Projects of Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
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Book on Economy of Water: concepts and contexts for sustainable management
Economy of Water: concepts and contexts for sustainable management is a book that discusses concepts and policies, prepared within the context of the program Think Tank Initiative, through GRADE. Attempts have been made to promote management reforms applying basic valuation, privatization and price formation concepts; however, serious limitations have been encountered when putting them in […]
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Changes and development: ways of life in the areas of influence of Project La Granja
From 2008 to 2010, GRADE carried out a series of studies to design a system to monitor the (micro) economic changes in the households of the areas of influence of the mining Project La Granja (district of Querocoto, province of Chota, Cajamarca). The studies analyzed the main factors that determine the local economy dynamics, focusing […]
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Social cost-benefit analysis of interconnection alternatives between Pucallpa (Ucayali and Cruzeiro do Sul (Acre)
Infrastructure development in the Amazon region, specifically, the construction or improvement of roads and/or railways, represents a dilemma in decision-making and governance at local, regional and national level. On the one hand, infrastructure is a potential instrument for the exploitation of natural resources and local and regional development and, on the other, it generates a […]
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Workshop on extractive industries – learning from Latin America and Africa.
As part of the closing activities of the “Alliance for Learning About Extractive Industries” of the ELLA Project (Evidences and Lessons from Latin America) GRADE has received the support of the ThinkTank Initiative (IDRC) to conduct the “International Seminar on Extractive Industries: Learning from Latin America”, to be held in Accra (Ghana) in April 2013, […]
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Report for the mapping of the previous consultation process for Block 1AB – Region of Loreto
As part of a collaboration agreement between the Economic and Social Research Consortium (CIES) and the German Cooperation for Development (GIZ for its acronym in German) the Ombudsman’s Office has selected professionals to perform a series of studies seeking to strengthen public management skills for implementation of the Previous Consultation Act. The proposal of Manuel […]
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Participation in the program evaluation panel “Natural Areas Preservation” (EDEP: Design Evaluation and Public Budget Execution)
As part of the Design Evaluation and Public Budget Execution (EDEP) the Public Budget Bureau (DGPP) of the Ministry of Economy and Finance –MEF designated Manuel Glave, main researcher of GRADE, as coordinator of the “Natural Areas Preservation” Budget Program Evaluation Panel. The public intervention evaluated includes activities performed by the National Service for Natural […]
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Amazon region and development in Peru: visions and policies in the Transportation and Energy sectors
The main objective is to reconstruct the development vision of the Amazon region building upon the public policies of the transportation and energy sectors implemented in the period 1960-2011, within the context of the large-scale investment projects, such as the IIRSA axes and the mega hydroelectric plants under the Peru-Brazil Energy Integration Agreement. The analysis […]
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Construction of territorial criteria for identification of indigenous peoples within the framework of the Previous Consultation Act
The research is framed in the public debate generated from the enacting and regulation of the Act on Previous Consultation to Indigenous or Native Peoples. Given the complexity of the “indigenous” condition and the relational, political and contingent character of such category, the study proposes to construct conceptual frameworks and public policy criteria that may […]
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Extractive industries and rural territorial development in the Peruvian Andes: the dilemmas of political representation and management capacity for decentralization
The research will analyze the transformations in the forms of political representation in rural areas within the context of the development of large-scale extractive projects and, at the same time, will evaluate the challenges found in implementing the territorial planning at Regional and Provincial Government levels. The areas selected for the study are two large-scale […]
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Social and Economic Baseline of the Juprog Community
By assignment from Compañía Minera Antamina, data will be gathered at aggregate level about the Juprog Community, as well as at family level, towards designing a Relocation Plan that may meet the requirements of international standards (in particular, those of IFC and the World Bank).
