International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racism | Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities | Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women | Convention on the Rights of the Child | International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families | Constituent Agreement of the Development Fund for Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean |
19 May 1988 | 18 January 1983 | 7 April 2009 | 12 August 1982 | 6 June 1990 | 14 March 2003 | 28 November 2000 |
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Social Development |
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Public Health |
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Legal Instrument | Ley de Protección Integral de la Niñez y Adolescencia | n.d. | Ley de Protección para las Personas de la Tercera Edad | Ley de Dignificación y Promoción Integral de la Mujer | Ley de Atencion de Las Personas Con Discapacidad Decreto 135-96 | Acuerdo Gubernativo No. 390 de 2002 - Comisión Presidencial Contra la Discriminación y el Racismo | Decreto Nº 95 - 98, 'Ley de Migración' (1998) | Ley Orgánica de Educación | Código de Trabajo | Ley de Vivienda y Asentamientos Humanos | Código de Salud | Ley de Desarrollo Social (Decreto Número 42-2014) |
Law | Law | Law | Law | Law | Law | Law | Law | Law | Law | Law |
Country | Guatemala |
Main authority | Social Development Special Council |
Year of creation | 2019 |
Coordinating authority | Vice-President of the Republic |
Members | Vice-Presidency of the Republic; Ministry of Social Development; Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food; Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing; Ministry of Culture and Sports; Ministry of Economy; Ministry of Education; Ministry of Public Finance; Ministry of Public Health; Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare; Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources; Secretariat of Planning and Programming of the Presidency; Secretariat of Food and Nutrition Security of the Presidency; Secretariat of Executive Coordination of the Presidency; Secretariat of Social Welfare of the Presidency; Presidential Secretariat for Women; Management of the National Institute of Statistics; Directorate of the National Youth Council; Executive Secretariat of the National Council of Attention to the Migrants of Guatemala; Coordination of the Presidential Commission against Discrimination and Racism; Executive Secretariat of the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction, and Directorate of the Social Development Fund. |
Country | Guatemala |
Main authority | Ministry of Social Development |
Year of creation | 2012 |
Mission | It is the leading entity that promotes and articulates policies and actions for the sustainable social development of the population excluded from their basic opportunities, in order to contribute to improve their living conditions and reduce poverty. It strives to be efficient, transparent and reliable, to accompany the vulnerable population of Guatemala, in order to improve their living conditions with dignity and integrate them into the productive activity of the country. The Ministry formulates, dictates and establishes public policies aimed at improving the welfare level of people and groups that are socially vulnerable. As part of the Executive Body it was declared as a national emergency, which implies that it must formulate strategies for people to optimize their health, education and quality of life, while at the same time strengthening national food security. The Ministry is oriented to the attention of Human Rights in general and of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in a particular way, considering that many of the social difficulties are based on manifest deficiencies within the combination of these rights. |
Incumbent | Abelardo Pinto (2024) |
Population segment | Children and Adolescents |
Youth/Young Adults |
Older Persons |
Persons with Disabilities |
Women |
Migrants |
Main protection mechanism | Secretaría de Bienestar Social | Consejo Nacional de Juventud | SOSEP - Comité Nacional de Protección a la Vejez (CONAPROV) | Consejo Nacional para la Atención de las Personas con Discapacidad (CONADI) | Dirección General de Migración | |
Legal Instrument | Decreto Numero 27-2003 Ley de Protección Integral de la Niñez y la Adolescencia (PINA - 2003) | Ley de Protección para las Personas de la Tercera Edad, Decreto Número 80-96 | Ley 135 y la Ley de aprobación de la política nacional en discapacidad y plan de acción | Decreto Nº 95 - 98, 'Ley de Migración' (1998) |
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Unique Registry of Participants | Sistema Integrado de Administración Financiera /b | Sectoral Plan for Social Development | Transparence - system for accessing public information from the State | Integrated Social Information System |
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