Mission Guatemala
Mortality infant: 35‰
Life expectancy at birth: 67.3
HDI : 0.663; ranked 117/177
Actual GDP/inhabitant ($) : 2,009
Beneficiaries
- directly: women from Chimaltenango
- indirectly: Guatemalan women
Staff
expatriate: 1 doctor, 1 nurse and 1 occasional administrator
Sources of funding : PACA regional council, MdM
Budget 2005 : 36,860 euros
A country characterised by political instability, economic crisis and social and ethnic violence, at the end of the 1980s Guatemala decided on a method of economic development integrated in the globalisation process within the new international division of labour, one of whose main characteristics is getting an increasing number of women into work, especially in the factory sector.
Assessing the health of working women
Chimaltenango
Activities:
Carrying out an assessment of the health of women working in the factories and agricultural export businesses in the town of Chimaltenango:
- field surveys, workplace visits, institutional contacts;
- carrying out medical consultations on the theme of women's health/work;
- partnership with Guatemalan organisations working in the economic and social rights sector on prevention activities concerning women's health and labour rights.
Outlook:
At the end of this assessment work, in 2006 a three-year project will be set up on “women's accessibility to healthcare in the context of globalisation” in Chimaltenango.
July 2006