BACKGROUND
Peru’s indigenous communities are one of the largest forest holders in the Peruvian Amazon but despite the natural, cultural, and social capital they have in their lands, communal forests are still deforested and degraded by unsustainable agriculture, illegal logging and land trafficking. The Forest Alliance aims to support indigenous communities to conserve and restore forests under an innovative management model in partnership with the private and public sector, implementing inclusive businesses, reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions, and empowering them to lead their self-determined sustainable development.
HOW DOES THE ALLIANCE WORK?
The Forest Alliance works with Cacataibo and Shipibo Conibo Indigenous Peoples in the Peruvian Amazon to implement a holistic approach for Communal Forests Management (CFM), which empower indigenous men and women for sustainable development and climate change mitigation. The Forest Alliance’s goals are:
- Strengthen enabling conditions for communal forest management in seven indigenous communities, including land tenure security, community governance, capacity building and institutional support.
Develop sustainable economic activities in seven indigenous communities, under a business approach, supporting business associativity and market linkage in partnership with the private
sector.- Transfer a model for community-led forest management (CFM) based on the experience of seven indigenous communities, fostering replication and scaling-up the model with multistakeholder partnerships.
