​Our Consortium

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The consortium between the Sotz’il Association (Guatemala) and Colmena Lab (Costa Rica and Ecuador) aims to make available to our clients and allies a specialized value proposition in areas of communication, advocacy, journalism, capacity building, and interculturality.

Both the Sotz’il Association and Colmena Lab have extensive experience working alongside Indigenous Peoples, their organizations and networks, locally and internationally, in areas such as technical assistance, capacity building, advocacy and communication. Through this consortium, the Sotz’il Association and Colmena Lab seek to offer consistent, transparent and orderly technical, administrative and financial processes that comply with international standards.

The alliance between Colmena Lab and Sotz’il already has a history of successful projects, providing value-added services for various allies which make visible the contribution of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America in the conservation of forests and biodiversity.

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About Sotz’il

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The Sotz’il Association is a non-profit indigenous organization that contributes to comprehensive development (Utz K’aslemal) and the full participation of Indigenous Peoples in intercultural dialogue processes for consultation, socialization and coordination between Indigenous Peoples, government agencies and international organizations.

​Sotz’il is an indigenous technical organization rooted on the Mayan worldview that seeks to build alternatives for the comprehensive development for Indigenous Peoples, based on their vision, their principles, their values, their culture, their identity and their thinking.

Sotz’il promotes Ütz k’aslemal or Good Living, a concept associated with collective well-being in harmony and balance with nature through recognition, respect and compliance with the rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Its working areas are:

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• The rights of indigenous peoples

• Community development

• Full and effective participation

• Research and planning

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Sotz’il is an active member of the Indigenous Council of Central America, the Abya Yala Indigenous Forum, IUCN, and the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity.

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​About Colmena Lab 

 

Colmena Lab is a communications agency focused on positive social and environmental impact, seeking to impact and transform through creating, enhancing and materializing communication actions and projects, capacity building, visibility, and incidence.

Colmena Lab’s work is supported by more than 15 years of experience, more than 100 international projects, carried out in more than 20 countries, together with more than 200 social and environmental, indigenous, and rights organizations, with whom we have achieved significant impacts in areas such as human rights, indigenous peoples, forests and biodiversity, climate change, climate justice, human mobility, gender and diversity, and just energy transformation.

 

 

​Some our impact areas are:   

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• INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

• FORESTS AND BIODIVERSITY

• CLIMATE CHANGE

• JUST ENERGY TRANSITION

• CLIMATE JUSTICE

• INTERSECTIONALITY

• RIGHTS DEFENDERS

• MIGRATION AND REFUGEE

• EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES

• FOOD SOVEREIGNTY

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Some of Colmena Lab’s skills are:

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• Journalism projects, based on storytelling, data and evidence, with a collaborative, multicultural and intergenerational approach

• Training and capacity-building processes within the realities and contexts of the participants

• Collaborative development of communication and advocacy strategies

• Multimedia production such as video, immersive reality, photography, podcasts, and websites

• Content strategies for social media, based on best practices and the most current trends, according to the strategic objectives of our clients and allies