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Bolivia |
Assessment of IAF Financial Support for""Del Ayllu y la Marka al fortalecimiento del poder local" y “Programa de Difusión, Ejercicio de los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas y Desarrollo con Identidad"This
project had an interesting feature from an institutional point of view: it
helped to bridge the gap between the ethnographic and local development
perspectives usually separately adopted by the IAF. As this report
highlights, “the initial ethnographic approach, characteristic of the
1971-1995 period, focused on historical and anthropological aspects of
different Indigenous groups living in Bolivian territory and aimed at
culturally revitalizing these groups. The second approach (1995-2004),
more geared to local development, selected projects on the basis of their
improving the quality of life of the poor.” The
general aim of this project was to increase community participation in
local development by strengthening the role of the ayllus in local
governance. More specifically, the BO-457 project was aimed at recovering
the ayllus and in having them incorporated into the official Bolivian
territorial network. Formal ownership of lands by Indigenous groups, based
on predominant Western land rights, became a permanent goal of indigenous
communities since the proclamation of the republic.
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