Establishment of an inclusive dialogue process: the Laponia Process
Integrating traditional working methods as a base for dialogue
Adopting an enabling legal framework
Development of a participatory management plan
Community Participation
refers to the nature reserve or the surrounding communities and the nature reserve together participate in the management and protection of the natural resources of the nature reserve, so as to make the natural resources of the nature reserve can be reasonably developed and utilized, the biodiversity of the nature reserve can be protected, and promote the living standard of the community residents to improve.
Problems to be solved: giving full play to the subjective initiative of community residents;And solved the problem of insufficient management personnel; It is conducive to the establishment of trust and good relations between the management office of CPNR and village collective. It is beneficial to the long-term sustainable development of the protected area.
Solutions: The rights and obligations of community residents are stipulated in the form of contracts. Through clear responsibilities and annual assessment, residents are able to exert their subjective initiative and create an ecological environment to achieve long-term sustainable development.
policy support, technical guidance, management agencies of protected areas, community organizations (village collectives)
This is a long-term activity, which cannot be accomplished overnight, and the short-term results are the basis for evaluation.We should give priority to the community masses, give full play to the subjective initiative of the community residents, and the protected areas and the government as auxiliary roles; Attach importance to the evaluation work. The annual management evaluation work is a summary of the management work of this year, and also points out the direction for the management work of the next year.
conservation easement for real estate involves keeping the nature, landscape, or the value of open space, and guarantee its agriculture, forestry, recreation and open space function, protect the natural resources, maintain and improve air and water environment quality, save the real estate's own nature, history, architecture, archaeology and cultural value, and limiting conditions of servitude holders of real estate or positive obligation of sexual rights.
The problem to be solved: to re-manage the fragmentation of ecologically continuous land resources caused by different ownership.In order to solve the complex problem of human-earth relationship, a refined compensation mechanism is established and the compensation standard is measured. Considering how to make the obligee of servient land (community residents) achieve the ecological benefits expected by the servient land (protected areas) while rationally utilizing the land to obtain economic benefits.
Solution: define the rights and obligations of the protected area and the community residents in the form of contract, and restrict the land rights of the protected area and surrounding areas at a low cost (ecological compensation), so as to achieve the protection goal without damaging the interests of the community residents.
policy support (ecological compensation mechanism), good community management organization (village organization)
Explain the conservation easement patiently, because it is a new concept, and needs to explain patiently to the community residents, project implementors, etc.;Work must be done carefully, every number represents the real interests of the community residents.
Agreements to reinforce the actions of local and regional authorities
In addition to the resources that the territorial entities in Colombia must, by law, allocate to the conservation of water resources, different government and civil society actors have also become contributors of other sources of resources for this purpose through inter-administrative agreements that provide support both in technical and economic resources for the sustainability of the project in the areas, solidarity agreements with Community Action Boards, or collaboration agreements for the Integrated Management of Micro Watersheds.technical and economic resources for the sustainability of the project in the areas, the solidarity agreements with the Community Action Boards or the collaboration agreements for the Integral Management in Micro Watersheds Supplying Aqueducts and Areas of Environmental Interest, in addition to the environmental governing bodies and the municipalities.
Government and civil society actors united and committed to the conservation of the micro-watershed.
It is necessary that there be an axis of articulation for the different conservation efforts among the intervening actors.
Financial sustainability based on budgetary allocations of local and regional authorities
Allocation of a percentage of departmental and municipal budgets to water conservation.
National law that declares of public interest the areas of strategic importance for the conservation of water resources that supply water to municipal and district aqueducts, for which the departments and municipalities must allocate a percentage of no less than 1% of their income for the acquisition and maintenance of such areas or to finance payment schemes for environmental services.
A complement between political will and regulatory framework is necessary for financing to be consolidated into concrete actions.
Medium-term Strategic Plan for the Conservation of Areas elaborated among the network of stakeholders based on the environmental and socioeconomic diagnosis.
The Plan, which considers a 10-year time frame, was developed by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) based on the implementation of the methodological tool "Planning for Conservation Areas" (PCA).
The plan has five programs, namely:
1. Conservation and Restoration Strategies
2. Sustainable use and management of biodiversity and its ecosystem services.
3. Knowledge and research
4. Empowerment
5. Articulated and shared co-management (participatory environmental governance).
The willingness of the actors involved and technical assistance from support organizations.
Synergy and commitment among all stakeholders are important elements for the orientation and implementation of management instruments.
Conservation agreements for the management and sustainable use of land
Implementation of 50 conservation agreements, restoration of 600 ha of water protection strips and management with public institutions to include the area in the land-use plans of the municipalities.
Articulation of representative actors from both civil society at the community level and local institutions whose political will is aligned with conservation objectives.
An important lesson learned by those leading the processes has been to understand that the sustainability and success of the process depends to a great extent on the commitment of the NGOs and the communities, considering that the commitment and support from the local government (mayors' offices and other associated entities) is temporary depending on the political context of the interests, objectives and priorities proposed by each government period according to its line of work, so it is necessary to work permanently with this last actor.
Conservation mosaic composed of private properties that contribute to ecological connectivity.
Complementary conservation strategy led by civil society organizations that seek to maintain biodiversity and ecosystem services with special emphasis on species connectivity (conservation target).
Consolidation of the roles of civil society organizations aligned with the conservation objective.
An important lesson is the building of trust and communication, particularly with local community stakeholders whose contributions, experiences and positions have been reflected in the area's management process.
This has strengthened trust in the relationship and has also promoted the joint articulation of the organizations.
There is an important level of community involvement in the definition and management of sustainable development proposals due to the level of economic impact that this has on the lives of families.
However, it is important to strengthen this axis in order to guarantee the conservation of the protected area.
There is a high degree of interest and involvement on the part of the community, due to the visibility of the positive impacts of this conservation initiative in the daily life of the inhabitants.
It is necessary to encourage community ownership and empowerment processes in the management of the protected area.
This consolidates and encourages the involvement of local stakeholders.
