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

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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