29.4.2011
Maailmanpankki hakee suomalaista tutkijaa ja/tai yhteistyöinstituutiota maankäyttöoikeuksiin liittyvään projektiin Guatemalaan (ilmoitus vain englanniksi). Hakuprosessiin liittyvät kysymykset suoraan paikan ilmoittajalle.
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The World Bank
Trust Fund for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development, Reducing Inequality Through Land Regularization in Guatemala
Guatemala is a country with a high level of inequality. More crucially, indigenous communities in the country have been dispossessed of their ancestral lands as a result of political, economic, and social factors. Not surprisingly, poverty of indigenous and peasants communities is significantly linked to structural inequalities in the access to land and land tenure security.
The Government of Guatemala has been implementing a Land Administration Program since the late 1990s, with the support of the World Bank and other donors. The overarching objective of this program has been to increase legal security of land tenure while strengthening the legal and institutional framework for land registry and cadastre. The World Bank-financed efforts included during the first phase the department of El Petén (covering about one third of the country's territory), while the ongoing second phase includes 41 municipalities in eight additional departments.
The pioneering efforts in El Petén were advanced in an evolving policy, legal and operational framework, and with limited understanding of their potential effect on inequality. Under these circumstances, some analyses by academics and NGOs suggest that the efforts in El Petén may have contributed to widen pre-existing inequalities in land tenure, particularly affecting the poor rural and indigenous communities. Better and more systematic understanding of the constraints and effects of the regularization process carried out in El Petén is needed to develop mechanisms that would ensure equality inducing effects as the program continues in the rest of the country.
The Agriculture and Rural Development Unit at the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office (LCSAR) of the World Bank is proposing to the Bank-managed Trust Fund for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development (TFESSD) to undertake a research project to strengthen equality-enhancing effects of land regularization in Guatemala. This objective would be accomplished by conducting an assessment of LAP I's impacts in El Peten and developing and piloting innovative operational mechanisms to expand equality of opportunity in the access to property rights during the implementation of LAP II. The research project would be conducted in collaboration with government agencies (Registry of Cadastral Information) and international/national institutes and NGOs (FAO, Rights and Resource Group, Clark University, University of San Carlos).
LCSAR is looking to expand its partnerships by including Norwegian and/or Finnish researchers and institutions in this project. Two areas of potential collaboration include: (a) providing expert advice on land tenure issues and/or innovative social science research methodologies; and (b) leading field work in El Peten for an approximate duration of three months in the Fall of 2011. The specific details of the partnership can be arranged based on the specific qualifications and interests of the researchers and/or institutions.
LCSAR has been invited to submit a proposal to the TFESSD's second round on May 13, 2011. Final approval will be announced in mid-June. Interested candidates are asked to contact Fernando Galeana at the World Bank (fgaleana1 [ät] worldbank.org) by May 10, 20011 to discuss a potential collaboration in case the research proposal is approved.