Guatemala Group goes to Washington DC

As a preliminary trip, the five members of the Guatemala Group traveled to Washington, D.C., to interview officials at the Guatemalan Embassy, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), and the watchdog group, the Center for Global Development. These select interviews gave the Group members a better sense of the diplomatic perspective on the Millennium Challenge Account aid initiative. The trip came weeks before the MCC’s decision to grant or deny candidate countries Threshold funding for fiscal year 2008, so it was a useful time to be conversing with both the MCC and Guatemalan sides.