Kaqchikel Maya traditional midwives co-created the pictograms and audio prompts of a low-literacy smartphone app that screens pregnancies for danger signs; a …
Tecpán, Guatemala
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 10%96/100
Solar-powered digital centres in indigenous Guatemalan villages deliver digital literacy and leadership training to Mayan women and youth; a 2025 Frontiers study …
Huehuetenango, Guatemala
Good practice
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 29%82/100
A $2M USAID/OFDA-funded pilot combining WASH, drainage and evacuation-route works cut disaster risk in two high-risk Mixco settlements, then was replicated by …
Mixco, Guatemala
Good practice
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 50%67/100
A randomized trial with 539 Guatemalan micro-franchise chicken stores found a smartphone app of video lessons plus three video-call consulting sessions raised …
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Good practice
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 14%67/100
A World Bank-designed predictive model using only existing administrative data flagged Guatemalan students at risk of dropping out. A 4,000-school RCT found …
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 46%60/100
Guatemala's tax authority SAT built RITA, a Dialogflow-based Spanish-language virtual assistant fielding taxpayer queries since April 2019 — serving 335,000 people in …
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 14%60/100
VCS/CCB-certified REDD+ project covering 660,000 ha in Petén's Maya Biosphere Reserve; 12 community concessions managed by ACOFOP and CONAP project 38 million …
Flores, Guatemala
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 14%60/100
Guatemala's Defensoría de la Mujer Indígena (DEMI, 1999) provides culturally-sensitive legal, social and psychological services to indigenous women across 13 regional offices …
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 40%53/100
Guatemala's first legally established water fund (2017) pools Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and public funding to restore forest in the Xayá-Pixcaya watershed feeding Guatemala …
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 58%40/100
Plan Vivo-certified agroforestry programme restoring degraded pasture in Petén, Guatemala since 2019; a genuine, certified effort, but the developer's own reported scale …
Guatemala's Guatecompras portal has made e-procurement mandatory nationwide since 2004, but an independent World Bank audit found actual online disclosure averaged only …
Guatemala's national registry re-let its biometric identity contract in 2026 to a firm with almost no prior large-scale experience and undisclosed ties …
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 89%27/100
Guatemalan municipalities, led by Guatemala City, awarded at least Q69.9M ($9.1M) across 122 AI video-surveillance contracts since 2022 — 91% with no …