CHICOP closely collaborates with representatives from neighboring communities, facilitated through regular village meetings and the establishment of an MPA advisory committee. The park actively engages with the local communities to gather their feedback and incorporate it into the planning and decision-making processes for adaptive management planning and implementation. A recurring 10-year management plan provides the bedrock for the Chumbe project (now in its 3rd iteration). Feedback to planning is collected through in-person interviews and meetings, ensuring open and transparent communication channels with the local communities. Moreover, by providing extensive employment opportunities for the local communities (both on the island, and through supporting a range of off-island enterprises that contribute to island operations, such as sustainable agricultural products, organic soap production and the like), Chumbe fosters mutual benefits, sustainable livelihoods, and ensures strong representation of local community considerations in all aspects of management.

Education played a crucial role in the successful protection of the marine protected area (MPA). Prior to its designation as an MPA (which is 100% no-take zone), the park was a free fishing zone. To increase awareness about the closure of the site in the 1990s, and help local people understand the importance of conservation and its benefits, CHICOP implemented an extensive outreach program and established an Environmental Education (EE) program by providing hands-on environmental education experiences for local school children, teachers, community members and government officials, that has continued to date.

Thethree-dimensional mapping process of the Yanesha Communal Reserve has made it possible to rescue information that only the wise men knew and was unknown to many; to rescue ancestral roads, routes that were being forgotten and that can be used for the surveillance of the communal forests and the Reserve; to locate the colpas where the animals gather to drink water; the names of the streams in the native language, among others.

The rescue of ancestral knowledge is one of the pillars of REDD+ Amazon Indigenous REDD+ (RIA), the indigenous peoples' climate ambition strategy that is being promoted in the communal reserves and throughout the Amazon basin. These processes contribute to the implementation of this strategy, which AMARCY implements in the Yanesha Communal Reserve and is part of the Executor's financial sustainability strategy.

Theparticipatory process of the construction of the three-dimensional mapping of the Yanesha Communal Reserve is a key factor for the community members to feel ownership of the tool: through workshops with the participation of young people, wise men, community leaders and women who have contributed to the elaboration of the model and the legend, among others.

In a protected natural area such as the Yanesha Communal Reserve, where indigenous peoples have the right to manage and use the natural resources, it is an obligation of the Management Contract Executor to encourage the participation of the partner communities it represents. Knowledge building processes that ensure the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples not only contribute to the appropriation of the knowledge generated, but also allow the characteristics that make a communal reserve different and unique to be rescued: the presence of indigenous peoples, which is why they were created.

The principle of interculturality is one of the three pillars on which the co-management model is built, together with the pillars of transparency and trust. The intercultural approach promotes respect and tolerance for the diversity of perceptions, conceptualizations and values that make up the cosmovision of the Yanesha indigenous people living in the communities surrounding the Yanesha Communal Reserve and that make up the Association for the Management and Conservation of the Yanesha Communal Reserve (AMARCY).

This principle of interculturality considers this reality and different conditions, giving it the same value and importance compared to the western view of the other party, promoting mutual respect, reciprocity and equity between the co-managers (ECA+Peruvian State).

A stakeholders workshop was conducted to share assessment results, address questions from the 2nd workshop, and discuss an action plan for mitigating identified negative impacts. Actions, activities, and timelines were discussed for each impact.

Based on the collected data, TT successfully engaged donors in funding projects aligned with reducing the negative impacts.

To mitigate the Human-Wildlife Conflict (HWC) negative impact, TT has constructed a 33km Elephant exclusion Fence and 8 additional 10% fences,  reducing HWC by over 80%.

To address the lack of water, TT provided 110 dam liners, each with a capacity of 56,000 L, resulting in the harvesting of over 6 million litres of surface run-off water.

In support of schools, TT is offering scholarships to 9 students and has constructed and equipped a Science and computer laboratory in a local secondary school.

To overcome information barriers, TT established a BULK SMS platform and grievances log to facilitate communication on key issues, ongoing projects, and address grievances between TT and communities.

TT is currently developing a SAPA review scheduled for July 2023 to assess the impact and change in perceptions resulting from the implemented interventions in communities.

The process involved in Data for decision-making included gathering information by conducting participatory community Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and from key stakeholders, development of digital questionnaires, enumerators training on data collection, community data collection exercise and analysing the collected data to draw meaningful insights.

The data-gathering process involved participatory FGDs and engaging stakeholders, collecting information on the positive and negative impacts of Tsavo Trust (TT). This supported the development of a structured survey. The first Stakeholder meeting presented FGD findings, with participants providing additional insights. A digital questionnaire was created based on this input. Ten trained enumerators collected data from 156 households (approx. 950 individuals), achieving gender balance.

Community meetings shared survey results and ideas for addressing negative impacts. A second Stakeholder workshop gathered additional ideas. These components generated meaningful insights for decision-making.

These key components, including participatory discussions, stakeholder engagement, the development of a digital questionnaire, and data collection from households, were instrumental in generating meaningful insights for decision-making.

The aim was to regularly communicate the progress of the work to the entire population of the archipelago. To do this, we relied primarily on our FaceBook page; then we responded to all requests from the local channel (SPM La Première), whether on radio or television. Finally, we organized specific events (presentations for the general public) or presented at a congress on the archipelago.

The purpose of this building block is to ensure that the broader communities are involved in the conservation efforts through activities that they are passionate about i.e youth through sports, school children through reading programmes. This helps to improve the connectedness that the local people have with the rhinos and they value the rhino more. 

IMET and SAPA assessments are community-based, participatory processes that require the involvement of local communities to ensure the quality of the assessment. To this end, prior to the start of the evaluation workshops and meetings, we worked with the site managers to identify all the stakeholders likely to hold information essential to the evaluation. All these stakeholders were informed from the outset of the planned action, of the various evaluation phases, the objectives pursued and expected results, and finally of the future use to be made of the results obtained. This information and involvement stage ensured that the local communities were fully on board and participated effectively in all stages of the evaluation.