Graduation Ceremony 2009 Master’s Programme Land Management and Land Tenure

Academic Period 2007 - 2009 Opening Speech by Dipl.-Ing. MSc Jorge Espinoza, Programme Manager

Dear State Minister Schneider 

Dear Prof. Magel, 

Dear Mr. Hess, 

Dear Prof. Stilla, 

Dear Graduates, Ladies and Gentlemen, good morning. 

I would  like  to extend a warm welcome  to each and every one of you  to  the Graduation Ceremony 2009 of the Master’s Programme Land Management and Land Tenure. 

We  have  seen  some  pictures  of  the  last  three  semesters  showing  us  just  a glimpse of what the graduates experienced here  in Germany, at TUM and our programme. Dear  graduates,  I  hope  that  you  appreciate  this  period  of  your lives as much as we do. It has been a real pleasure for us. 

Today  is certainly a day of festivity dedicated to these professionals who have completed our programme and have therefore attained their degree of Master of Science in Land Management and Land Tenure. 

Before  I give you a  short overview of  the very  interesting  research  topics on which our graduates have worked on in their master’s theses, please allow me to express our deepest gratitude to our sponsors for their valuable support: 

• To TUM and our Faculty • To the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD • To the Hanns Seidel Foundation  • To the Bavarian State Chancellery • To the Förderkreis Bodenordnung und Landentwicklung and its members. • To the Bavarian Construction Industry Association • And  to other persons and  institutions who  support  the programme  in  so 

many different ways. 

Without their support it would be hardly possible to make this programme as successful as it is. Thank you very much. 

 

 

 

Master’s Programme Land Management and Land Tenure

Graduation Ceremony 2009

March 20th 2009

Uchendu Eugene Chigbu, Nigeria

Research rationale:• The research identifies case-studies of

Weyarn (Bavaria, Germany) and Isuikwuato(Abia, Nigeria) municipalities.

• Weyarn and Isuikwuato rural developmentapproaches were critically analysed with theaim of developing a more sustainableframework for Isuikwuato and possiblecross-cutting learning-points for bothmunicipalities.

Anthony Malen Ntiador, Ghana

Research objectives:• Study and understand the challenges of

land registration in Ghana• Assess different data format used by the

various agencies and possibilities ofstandardizing.

• Ascertain the aspects of businessprocesses of the agencies that impacts onland registration.

• Determine the best possible scenarios inimproving land registration

• Assess technological infrastructure requiredto improve land titling registration in Ghana.

Ram Singh Thapa, Nepal

Research objectives:• To asses the contribution of watershed

management program to the livelihoods ofthe local people.

• To assess the watershed managementactivities implemented through differentprograms.

• To assess the approaches of watershedmanagement programs.

• To assess the contribution of watershedmanagement activities on human, social,financial, natural and physical attributes ofthe livelihoods.

Uurtsaikh Batbayar, Mongolia

Research objectives:• To study present problems and future

prospects of land privatization in Mongolia.• Importance of NLIS to improve the present

situation.

Jürg Endres, Germany

Research objectives:• To develop a functioning grassroots land

management and impact planning approachfor community based tourism that works inthe local context and is applicable globallyunder similar settings

Gary Wright, Jamaica

Research objectives:• To recommend improvements to Jamaica’s

current Land Administration and ongoingmodernization towards a comprehensivestatus for Land Management.

• To indicate the potential impact ofmultidimensional cadastral concepts onsustainable development.

Dangkaew Tawee, Thailand

Research objectives:• To develop an integrated land and water

management approach for the sustainableavailability of water.

Askarsho Zevarshoev, Tajikistan

Research objectives:• To find out the changes that happened

during land reforms in the transition periodand how they affected people’s livelihoodsand contributed to economic development inTajikistan-Pamir Mountains.

Bunna Lim, Cambodia

Research objectives:• To identify some triggers of forest land

encroachment• To study the impacts of the encroachment of

forest land on rural people• To integrate potential forest Land Use

Planning into encroached forestland

Elyta Widyaningrum, Indonesia

Research objectives:• To create transferable, suitable and applicable

evacuation route modelling• To formulate strategies and recommendations

for further urban-coastal planning anddevelopment in tsunami prone areas

• To provide a local/regional disastermanagement support system.

Master’s Programme Land Management and Land Tenure

Graduation Ceremony 2009

March 20th 2009

Dear graduates, 

I  can  assure  you  that  just  like  for  your predecessors;  your  relationship with TUM and our programme is only beginning. We will make sure that we stay in contact and that we continue our work together, from now on not as students and teachers but as colleagues in the wider field of land management. 

I  sincerely wish  you  all  the  best  in  the  steps  you  are  about  to  take  in  your professional and personal life and hope to see you again in the near future.