AIDER's experience: REDD-plus project in Shipibo Conibo andCacataibo native communities in the Ucayali region - Peru
Sylvia Mayta (AIDER, Peru)

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AIDER's experience: REDD-plus project in Shipibo Conibo and Cacataibo native communities inthe Ucayali region - Peru
Sylvia Mayta (AIDER, Peru)
First of all, I would like to thank FFPRI for inviting us to talk about the results of our REDD+ projectthat we have in Ucayali region in Peru.
Project location

The project is in the middle of the Amazon in Peru.

We are working with seven native communities.

The project area is about 127,000 hectares.
Purpose of the project

The purpose of the project is to conserve the forests of these native communities against deforestationand degradation advances.

For that, we established some strategies that have four components.

They arethe proper use of communal land, capacity building for the management of natural resources that thecommunities have in their forests, project finance and market linkages, and technical assistance and supervision.

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In this REDD+ Project, we have been working with two standards, the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS)
and the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance1 (CCB).

Our objective is to avoid an annual averageof more than 500,000 tons of CO2 for the first 10 years, to contribute to improve the livelihoods of thesecommunities and the governance of the communities resources, as well as to offer conditions to the fauna andflora of the existing ecosystems.

We had a baseline for the first 10 years of the project, an estimated reduction of GHG emissions.
have verified and also commercialized this.
of the projects.

WeBy the middle of this year, we will be finishing our first 10 years

We are currently verifying this period, and continuing to work with the communities.

Also, we have had our projections on deforestation year by year, and the hectares that we have projected
to be deforested without the project.

Also, we have the deforestation that has occurred and what was avoided

in the project’s life until now.

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Sylvia Mayta (AIDER, Peru)

We have been doing this by working for a lot of years with the communities.
started the Forestry Alliance with two new partners: USAID 2

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At the end of 2018, weand Althelia 3 -Mirova 4

Fund.

We are theimplementers of the project, this is a new initiative that we have with them.
What is it?

This is an initiative that we promote to reduce deforestation and seek the development and growth ofindigenous communities of the Amazon, through monitoring, control and surveillance of the forests, and also
implementation of sustainable business.

The main objective of this alliance is that the communities conserve and have a sustainably manage theforests, to restore the degraded lands that they have, and to contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gasemissions.

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The beneficiaries are the seven communities.
two financing bodies.

AIDER is the implementer of this project, but we have

USAID is giving us a grant and Althelia-Mirova is giving us a fund.

that they give us for the project.

We pay them with the VCUs.

with the communities, they will have revenue in some years.

That is the money

As the idea is to create a business culture

The duration of the project or alliance is fiveyears.
BackgroundWe started between 2010 and 2013.

We now have a REDD project with finances and the funds of ITTO.

While we started implementing our project, we presented the idea of the project to Althelia Investment Fundby the end 2016, it had been about two years since starting this alliance with them.
the community and they have been talking with the people in the communities.

They have been visiting

They have to be sure that thecommunities are going to respond and that we are going to work with them all the time.
phase began in September 2017.

The pre-investment

We started this investment project at the end of 2018.

At the beginning of 2019, USAID came with us as a partner and we could make some extra activities that wedid not plan.

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Sustainable initiative

This is a sustainable initiative looking for different impacts. For environmental impacts, we are looking tohave 120,000 hectares that are biologically significant and under better management of the natural resourcesof the community, and to have more than 500 hectares with better biophysical conditions for restoration oflands and forests in seven native communities.

For social impacts, because we are working directly with the native communities and families, we are looking
to have 350 indigenous families with improved livelihoods, better incomes, and maybe a better life for them,
their children, and their future.

Also, we are working to garner respect for the indigenous worldview and thetraditional knowledge that they have.

We want to preserve them, work with them with these, and using these,

have more income from the future from the resources.

For economic impacts, we want to create a sustainability business with them, we are looking to have 4
sustainable business developments by the indigenous communities, organized in partnerships with the private
sector.

In this alliance, we are trying to involve not only these two entities that have been giving us the funds,

but we are also looking for the regional, local, and even national-level government to work with the communities,

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giving some support, or other entities that may not give money, but are going to support the communities insome issues that they need or that have to be solved.
How we will do it

We are looking for three big results in the Forest Alliance.

First is enabling the conditions for Community

Forest Management and strengthen it through working in the control and surveillance of a territory, monitoringof deforestation, public support to Community Forest Management, and especially training on the priority
issues that they need.

Second is improving the indigenous communities’ livelihood through the creation andstrengthening of sustainable forest businesses.

Third is the transferring of the Community Forest

Management to other key stakeholders and learning the initiative for promoting the scaling-up of this modelthat we are proposing.

This alliance is a five-year investment and is being paid with the VCUs that we are verifying.
looking for three big results in this project.

We areAlso, Althelia-Mirova Fund participates in financial businessprofits for 20% in this case.

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Until now, we have some advances.

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Seven communities have control and forest surveillance committees,

so they are operating now, and are officially recognized by the regional government.
communities with the geo-referencing processes concluded.

We have three

They have already identified their borders.

They have limited these because some of them are having problems with invasions or maybe illegal agriculturalactivities or to traffic the lands.

Seven communities trained in governance and control and forest surveillance,and 14 productive committees are operating on handicraft and agroforestry and forest plantations.

On the handicrafts that we are working with the communities, women are the main people that are involved,
so we have sustainable fashion products developed by women artisans.
designers.

We have an alliance with some

Women make these kinds of products and the designers use it in their designs.

working with rubber bio-textile products.

Also, we are

We have an alliance with another producer and designer of shoes,bags, and wallets, so they are using natural rubber for these products.
We also have marketing activities on-going for Citeindigena 5 that is a commercial firm owned byindigenous organizations.

They also have their FSC certification, so they are working on it.

We have afinancial sustainability plan for the Communal Forest Management model, and this is underdevelopment.
already have seven agreements established with key stakeholders.

WeThe most important now are regional

governments, some private companies, and some indigenous federations or indigenous organizations.

This is a resume of the different actors that have been participating in different moments in the Project.
From the beginning, ITTO, AIDER, USAID, and Althelia have given us funds, but also the National Forestand Wildlife Service6 (SERFOR) and the local and regional governance.

Also, these two entities (evea andlaspolleras de agus) are part of our alliance, working with our communities in sustainable logging and harvest56

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and pisciculture that communities are implementing, and agroforestry systems with cocoa, bananas, and otherproducts.

Also, we have been advancing in the project but we have some challenges.

We are working on developing a business culture with indigenous communities, because all these years,
most of the communities used to work day by day, but now we are working with them to create a businessculture, this have to be aligned with their needs and their indigenous values and culture.

The idea is to givethem some tools or a base to continue working for the next years.
The communities are facing some problems with land invasions in three native communities, driven by land
traffic and illicit crops.

We are working with some entities that cannot give money, but they give legal support

to the communities.
Also, we are working on the challenge of scaling-up the business initiative to other communities to be part ofthis alliance or to have other entities as partners of our projects.

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