Safeguarding Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in the Proposed National Protected Area (NPA) Yaguas, Peru through the provision of legal, technical, and political support to elaborate a counter proposal to the NPA classification proposed by the Government of Peru, and advocate for the Yaguas Zone to be classified as Communal Reserve - Rights + Resources - Supporting Forest Tenure, Policy, and Market Reforms

Country:

Peru

Date:

2017

Implementor:

Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica (COICA)

Funding Amount:

86,064

Details:

As the Peruvian government accelerated the consultation process that this SRM was designed to influence, COICA and its allies restructured the planned activities to respond to conflicts which evolved among different stakeholders (government, NGOs, and community leaders), mainly due to the different positions related to the conservation category that should be granted to the Yaguas Area. To better respond to this emerging conflict, COICA initiated a monitoring process aimed at generating the conditions to resume a discussion with the government on granting a double categorization of the Yaguas Area (National Park and Communal Reserve). COICA finalized a sociocultural study showcasing the benefits of the Communal Reserve categorization, which will complement its proposal for the government to reconsider the dual categorization. At the conclusion of the SRM the government had expressed its willingness to discuss the Communal Reserve categorization.