Co-organized by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), the Instituto Latinoamericano para una Sociedad y un Derecho Alternativo (ILSA), and the Asociacion Ambiente y Sociedad , this workshop will take place in Bogota, Colombia on the 19, 20, and 21st of November, 2014.

The objective of this workshop is to facilitate a joint space between various RRI projects, and gather leaders of the Colombian, Ecuadorian, and Peruvian Pacific to determine the advances of each of the projects separately. The workshop will provide stakeholders a joint vision of instances of advocacy at the national and regional level that supplies elements to the organizations to realize joint actions.

The event is divided into four thematically oriented panels: Panel 1: General context of the investments in the Pacific region; Panel 2: Characterization of institutional, corporate and investment stakeholders by type of projects; Panel 3: Social grievances and local dynamics; Panel 4: Advocacy and negotiation strategy.

The expected results of this workshop are: 1) Establish a comprehensive vision of the Southern Pacific region as a territory of communities with collective rights and who are owners of forests affected by development works; 2) Identify individually and cumulatively institutional, local, national, entrepreneurial, and communal actors and the type of grievances that have arisen due to projects; 3) Submit database on entrepreneurial actors and mining and hydrocarbon projects that are being developed in the region; 4) Submit a database as an informational tool to strengthen the communities’ capacities in the processes of local, regional, and national advocacy and confront entrepreneurial, financial, and investment actors that are promoting the development of extractive projects in the region; 5) Establish a methodology to give continuity to the monitoring of investments by communities and civil society; 6) Clarify challenges that communities are facing with the implementation of REDD+ pilot projects in their territories.

For more information on the workshop, please visit the Asociación Ambiente y Sociedad event page here (in Spanish).