Community Strengthening and Gender-Based Violence Program in Guatemala

Deadline: 17-Jul-25

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is accepting applications for the Community Strengthening and Gender-Based Violence Program.

Sectors and Areas of Specialization

• Protection
  • Access to asylum
  • Gender based violence
  • Legal assistance and access to justice
  • Protection – general

Geographic Focus

• To Guatemala
  • a Department of Suchitepequez
  • Department of Chiquimula
  • Department of Peten
  • Department of Chimaltenango
  • Department of Izabal
  • Department of Escuintla
  • Department of Quetzaltenango
  • Department of Quiché
  • Department of Alta Verapaz
  • Department of Jutiapa
  • Department of Santa Rosa
  • Department of San Marcos
  • Department of Alta Verapaz
  • Department of Huehuetenango
  • Department of Sacatepequez

Selection Criteria

• Local experience and presence
• Project management
• Cost effectiveness
• Accountability to communities and community relationsÿ
• Access/security considerations

Expected Results

• Outcome 1: Community Strengthening
  • General Objective:
    • The project’s objective is to strengthen community outreach through actions that enable the inclusion of refugee claimants, refugees, deportees/returnees, and internally displaced persons in host communities, enabling them to become active members of decision-making and eradicating segregation and discrimination.
  • Main actions:
    • Strengthen community liaison mechanisms so that refugees, asylum seekers, and displaced persons/returnees can access information about their rights, responsibilities, and available services.
    • Develop a mechanism for community participation and peaceful coexistence.
    • Promote empowerment and active participation, in coordination with local communities, to achieve peaceful coexistence and full integration.
    • Strengthen local protection systems and access to services through coordination and articulation with relevant public, private, and civil society institutions.
• Outcome 2: Gender-based violence
  • General Objective:
    • Strengthen mechanisms for prevention, mitigation, and specialized response to violence gender (VG) as a cross-cutting axis for all protection actions towards the people they serve.
  • Main actions:
    • Provide specialized services for survivors of gender-based violence:
      • legal psychosocial assistance, health services or referral to these
    • Implement actions to strengthen existing comprehensive protection responses and access to services, from an intersectoral approach.
    • Implement strategies for the prevention of gender-based violence.

For more information, visit UN Partner Portal.