Support From DFID For Guatemala Dropping
| January 18th, 2006
Gareth Thomas (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for International Development) recently explained in written answers in the House of Commons (16-01-06) that the Department for International Development (DFID)
provided the above bilateral assistance to Guatemala and other Latin
American countries. The figures show that bilateral, multilateral and
regional assistance to Guatemala has dropped over the last eight years.
Gareth Thomas has also recently confirmed
(11-01-06) that “the Department for International Development is
contributing ‚¬1 million through its share of the European Commission's (EC)
2004-07 project to strengthen the ability of the Guatemalan Indigenous
Women's Ombudsman (Defensoria de la Mujer Indigena) to address the high
levels of exclusion and violence suffered by poor indigenous rural
women. The Ombudsman is part of the Guatemala Presidential Commission of Human Rights. The UK provides 18 per cent. of the funding of EC programmes to Guatemala.”
