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Download Publication THE RIGHTS OF IWGIA INDIGENOUS PEOPLES The cooperation between Denmark and Bolivia INDIGENOUS PEOPLES THE RIGHTS OF THE DANISH ROYAL EMBASSY INTERNATIONAL WORK GROUP FOR INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES The cooperation between Denmark and Bolivia (2005 – 2009) – 2010 – THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES The Cooperation between Denmark and Bolivia (2005-2009) Copyright: The Danish Royal Embassy to Bolivia and the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, IWGIA Systematization team: Alejandro Parellada and Ana Cecilia Betancur J. With the collaboration of: Miguel Angel Aragón, Iván Égido Zurita and Carla Roca Maps: Noel Coronado Cover, typesetting: Jorge Monrás English translation and proofreading: Gabriel Solorzano and Diana Vinding Photo credits: Tony Suarez: pp. 16-17, 23 and 119 Weara Vargas Lara: pp. 20-21, 31, 81, 114 and 115 Agencia Boliviana de Información: p. 29 APCOB: p. 41 CEJIS: pp. 34-35 and 63 Diario El Deber: pp . 47, 51 and 62 Noel Coronado: pp. 39 and 77 Alejandro Parellada: pp. 80-81 and 105 Hai Almquist Buvollen: pp. 59, 99, 104 and 108 Hans Petter Buvollen: p. 113 Print: Eks-Skolen Trykkeri, Copenhagen, Denmark ISBN: 978-97-91563-80-5 THE DANISH ROYAL EMBASSY Av. Arce No. 2799, esq. Cordero, Edificio Fortaleza, piso 9 P.O. Box 9860 – La Paz, Bolivia Phone: + 591 (2) 2 43 20 70 - Fax: + 591 (2) 2 43 31 50 E-mail: [email protected] – Web: www.amblapaz.um.dk INTERNATIONAL WORK GROUPFOR INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS Classensgade 11 E, DK 2100 - Copenhagen, Denmark Phone: (45) 35 27 05 00 – Fax: (45) 35 27 05 07 E-mail: [email protected] – Web: www.iwgia.org CONTENTS PREFACE ............................................................................................................................................................8 PROLOGUE .......................................................................................................................................................10 PRESENTATION ................................................................................................................................................12 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ................................................................................................................14 THE COOPERATION BETWEEN DENMARK AND BOLIVIA Background ..............................................................................................................................................16 Considerations for defining the Program’s phase II .................................................................................18 Support to the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Bolivia – ADPI ...............................................................18 The ADPI components .............................................................................................................................19 MAINSTREAMING THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN PUBLIC POLICIES Background ..............................................................................................................................................20 Implementation of the component ............................................................................................................22 General results .........................................................................................................................................30 Some preliminary lessons ........................................................................................................................33 REGULATION AND TITLING OF INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY LANDS Background ..............................................................................................................................................34 Assessment of phase I .............................................................................................................................37 The Program for the Support of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – ADPI phase II ................................38 A new government and the beginning of the “Agrarian Revolution” .........................................................41 The regulation of indigenous community lands (TCOs) since 2006 .........................................................46 The beneficiary organizations and their support instances ......................................................................47 The SAN-TCO regulation process ...........................................................................................................52 Conflict management ...............................................................................................................................55 The SAN-TCOs in the Highlands and their results ...................................................................................60 The SAN-TCOs in the Lowlands and their results....................................................................................63 Simple Regulation in areas adjacent to TCOs .........................................................................................68 Regulation and the gender perspective ...................................................................................................70 Results and achievements of the TCO Regulation and Titling component ..............................................73 Scope of the component’s results ............................................................................................................74 Decisive factors for the implementation of the component and its results ...............................................76 Some preliminary lessons ........................................................................................................................78 6 INDIGENOUS TERRITORIAL MANAGEMENT (GTI) Background ..............................................................................................................................................80 Component design during phase II ..........................................................................................................84 Challenges for Indigenous Territorial Management ..................................................................................84 The objectives of the Territorial Management component .......................................................................85 Provisions for the implementation of the component ...............................................................................85 Country context and reorientation of GTI’s institutional subcomponent ...................................................86 The role of the State in GTI ......................................................................................................................88 Conceptualization of GTI ..........................................................................................................................93 Conceptualization in the ADPI component ...............................................................................................94 GTI processes in the Lowlands ................................................................................................................95 GTI processes in the Highlands .............................................................................................................101 GENERAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE COOPERATION PROGRAM Perspectives ........................................................................................................................................... 114 SOURCES ........................................................................................................................................................120 APPENDIX .......................................................................................................................................................124 7 PREFACE t is with great satisfaction that Denmark concludes its sec- process that the entire Bolivian society needs. It is a com- Itor program in Bolivia, “Support to the Rights of Indigenous plicated task to mainstream the indigenous dimension into Peoples”. The Program is unprecedented in other countries development programs, but Denmark attempts to do it as because of its design and size. It was conceived as the cul- an explicit policy in its cooperation with Bolivia. Major chal- mination of Denmark’s commitment to indigenous peoples, lenges thus present themselves, such as the management which, at the time, had been decisive for initiating the bilater- of natural resources, poverty reduction, governance and al cooperation between Bolivia and Denmark. The marches sustainable development. Every effort to implement the undertaken in the 90s by indigenous peoples demanding National Plan of Development necessarily coincides with their rights contributed to the enactment of the new Law on the indigenous peoples’ aspirations to be the subjects of Agrarian Reform, which benefits indigenous communities their own development. in their historical claims for their territorial rights, turning at the same time the land issue into a fundamental expression Through the Support Program to the Rights of Indigenous of the rights of indigenous peoples. The ratification of the Peoples, Denmark has become a major partner in the Bo- International Labor Organization Convention No. 169, and livian agrarian reform, which constitutes a fundamental the Law on Popular Participation, are important conquests element for stimulating the economic and social develop- of the 90s, which have strengthened the role of the indig- ment for the
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