1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In Guatemala, UNHCR supplies unrestricted and unconditional multi-purpose money help beneath its primary wants programme for a period of between three and ten months. Populations eligible for primary wants help embody asylum-seekers and refugees (AS/REF), Guatemalans who’re a part of the Safety Switch Association (PTA) programme, Deportees with safety wants in addition to different Guatemalans on the threat (GAR)1. The money help covers hire, meals, utilities, and hygiene bills, and ensures that households can prioritize their very own wants in a dignified method, with out resorting to high-risk behaviours or unfavorable coping mechanisms.
The Submit-Distribution Monitoring (PDM) train was carried out in November 2021 and included 251 households representing asylum-seekers and refugees, Guatemalans within the PTA programme, and different Guatemalans in danger. Almost all respondents had been cardholders (94%), outlined because the particular person registered with UNHCR to obtain the help. The vast majority of respondents had been ladies (63%). Greater than 90% of the households reported vital or reasonable enchancment in dwelling situations and 81% in stress discount. 95% of beneficiaries may cowl all or not less than half of their primary wants with money help. On the opposite aspect, 48% of households relied on a number of unfavorable coping methods to cowl their bills.
The money help is used for the meant functions (94% of households spending on meals, 42% on utilities, and 24% on hire). Nevertheless, money can also be used to a major extent for different primary wants (38% for well being prices, 34% for hygiene objects, and 22% for water). Most significantly, there’s a vital discrepancy in how completely different beneficiary teams use their money, most noticeably regarding hire funds between asylum-seekers and refugees (non-nationals) and nationals with safety wants in Guatemala.
Markets had been purposeful, with 92% of respondents with the ability to discover key objects and companies when wanted and 94% with the specified high quality. 84% of households reported a rise in (primarily meals) costs within the final 4 weeks. An awesome majority of the respondents (93%) choose money, with 59% preferring money as the only real modality, and 34% preferring a mix of money and different varieties of help. Solely 2% choose in-kind. Lower than half (46%) of the respondents had been conscious of the obtainable suggestions mechanisms managed by the World Meals Programme and UNHCR.
