Innovative Experiences in participatory cartography and legal empowerment as tools to solve conflicts and ensure indigenous and peasant communities’ land rights in Central America The International Land Coalition - Latin America (ILC-LA) and the Regional Corporation PROCASUR are pleased to announce the results of the Innovation Plans (IP) Contest developed as part of the learning path “Innovative experiences in participatory cartography and legal empowerment as tools to solve conflicts and ensure indigenous and peasant communities´ land Rights in Central America” in August, 2010, in Nicaragua and Guatemala.
The IP Contest is an incentive for the application of the learning achievements and relevant practices acquired during the learning path and a support for the path participants as agents of innovation. For this contest eleven innovation plans were submitted, which were evaluated by an expert committee composed by ILC Secretariat and PROCASUR. According to an evaluation criteria, 5 Innovation Plans were selected as winners:
| Name of IP | Organization | Country | Participant |
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Participatory mapping of natural resources favoring the distribution agreements of indigenous and peasant areas in the northeast of Salta. Argentina |
FUNDAPAZ | Argentina | Gabriel Seghezzo |
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Participatory Cartography to recover the territory in the indigenous community of Q’eqchí Sta Amelia |
Pastoral Social de la Tierra El Petén | Guatemala | Mario Muralles / Markus Zander |
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The participatory cartography as tool for land protection and management: The case of the peasant community of Huachón |
IBC | Peru | Pedro Tipula |
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Legal Promoters program for strengthening indigenous /Peasant leaders |
CEPPAS GAJAT | Argentina | M. Patricia Bruyn |
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Internal retitling and legal empowerment to strengthen the registration of the communitarian property of the indigenous town of Telpaneca (PIT) |
UNAG | Nicaragua | Glenda Jasmina Lagos |
To see all the Innovation Plans submitted and other materials of the Learning Path such as study cases, articles, videos and photos click here:
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