Guatemala programs / Guatemala project 520-0395 · 1994–1995 · natural resources and biodiversity
Summarizes attached interim evaluation (XD-ABK-533-A) of a project to improve the management of renewable natural resources and the protection of biodiversity and tropical forests in the 1.5 million ha Maya Biosphere Reserve in Guatemala. The evaluation covers the period 1990-8/94. Given the realities of the Peten and Guatemala's chaotic social, political and economic situation, the project, as expected, is going through a learning experience involving much trial and error. It faces imposing obstacles -- the urgent natural resource needs of impoverished inhabitants, powerful economic interests that make big money from (often illicit) primary resource exploitation, and massive migration and colonization by both the poor and the powerful -- with only weak control mechanisms at its disposal. Despite these constraints, the project has achieved many of its objectives and made progress towards several others. Despite a logically coherent design, the project treats the major institutional, social, economic, and political forces operating in the Peten as externalities. A policy component is needed, along with a process for incorporating all important economic and social groups in the P
Source: DEC abstract, PD-ABK-533 (1995). The source's own text.
Operated in: Guatemala.
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| Title | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Evaluation of the Maya biosphere project : USAID/Guatemala project 520-0395 | 1994 | Linked evaluation |
| Maya biosphere project | 1995 | Evaluation-type document |
| Name | Role | Years | Basis | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Government of the Republic of Guatemala | co signer | 1995 | Likely, not confirmed | 1 source |
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Operated in Guatemala, 1994 to 1995 4 sources
Scope: country: Guatemala. The award code belongs to this country's mission. High confidence.
How sure we are: 0.9.
| Name | Years | Basis | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 596-0150-Q-03-1133 |
| 1994 |
| Stated in a document |
| 1 source |
| Name | Years | Basis | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| USAID. Mission to Guatemala | 1994 | Stated in a document | 1 source |
| USAID. Mission to Guatemala | 1995 | Stated in a document | 3 sources |
| Name | Years | Basis | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guatemala | 1994 to 1995 | Stated in a document | 4 sources |
Sector profile (computed): Natural resources and biodiversity (forests, wildlife, water resources) 48%; Environment, general policy and planning 21%; Agriculture: crop production, inputs, pests, irrigation 9%
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