The Forest Alliance Project
| Researcher/s in charge | : | Manuel Glave |
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| Other researchers | : | Karla Vergara, Oriana Heredia, Marcela Cavassa |
| Execution time | : | May 2024 |
Presentation
Commissioned by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), GRADE is systematizing the experience of the Forest Alliance Project, implemented by AIDER between 2019 and 2024, which is a programme that recognizes indigenous communities as the main guardians of the forests. The Alliance has worked together with seven indigenous communities of the Catacaibo and Shipibo Conibo ethnic groups in the Ucayali region with the aim of conserving and managing their forest lands through an integrated approach to Communal Forest Management. To achieve this objective, this project provides technical assistance to strenghten capacities, provides equipment and improves social capital for land and forest management activities, and also promotes sustainable economic activities such as timber and non timber forest production, agroforestry, forest plantations and handicrafts. The main objective of the systematization is to critically analyze the experience of the Alliance, with the final purpose of identifying key outcomes, enabling conditions and lessons learned to promote the replication and scaling up of the MBC proposal, its management model and strategies for the construction of strategic alliances.
