Protecting land rights and advancing community management of natural resources

Guatemala

Coordinadora de Comunidades Ch’orti (COMUNDICH), or Communities for Integrated Development of the Ch’orti Region is systematizing legal claims by communities for recognition of their ancestral rights to their territories, developing a plan to strengthen a Communal Lands Working Group in Guatemala, and conducting research into the importance of the recognition of collective land tenure and indigenous peoples food sovereignty and security.