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NCA and Indigenous people in Guatemala A report with recommendations on future strategy
The background for the visit to Guatemala in August 2008, was a request made by NCA’s Regional Office late 2007, seeking advisory and input to a process of strengthening NCA’s work towards indigenous peoples of Guatemala. A significant part of the current NCA partners in the country run projects where indigenous peoples are highly represented among the rights holders. However, NCA does not have any strategy defining specific objectives related to the improvement of indigenous peoples’ situation in Guatemala. The purpose of the visit was first and foremost to get an insight in the current work towards indigenous peoples in the country, and on the basis of meetings and conversations with selected partners, NCA staff and right holders in the projects, to provide recommendations regarding a strengthening of and a more conscious approach to the work with indigenous peoples in the country from 2009. There was also a wish from the office to get contributions on the inclusion of the IP issue on a longer term, that is for the planning of a new 5-year NCA global strategy document for the period 2011-2015.