through the Environmental Forestry Program in 3 departments of Guatemala, of which 44% are women.

CHANGES

156 people assisted with forest management plans in the departments of TotonicapĂĄn, San Marcos, and Huehuetenango.

EFFECTS

130 Sustainable Forestry Management

Social Organization

Environmental Infrastructure

Environmental Education

SUPPORT SERVICES Socio-economic and environmental problems

Environmental 8a. calle 25A-70, Zona 3, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.

Tel: (502) 7763-6131 / E-mail: forestalambiental@fundap.com.gt

technical support for the implementation of forest management plans.

403 people from 7 associations received advice and accompaniment for the fulfillment of the activities established in the forest management plans.

2 collaborators comprise the Environmental Program team.