Guatemala, Central America RAFAEL LANDÍVAR Universidad

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.

History Private 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 campusesFacultiesInstitutes Alta Verapaz Huehuetenango Quetzaltenango Quiché Coatepeque Retalhuleu Escuintla Antigua Guate. Jutiapa Zacapa Economics & Business Adm. Engineering Architecture & Design Political & Social Sciences Humanities Environment & Agriculture Law Theology Medicine and Public Health IDIES INDIS INGEP INTRAPAZ IPSI IARNA IIJ ICE IM IDIMC

Basic and Applied Research Programme for Regional Development with a Micro-Territorial focus “the What?”

R & D Create a Research and Development Platform Small-Scale Enterprises and Opportunities for Value Chain Development Research Programme for Regional Development with a Micro-Territorial focus “the What?” Environment as an Opportunity for Development Ethnic, Social, and Political Viability of Development Interventions 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 VLIR N-S S-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: MESOMESO Value Chain Product 1 Value Chain Product 2 Value Chain Product 3 Micro Watershed Mangment, Clean Energy Production, Taking Biodiversity to the Market, adding Value by Eco ISOs Learning how common sense is Produced and influences non-demand driven power (micro enterprise, Enviroment, technology, and legality) Fields of Viability and Governance International Knowledge Explosion 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 Territory 2. 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