The project is focused on strengthening institutional capacity in Puerto Guzmán, and increasing community resilience in vulnerable communities affected by the conflict. This is achieved through implementing a comprehensive rural development strategy with focus on resilience, which contributes to socio-economic stabilization and peacebuilding in this municipality.

The project has a community and an institutional intervention level. In the community intervention, the project addresses the needs of each group in social, political, and climatic aspects, with a gender focus and resilience orientation. In the institutional intervention, it builds a strengthening plan after working on strengths and weaknesses.

The project implements actions in the water, health, education, and food security sectors, as well as strategies in income creation, risk management, and adaptation to climate change. Additionally, it emphasizes the use of the forest, its protection, and recovery.

The project seeks to strengthen and enhance the technical capacities of community groups by involving their social capital, and reinforcing their role and responsibility with the community.

The project contributes to point 1 of the Agreement promoting food production, creating good agricultural practices potentiating the crops in the area to be commercialized. Thus, generating  better income and sustainability in production for the community. The project defines environmental paths, risk management plans, and community strategies in health, water, and sanitation.

The project contributes to point 3.2 of the Agreement by encouraging communities to generate functional income with the participation of men and women victims of conflict, with restored basic rights, and with a perception of trust and stability in their region, under the focus of community resilience promoted by the European Union through ECHO. In addition, there is institutional strengthening in the promotion and provision of basic services, in conflict resolution, and recomposition of the social fabric.

The project focuses its actions on achieving three key outcomes:

1. Enhanced community capacity for diversified and sustainable food production to bolster food security and generate decent income through effective market connections.
2. Improved access to water, basic sanitation, and health and nutrition services for the project communities.
3. Strengthened capacity of local institutions and communities for comprehensive risk management and the protection of population rights.

1. Acción Contra el Hambre
2. Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados – ACNUR
3. Organización Panamericana de la Salud – OPS/OMS