Transformemos Territorios Construyendo Paz

400 representatives of rural communities, from the 7 chosen departments. 280 of them will be men, and the remaining 120 will be women. All of them participate as leaders of small scale farmers associations, victims’ associations and secondary occupant’s organizations, developing strategies to protect their rights over land and territories.

330 public officials, distributed as follows: 140 territorial and ethnic authorities, from the 7 chosen departments; 90 members of the Procurator Lands Office and the Ombudsman Office, acting in the territories; 50 judges from the Special Jurisdiction of Land Restitution, making decisions on conflicts over land cases; 50 members of the competent institutions on land issues (LRU, LNA, RDA and RTA), making decisions on land policy. 

(Geographical focus to be defined with public entities)

*Disaggregated data would be obtained by the base line (first trimester).

Outcome 1: 400 rural leaders manage 20 strategic cases throughout the legal mechanisms (administrative and judicial) to manage conflicts over land and territories, using the “Do No Harm” approach.

Outcome 2: 330 public officials, supported by the Project, design and implement 7 strategies to manage articulately conflicts over land and territories, and develop one methodology to monitor the enforcement of restitution rulings.

Outcome 3: Communities and public officials document and manage – preventively – specific cases of conflicts over land and territories throughout Local Observatories and “Dialogue Spaces”, using a “Communication for Development” approach.

Outcome 4: The Procurator-General Office assure a better standard and quality of intervention in the management of conflicts over land, in favour of the effective protection of plaintiffs, throughout a whole new internal training system, on territorial rights, for their public officials.

Outcome 5: The Project’s partners assess the enforcement of judgements ruled under the “Do No Harm” approach, in “post-ruling” and restitution phases, to evaluate its contribution for the enjoyment of the “right to restitution”, and advocate for official answers in those cases that have not achieved that guarantee.

(Geographical focus to be defined with public entities).

Erwartete Resultate:  

Key outputs

Output 2: Rural communities increase their knowledge and use the available mechanisms to manage 20 cases of conflicts over land and territories, among which, at least 1 would be developed under the ethnic perspective.

Output 4: The competent public officials, involved in the implementation of Land Public Policy (LRU, LNA, RDA, RTA), as well the territorial authorities, access to analysis tools (Situational Analysis Tool and others) and mechanisms to manage conflicts over land and territories, and exchange experiences to develop 3 regional intervention strategies. 

Output 5: Members of public institutions, guaranteeing human rights (Ombudsman Office and Procurator Lands Office), increase their knowledge and ability to straighten alliances and display articulated efforts, in order to oversight the mechanisms to manage/transform conflicts over land and territories, and participate in the building process of solutions, in 4 strategic cases. 

Output 6: Restitution Judges debate on concrete problems over the monitoring process of restitution rulings and the enforcement of sentences (post-ruling), and create one practical methodology for this purpose.   

Output 9: The national and local team works with a Communication for Development Strategy to disseminate periodically the project’s advances.

Resultate von früheren Phasen:  

-Incorporation of the “Situational Analysis Tool” (Herramienta de Análisis Situacional) as a mandatory step into the phase of “micro-focalization”, which means the context analysis has become mandatory before the definition of places that could be included in the restitution procedures.

-Implementation of the training process for judges belonging to different transitional jurisdictions, that allowed them identify the common obstacles and difficulties they face to manage conflict over lands so that they are able to introduce key elements in the rulings.
-Development of a collective analysis, among the SNARIV’s institutions, about the impact of their activity, and production of a compiled set of recommendations to pursue their work within the “Do No Harm” approach.    

Phase 4 15.07.2017 - 31.12.2020   (Completed)