CODECA

Asociacion Comité de Desarrollo Campesino

CODECA
1992
Guatemala
Spanish
Guatemala

Proactively promote rural development through effective participation, concerted proposals and genuine advocacy in the frame of inclusive participatory processes that will help lead to social transformations and the construction of a peaceful democracy.

Mauro Vay Ganón
10ª. Calle 5-39 zona 2 Mazatenango Suchitepequez, Guatemala
+502) 78721545
(+502) 78721545

CODECA is peasant organization of indigenous farmer women and men. It was established in 1992 as a way to further express the need to live with dignity and till the land, something that is currently denied to farmers due to the bad working conditions witnessed in the field. An extremely large number of peasant families –more than 90%- that are affiliated to CODECA are landless and work as daily workers in large land estates.

  • To improve living conditions of peasant communities, through a major push towards rural development that is built in a participatory way, with equity and social inclusion
  • To influence rural-oriented policy-formulation through participation with equity, as well as through the inclusion of marginalized and excluded sectors in the formulation process
  • To strengthen CODECA’s capacity to influence rural development policies

CODECA organizes its work around 5 major areas of work that correspond to 5 programmes it runs:

  • Land and Development Programme
  • Human Rights and Reconciliation Programme
  • Multi-cultural Promotion Programme
  • Women and Development Programme
  • Peasant Youth Participation in Development Programme

Peasant and indigenous committees, daily workers, landless, women groups.

  • UNIDAD NACIONAL DE ORGANIZACIONES Y COMUNIDADES PRODERECHOS HUMANOS
  • RED DE ORGANIZACIONES INDIGENAS 
  • RED MESOAMERICANA DE DERECHOS HUMANOS 
  • CNOC

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