During the National Council for Urban and Rural Development (Conadur) this Tuesday, February 27, the distribution of the Q600 million budget corresponding to the Great National Crusade for Nutrition (GCNN) was announced in 114 prioritized municipalities in 10 departments.
The detail was announced by Víctor Hugo Godoy, executive secretary of the Presidency, and explained that they consulted with the Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security for the assignment.
Of the Q600 million, Q79 million 411 thousand were left for the balance of the carryover projects, and the remainder, which corresponds to Q520 million 588 thousand, was distributed among the group of municipalities prioritized in health, education, and management projects. of waste, among others.
In recent days it was learned that the governors appointed by the previous administration were seeking to allocate these funds in the sessions of the Departmental Development Councils (Codedes). The response from the Secretariat of Planning and Programming of the Presidency (Segeplan) was that its technicians – who serve as secretaries of the Urban and Rural Development Councils and give legality to the meetings held by the governors – would not appear at the meetings. Council sessions.
The intention was to allocate the budget to projects or related mayors before President Bernardo Arévalo appointed his governors. The Segeplan argued that this instruction was given to the delegates as a measure so that the funds were allocated in favor of the population.
Assignment
The departments that will receive the funds will be Chimaltenango, Sololá, Totonicapán, Quetzaltenango, San Marcos, Huehuetenango, Quiché, Alta Verapaz, Chiquimula and Jalapa. The Codedes are responsible for the execution of that budget. Huehuetenango will obtain Q134 million, being the one that obtained the largest allocation.
Quiché received Q88 million, Alta Verapaz Q57 million, San Marcos Q53 million, Sololá Q51 million, and Totonicapán Q36 million.
In addition, Q33 million were distributed for Quetzaltenango, Q27 million for Chimaltenango, Q22 million for Chiquimula, and Q15 million for Jalapa.
Godoy explained that 25 percent was distributed equally by department, and the remainder was divided based on the rural population and extreme poverty data, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE); of chronic malnutrition, based on data from the GCNN and the National Food and Nutritional Security Information System, and by prioritized municipalities, in the Great Crusade.
The mayor of Palencia, Guadalupe Reyes, requested that for future occasions the department of Guatemala be taken into account for distributions, since the region also faces challenges.
“The mayors of the Guatemala department, like the capital, have been burdened with migration since 1976 and we have to attend to all issues of health, education, security, maintenance of the road network, housing and others. For the same reason I I would appreciate that for future distributions of resources, attention should also be considered, mainly in the social order, to the municipalities of the department of Guatemala,” Reyes argued.
Execution
Godoy also presented the execution of the funds in 2023, in which 90 percent were used in road infrastructure and the rest was distributed between drinking water, education, health, social assistance and sanitation. Q599 million 176 thousand were managed in projects.
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