CEDIA

Start and End Project:

01/Nov/2008 - 31/Oct/2012

Generalities

Güepí Reserved Zone - PUTUMAYO project. Map: CEDIA.

(The dates that are given above are approximate)

This Project is aimed to contribute, in a long term, to the conservation of the biodiversity and sustainable development in the mid basin of the Putumayo river according to the multilateral environmental agreements and commitments acquired by Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. That is why, in a long term, the activities proposed are related to the commitments of multilateral environmental agreements as the Biologic Diversity Agreement (BDA) and the Plan of Action Over Natural Protected Areas of the CoP7, with the commitments of the Framework Agreement about the Climate Change (vulnerability and adaptation measures) and related to commerce and environment (developmentof alternative systems of production and trading).

Target Group

The targets of this project are the public authorities in charge of the administration of three natural protected areas, natives communities and indigenous leaders, peasant communities, and others local and regional governmental authorities of the three countries Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

Partners

This trinational Project have as partners the following seven institutions:

• World Wildlife Fund/ WWF – Colombia Program Office, Bogota, Colombia.
• Colombia National Parks, Bogota, Colombia.
• Tropenbos Internacional Foundation, Bogota, Colombia.
• Natura Foundation, Quito, Ecuador.
• World Wildlife Fund / WWF – Peru Program Office, Lima, Peru.
• Interethnic Association for the Development of Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP), Peru.
• Centre for the Development on the Amazon Indigenous People (CEDIA), Callao, Peru.

CEDIA Activities

Our institution,CEDIA, is committed to work on the following activities:

• To strengthen the participation abilities of the different actors concerned on the management of the areas.
• To elaborate a Baseline of the sectoral interventions, plans of local development and productive projects, recording every implemented experience in each one of the three areas and their surroundings.
• To elaborate, capacitate and implement a technical proposal for the management and commercialization of arahuana in the Putumayo area (Colombia-Peru-Ecuador) through Leguízamo Port.

Implementation of viable initiatives in different economical areas related to the use of natural resources (examples: camu-camu, Myrciaria dubia), agriculture and handcraft products in the selected buffer zones.

Financial source

The total cost of the Project is three million, four hundred thousand Euros (€ 3 400 000). From this amount , two million  five hundred thousand Euros (€2 500 000) are granted by the European Commission, and the other nine hundred thousand Euros (€ 900 000)  by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

Directly favoured people

From Colombia, about 604 families; from Ecuador, about 520 families; and from Peru, other 640 families between peasants of mixed races, and indigenous people of five different nationalities (Cofan, Siona, Secoya, Shuar and Kichwa)

Location

The action of the project will take place in Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. The area of the project is located in the common border of this three countries in the mid basin of the Putumayo river, covering around two million  hectares sheltering three protected areas and their area of influence: the Reserve for fauna production of Cuyabeno (Ecuador, 600 000 ha), the Güeppi Reserved Zone (Peru, 625 971 ha) and La Paya National Park (Colombia, 422 000 ha). The Putumayo river, one of the main tributaries of the Amazonas, descends from the Andes crossing these three countries, being at theirborders almost its entire trajectory, flowing into the left margin of the Amazonas river in Brazilian territory. From its source until its confluence with the Cehembí river, the Putumayo is exclusively Colombian, from here to the flowing of the San Miguel river, is Colombian-Ecuadorian. From there until the flowing of the Yaguas river it is Peruvian-Colombian, in the Amazonian Trapezium it is exclusively Colombian until its flowing into the Amazonas river. The limits are:

• In Colombia, the sectors of Caucaya, Putumayo, Caqueta and Mecaya-Sencella all in the Puerto Lequizamo municipality, Putumayo Department.
  
• In Ecuador, the counties of Cuyabeno, Lago Agrio, Putumayo and Aguarico, in the Provinces of Orellana and Sucumbios; and
  
• In Peru, the districts of Teniente Manuel Clavero and Torres Causana in the Maynas Province in the department of Loreto.
  

Entire Name

An integrated scenery of conservation and sustainable development: Strengthening of a system of protected areas and indigenous territories in the tri-national basin of the Putumayo river.

Duration

Four years

Objectives

Global objective

To contribute to the conservation of biodiversity and sustainable development in the mid basin of the Putumayo river on the basis of the multilateral environmental agreements and commitments acquired by Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

Specific Objectives

By the year 2013, the governability, conservation and sustainable management of the natural resources in and around the protected areas  and indigenous territories  of thetri-national basin of the Putumayo  river are strengthen  in a tri-national, national, and local level.

Expected results

Expected Outcome 1

Integration agreements and established technical coordination systems between national, local and communal authorities allow the improvement of the conservation areas, better representation and effectiveness in the management and control over highvalue ecosystems.

Expected Outcome 2

Economic alternatives on fishery and forestry improved and economic mechanisms based on goods value and environmental services, including forest carbon, contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of the local population and financial sustainability of the conservation areas. 

Expected Outcome 3

The environmental  and sectoral public politics  of national, regional, and local level respect and value the biodiversity and the conservation areas, the indigenous rights, the environmental goods and services, encouraging  the borders integration and a better quality of life for the local population.

Advances

(The activities have not started yet)

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