Work areas
Gaia Amazonas supports the sustainable management of this singular biocultural diverse region by facilitating and enabling effective and efficient environmental governance systems and setting adequate legal frameworks in place. Our goal by 2020 is to consolidate the conservation and governance strategies over eight million hectares of tropical Rainforest in Colombia. This constitutes the first concrete strategy for the establishment of an environmental governance framework in the entire Amazon Basin which articulates indigenous local governments with State and private actors in the region.
INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES AND TERRITORIES
Communities are committed to protect the rainforest with traditionally derived conservation plans that are transparent, effective and articulated to state environmental and development plans.
Territorial and Environmental Ordering
We work to consolidate environmental governance and territorial management in Indigenous Territories of the Colombian Amazon.
We look for the indigenous communities to have:
- Territorial and Environmental Planning
- Territorial and Environmental Monitoring Plans conducted.
- Indigenous Local Governments with developed adaptation strategies to climate change
Strengthening of Indigenous Local Governments
We work to strengthen the indigenous councils as local governments with an intercultural approach.
We look for the indigenous communities to have:
- Registration and implementation of the Indigenous Councils
- Institutional governance schemes strengthened
- Plans of life implemented and approved
- Inter-institutional areas for an efficient and decentralized coordination
Intercultural Communitarian Education and Health
We contribute to the improvement of the quality and pertinence of basic intercultural communitarian education and health of indigenous communities.
We look for the indigenous communities to have:
- Communitarian Education Projects (CEP) updated and conducted
- Indigenous Local Governments with service provision capacities for intercultural communitarian education strengthened with regard to quality and pertinence.
- Indigenous Local Governments with intercultural service for communitarian health.
Environmental Management
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INCIDENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY
We work for State actors to be engaged with Indigenous Communities as partners for the protection and sustainable development of the Amazon rainforest by effective institutional endorsement of Environmental protection policies and programs.
Strategic Stakeholders with improved and informed decision making and political advocacy in environmental management over the Amazon.
Procesos eficientes de consulta previa.
State actors work hand in hand with indigenous communities for the policy management
The public knows and supports the initiatives that seek the Amazon’s protection.
Local governments with political and administrative leadership capacities.
COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS AND ALLIANCES
We promote collaborative action with civil society organizations, indigenous organizations, public entities and the private sector to generate a regional impact on Amazon conservation and social and environmental welfare.
Articulate the legal mechanisms, processes, stakeholders and policies to make the Andes-Amazonas-Atlantic ecosystemic conectivity viable.
Produce information and analysis for an effective governance of the Amazon that aims it's conservation.
1 Pan-Amazonic System of Monitoring of economic activity pressures on indigenous territories and protected areas is developed by 2016.
Intercultural dialogue and knowledge
We promote lessons, dialogues and research among intercultural subjects as a basis for the construction of knowledge and its application for the conservation of the environment, territorial management and the solution of local problems.
To build methodologies and conceptual frameworks in dialogue with traditional knowledge of Amazonian communities.
To share experiences of Gaia Amazonas to be used in conservation strategies at multiactor level.
To promote intercultural dialogue between academic knowledge and indigenous knowledge.
