Essays about: "Guatemala"

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  1. 11. Results Measurement of Livelihood Interventions in the Humanitarian Field, using a Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (SLF) to analyze the Economic Rate of Return (ERR) of an income-generating activity (IGA) project in a post-disaster setting, in San Andres Osuna, Guatemala

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Olof Hörmander; [2023]
    Keywords : aquaponic fish tanks; results measurement; humanitarian work; development; sustainability; livelihoods; sustainable livelihoods framework SLF ; Economic Rate of Return ERR ;

    Abstract : There is limited evidence-based data on income-generating interventions, both within thehumanitarian and the development field. Nevertheless, there is a growing and unavoidable nexus between the two fields, and therefore also, within their methodologies for measuring project intervention results, as well as their success rates. READ MORE

  3. 12. Navigating Criminal Violence and Aid : Strategies to Negotiate Humantiarian Access in Guatemala

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Anastasia Simes Martinez; [2023]
    Keywords : Negotiation Strategies; Humanitarian Access; Criminal Violence; Criminal Armed Groups; Guatemala;

    Abstract : Due to the high rates of criminal violence and the alternative authority of Criminal Armed Groups (CAGs) in Guatemala humanitarian access faces multiple barriers in regions under CAG control, often leaving vulnerable populations without necessary humanitarian services. With limited institutional and conceptual frameworks to support negotiating for humanitarian access in these criminally violent contexts the international humanitarian system favors avoiding these contexts altogether to minimize the risk of their operations, but with the trends of violence increasing in the region not addressing the issue of negotiating for humanitarian spaces in these contexts only will result in crises worsening. READ MORE

  4. 13. Indigenous justice in Guatemala: Indigenous women’s access to justice versus indigenous communities’ collective rights

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Mónica Alejandra Escobedo Reyes; [2022-05-20]
    Keywords : indigenous justice; indigenous women; indigenous girls; Guatemala; legal pluralism; feminism; human rights; women’s rights; indigenous peoples’ rights;

    Abstract : In 2016, the Constitutional Court of Guatemala ruled in favor of validating the application of ancestral justice by the indigenous authorities of the community of Comitancillo, San Marcos, to an individual who raped a 10-year-old girl. In addition to recognizing the application of an ancestral punishment that consisted in asking for forgiveness and receiving some lashings from members of his family as valid, the court ordered the dismissal of the case in the legal ordinary system, claiming the aggressor had already been judged and punished. READ MORE

  5. 14. Self-Selection and Wage Consequences among Undocumented Central American Migrants in the United States - The Case of Nicaraguan, Guatemalan, and Salvadorian Migrants

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Beyhan Vurgun; [2022]
    Keywords : Migration; NACARA; Nicaragua; Guatemala; El Salvador; United States; Self-Selection; Wages; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : After the U.S. intervention, civil wars, and growing violence during the late 20th century, migration from the Central American countries to the U.S. READ MORE

  6. 15. Kuxur Rum and the Management of Commons : A qualitative study of the agricultural system Kuxur Rum in Guatemala by using Ostrom’s principles

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Tilda Barkselius; [2022]
    Keywords : Guatemala; Utvecklingsstudier; Kuxur Rum; Ostrom;

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