Strengthening human resource development in land administration

Sector

Land administration

Project budget

The maximum budget for this project is € 1.5 million.

Organisations

This project has been developed by Centro Universitario de Occidente (CUNOC), together with Centro Universitario de Oriente (CUNORI) and Centro Universitario de Petén (CUDEP), regional branches of Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. The tender for this project expired on 1 November 2010.

Nuffic has awarded this tender to the Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente, which has formed a consortium with Kadaster International.

Project description

Under NPT programme GTM-005 the Faculty of Agronomy of San Carlos University, together with three regional university centres in Quetzaltenango, Chiquimula and El Petén, developed the basis for a three-year technical course in land surveying.

Due to popular demand, the course was extended with the option to set up an engineering course in land administration. The three centres, however, still lack the required capacity to set up such a course.

The project will address a number of key issues including:

• the lack of laboratories;
• the lack of access to distance learning facilities;
• the low level of participation of women.