In 2006, a group of young professionals, led by Walter Flores, came together to implement a participatory action research project to apply a monitoring system for health services in rural municipalities, based on the premise of mistrust between population and public servants is a remnant of the armed conflict experienced in Guatemala and the historical relationships of discrimination and social exclusion.

Our basis is the law of Urban and Rural Development Councils and the Health Code, with the project we promote citizens to get involved in public policies and health services as a way to bring together the different actors, generate dialogue, accountability. accounts and contribute to the democratic governance of the health system.

The project presented important challenges and demonstrated the enormous potential that exists in addressing the problems of access to health services and the shortage of essential supplies, through the collective action of the rural population that learns about the rights and obligations in force in the country. legal framework of the country.

We grew up developing academic work with the commitment to supporting the agency capacity of socially excluded populations. We generate our findings and knowledge through research, to be communicated and poured into advocacy and political advocacy processes.

We developed our research project in isolation to become the intention of founding a civil association to put the purposes into practice, which is how in January 2009 the Centro de Estudios para la Equidad y Gobernanza de los Sistemas de Salud (CEGSS).

Since its founding to date, the CEGSS team has grown and expanded the work horizon, which currently includes international collaborations and we maintain the original purpose that research and knowledge are collective processes that must serve to counteract exclusion. social and discrimination in our societies.