Direct beneficiaries:

• • • • 40 Maya Q'eqchí and mestizo volunteer youth leaders of the AMA Association, between the ages of 14 to 24 years old, from communities and marginal urban areas of the municipalities of San Luis, Poptún, Dolores, El Chal, Santa Ana, and Sayaxché, Petén.
      • 45 Maya Q'eqchí and mestizo volunteer youth leaders and leaders of the Friendly Spaces, between 16 and 24 years of age, from the Health Districts of Chacté, San Luis, Poptún, Dolores, El Chal and Santa Ana, Petén.

Indirect beneficiaries:

• • • • 800 adolescents and young people who received field replications carried out by AMA and Friendly Spaces Volunteer youth leaders, after their participation in the interactive training youth camps, as each participant replicated the contents learned with at least 10 adolescents and young people from their community of origin, an activity they carried out in the native language for the case of indigenous communities.

Direct beneficiaries:

• • • • 221 teachers from 89 elementary schools in rural communities and marginalized urban Maya Q'eqchí and mestizo areas of the municipalities of San Luis, Poptún, Dolores and El Chal, and Santa Ana, Petén.

Indirect beneficiaries:

• • • • 5,225 girls and adolescents from 89 elementary schools in rural communities and marginalized Maya Q'eqchí and mestizo urban areas in the municipalities of San Luis, Poptún, Dolores and El Chal and Santa Ana, Petén, who received Comprehensive Sexuality Education -EIS- and Violence Prevention -VP- as teachers applied the contents learned in the classrooms after their participation in the workshops.

Direct beneficiaries:

• • • • 40 officials from the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, Secretariat against Violence, Exploitation and Trafficking in Persons, Ministry of Social Development, and Representatives of civil society organizations such as Tan Uxil and El Refugio de la Niñez.

 

Indirect beneficiaries:

• • • • 60,000 girls and adolescents benefited from the implementation of the strategic plans of the Technical Committee since these actions focused on the prevention of pregnancy, sexual violence, sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, human trafficking, bullying, cyber harassment, gender equality, family planning methods, among others.

Direct beneficiaries:

• • • • 3,000 adolescents and youth, mothers and fathers, and community leaders from communities and marginal urban areas of the department of Petén.

 

Indirect beneficiaries:

• • • • 180,000 people tune in to the U'tan Kaj radio station, according to the radio station's audience survey.

The project LOVE ME AND PROTECT ME FROM PREGNANCY "Youth Leadership for the Prevention of Pregnancy in Southern Petén". Phase I, II, III, implemented during the years 2015 to 2018 strengthened the capacities, empowerment, and advocacy on Sexual and Reproductive Rights, responsible sexuality, Comprehensive Sexuality Education, and democratic participation, with a gender and cultural approach in girls, adolescents, and youth of Southern Petén, for the prevention of pregnancies and sexual violence in Southern Petén, Guatemala.

To achieve the objective, the following activities were implemented:

A1. 11 interactive training youth camps. (2016 - 2018)

Eleven interactive training youth camps were carried out, in which 85 Maya Q'eqchí and Mestizo youth volunteer leaders from the AMA Association and the Friendly Spaces of Southern Petén participated.

The first eight camps were directed to the 40 Maya Q'eqchí and Mestizo volunteer youth leaders of the AMA Association and focused on topics such as Comprehensive Education on Sexuality -EIS-, gender equity, Interculturality, Leadership, prevention of sexual violence -VS-, new masculinities, youth entrepreneurship, and economic empowerment.

In three of the 11 camps, Maya Q'eqchí and Mestizo youth volunteer leaders from the Friendly Spaces of Southern Petén participated and developed topics on Life Plan, Human Rights, Vandalism and Drug Addiction, Responsible Sexuality, Prevention of Dating Violence, Responsible Parenthood and the socialization of laws related to each topic.

The camps were held in the municipality of Poptún, Petén and lasted a day and a half and were developed by expert facilitators in the thematic areas of the Adolescent Component of the Petén Southeast Health Area, Human Rights Ombudsman's Office -PDH-, Sexual Violence Clinic of the Poptún Integrated Hospital, Public Ministry, National Civil Police and the AMA Association, who used the inductive-deductive methodology "Learning by doing" with a focus on content multiplication.

The youth volunteers, upon returning to their communities of origin, carried out field replications of the knowledge learned, which they directed to 800 adolescents and youth, as each one replicated it with at least 10 adolescents and youth from their community and in their mother tongue in the case of indigenous communities.

A2. 15 didactic training workshops on Comprehensive Sexuality Education -EIS- and Violence Prevention -VP- (2016-2018).

15 didactic training workshops on Comprehensive Sexuality Education -EIS- and Violence Prevention -PV- were developed, of 25 teaching hours each (five workshops per year), aimed at 221 teachers who teach the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades in 89 elementary schools in rural communities and marginalized urban Maya Q'eqchí and Mestizo areas of the municipalities of San Luis, Poptún, Dolores and El Chal and Santa Ana, Petén.

During the training, teachers strengthened their knowledge on appropriate playful methodologies to address Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) and Violence Prevention (VP) according to the grade and age of the children.

The training was developed according to the Series of booklets about CSE and VP of the Ministry of Education and was facilitated by collaborators of the Departmental Directorate of Education of Petén, Adolescent Component, Psychologist and Social Workers of the Health Area Petén South East.

Upon returning to their schools, the students replicated the knowledge learned in the classrooms and to the rest of the school teachers, which greatly strengthened the inclusion of CSE and VP in Southern Petén since the percentage of schools implementing it increased from 0 to 28%.

A3. 90 broadcasts of the Spanish-Q'eqchí bilingual radio program "El ABC de la Sexualidad" (The ABC of Sexuality).

90 broadcasts of the bilingual Spanish-Q'eqchí radio program "El ABC de la Sexualidad" (The ABC of Sexuality). 30 broadcasts per year were transmitted through Radio U' Tan Kaj 106.9 FM, which belongs to the Apostolic Vicariate of Petén and has a coverage of 1,000,000 people and an audience of 180,000 people, according to its audience survey.

The programs lasted one hour a week and were broadcast on Saturdays from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. and were produced and directed by Maya Q'eqchí and Mestiza broadcasters from the AMA Association.

The program was broadcast as an open forum, where young people, parents, community leaders talked openly about sexuality, the risks of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV/AIDS, the importance of preventing early pregnancies, sexual violence, the construction of new masculinities, gender equality, democratic participation and socialization of the reporting and referral route for pregnancies in girls under 16 years of age, the reform to the civil code that raised the age of marriage from 14 to 18 years of age and promoting the importance of youth entrepreneurship of women and youth in southern Petén.

A4. Seven Meetings of the "Prevention through Education" with Technical Committee in the Petén department.

During the second phase of the project carried out in 2017, three meetings with the Technical Committee were held, meetings focused on the importance of the creation, the establishment of the strategic plan, reaching agreements and commitments between the officials of the Departmental Directorate of Education of Petén and the three Health Area Directorates of Petén (South East, North, and southwest).

This resulted in the creation of the Technical Committee and the establishment of the strategic plan for 2018, through which the indicators established in the Letter-Agreement "Prevent with Education 2016-2020", which promotes the response by the state of Guatemala with sectoral accompaniment to the high rate of pregnancies and violence in Guatemalan children and youth, were fulfilled.

During the third phase of the project (2018), four meetings of the Technical Committee were held, which focused on strengthening the implementation and monitoring of the Strategic Plan, which resulted in the development of Diploma courses in Comprehensive Sexuality Education in eight municipalities in the department of Petén.

This allowed 10,250 girls and adolescents to have access to Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) and 50,000 to information related to sexual and reproductive health, gender equality, cyber harassment, human trafficking, bullying, among other citizen training topics.

 

• The percentage of primary schools that teach Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Southern Petén increased from 0% to 28%.
• 60,000 girls and adolescents received information related to sexual and reproductive health, Comprehensive Education on Sexuality (CES) and Violence Prevention (VP), which will help them to improve their sexual and reproductive health.
• The Technical Committee "Prevent with Education" was formed in the Department of Petén, which provides a governmental response with sectoral support to the high rate of pregnancies and violence experienced by girls and adolescents in the department of Petén, Guatemala.

In 2015, Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) was not taught in any school in the department of Petén.