Guatemala, Central America

1. Universidad RAFAEL LANDÍVAR Guatemala, Central America

2. 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.

3. History 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

5. Basic and Applied Research Programmefor Regional Development with a Micro-Territorial focus“the What?”

6. R & D Create a Research and Development Platform Ethnic, Social, and Political Viability of Development Interventions Small-Scale Enterprises and Opportunities for Value Chain Development Research Programme for Regional Development with a Micro-Territorial focus “the What?” Small Scale Clean Energy Generation linked with Technology Development For SME Environment as an Opportunity for Development Development of Masters Programmes Food Technology, ESMD, Rural Development Institution Transformation of Small Regional Campus with Embedded Human Capital needed for Development PP VLIR N-S S-S IU Coop

7. 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)

8. International Knowledge Explosion Schematic overview MACRO: Prices at the Frontier North-South South-South Advanced Technology VLIR-IUC 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 M E S O Fields of Viability and Governance Learning how common sense is Produced and influences non-demand driven power (micro enterprise, Enviroment, technology, and legality) Tailored Adaptation to value chains and SMEs SME TYPOLOGY enriched with: a) style of management, b) life strategies, gender, c) economic and technological rationalities MICRO: POVERTY LEVEL: MILLENIUM GOALS

9. 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).

10. Important Steps to Increase Programme Coherence and Inter-Disciplinarity Project teams research a Common Territory A central focus that can potentially link different actors, different problems, and different sciences (URL= value chain). A Matrix that can relate important disciplinary findings to a key variable of great interest to the multi-actors and stakeholders in the territory 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.

11. 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