The Ministry of Education of Peru announced on May 16 the start of a series of regional workshops aimed at accelerating the legal formalization process for land and buildings used by schools across the country.
This initiative is designed to help close infrastructure gaps in education by ensuring that school properties are properly documented, which will make it easier to improve, expand, or carry out new educational infrastructure projects. The ministry said that eight regional workshops will be held nationwide, providing training and technical assistance to 390 professionals from the country’s 25 regional education directorates and management offices as well as staff from 225 local educational management units.
Minister of Education María Esther Cuadros said, “The physical-legal sanitation constitutes the first step to guarantee legal security over properties and land, which facilitates their access to investments for improvement, expansion or execution of educational projects.” She also said that this process helps protect educational spaces from invasions, lawsuits or property risks and ensures suitable conditions for student learning. During these sessions, tools will be developed to classify case complexity and identify cases with high, medium or low difficulty so resources can be managed more efficiently. Decision-making based on updated data will also be strengthened.
In addition, efforts will focus on standardizing technical criteria across regions for diagnosing property status and creating dynamic consultation spaces so professionals can resolve technical questions quickly using current regulations. The Ministry stated that this approach aims to speed up paperwork resolution within education sector agencies.
The Ministry of Education functions as a key entity within the Peruvian Executive Branch and serves students, teachers and communities throughout Peru. It utilizes its central headquarters in San Borja along with decentralized regional directorates across the country. The ministry promotes sports opportunities as part of its initiatives while advancing equity, interculturality and elimination of discrimination in education; it also works to ensure all Peruvians have access to quality education while fostering equity and social inclusion,according to the official website.
With this new strategy underway, officials say they are reaffirming their commitment toward building safe and modern school infrastructure throughout Peru.
