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.
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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.