{"id":2627,"date":"2013-01-31T18:33:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T18:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cegss.org.gt\/CEGSS_2016\/2013\/01\/31\/historia\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T03:56:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:56:58","slug":"historia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cegss.org.gt\/en\/2013\/01\/31\/historia\/","title":{"rendered":"HISTORY OF CEGSS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2006, a group of young professionals, led by Walter Flores, came together to implement a participatory action research project that sought to implement a participatory system for monitoring health services in rural municipalities. The project was based on the premise that mistrust between the population and public servants is a remnant of the armed conflict experienced in Guatemala during the second half of the 20th century, as well as of the historical relations of discrimination and social exclusion that underlie all social interactions. Based on the Urban and Rural Development Councils Law and the Health Code, our project was intended to promote citizen involvement in public policies and health services as a way to bring different actors together, generate dialogue, accountability and, ultimately, contribute to democratic governance of the health system.<\/p>

While the project presented significant challenges, it also showed the enormous potential that exists in addressing the problems of access to health services and shortages of essential inputs. Through the collective action of the rural population learning about their rights and obligations under the country's legal framework, it became clear to us that conceptual frameworks needed to be developed and adapted for this work, as well as methodological approaches that would allow this work to continue.<\/p>

In addition to the need for the academic work described above, the initial group sought to carry out the kind of work that did not separate the academic from the commitment to support the agency of socially excluded populations. In addition, it was clear that the findings and knowledge generated through the research should be communicated and fed into advocacy and advocacy processes.<\/p>

What was described above went beyond an isolated research project to become the intention and then the action of founding a civil association that would allow the above-described purposes to be put into practice. Thus, in January 2009, CEGSS was founded. It originally included Ismael G\u00f3mez, Ana Lorena Ruano, Denise Ph\u00e9-Funchal, Raphael Zepeda, Carlos Qui\u00f1\u00f3nez and Walter Flores. From its founding to date, the CEGSS team has continued to grow and expand its work horizon, which now includes international collaborations. Likewise, it has remained firm in its original purpose of seeking to make research and knowledge collective processes that should serve to counteract social exclusion and discrimination in our societies.<\/p>

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En el a\u00f1o 2006, un grupo de\u00a0 profesionales j\u00f3venes, liderados por Walter Flores,\u00a0 se unieron para\u00a0 implementar un proyecto de investigaci\u00f3n-acci\u00f3n participativa que busc\u00f3 implementar un sistema participativo de monitoreo de los servicios de salud en municipios rurales. \u00a0Dicho proyecto part\u00eda de la premisa que dicra que la desconfianza entre la poblaci\u00f3n y los servidores p\u00fablicos es un remanente del conflicto armado vivido en Guatemala durante la segunda mitad del Siglo XX, as\u00ed como de las relaciones hist\u00f3ricas de discriminaci\u00f3n y exclusi\u00f3n social que subyacen en todas las interacciones sociales. Bas\u00e1ndose en la ley\u00a0 de Consejos de Desarrollo Urbano y Rural y el C\u00f3digo de Salud, nuestro proyecto ten\u00eda la intenci\u00f3n de promover el involucramiento ciudadano en las pol\u00edticas p\u00fablicas y servicios de salud como una forma de acercar a los diferentes actores, generar di\u00e1logo, rendici\u00f3n de cuentas y, en \u00faltima instancia, contribuir a la gobernaza democr\u00e1tica del sistema de salud. Aun cuando el proyecto present\u00f3 retos importantes, tambi\u00e9n mostr\u00f3 el potencial enorme que existe en abordar los problemas de acceso a los servicios de salud y de desabastecimiento de insumos esenciales. A trav\u00e9s de la acci\u00f3n colectiva de la poblaci\u00f3n rural que aprende sobre los derechos y obligaciones vigentes en el marco legal del pa\u00eds, se nos hizo claro que se necesitaban desarrollar y adaptar marcos conceptuales para este trabajo, as\u00ed como desarrollar enfoques metodol\u00f3gicos que permitieran continuar con este trabajo. Agregado a la necesidad del trabajo acad\u00e9mico arriba descrito, el grupo inicial buscaba llevar a cabo el tipo de trabajo que no separara lo acad\u00e9mico del compromiso por apoyar la capacidad de agencia de las poblaciones socialmente excluidas. Adem\u00e1s, era claro que los hallazgos y conocimiento generados a trav\u00e9s de la investigaci\u00f3n deber\u00edan ser comunicados y vertidos en procesos de abogac\u00eda e incidencia pol\u00edtica. Lo anteriormente descrito sobrepas\u00f3 un proyecto de investigaci\u00f3n aislado para convertirse en la intenci\u00f3n y lueog la acci\u00f3n de fundar una asociaci\u00f3n civil que permitiera llevar a la pr\u00e1ctica los prop\u00f3sitos arriba descritos.\u00a0 Es as\u00ed como, en enero del 2009, se fund\u00f3 el CEGSS. Este incluy\u00f3 originamente a Ismael G\u00f3mez, Ana Lorena Ruano, Denise Ph\u00e9-Funchal, Raphael Zepeda, Carlos Qui\u00f1\u00f3nez y Walter Flores.\u00a0\u00a0 Desde su fundaci\u00f3n hasta la fecha, el equipo del CEGSS ha continuado creciendo y ha expandido su horizonte de trabajo, el cual incluye actualmente\u00a0 colaboraciones internacionales. Asimismo, se ha mantenido firme en el prop\u00f3sito original de buscar que la investigaci\u00f3n y el conocimiento sean procesos colectivos que deben servir para contrarrestar la exclusi\u00f3n social y la discriminaci\u00f3n en nuestras sociedades.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c16-quienes-somos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cegss.org.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cegss.org.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cegss.org.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cegss.org.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cegss.org.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/cegss.org.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4816,"href":"https:\/\/cegss.org.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions\/4816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cegss.org.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cegss.org.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cegss.org.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cegss.org.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}