1. ella.practicalaction.org
Learning Alliance on Extractive
Industries (LEA1)
Module 1:
Land Use Planning and Access
Moderator: Gerardo Damonte

2. Module’s Goal
Participants gain more
knowledge of Latin
American policy
frameworks and practical
experiences in land use
planning and access

3. Methodology
Each Friday, a new post and new materials will be presented
to the participants, who will be invited to:
Compare,
contrast Latin
Raise their doubts American
Debate on key
on the contents of experiences with
issues
the materials those in their
particular
countries
Comments and contributions might be asked to specific
participants with expertise on the topics discussed.

4. Module’s structure
Land Use Planning and Access
Week 2 to
Week 1: Week 6:
Week 5:
Introductory Conclusions
Learning and
Week Week
Exchange

5. Introductory Week
Week 1
In the first week moderator will
introduce the materials available
in the resource library which
address specifically the general
theme of EI and Land Use
Planning and Access. A first
discussion starts with a question
related to the overall topic.

6. Learning and Exchange Weeks
Week 2 to Week 5
Week 2 Week 3
Week 4
Land Use Planning Limitations in LUPS:
Getting Social
Systems (LUPS): restrictions and
License: policies and
Latin American conditionalities for
rules for territorial
policies and extractive
resources use rights
experiences industries
Week 5
Getting Social
License for Land
Access:
compensation
methods

7. Learning and Exchange Weeks
The second to the fifth week are devoted merely
to the learning and exchange. Moderator posts a
thread corresponded to each week’s subtheme.
The question thread will be online each Friday and
you will have until Thursday next week to post your
comments and inputs. All comments and posts will
be considered, but please wait for moderator’s
conclusions each Monday, since posts will be
grouped by subjects and treated accordingly.

8. Week 2 to Week 5
Each subtheme will have supporting documents in
order to feed the discussions
• Already existing resources like documentaries
and publications have been identified for this
discussion
• Exclusive resources like interviews or case
studies prepared by us will be available as
material for discussion and reflection
• Participants are welcome to post examples
from their own regions and/or post external
resources considered useful for the debate

9. Conclusion Week
Week 6
Wrap-Up and Conclusions Learning
Alliance’s first module will be
drawn on the last week.
• From a selected case study,
participants will identify and
assess the different sub-issues
addressed in the previous weeks
as a conclusion exercise
• Participants are invited to fulfill a
survey as an evaluation of this first
module

10. We invite you all to contribute by sharing your
experiences and knowledge on this theme. Illustrative
cases will be most welcome.
And don’t forget that many of us we are from non
English speaking countries, so we should don’t worry for
mistakes that can be made when contributing. For those
who may have problems with downloading the
documents, please let me know, so we can find an
alternative way to send them to you.
Thank you so much!
Gerardo

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African and Asian coordinators: Latin American Regional Centre of Expertise
Kenya, Zimbabwe,
Nepal
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