Section 2 : Planning for rural development
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1. 2 Decision support tools DSTs with spatial analysis cartography and MapMaker Agroenterprise management approaches production chains market studies and business plans Workshop on Towards the formulation of a rural development program held in San Jos del Guaviare Colombia 29 July 2004 For the MADR Agreement we are following up planning exercises conducted in the Municipality of Puerto L pez and its rural communities As mentioned above these form part of the ARD in the Department of Meta Highlights of both the work conducted in Puerto L pez and the follow up of work previously carried out in Meta include the following Bolivia An agreement was made with the Government of Meta to develop the Plan for Developing the Altillanura together with the Rural Development Program for the Meta ARD which itself will be developed with INCODER Cassava trials by the CIAT s Cassava Improvement Project have continued in the rural community of Puerto Guadalupe and were established in the Humapo Indigenous Reserve Both these sites have agricultural high schools The agricultural high schools of Puerto Guadalupe and Humapo have set aside land for production and experimentation Discussions were held with CIAT s Tropical Forages and Beans Projects to conduct trials at these two colleges together with those of the Cassava Improvement Project Contributors Hubert Mazurek IRD UMR 151 posted at CIAT Louis A2. Municipal Division for Water DIMA Corporation for the Sustainable Development of the Special Management Area of La Macarena CORMACARENA CIAT Santa Rosa Universidad de los Llanos UNILLANOS National Police of the Department of Meta Environmental Management and Secretariat of Planning of the Government of Meta Universidad Nacional de Colombia UNITROPICO CENIPALMA Geographic Institute Agustin Codazzi Cattlemen s Committee of Meta Cattlemen s Association of Meta and the Technical and Industrial Institute Using the Visions Actions Demands VAD methodology 25 February 2004 Training provided by Ovidio Munoz and Rogelio Pineda CIAT InforCom Project Participants 15 were from the municipal administration UMATA and associations of the Municipality of Bugalagrande Valle del Cauca Workshop for diffusing the tools and methodologies to support decision making Held in Su rez Cauca 13 February 2004 Organized by Ovidio Munoz and Rogelio Pineda CIAT InforCom Project Participants 20 were members of the municipal administration and associations Workshop for diffusing the tools and methodologies to support decision making Held in Restrepo Valle del Cauca 16 March 2004 Organized by Ovidio Munoz and Rogelio Pineda CIAT InforCom Project Participants 10 were members of the municipal administration and associations Workshop for diffusing the tools and methodologies to support decision making Popay n Cauc
3. e Land Use Planning Unit UOT an agreement was signed in 2003 e Council for Population for Sustainable Development CODEPO an agreement is being drawn up CODEPO would be the host institution for this work Universities e IESE and CEPLAG at the Universidad Mayor de San Sim n at Cochabamba an agreement is being drawn up e Faculty of Geography at the Universidad Mayor de San Andr s at La Paz an agreement is signed with IRD e Universidad Amaz nica de Pando at Cobija an agreement on development has been drawn up lt lt add gt gt Grassroots organizations e Mayoral Office for Calamarca conducting land use planning with UOT e Association of the Municipalities of Cono Sur Department of Cochabamba an agreement is being drawn up e Lipez Association of Municipalities Department of Potos an agreement was made with UOT e Association of the Municipalities of Pando AMDEPANDO A lt lt is anything missing gt gt National conference on Land use policies and planning for land management held in La Paz Bolivia 24 25 June 2004 Peru Contributors Marcela Quintero CIAT InforCom Project Wilson Otero GTZ Colombia Alonso Moreno Andean Watersheds Project Fausto Asencio D az Rural Development Program GTZ Rub n Dario Estrada CIP CONDESAN Edwin Pajares Ecumenical Center for Social Promotion and Action CEDEPAS Fanel Guevara Social Management of Water and the Environment in Watershe
4. environnement et d veloppement posted at CIAT and Bolivia Ovidio Munoz Agronomist Dipl me d tudes sup rieures sp cialis es DESS in land use planning Research Assistant 1 Rogelio Pineda Geologist Professional Specialist Marcela Quintero Ecologist Research Assistant 2 now with CIAT s Communities and Watersheds project Yolanda Rubiano Professional Specialist 5096 InforCom 5096 Project PE 2 left in 2004 Participation in Workshops and Seminars Beaulieu N Le suivi et l valuation des plans locaux de d veloppement comme m canisme d articulation entre la recherche agricole et le d veloppement rural Tuesday seminars at BAME ISRA Senegal 1 June 2004 Pineda R National Meeting on Consejos de Planeaci n Bogot 23 24 July 2004 Pineda R Conference on La formulaci n de Programas de Desarrollo Rural mediante metodolog as de planificaci n territorial participativa Bogot XX April 2004 25 Pineda R Beaulieu N Ostertag C Conference on Bases conceptuales y metodol gicas para la formulaci n de Programas de Desarrollo Rural por CIAT en las reas asignadas por el INCODER Bogot 26 27 July 2004 Fajardo A Bosques de galer a Gu a para su apreciaci n y conservaci n Villavicencio Meta XX November 2003 Am zquita E Rubiano Y Orozco O La condici n fisica del suelo y su importancia en el manejo integral del suelo An oral presentation given at the at the XVI Congreso
5. modified SWOT matrix during the workshop on Towards the formulation of a rural development program held in San Jos del Guaviare Colombia 29 July 2004 In Senegal the VAD approach is being used to monitor and evaluate local development plans The 2003 manual was modified to include forms for 18 separately monitoring actions for example did we our partners and the ones to whom we demanded actions do what was planned What was done and what remains to be done Did the actions give good results The forms were also used to monitor conditions through the use of indicators such as crop yield soil organic matter ground cover land use and species used Finally the forms were used to monitor the capacities we were trying to build What have we learned since the last meeting What questions remain Who can help us Further reading Beaulieu N Grupo de Planificaci n para el Desarrollo Rural 2004a Gu a para la planificaci n el seguimiento y el aprendizaje orientado al desarrollo comunitario Updated version of an internal report CIAT Cali Colombia 21 p Beaulieu N Groupe de Planification pour le D veloppement Rural 2004b Guide pour la planification le suivi et l valuation participatifs avec une approche syst mique Updated version of an internal report CIAT ISRA Dakar Senegal 21 p Outreach and Capacity Building Organization of Seminars and Training Activities Many of the training activities in Colombia wer
6. Latinoamericano de la Ciencia del Suelo and the XII Congreso Nacional de la Ciencia del Suelo Cartagena de Indias 27 September 1 October 2004 Rubiano Y Am zquita E Beaulieu N Sistema Georreferenciado de Indicadores de Calidad del suelo An oral presentation at the XVI Congreso Latinoamericano de la Ciencia del Suelo and the XII Congreso Nacional de la Ciencia del Suelo Cartagena de Indias 27 September 1 October 2004 Rubiano Y Marco Conceptual de Indicadores de Calidad del Suelo Oral presentation at the national workshop on Indicadores de Calidad del Suelo Conceptos y Principios Aplicados a la Evaluaci n de la Degradaci n de las Tierras CIAT Palmira 20 22 October 2004 Rubiano Y Monitoreo de Indicadores de Calidad del Suelo Oral presentation at the national workshop on Indicadores de Calidad del Suelo Conceptos y Principios Aplicados a la Evaluaci n de la Degradaci n de las Tierras CIAT Palmira 20 22 October 2004 Publications Book chapters Beaulieu N Jaramillo J Fajardo A Rubiano Y Munoz O Quintero M Pineda R Rodr guez M Le n JG Jim nez MF 2004 Planning of territorial organizations as an entry point for agricultural research towards rural development and innovation In Pachico D ed Scaling up and out achieving widespread impact through agricultural research CIAT Cali Colombia Mazurek H 2004 Desarrollo territorio y desarrollo local replantear la relaci n global local In Gonz lez P
7. and water management program for the plantations in Colombia s major oil palm producing region GEOSOIL is being used in this context so CENIPALMA may systematize information at a scale of 1 10000 15 GEOSOIL will also be used to evaluate soil distribution and suitability for oil palm plantations The soil parameters that define suitability will be included in the tool In addition the tool is being improved to include socioeconomic aspects of oil production farm sizes and tree distribution at different scales ranging from farms to groups of farms The final objective is to define better soil management systems to increase productivity and sustainability through the application of precision agricultural practices Highlights of the work conducted with CENIPALMA so far include We helped select aerial photography and thematic maps of the pilot sites and areas of influence of the plantations growing around San Vicente de Chucuri Barrancabermeja and Sabana de Torres Santander We provided assistance in photo interpretation and the preparation of a preliminary soils legend Incollaboration with CENIPALMA s soils expert we identified necessary modifications to GEOSOIL in function of the specific requirements of oil palm We began systematizing information on soils and land use e We designed and began preparing a training pamphlet for extension workers We began improving the didactic manual for GEOSOIL GEOSOIL is also bei
8. of Architects of Peru and CESU UMSS 80 participants In addition to these two events we also participated in the creation of a Masters program entitled Planning for Land Management together with the Universidad Cat lica de Bolivia the Universidad Mayor de San Andr s IRD and CIAT with a proposal to extend it to the Universidad Aut noma de Manizales Colombia the Universidad Cat lica de Ecuador and the Universit de Toulouse France The program will begin in September 2005 Senegal Basic functions of the Geographic Information System SPRING Held in Dakar 28 30 June 2004 Training provided by Nathalie Beaulieu CIAT InforCom Project Participants 5 were from LERG Techniques of market gardening Held in Ngandiouf 13 October 2004 Training organized by Nathalie Beaulieu CIAT InforCom Project in response to demands expressed during the monitoring and evaluation of communities rural development plans Training provided by Meissa Diouf and Cheikh L of ISRA CDH Participants 28 were from the rural communities of Ngandiouf Mbay ne Taiba Ndiaye and M ouane Postgraduate studies This year two of our national staff have initiated postgraduate studies and will capitalize on their experiences in the group while increasing the research focus in their work to validate some of the hypotheses mentioned above Through these studies the group will increase its own scientific capacity while initiating new partner
9. the possibilities of learning in the process Data becomes accumulated without ever being used for decision making Different hierarchical levels of territorial administration can improve the coordination of their development efforts by articulating the various contributions and demands of the players from one level to the next from bottom up This approach can be used to articulate municipal plans at the departmental level and departmental plans at the national level Case studies Colombia Contributors Rogelio Pineda Adriana Fajardo Marcela Quintero Ovidio Mu oz Yolanda Rubiano Mar a Fernanda Jim nez Nathalie Beaulieu Jaime Jaramillo CIAT InforCom Project Edgar Am zquita CIAT TSBF Institute Wilson Gait n CIAT Project SN 1 Diana Mar a Pino Secretary of Planning Municipality of Puerto L pez Noemi Pe uela Director Municipal Unit for Technical Assistance in Agriculture UMATA at Puerto Gait n Fernando Calle Latin American and Caribbean Consortium to Support Cassava Research and Development CLAYUCA The work in Colombia is funded through three separate agreements with 1 MADR 2 the Colombian Institute of Rural Development INCODER and 3 the Colombian Oil Palm Research Center CENIPALMA INCODER is managed by MADR Under the agreement with MADR we dedicate a significant part of the funds to reinforcing activities stipulated in the INCODER Agreement Through this latter agreement w
10. these plans are prepared by external organizations or consultants and are not effectively used first because they do not correspond to population needs and second because municipal technicians find them difficult to understand In addition the methodology used for land use planning is based almost exclusively on biophysical parameters used to establish a balance of use of the land s potential Our work in Bolivia therefore aims to engage institutions in charge of participatory planning in a learning process We are also aiming to develop jointly with these institutions a set of regionally adaptable guidelines for participatory land use planning that can be used for municipalities associations of municipalities or departments so they may articulate their activities in various economic sectors and integrate local and regional development projects Methodological collaborations have been initiated with the UOT which is oriented towards biophysical considerations and CODEPO which establishes demographic policies As explained in the Introduction the case studies were conducted to ensure that the proposed guidelines were adapted to the Bolivian context Contrasting sites were chosen to allow Bolivian diversity to be taken into account As in the other countries these case studies will also yield examples that will be communicated throughout Bolivia and will provide opportunities for testing our research hypotheses Highlights of our activitie
11. ER the Secretariats of Planning and Agriculture the Regional Autonomous Corporation and NGOs Tools and methodologies to support decision making Held in Palmira Valle del Cauca 14 September 2004 Training provided by Ovidio Munoz and Rogelio Pineda CIAT InforCom Project Participants 45 were from the various institutions involved in the southeastern Valle ARD including INCODER the Secretariats of Planning and Agriculture and the Regional Autonomous Corporation 21 Tools and methodologies to support decision making Held in Puerto L pez Meta 21 September 2004 Training provided by Ovidio Mu oz CIAT InforCom Project Participants 35 were from the various institutions involved in the Meta ARD including INCODER the Secretariats of Planning and Agriculture and the Regional Autonomous Corporation National Workshop on Soil Quality Indicators Concepts and Principles Applied to the Evaluation of Land Degradation Held at CIAT Cali Valle del Cauca 20 22 October 2004 Organized by Yolanda Rubiano CIAT InforCom Project and Edgar Amezquita CIAT TSBF Institute Participants 92 included representatives from MADR the Ministry of Environment the National Department of Planning research centers universities Regional Autonomous Corporations NGOs farmers unions indigenous and Afro Colombian communities and municipal authorities Peru Land Use Planning with a Focus on Watersheds and with a practical compone
12. GEOSOIL Applications and Adaptations Contributors Yolanda Rubiano CIAT InforCom Project Edgar Am zquita CIAT TSBF Institute Mar a Fernanda Jim nez Jaqueline Ashby CIAT RII Carlos Meneses CIAT Information Systems Dimas Malag n Universidad Nacional de Colombia Fernando Munevar Coordinator Soil Group CENIPALMA Soils Group of CORPOICA Regional 8 Ernesto Gir n CONDESAN GEOSOIL is a database tool that stores information from soil profiles or from soil maps For each new entry the user may enter available physical and chemical data without having to fill in all the fields For soil characteristics that are not numerical such as texture or land forms the user can choose from a range of options For several soil properties that can be used as soil quality indicators the database produces a diagnosis using criteria established for the Colombian Eastern Plains It permits comparison of soil characteristics with the requirements of a given crop and when the necessary chemical information is available it can recommend appropriate fertilizer applications Soil requirements can be imported from the CUFRUCOL database or be specified by the user The user may also export soil data and corresponding geographic coordinates to GIS programs for their mapping or to geostatistical programs for a spatial analysis of variability and interpolation CENIPALMA Colombia s oil palm research center requested CIAT s assistance with its soil
13. Information Tools Developed for Rural Planning A series of tools and methods was launched last year as a result of the 1999 2003 Agreement with the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural 14 Development The preliminary development of most of these tools was reported in previous annual reports of CIAT s Land Use Project We are continuing to adapt and develop them with partners through extensive training and follow up in Colombia and through our work in the various case studies mentioned above On 14 November 2003 at the Tequendama Hotel in Bogot we organized an information meeting to publicize these methods and decision support tools We benefited from the participation of representatives of farmer associations and unions the private sector the academic community regional environmental corporations NGOs research institutes municipal administrations departmental administrations UMATAs and other institutions involved in environmental management These methods and tools are described in InforCom s 2003 annual report and on our Web page at http www ciat cgiar org planificacion rural gt Beginning this year we have not been developing further tools and methods Instead we have been using the existing ones with our partners in the case studies and modifying them as needs are identified This year the tools modified through use with partners were GEOSOIL and CUFRUCOL and the Visions Actions Demands VAD method
14. Project SN 4 Information and Communications for Rural Communities Project InforCom Project Annual Report 2004 Section 2 Planning for Rural Development Abstract This year the Rural Planning Group consolidated its case studies in Colombia Bolivia and Senegal using methods and tools often developed by the Group itself To transfer lessons learned training was given to partners both within and outside the case studies For Colombia the ongoing work funded through the agreement with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has expanded in geographic coverage and is complemented through agreements with the Colombian Institute of Rural Development in collaboration with CIAT s Rural Agroenterprise Development and Land Use projects and the Colombian Oil Palm Research Center in collaboration with CIAT s TSBF Institute In Bolivia case studies and national capacity building are being conducted in collaboration with the Vice Ministry for Sustainable Development and Planning the Land Use Planning Unit and the Council for Population Sustainable Development In Senegal capacity building and stakeholder participation for ICRISAT s Desert Margins Program is being conducted by involving scientists in the monitoring and evaluation of the local development plans of several rural communities Collaboration with the Andean Watersheds Project has allowed us to continue our involvement in last year s case studies in Peru through two trai
15. WF Colombia OSSO Biomacizo Project IEP UNIVALLE CAMAWA CHONAPI Nasa Cxha Cxha Program Universidad del Pac fico Colombia Implementing and managing the SIG MapMaker Popular Held in Santander de Quilichao Cauca 1 2 June 2004 Training provided by Ovidio Mu oz CIAT InforCom Project Participants 5 were from the Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca ACIN Implementing and managing the SIG MapMaker Popular Held at CIAT Palmira Valle del Cauca 8 10 June 2004 Training provided by Ovidio Mu oz CIAT InforCom Project One participant who was from CORPOICA Tibaitata Implementing and managing the SIG MapMaker Popular Held in San Jos del Guaviare 30 31 July 2004 Training provided by Ovidio Munoz CIAT InforCom Project Participants 5 were from INCODER s Amazon regional office Tools and methodologies to support decision making Held in San Jos del Guaviare 24 August 2004 Training provided by Ovidio Munoz and Rogelio Pineda CIAT InforCom Project Participants 20 were from various institutions in the Guaviare ARD including INCODER the Secretariats of Planning and Agriculture and the Regional Autonomous Corporation Tools and methodologies to support decision making Held in San Sebasti n Magdalena 8 September 2004 Training provided by Ovidio Munoz CIAT InforCom Project Participants 60 were from the various institutions involved in the southern Magdalena ARD including INCOD
16. a 5 April 2004 Organized by Ovidio Munoz and Rogelio Pineda CIAT InforCom Project Participants 14 were from secretariats of planning and agriculture NGOs and associations Land Use and Territorial Environmental Planning Held in Manizales Caldas 3 8 May 2004 Training workshop organized by the Andean Watersheds Project Training provided by Marcela Quintero CIAT InforCom Project Wilson Otero GTZ Colombia Rub n Dario Estrada CIP CONDESAN Alonso Moreno Andean Watersheds Andres Felipe Betancourth CONDESAN Universidad de Caldas Participants 20 were involved in land planning for La Miel Watershed including representantives of the Masters program in Production Systems at the Universidad de Caldas employees of the local environmental authority CORPOCALDAS staff from the Institute of Higher Education of the Municipality of Pensilvania and representatives of NGOs and the Departamental Secretariat of Planning 20 Diffusion of soil research and of the methodologies and tools to support decision making in rural planning Held in Buenaventura Valle 17 18 May 2004 Organized by Yolanda Rubiano CIAT InforCom Project Participants 70 were from the CVC NGOs Universidad del Pac fico and municipal administration Implementing and managing the SIG MapMaker Popular Held at CIAT Palmira Valle del Cauca 26 28 May 2004 Training provided by Ovidio Mu oz CIAT InforCom Project Participants 15 were from W
17. al Development Italy International Land Coalition Italy Instituto Nacional de Adecuaci n de Tierras Colombia Instituto Colombiano de Desarrollo Rural Colombia Institut de l environnement et de recherches agricoles Burkina Faso Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais Brazil Institut national de recherches agronomiques du Niger Institut de recherche pour le d veloppement France Institut s n galais de recherches agricoles S n gal Institut de Recherche pour le D veloppement France Laboratoire d enseignement et de recherch en g omatique Senegal Laboratoire national d levage et de recherches v t rinaires of ISRA S n gal Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural Colombia monitoring and evaluation nongovernmental organization New Mexico state of USA Observatorio Sismol gico del Sur Occidente Colombia ordenamiento territorial Bolivia Plan de Desarrollo Local Bolivia Plan de Desarrollo Municipal Bolivia Overcoming Soil Degradation of CIAT TSBFI Colombia Planes de Uso del Suelo Bolivia Plan Municipal de Ordenamiento Territorial Bolivia Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial Bolivia Rural Innovation Institute of CIAT Colombia Herramienta para el Seguimiento y la Evaluaci n de Planes 31 SN 1 SWOT TERA TSBFI UAB UMATA UMR UMSA UMSS UNILLANOS UNITROPICO UNIVALLE UOT USAID VAD VMDSP tool created by CIAT Rural Agroenterprise Development Project of CIAT Colom
18. and Use Planning and CODEPO Universidad de San Simon IESE and CEPLAG Municipal Office of Calamarca Association of the Municipalities of Cono Sur Association of the Municipalities of Pando In Peru GTZ CIP CONDESAN Municipal Office of Pampacocla In Senegal SRA CDH ISRA CNRF ISRA BAME ISRA LNERV ANCAR regional offices in Thi s Diourbel Fatik Kaolak Directorates of Waters and Forests and Agriculture 28 In Brazil although we have no case studies there yet Universidade Federal de Uberl ndia EMBRAPA CPAC INPE Vice Ministry of Family Agriculture Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina Donors Centro de Investigaci n en Palma de Aceite CENIPALMA Colombia Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural MADR Colombia Global Environment Facility GEF GTZ Instituto Colombiano de Desarrollo Rural INCODER Vice Ministerio de Desarrollo Sostenible y Planificaci n through CODEPO and FNUAP 29 Appendix 1 Acronyms and Abbreviations ACIN AMDEPANO ANCAR ARDs BAME BIOMACIZO CAMAWA CDH CEDEPAS CEGA CENIPALMA CEPLAG CESU CHONAPI CIP CIRAD CLAYUCA CNRA CNRF CODEPO CONDESAN CORMACARENA CORPOCALDAS CORPOICA CPAC CUFRUCOL CVC DESS DMP DSTs DURAS EMBRAPA Asociaci n de Cabildos Ind genas del Norte del Cauca Colombia Asociaci n de Municipios de Pando Bolivia Agence nationale de conseil agricole et rural S n gal Areas for Rural Development of INCODER Col
19. arra C Downing T eds Desarrollo global versus desarrollo local Universidad de la Concepci n Chile In press Rond n MA Acevedo D Hern ndez MA Rubiano Y Rivera M Am zquita E Romero M Sarmiento L Ayarza M Barrios E Rao I Potential for carbon sequestration in the Neotropical savannas llanos of Colombia and Venezuela Publisher place of publication In press 26 Peer reviewed articles Santana LM Beaulieu N Rubiano Y 2004 Planificaci n en los llanos colombianos con base en unidades de paisaje El caso de Puerto L pez Meta GeoTr pico 2 1 at http www geotropico org 2 1 Santana Working documents and reports Beaulieu N Tamba A 2004 Rapport sur le renforcement des capacit s et la participation des acteurs dans le cadre de la composante s n galaise du programme d action dans les marges du d sert Septembre 2003 Octobre 2004 Internal report CIAT ISRA Dakar Senegal Beaulieu N 2004 Rapport sur l laboration d une carte d occupation des sols de la regi n de Thi s partir de deux images Landsat ETM acquises en 2004 CIAT GeoMaps S n gal Dakar Senegal Mazurek H 2004 Desarrollo territorio y ordenamiento Replantear la relaci n global local In Gonz lez Parra C ed Desarrollo local versus desarrollo global buscando desarrollo sustentable en Am rica rural en el tercer milenio 51 congreso de los Americanistas Santiago de Chile 14 18 julio 2003 Universidad de Chile City of pu
20. bia strengths weaknesses opportunities and threats D partement territoires environnement et acteurs of CIRAD France Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute of CIAT Colombia Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Spain Unidad Municipal de Asistencia T cnica Agropecuaria Colombia Unit mixte de recherche of IRD France Universidad Mayor de San Andr s Bolivia Universidad Mayor de San Sim n Bolivia Universidad de los Llanos Colombia Fundaci n Universitaria Internacional del Tr pico Americano Colombia Universidad del Valle Colombia Unidad de Ordenamiento Territorial Bolivia United States Agency for International Development Visions Actions Demands Approach across Administrative Levels a CIAT methodology Vice Ministerio de Desarrollo Sostenible y Planificaci n Bolivia World Wildlife Fund 32
21. blicaton 25 p In press Mazurek H 2004 La integraci n de los pa ses andinos Entre promesas y realidades In Giacalone R ed An lisis comparativo de la integraci n regional latinoamericana y caribena 51 congreso de los Americanistas Santiago de Chile 14 18 julio 2003 Universidad de M rida City of publication 35 p In press Arr ghini L Mazurek H 2004 Territoire risque et mondialisation Quelques r flexions partir du cas des pays andins In David G ed Les espaces tropicaux face la mondialisation des risques X Journ es de G ographie Tropicale Orl ans 24 26 septembre 2003 27 p In press Mazurek H 2004 L Union Europ enne et l int gration des pays andins l accentuation des m canismes concurrentiels In Kauffmann P Yvars B eds Int gration europ enne et r gionalisme dans les pays en d veloppement L Harmattan Paris pp 167 200 Rubiano Y 2004 Manual del usuario Sistema Georreferenciado de Indicadores de Calidad del Suelo GEOSOIL Internal report CIAT Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural city of publication Beaulieu N Munoz O 2004 Tutorial de teledetecci n utilizando el Sistema de Informaci n Geografica SPRING Internal report Publisher place of publication Publications accepted but not yet published Arr ghini L Mazurek H 2005 March s d exportation et r seaux locaux d innovation territoriale deux logiques paralleles dans la structuration 27 des territoir
22. cussed the objectives strategies and results of the CIAT INCODER Agreement ElTiempo Newspaper January 2004 24 Rogelio Pineda was interviewed about the planning tools developed by the group Plans for 2005 Our plans for 2005 include following up our case studies adapting our tools through them and conducting training activities within and outside the case study sites in terms of demand In Colombia activities conducted for the MADR Agreement will be directed towards the INCODER ARDs that we helped this year Novelties include collaboration with INERA in Burkina Faso and INRAN in Niger to jointly work on the role of monitoring and evaluating local development plans as a learning process to stimulate local innovation and communicate local knowledge Concept notes have been submitted to the DURAS program at Agropolis and to IDRC Together with the InforCom team we will develop a proposal for using ICTs to support the monitoring and evaluation of municipal development plans in Colombia and Bolivia and the innovation processes that result Staff Nathalie Beaulieu PhD in Remote Sensing Senior Research Fellow 50 InforCom starting in September 2004 was 100 before Adriana Fajardo Biologist Research Assistant 2 Jaime Jaramillo Civil Engineer Professional Specialist posted in Bolivia Mar a Fernanda Jim nez Systems Engineer Research Assistant 3 Hubert Mazurek PhD in Ecology Researcher at IRD UMR 151 Populations
23. ds GSAAC Work in Peru is funded by GTZ Peru The Peruvian Congress approved two new laws in May 2003 the Ley Org nica de Municipalidades Municipalities Law which defines the provincial and district responsibilities of municipalities and in October 2003 the Reglamento de Acondicionamiento Territorial y Desarrollo Urbano Regulation of Land Preparation and Urban Development where the municipality is responsible for promoting its own integrated sustainable and harmonious development The municipality would be assisted by a local planning process that must be integrated permanent and participatory and coordinated with the Government at regional and national levels A variety of sectorial and multi sectorial plans are required from the municipalities on a regular basis Multi sectorial plans include the Development Plan the Rural Urban Plan for districts and the Land Preparation Plan for provinces Every year the municipalities must also plan their budget on a participatory basis to result in a participatory budget The Andean Watersheds Project of CONDESAN and GTZ had identified the need to strengthen the capacity of professionals community leaders and decision makers to manage land planning processes in several district and provincial municipalities located in the Project s pilot watersheds With this objective the Project identified based on the demands of its local partners two sites where land planni
24. e aim to help INCODER plan rural development programs in four Areas for Rural Development ARDs These areas are defined as homogenous geographic units that can be used as units for land use planning INCODER s GIS Unit has identified about 130 of these areas in Colombia of which 15 were chosen for use as pilot sites for planning Three other institutions IICA CEGA and CORPOICA have also been engaged through agreements to help INCODER with the same planning exercises in the other areas We are therefore participating in a giant planning exercise where different institutions are using different methodologies in different locations and through workshops sharing their results and lessons learned The four ARDs relevant to CIAT encompass several municipalities within the Departments of Magdalena Valle del Cauca Guaviare and Meta as listed below Department Municipalities making up an Area for Rural Development Magdalena El Banco Guamal San Sebasti n San Zen n Pinto Piji o del Carm n Santa Ana Valle del Cauca Florida Pradera Palmira Candelaria Ginebra El Cerrito Guacar Guaviare Parts of the municipalities of San Jos Calamar and El Retorno that are found within the Farming Reserve and therefore do not lie within the forest reserve that otherwise covers the entire Department Meta Puerto Gait n Puerto L pez The work with INCODER will finish in December 2004 after which a series of reports programs a
25. e given as part of the capacity building component of the agreement between CIAT and MADR The training was oriented towards professionals of departmental and municipal administrations NGOs foundations and universities This year many training activities were also conducted as part of our agreement with INCODER and aimed to build capacity in the identified ARDs and among the INCODER staff Collaboration with the Andean Watersheds Project allowed us to contribute to a training event in Manizales Related to land planning for the La Miel Watershed it was very much in line with the same collaborative training events that were organized in Peru As mentioned in the section on case studies seminars were organized in Bolivia within the framework of collaboration between CIAT IRD UOT and CODEPO and involving other institutions as well In Senegal some training activities were organized within the framework of the Desert Margins Program The following list indicates the training events and seminars that were organized or co organized by members of our team Colombia Basic concepts of remote sensing and management of the SPRING program Held in Villavicencio Meta 18 22 November 2003 Training provided by Nathalie Beaulieu and Ovidio Mu oz CIAT InforCom 19 Participants 31 came from institutions such as the Institute of Hydrology Meteorology and Environmental Studies IDEAM CORPOICA National Institute of Land Development INAT
26. epartment of Valle del Cauca in Colombia to allow them to integrate CUFRUCOL in their agricultural planning activities We planned a training day with the UMATAs of Valle del Cauca so they may implement the tool for the priority crops of the Department s fruit cultivation plan as well as use it to help farmers seeking information on crops Further reading Rubiano Y 2004 Manual del usuario Sistema Georreferenciado de Indicadores de Calidad del Suelo GEOSOIL Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural Internal report CIAT Cali Colombia Applications and Adaptations to the Visions Actions Demands VAD Approach Contributor s Nathalie Beaulieu Rogelio Pineda CIAT InforCom Project This approach was first formalized in 2000 as an 8 step methodological proposal In 2001 during workshops conducted for the municipal development plan of Puerto L pez it was pared down to three basic concepts Visions desired future conditions Actions what can we do to achieve them and Demands what could other stakeholders or higher administrative levels do to help us achieve our goals It was formalized into an approach that matched 17 the actions of certain stakeholders with the demands of others articulating them from the village to the municipality and eventually to higher administrative levels This approach is now being used both to assist INCODER in Colombia to plan for the Areas for Rural Development ARDs and in Senegal t
27. es de l conomie bolivienne In Benko G ed Espaces et soci t s num ro sp cial conomie des territoires et territoires de l conomie Publisher place of publication Mazurek H Garfias S eds 2004 El alto desde la perspectiva poblacional USAID CODEPO IRD French Embassy Publisher place of publication 150 p Mazurek H 2004 Actores y din micas territoriales en Bolivia In Antezana F Mazurek H Uzeda A eds Actores territorio y desarrollo local 50 a os de reforma agraria IESE CEPLAG CIAT place of publication 25 p In press Groppo P Jaramillo J Mauro A Mazurek H 2004 Proceedings of the international seminar Territorio y Desarrollo Sostenible 17 20 June 2003 Cali Colombia FAO IFAD CIAT IRD Cali Colombia 120 p In press Rubiano Y Am zquita E Beaulieu N 2004 Sistema Georreferenciado de Indicadores de Calidad de Suelo Rev Univ Nac Colombia volume issue and page numbers In press Beaulieu N Jaramillo J Restrepo JL Diaz JM 2004 A systems approach to planning as a mechanism for rural development in Colombia In Hall C Leclerc G eds Making development work New Mexico University Press Albuquerque NM In press Collaborators International IRD UMR 151 ICRISAT CIRAD TERA In Colombia MADR INCODER CORPOICA Regional Governments of Valle del Cauca Magdalena Meta and Guaviare Mayoral Office and UMATA of Puerto L pez In Bolivia VMDSP Directorate General of L
28. h by farmers and their success evaluated in follow up meetings ICTs Internet and telephone can be used to communicate the rural communities needs within a network of resource persons composed of rural extension agents and scientists The Senegalese component of the DMP is focused for the first 2 year phase on four regions of the country Kaolak Diourbel Fatik and Thi s DMP and its partners chose 20 rural communities five in each of the four regions The working program for capacity building and stakeholder participation includes three monitoring and evaluation M amp E meetings per year in each rural community and four regional training events where farmers from several rural communities participate This adds up to a total of 60 M amp E meetings and 16 training events per year Extension agents of the National Agricultural and Rural Advisory Agency ANCAR will ensure follow up between meetings and training events The highlights of our activities in Senegal for this year are e With CIAT s Information Systems Unit we finalized a French version of the Expertise software We also ran a separate listserver for rapid communication between participants Meetings were conducted in 15 rural communities In two of these we began monitoring local development plans and evaluating the progress of the components related to managing natural resources and agriculture We therefore could identify specific needs of various rural communities
29. ital and the capacity of rural populations to adapt to adverse or changing conditions This may seem obvious but seeing how few consistent processes of planning are implemented we think this hypothesis is worth being demonstrated Many of the obstacles related to planning in a polititical context result from an inadequate sense of responsibility on the part of leaders and citizens or are related to counterproductive logic such as looking at issues with a winners and losers perspective being obsessed with growth either economic social or emotional at the detriment of the group s well being the quest for quick and easy gain a dependence on assistance or a focus that is too short term or too confined to certain economic sectors These can be strongly moderated by adopting a logic of progression towards long term and collective goals This logic can be developed in planning workshops where participants discuss their desired future conditions their possible contributions and the contributions they need from other players or demands e During diagnosis monitoring and evaluation information is not used optimally if participants and planners do not have a clear idea of their desired future conditions Clearly stating these allows indicators to be defined and provides a reference with which to compare observed conditions In their absence diagnosis and monitoring remain purely descriptive not allowing judgment and thus reducing
30. ly managed by the farmers without intervention from the municipal administration or NGOs The farmers responded very well showing high innovation capacity The projects will continue in 2005 with the construction of an 8 km channel for irrigation and of a small electricity generating station The Association will also prepare plans for land use and local development POTs and PDLs with the new municipal administration and a training program The results of this experience will be published in a book e CIAT CODEPO and the Ministry of Strategic Planning and Popular Participation with support from the French Embassy in Bolivia organized a national conference on land use policies and planning for land management The conference was held in La Paz on 24 25 June 2004 At this conference the Vice Minister redefined the 2004 2007 agenda to strengthen planning for development and the fight against poverty PFPD couldn t verify its Spanish acronym The agenda was later presented on 9 September 2004 The same conference was held again in Cochabamba on 21 22 October organized by the Prefecture of Cochabamba CIAT the College of Architects of Peru and CESU UMSS At this conference we prepared a working agenda to implement in this Department the Vice Minister s new strategy for strengthening planning for development Agreements signed or being drawn up with The Vice Ministry for Sustainable Development and Planning through the
31. ma Regional del Valle del Cauca Colombia dipl me d tudes sup rieures sp cialis es France Desert Margins Program of ICRISAT decision support tools Promoting Sustainable Development in the Agricultural Research Systems of the South of GFAR Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecu ria Brazil 30 FAO GEF GEOSOIL GFAR GIS GSAAC GTZ HePP ICRISAT ICTs IDEAM IDRC IEP IESE IFAD ILC INAT INCODER INERA INPE INRAN IRD ISRA IRD LERG LNERV MADR M amp E NGO NM OSSO OT PDL PDM PE 2 PLUS PMOT POT RII SEGUIMIENTO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Italy Global Enviroment Facility El Sistema Georreferenciado de Indicadores de Calidad del Suelo para los Llanos Orientales de Colombia a CIAT model Global Forum on Agricultural Research geographic information system Gesti n Social del Agua y el Ambiente en Cuencas Peru Deutsche Gesellschaft f r Technische Zusammenarbeit Germany Herramienta de Planificaci n Participativa Microsoft application created by CIAT International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics India information and communication technologies Instituto de Hidrolog a Meteorolog a y Estudios Ambientales Colombia International Development Research Centre Canada Instituto de Educaci n y Pedagog a of UNIVALLE Colombia Instituto de Estudios Sociales y Econ micos of UMSS Bolivia International Fund for Agricultur
32. n Watersheds Project to promote and formulate the province s Land Preparation Plan for 2004 Conformation of work groups comprising representatives of the four districts that will work on specific aspects of land planning such as social economic biophysical cultural and health issues These groups will collaborate in collecting information and identifying community demands These will then be linked and integrated with analyses conducted by a technical group coordinated by CEDEPAS Participants in the training workshop on Conceptual and Methodological Bases for Land Planning held in San Pablo Peru 11 Group exercise on desired future conditions expressed in different dimensions San Pablo Peru Senegal Contributors Nathalie Beaulieu CIAT InforCom Project Abdourahmane Tamba Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research ISRA and DMP National Coordinator for Senegal Meissa Diouf and Cheikh L ISRA Center for Horticultural Development CDH Ibrahima Diait ISRA National Center for Agronomic Research CNRA de Bambey Samba Ndiaye ISRA National Center for Forestry Research CNRF Khady Sow Momodou Dione Moustapha Mbaye Boubacar Ba Samba Kante Momodou Camara ANCAR Work in Senegal is funded by GEF and is made possible by the posting of Nathalie Beaulieu at ISRA and her inclusion in the team of ICRISAT s Desert Margins Program DMP The DMP aims to improve rural livelihoods by increasing the capacit
33. nd projects will be published If necessary adjustments will be made in January and February 2005 The expected results are 1 The participatory formulation of a rural development program for each ARD which involves social economic and environmental dimensions 2 The inclusion of a portfolio of projects that will help bring about the future conditions as desired by rural communities 3 The consensual choice of one project from the portfolio called a region project or axis project it will be developed with a ready to implement formulation Highlights of the work conducted with INCODER so far include e Two planning workshops that were conducted in each of the ARDs mentioned above The first workshop defined the basis of a Rural Development Program and the second focused on the short term efforts of a specific project where INCODER could contribute logistically and financially e A training event was organized in each of the four ARDs covering the themes of participatory planning agroenterprise development and GIS Within the work plan made in collaboration with INCODER training was given to local development actors to give them the technical bases for supporting the planning exercises and to help them in other projects The training was divided into three themes 1 Tools and methodologies for participatory land use planning i e the Visions Actions Demands VAD method and the HePP and SEGUIMIENTO tools
34. ng that not only responds to legal requirements but also contributes to more equitable integrated and sustainable land use would be encouraged The two pilot districts Morrop n and Lalaquiz were chosen in the Province of Piura northern Peru together with another four San Pablo San Bernardino Tumbaden and San Luis in the Province of San Pablo located in the Jequetepeque watershed To initiate planning two training courses were organized one in the City of Piura and the other in San Pablo Both were directed at professionals working on the theme local authorities representatives of primary and secondary educational centers irrigation organizations farmer organizations and representatives of NGOs who work on development in the pilot sites The first training workshop was held in December 2003 and the second in May 2004 Their objectives were to Raise awareness of local stakeholders of the importance of land planning Transmit the conceptual and methodological bases so land planning can be started e Discuss methodologies and instruments for land planning using as a management unit a watershed and the municipalities it encompasses Plan the implementation review and articulation of land plans 10 Results A commitment of district authorities communities and the Andean Watersheds Project to promote land planning during 2004 A commitment from four district authorities communities CEDEPAS and the Andea
35. ng used to store soil information and to determine the spatial variability of soil quality indicators in CORPOICA s new Taluma Experiment Station in the Municipality of Puerto L pez We sampled an area of 20 hectares to begin characterizing physical and chemical soil properties and analyzing these data in a geoestatistical base We hope to know the current values of different parameters together with their variability In the future values found can be compared with changes induced by new soil and crop management systems The soil properties that most change with use will be selected as indicators of soil state and will be monitored over time GEOSOIL is also being used to support studies with small farmers Data capture forms were extracted from GEOSOIL to be incorporated in an iPALM computer for use in the field using the ArcPad software The parameters in the extracted forms correspond to visual indicators of soil state as well as physical and chemical indicators CUFRUCOL Applications and Adaptations Contributors Adriana Fajardo Mar a Fernanda Jim nez CIAT InforCom Project Genner Narvaez CIAT Information Systems Unit 16 The CUFRUCOL database stores information on the botanical characteristics of crops their biophysical requirements and production costs It allows input of data into GIS DSTs such as ClimCrop and allows the printing of illustrated and informative cards for participatory discussion of crop options with farme
36. ning courses and to contribute to a training course on land use planning for the La Miel Watershed in Colombia A Web page describing the activities in all these countries has been launched and the listserver of the Rural Planning Network continues to be used for sharing information Introduction The Rural Planning Group aims to assist local stakeholders to use information for managing their natural resources by providing methods tools documented examples and principles or insights that would help bring about successful planning monitoring and evaluation Land use administrations institutions and stakeholder groups can use planning monitoring and evaluation as mechanisms for rural development Scientists and information providers can use them as entry points into development This work began in 1999 as the land use component of the agreement between CIAT and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development MADR its Spanish acronym Last year it was made part of the InforCom Project and has since seen the addition of case studies in Bolivia Peru and Senegal Methods and tools are developed through case studies in specific locations and are then diffused through training events seminars reports and publications as well as through the CIAT Web page We are promoting a systems approach to planning monitoring and evaluation In itself this approach is not fundamentally new as many aspects of rural development have been app
37. nt in the Districts of Morrop n and Lalaquiz Held at Piura 1 7 December 2003 Training workshop organized by CONDESAN GTZ Andean Watersheds Project and GSAAC Training provided by Marcela Quintero CIAT InforCom Project Wilson Otero GTZ Colombia Rub n Dario Estrada CIP CONDESAN and Alonso Moreno Andean Watersheds Project Participants XX included representatives from authorities and decision makers involved with the region s land use planning Conceptual Bases and Methodologies for Land Use Planning including a practical component in the Province of San Pablo Held in San Pablo 24 27 May 2004 Training workshop organized by CONDESAN GTZ Andean Watersheds Project and CEDEPAS Training provided by Marcela Quintero CIAT InforCom Project Wilson Otero GTZ Colombia Rub n Dario Estrada CIP CONDESAN and Alonso Moreno Andean Watersheds Project Participants 68 were mainly from community and municipal authorities Bolivia National Conference on Land Use Policies and Planning for Land Management Held in La Paz 24 25 June 2004 Organized by the Ministries for Sustainable Development and Planning and Strategic Planning and Popular Participation CIAT and the French Embassy 120 participants 22 Seminar on Land Territory and Planning A Municipal Balance in the Framework of National Land Use Policies Held in Cochabamba 21 22 October 2004 Organized by the Prefecture of Cochabamba CIAT College
38. o monitor and evaluate local development plans In both cases the approach was adapted With INCODER a methodology was jointly defined for the planning workshops Because the partners were very much acquainted with the SWOT matrix we agreed to use a slightly modified SWOT matrix as well as the Visions Actions Demands tables This slight modification involved picturing the strengths weaknesses opportunities and threats in terms of expressed desired future conditions Strengths correspond to internal factors or actions that have been achieved weaknesses to things that remain to be done opportunities to external factors that help us reach desired future conditions and threats to external factors that prevent us from attaining them By contextualizing SWOT in the progression between actual and desired future conditions the exercise becomes more useful and motivating After completing the SWOT analysis the participants completed a table of Visions desired future conditions Actions what can we do about this and Demands what could other stakeholders or higher administrative levels do to help us achieve our goals Many of the actions listed corresponded to the weaknesses that were identified in the SWOT analysis and many of the demands to the external factors impeding attainment of the desired future conditions The 2003 manual was updated to include this modified SWOT exercise Participants of the environmental table filling in a
39. ombia Bureau d analyses macro conomiques of ISRA S n gal Proyecto de Conservaci n de la Diversidad Biol gica y Cultural en el Macizo Colombiano Cabildo Mayor de Autoridades Wounaan y Siepin del Bajo San Juan Colombia Centre de d veloppement de l horticulture of ISRA S n gal Centro Ecum nico de Promoci n y Acci n Social Peru Centro de Estudios Ganaderos y Agr colas Colombia Centro de Investigaci n en Palma de Aceite Colombia Centro de Planificaci n y Gesti n of UMSS Bolivia Centro de Estudios Superiores Universitarios of UMSS Bolivia Fundaci n CHONAPI Colombia Centro Internacional de la Papa Peru Centre de coop ration internationale en recherche agronomique pour le d veloppement France Consorcio Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Apoyo a la Investigaci n y Desarrollo de la Yuca Colombia Centre national de recherches agronomiques of ISRA S n gal Centre national de recherches foresti res of ISRA S n gal Consejo de Poblaci n para el Desarrollo Sostenible of VMPDS Bolivia Consorcio para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Ecorregi n Andina Peru Corporaci n para el Desarrollo Sostenible del Area de Manejo Especial La Macarena Colombia Corporaci n Aut noma Regional de Caldas Colombia Corporaci n Colombiana de Investigaci n Agropecuaria Colombia Centro de Pesquisa Agropecu ria dos Cerrados of EMBRAPA Brazil Base de datos para Cultivos y Frutales en Colombia Corporaci n Aut no
40. page on the CIAT Web site which can be accessed at lt http www ciat cgiar org planificacion rural This virtual space allows us to communicate our results of the case studies method and tool development and outreach activities It also allows us to suggest related links advertise events and make documents available to users The Spanish language page was last updated in August this year We plan to have an English version before the end of 2004 The number of visitors to our page in May was 5586 in June 4071 in July 3906 Listserver for the Rural Planning Network This is a platform or dynamic space for diffusion where interested parties may share information promote their work and events discuss and contribute knowledge The listserver s address is lt planific rural bayern ciat cgiar org gt So far we have 185 participants inscribed at a national level and some from other countries Radio and newspaper interviews e Colombian National Radio 14 November 2003 Nathalie Beaulieu and Rogelio Pineda discuss the event that launched the tools and methodologies of participatory land use planning in the Tequendama Hotel Bogot e Colombian National Radio 8 December 2003 Nathalie Beaulieu was interviewed live by telephone for the program En el Campo In the Country on the Visions Actions Demands planning approach e Colombian National Radio 27 July 2004 Nathalie Beaulieu Rogelio Pineda and Carlos Ostertag dis
41. plan a series of training events and distribute documentation and plant materials e Two training events one on horticultural techniques and the other on forage conservation were given in rural communities of northern and central Thi s e We analyzed satellite images Landsat ETM of 2002 to prepare a map showing land use and potentially degraded land i e areas that were bare or sparsely vegetated in both dry and wet seasons in most of area covered by the Senegalese component of DMP We may be able to measure variations in certain land quality indicators in the future We expect the monitoring process to be functioning in the 20 rural communities of the four regions by early 2005 13 Ngandiouf 22 June 2004 and Mbay ne 29 September 2004 respectively The photographs show two meetings held as part of a capacity building approach on monitoring and evaluating the natural resources component of local development plans in Senegal Further reading Beaulieu N 2004 Rapport sur l laboration d une carte d occupation des sols de la regi n de Thi s partir de deux images Landsat ETM acquises en 2004 CIAT GeoMaps S n gal Dakar Senegal Beaulieu N Tamba A 2004 Rapport sur le renforcement des capacit s et la participation des acteurs dans le cadre de la composante s n galaise du programme d action dans les marges du d sert Septembre 2003 Octobre 2004 Internal report CIAT ISRA Dakar S n gal Methods and
42. roached systematically for decades However the actual practice of planning monitoring and evaluation by land use administrations and institutions can be considerably improved We are convinced that the link between information providers scientists and national institutions on the one hand and local players of rural development on the other can be greatly improved through the involvement of the former in the planning monitoring and evaluation by the latter But for this link to be possible the practices of planning monitoring and evaluation through existing and legally imposed mechanisms need to be improved substantially We are convinced that such improvement is unlikely to occur only through using specific methods it also requires changes in the logic with which planning is approached We are convinced that a systems approach to planning with a learning perspective can help bring about change in attitude If the process of learning is well engaged information in a variety of formats including decision support tools will be sought and used more effectively Although we are convinced of the relevance of such an approach we must demonstrate it scientifically Through our case studies we aim to validate a series of hypotheses which are as follows e Planning where groups engage in a continuous process of diagnosis activity planning and monitoring and evaluation can greatly improve local learning rural innovation social cap
43. rr ghini IRD David Fern ndez consultant in land planning under contract with CIAT Mauricio Steverlynck Director Land Use Planning Unit UOT of the Vice Ministry of Sustainable Development and Planning VMDSP Rene Pereira Council for Population for Sustainable Development CODEPO of VMDSP Jaime Montano and Sandra Garfias CODEPO of VMDSP Andr s Uzeda Institute of Social and Economic Studies IESE of the Universidad Mayor de San Sim n UMSS Fernando Antezana Center for Planning and Administration CEPLAG of UMSS Alfredo Antezana Manager Association of the Municipalities of Cono Sur Bertha Gozalvez please check spelling Director Institute of Geographic Research of UMSA Elise Riondel and Juan Cuentas students Our work in Bolivia is funded by IRD grant no UMR 151 CIAT and the Bolivian VMDSP Since 1994 the Bolivian laws of popular participation and decentralization provide municipalities with responsibilities and financial resources to administer their territory Land use planning as such is the object of a normative and methodological framework defined by the Bolivian Directorate General of Land Use Planning Since 1996 departmental administrations have prepared land use plans known as Planes de Uso del Suelo PLUS They represent agroecological zoning but lack relevance for planning and preparing development policy Just recently some municipalities started the same process although most of
44. rs CUFRUCOL was first developed in 2001 and has since been improved with data added Data on botanical characteristics biophysical requirements and production costs were compiled for 120 crops of interest to Colombia including grains forages fruits and vegetables These data were stored in a database in the Microsoft Access format Where possible data were taken from Colombian sources and when these were unavailable the biophysical requirements were taken from the Ecocrop database developed by FAO Users can also input their own data into the database if they comprise local data or data related to specific varieties They can also add new entries on crops not yet considered or on combined production systems This database was designed to be flexible and useful for a variety of users If adequately distributed farmers could consult it at UMATAs It could also be used by the UMATA agents themselves to help farmers plan production projects that combine a variety of crops and make economic evaluations of different scenarios The collection of information for this database requires a strategy involving research institutions universities and farmer unions These stakeholders may become facilitators as well as users of the data The CUFRUCOL database was presented last year to many institutions most of which had contributed data that became integrated in a new version Discussions are under way with the Secretariat of Agriculture of the D
45. s in Bolivia this year are Continuous seminars have been organized between CIAT UOT and the Ministry of Strategic Planning and Popular Participation to redefine the methodology for land use planning A methodological guidebook is to be published before the end of 2004 so municipalities may prepare land use and development plans PMOTs and PDMs in 2005 e In collaboration with the respective institutions we have begun elaborating municipal land use and development plans in three zones of Bolivia Calamarca and the Lipez Association of Municipalities high plains zone the Association of the Municipalities of Cono Sur 13 municipalities in the valley zone and the Association of the Municipalities of Pando AMDEPANDO tropical zone The plan for Calamarca will be finished in October 2004 and will be used as the basis of a synthesis document on a new land use planning method for Bolivia For the other zones dialogue has begun but the actual fieldwork will begin only in 2005 after the municipal elections in December 2004 e In the Municipality of Pojo Association of the Municipalities of Cono Sur we began a planning program with various communities to encourage innovation in water management Through close collaboration with a farmers association we developed two project proposals that were presented for funding to the International Land Coalition ILC in Rome and to Electricit sans fronti res in France The project was entire
46. ships with universities and other institutions Jaime Jaramillo began a doctorate in environmental sciences at the Autonomous University of Barcelona UAB with an option in ecological economics and environmental management He has completed the pre doctorate curriculum of courses in Barcelona and is now working in Colombia to complete a preliminary thesis on national and regional policies that give impetus to local development When it is approved he will receive the equivalent of a master s degree His doctorate will aim at drawing lessons from the comparison of rural planning groups applications in Bolivia and Colombia again with the objective of validating some of the above mentioned hypotheses 23 Adriana Fajardo has begun a master s in rural development through a distance learning program at the National University of Costa Rica The objective of her research which will be conducted during the next 2 years in Colombia will be to demonstrate the roles planning monitoring and evaluation together with communication mechanisms play in the construction and strengthening of social capital in a collective organization This research will result in validated recommendations for practices of communication planning monitoring and evaluation to improve a community s cooperation reciprocity and confidence Yolanda Rubiano is continuing her PhD in agronomy with a focus on soil sciences Web Page In March 2004 we re structured our
47. y of populations to manage their fragile environments in a sustainable way One objective is to improve knowledge on the existence and management of biodiversity and soil fertility It started in 2003 and works in nine sub Saharan countries Senegal Niger Mali Burkina Faso Namibia Kenya South Africa Zimbabwe and Botswana Two of its outputs are entitled stakeholder participation and capacity building In Senegal we have chosen to implement these outputs with community rural councils by monitoring and evaluating their local development plans Rural communities can be seen as equivalent to municipalities as they can include various villages The president and counselors of the rural council are democratically elected 12 Local development plans are required by the Senegalese Law on Decentralization Usually they contain important components of managing natural resources agriculture forestry and livestock Improvement of soil fertility and biodiversity is in many cases explictly expressed as an objective in these plans The DMP can contribute by providing training documentation seeds and plant materials The contributions will be planned through regular meetings with the rural council development committee which is in charge of monitoring the local development plan union of farmer organizations and federation of women s groups Soil crop and livestock management and plant and tree varieties can be experimented wit
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