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Guatemala, Central AmericaRAFAEL LANDÍVARUniversidad
Locating Guatemala
116 HDI, 36 year civil war, racism and lingering apartheid, civil insecurity second only to South Africa, 9% tax take, non viable political parties, unmanageable diversity.
HistoryPrivate institution of Jesuit inspiration,
dedicated to higher education
Created in 1961, as the first private university in Guatemala
Largest Private University in Central America, 3rd in Latin America, 20, 000 students.
Member of AUSJAL, 28 university network since 1985
History
Regional campuses
Faculties Institutes
Alta VerapazHuehuetenangoQuetzaltenango
QuichéCoatepequeRetalhuleuEscuintla
Antigua Guate.JutiapaZacapa
Economics & Business Adm.
EngineeringArchitecture &
DesignPolitical & Social
SciencesHumanities
Environment & Agriculture
LawTheology
Medicine and Public Health
IDIESINDISINGEP
INTRAPAZIPSI
IARNAIIJ
ICEIM
IDIMC
Basic and Applied Research Programmefor Regional
Development with a Micro-Territorial focus
“the What?”
R & DCreate a
Research and Development Platform
Small-Scale Enterprises and Opportunities for
Value Chain Development
Research Programmefor Regional
Development with a Micro-Territorial focus
“the What?”
Environment as an
Opportunity for
Development
Ethnic, Social, and Political
Viability ofDevelopmentInterventions
Small Scale Clean Energy Generation linked with Technology
Development For SME
Institution Transformation of Small Regional Campus
with Embedded Human Capital needed for Development
Development of Masters Programmes
Food Technology, ESMD, Rural Development
PP VLIRN-SS-S
IU Coop
Programa de Investigación para el Desarrollo Regional con Enfoque
Territorial(Proindercet- VLIR)
Schematic overview of the inter-disciplinary logic
of the Research Program for Regional Development with a Micro-Territorial Focus
(next slide)
Schematic overview
MACRO: Prices at the Frontier
SME TYPOLOGY enriched with: a) style of management, b) life strategies, gender, c) economic and technological rationalities
POVERTY LEVEL: MILLENIUM GOALS
MICRO:
MESO
ValueChain
Product 1
ValueChain
Product 2
ValueChain
Product 3
Micro Watershed Mangment, Clean Energy Production, TakingBiodiversity to the Market, adding
Value by Eco ISOsLearning how common sense is
Produced and influences non-demanddriven power (micro enterprise,
Enviroment, technology, and legality)
Fields ofViability andGovernance
InternationalKnowledgeExplosion
North-South
South-South
Advanced Technology
Tailored Adaptation to value chains and SMEs
VLIR-IUC
Matching = tying multidisciplinary research and even disciplinary
research within an Interdisciplinary Prism
Transdisciplinary subject/object of programe
Disciplinary focus
Actors who can only live in an interdisciplinary fashion: 1) Local communities / informal networks; 2) Associations, NGOs, Indirect bilateral
programmes; 3) Local and regional governments; 4) the Regional Campuses (students, teachers without research skills, Junior and Senior
researchers open to linking their discipline with development).
Important Steps to Increase Programme Coherence and Inter-Disciplinarity
1. Project teams research a Common Territory2. A central focus that can potentially link different
actors, different problems, and different sciences (URL= value chain).
3. A Matrix that can relate important disciplinary findings to a key variable of great interest to the multi-actors and stakeholders in the territory
4. Styles of Research and Teaching that release the potentials of Development Actors and University Communities to share their own processes to change their own lives.
An Operational Context for Research and Development
• 3 year alliance of the URL with a major Fundation which generated a GEF programme with Government, Private Enterprise in Energy, and Local Communities to invest:
• 2.5 mm$ in clean energy development in high poverty territories:
• 10 mm$ in use of clean energy in SME value added transformation
• 2.5 mm$ in embedded community development• Alliance with the URL for research and
embedded, university trained human capital