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In the Depths,
We Resist and Grow

Cartography of Living Waters

Many years from now—when the story is told of how dignity, resilience, and solidarity stood firm in Central America—it will be said that 2025 was the year we continued learning to read the language of uncertain tides, and to weave strategic vision and political integrity into every decision we made. It was not a time of calm, neither in Central America nor in other regions of the world. The winds blew against us, and anti-democratic currents grew turbulent, threatening to blur the horizons that we, as social movements, have fought so hard to defend and sustain.

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A Living Current Flows through the Territory

In 2025, we accompanied 273 partner organizations across Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Panama, as well as networks with regional reach. This power springs, above all, from grassroots organizations, whose community-based work is the very heart of these acts of resistance. Flowing alongside them are emerging voices, feminist communication initiatives, and strategic alliances, together forming a living map of struggles.

Springs That Nourish Autonomy

Like a living current that inhabits and transforms the depths, we distributed $4.8 million through 255 grants. We prioritized long-term interdependence, ensuring that 92% of these resources flowed as multi-year funding. In a time of adverse currents and deep democratic fissures, this flexible support enabled our partners to navigate with the autonomy of those who know their own course. By synchronizing our efforts, feminist and community agendas not only withstood the onslaughts of the external environment, but also expanded their territorial reach, safeguarding civic space as a unified body against the tides of anti-rights narratives.

Voices Pulsing with Diversity

The ecosystem of leadership that we continue to support, and help strengthen, reflects the richness of social movements: organizations of LBTIQ+ people; young, Indigenous, and peasant women; people with disabilities; Afro-descendant, Black, and Garifuna women; working-class and laboring women; and migrants, refugees, and exiles. A plurality of voices, lives, and visions pulse from distinct shores, yet together form an unstoppable tide. The work, struggles, and demands of these organizations are directed, with the precision of a compass, toward the defense of more than 20 rights. Chief among these are bodily autonomy, the right to lives free from violence, and proposals and actions aimed at advancing climate and environmental justice.

Examples of the types of organizations and actions we support:
AMADIPA: Breaking the Mold
CIRCULA: Restoring Power to Build Common Ground
GEPAE: Collective Defense and Feminist Resistance
AMIR: Land, Healing, and Lenca Sovereignty
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Spaces That Nurture and Strengthen

In a year when regional and global complexities intensified like a storm at sea, we reaffirmed our commitment to the sustainability of movements—a commitment that also involves strengthening the capacities of the organizations we support.

In 2025, we held 13 gatherings (ten in person and three virtual), bringing together more than 470 leaders representing their organizations. These spaces provided safe environments for political reflection, learning, and mutual care: essential elements for defending rights in Central America.

Central American Gathering on Narratives
Financial Resilience Program
Digital Security Training Process
Regional Collective Monitoring Gatherings
The Speaking from Otherness Congress

Central American Gathering on Narratives of Hope for Socio-Environmental and Climate Justice

Twenty organizations from Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador learned how to develop testimonial narratives about the socio-environmental and climate challenges facing their territories, while prioritizing the safety of the communities involved. Grounded in a narrative approach that positions hope as both a shared horizon and a catalyst for action, the process offered a new political, strategic, and communications framework. This perspective enabled participants to craft more powerful and mobilizing messages for both public advocacy and community-led action.
Participants in the gathering share their reflections:

How do we sustain hope?

What narratives do we need in Central America?

Financial Resilience Program

Through a process led by Colectivo Meta, 14 Guatemalan organizations strengthened their organizational and strategic capacities to diversify funding sources, develop robust proposals, conduct mapping exercises, and assess their crisis response capacity. They also received a financial resilience toolkit and a Decalogue of best practices—resources that help lay the groundwork for institutional sustainability and strengthen their ability to adapt.

Digital Security Training Process

In response to rising online violence and the shrinking of civic space, 19 organizations in Guatemala strengthened their digital security capacities with support from Fundación Acceso. The process equipped them with tools to identify risks and adopt protective practices at both the organizational and individual levels. It also examined the links between technology, gender-based violence, and human rights, underscoring how these threats affect activists’ lives and work. As a result, a microsite was created to bring together guides, training materials, and other resources for ongoing reference.
Explore the outcome of this effort:

Digital Protection Toolkit

Regional Collective Monitoring Gatherings

Within the framework of its Support, Monitoring, and Evaluation System (SAME), FCAM places particular emphasis on Collective Monitoring Meetings. Under this model, five regional meetings were held with 162 representatives from organizations in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, and El Salvador. In addition, 16 individual in-person visits and 46 virtual monitoring sessions were conducted.

This experience was consolidated as a political exercise in collective accountability. These spaces made it possible to highlight progress, challenges, and lessons learned, while fostering transparent dialogue around resource allocation, strategic decisions, and the territorial impact of the actions carried out, thereby strengthening shared responsibility.

The process enabled FCAM and its partners to identify collective transformations over the medium and long term. Key achievements included the strengthening of organizational and strategic capacities, greater coordination through shared agendas, and deeper reflection on sustainability, the distribution of labor, and care work—essential elements for generating comprehensive change in the ways organizations sustain their struggles.

The Speaking from Otherness Congress

Over the course of four sessions, the congress convened 480 participants and brought to the forefront the analyses, reflections, and lived experiences of people living on the margins and facing structural violence. Organized around four thematic axes, it highlighted the struggles of Indigenous, Garifuna, and peasant women resisting extractive projects; trans and non-binary people demanding recognition; children and youth promoting violence-free environments; and organizations defending sexual and reproductive rights. The gathering showed how these resistance efforts are interconnected in the face of criminalization and institutional violence, contributing critical frameworks and political tools to strengthen strategic work across Central American territories.

Central American Gathering on Narratives

Central American Gathering on Narratives of Hope for Socio-Environmental and Climate Justice

Twenty organizations from Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador learned how to develop testimonial narratives about the socio-environmental and climate challenges facing their territories, while prioritizing the safety of the communities involved. Grounded in a narrative approach that positions hope as both a shared horizon and a catalyst for action, the process offered a new political, strategic, and communications framework. This perspective enabled participants to craft more powerful and mobilizing messages for both public advocacy and community-led action.
Participants in the gathering share their reflections:

How do we sustain hope?

What narratives do we need in Central America?

Financial Resilience Program

Financial Resilience Program

Through a process led by Colectivo Meta, 14 Guatemalan organizations strengthened their organizational and strategic capacities to diversify funding sources, develop robust proposals, conduct mapping exercises, and assess their crisis response capacity. They also received a financial resilience toolkit and a Decalogue of best practices—resources that help lay the groundwork for institutional sustainability and strengthen their ability to adapt.

Digital Security Training Process

Digital Security Training Process

In response to rising online violence and the shrinking of civic space, 19 organizations in Guatemala strengthened their digital security capacities with support from Fundación Acceso. The process equipped them with tools to identify risks and adopt protective practices at both the organizational and individual levels. It also examined the links between technology, gender-based violence, and human rights, underscoring how these threats affect activists’ lives and work. As a result, a microsite was created to bring together guides, training materials, and other resources for ongoing reference.
Explore the outcome of this effort:
Explora el resultado de este esfuerzo:
Digital Protection Toolkit

Regional Collective Monitoring Gatherings

Regional Collective Monitoring Gatherings

Within the framework of its Support, Monitoring, and Evaluation System (SAME), FCAM places particular emphasis on Collective Monitoring Meetings. Under this model, five regional meetings were held with 162 representatives from organizations in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, and El Salvador. In addition, 16 individual in-person visits and 46 virtual monitoring sessions were conducted.

This experience was consolidated as a political exercise in collective accountability. These spaces made it possible to highlight progress, challenges, and lessons learned, while fostering transparent dialogue around resource allocation, strategic decisions, and the territorial impact of the actions carried out, thereby strengthening shared responsibility.

The process enabled FCAM and its partners to identify collective transformations over the medium and long term. Key achievements included the strengthening of organizational and strategic capacities, greater coordination through shared agendas, and deeper reflection on sustainability, the distribution of labor, and care work—essential elements for generating comprehensive change in the ways organizations sustain their struggles.

The Speaking from Otherness Congress

The Speaking from Otherness Congress

Over the course of four sessions, the congress convened 480 participants and brought to the forefront the analyses, reflections, and lived experiences of people living on the margins and facing structural violence. Organized around four thematic axes, it highlighted the struggles of Indigenous, Garifuna, and peasant women resisting extractive projects; trans and non-binary people demanding recognition; children and youth promoting violence-free environments; and organizations defending sexual and reproductive rights. The gathering showed how these resistance efforts are interconnected in the face of criminalization and institutional violence, contributing critical frameworks and political tools to strengthen strategic work across Central American territories.

A Logbook of Resistance

Producing knowledge is not merely about accumulating data; it is about generating the momentum feminist movements in Central America need to navigate complex contexts with greater information, clarity, and strategy. Through collaborative research, we ensure that every finding becomes a shared tool of resistance.

Migration on the Mesoamerican Route: A Tapestry of Struggles and Resistances.

In partnership with the Global Fund for Children, we launched this intersectional study connecting the experiences of 24 organizations across Central America, Mexico, and the United States. By providing qualitative evidence on structural causes and the differentiated risks faced in transit, the study serves as a tool for supporting and protecting migrant populations through a rights-based approach. Available in Spanish only. Download

Agendas and Priorities of Adolescent and Youth Organizations in Central America.

We explored the agendas of Central American youth collectives, revealing that their strength lies in the creativity of care and in a spirit of collaboration that transcends geographical borders. Download the study in English

The Future of Civil Society Funding.

Our reflections and collaborative model took center stage at the Central American Donors Forum, where we joined the dialogue on the future of funding for civil society. Our approach is clear: a support model that recognizes that collective action is only possible when the lives of those who sustain it are also sustained.

As Miriam Camas, Program Coordinator at the FCAM Foundation, affirms:

…we have committed ourselves to a direct, flexible, and multi-year support model—one grounded in trust, accompaniment, and a deep understanding of the realities that exist within these territories. This model seeks not merely to fund projects, but to fund the very conditions that make collective action possible: the time, energy, rest, mental health, care, networks, and political reflection that allow life to be sustained and to flourish.Read article in  English

Climate Solutions

from the Territories

Like a school of fish in motion, through the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA), we join forces to ensure that voices from the territories reach spaces such as the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and COP 30 with full force. Together with our allies, we show that real solutions to the climate crisis emerge, with their own momentum, from those who protect life in every community and territory.

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Enabling Environments

“Funding Our Futures” Campaign

The results of our resource mobilization efforts came together, enabling us to join the first-ever global initiative to sustain LGBTIQ movements. The campaign successfully secured donor commitments for support through 2025 and 2026. Yet beneath the numbers lay something deeper: the need to raise a tide of solidarity that could span oceans. It was an urgent response to the drastic withdrawal of funding for social justice causes and the surging tide of hate speech—forces that, like storms, seek to darken the horizon of human rights.

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“Our Networks Work” Initiative

We successfully completed the first cycle of “Our Networks Work”—a journey undertaken in collaboration with the Alliance of Funds for Latin America and the Caribbean. Its objective was clear: to strengthen the resilience and security of women's and feminist organizations by promoting rights and standards that safeguard their journeys through the vast—and often turbulent—digital landscape.

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Resources Mobilizing Hope

If our strategies are the cartography, the budget is the tide that makes movement possible. Here, we present our budget execution, in which every resource was channeled to nourish ecosystems of resistance, struggle, and care. This execution reflects the transparency and efficiency with which we transformed our donors' commitment into the driving force behind our actions and alliances.

Harbors of Solidarity and Trust

We are deeply grateful to our donors and allies, who not only accompanied us as we navigated uncertain and challenging waters, but also transformed solidarity and trust into acts as concrete as solid ground. We also honor our partner organizations, who have sailed alongside us with the patience and strength of those who know the rhythm of the tides.

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Grantees' Messages

From Lxs Astronautas, we are deeply grateful for the support provided by FCAM in 2025 for the production of our documentary about young women with disabilities fighting for their autonomy and independence in Guatemala City. This support has been fundamental in helping us continue to build a space for representation, listening, and memory through community- based documentary filmmaking by women.

Lxs Astronautas

In 2025, the support of FCAM Foundation meant much more than financial backing for Voces Nuestras and Movimiento de Valientes Costa Rica. It allowed us to sustain safe spaces for gathering, healing, and collective organizing for survivors of sexual violence, as well as to continue promoting prevention and autonomy-building processes.

Voces Nuestras and Movimiento de Valientes

Thanks to the FCAM Foundation’s support and vision, we now have a tool that safeguards and strengthens our work as researchers and facilitators of art and popular education, grounded in emotional well-being. This work is pioneering in the region and deeply political and social, yet often undervalued. Thanks to your contribution, we now have a freely accessible Google Site as a repository of information and resources.

Creatorio Artístico Pedagógico

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the FCAM Foundation for supporting our project “Together for Our Rights.” Thanks to your collaboration, we have helped strengthen and empower 209 home-based embroidery workers affiliated with our organization, as well as carried out activities to build our institutional capacity.

SITRABORDO

The National Commission for Support to Returned Migrants with Physical Disabilities and the Honduran Network of Migrant Women express our gratitude to FCAM for its technical, political, and financial support. Your support has been vital to strengthen our organizational, community- based, and human rights advocacy processes, to accompany migrant women with physical disabilities and women in need of protection.

CONAMIREDIS
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