The project will empower citizens of the Guatemalan Western Highlands to identify and address their own development needs.

Through a rigorous community-based development (CBD) approach, the project will strengthen the voices of underrepresented groups (including women, poor, indigenous, youth,

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and others) and actively engage community members as participants and leaders in the full cycle of design, management, and evaluation of development activities.

The project will work to dismantle the social, cultural, and historical divides that have marginalized indigenous Mayans in the Western Highlands.