Bureaucratic proposal requirements exceeded settlers’ literacy capacities, forcing outside help.

Evidence

The technical requirements for project proposals further exemplified this disconnect between institutional design and local capacities. According to the Secretariat of Agrarian Development technician and World Bank reports, despite attempts at simplification, proposals demanded sophisticated documentation, including community assessments, budgetary planning, environmental impact analyses, and business plans for productive projects (Coirolo & Lammert, 2009). This technical complexity posed significant challenges, given that the study survey revealed a median education level of four years of primary school among adult settlement members. Consequently, all eight projects relied on external technical agencies to prepare their final proposals. — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 109

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how institutional design disconnects from end-user capacity - echoes the Grafting & Growth piece’s theme of imposed structures vs. actual local resources.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 109

Related

• Technical complexity in aid bureaucracy reproduces class-based power asymmetries. (similarity 0.79)
• External development requirements parallel and are met by preexisting local governance institutions (similarity 0.79)
• Settlements grafted project management onto existing governance rather than forming new systems (similarity 0.78)