{"id":3054,"date":"2024-04-30T00:07:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T04:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saviabolivia.org\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2024-04-30T01:23:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T05:23:52","slug":"fortalecimiento-de-la-gobernanza-y-gestion-de-las-areas-protegidas-nacionales-kaa-iya-san-matias-y-otuquis-y-areas-protegidas-sub-nacionales-ubicadas-en-zonas-de-conectividad-o-como-corredores-de-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saviabolivia.org\/en\/noticias\/fortalecimiento-de-la-gobernanza-y-gestion-de-las-areas-protegidas-nacionales-kaa-iya-san-matias-y-otuquis-y-areas-protegidas-sub-nacionales-ubicadas-en-zonas-de-conectividad-o-como-corredores-de-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Strengthening the governance and management of the Kaa-Iya, San Mat\u00edas and Otuquis national protected areas and sub-national protected areas located in connectivity zones or as biodiversity corridors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Given the highly vulnerable state of the protected areas of Chaco, Chiquitan\u00eda, Pantanal, and Southern Amazonia, it is considered a priority for local actors to strengthen each other in order to carry out governance and protect their valuable territories. The jurisdictions of these regions belonging to the department of Santa Cruz are currently the areas with the greatest and fastest advance of land use change, with the highest rates of transformation of forests to areas of industrial agriculture and livestock in Bolivia, as well as mining operations, poaching and illegal fishing, and the disorderly establishment of Mennonite colonies and communities of migrant population from the west of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

This accelerated change in land use, the advance of the agricultural frontier and the impact of climate change, have led in the last six years to a recurrence of large fires, which, in the years 2019 and 2020, had a very severe effect on the ecosystems that are inside the protected areas, the most affected being the ANMI San Mat\u00edas, PNANMI Otuquis, PN Noel Kemff Mercado and Tucabaca Municipal Reserve. <\/span>This dynamic exerts negative impacts on ecosystems and ecosystem services provided by natural areas, reducing their resilience capacity and impacting an alarming reduction in water provision and exacerbating the effects of climate change, especially in the form of recurring droughts and heat waves.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is worth noting that the three large protected areas where the project is concentrated ensure the conservation of over 601,000 hectares of forests, protecting a vast area with diverse vegetation types and high biodiversity. Furthermore, these areas provide essential environmental services for the local populations and communities of the region. Therefore, strengthening two key elements of protected area management is crucial: the local participation of diverse stakeholders, which ensures effective governance, and the protection and enforcement actions carried out by park rangers. <\/span>Faced with this reality, SAVIA and its allies have been developing various actions to strengthen the management of protected areas in the department of Santa Cruz for more than a decade, where the work with the management committees led to greater capacities and knowledge, as well as an internal organizational strengthening at the corporate level, with the formation of the Association of Management Committees of Protected Areas, an associative figure, which is highly functional and has the support and social recognition in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n

Within this context, there is a continuous demand to create spaces where territorial representatives and competent bodies can interact to organize, plan, oversee, and discuss their common problems, with the aim of proposing joint strategies for the defense of their territories. This factor constitutes one of the justifications for this project, as the management committees are the representative body where the local population participates, incorporating into the management process representatives of Indigenous and peasant communities, public\/private entities, and social or civic organizations from the region.<\/p>\n

In this context, the project seeks to enhance the representativeness of the CGs, with the aim of contributing to preserving biodiversity; protecting the functions of forest ecosystems; adopting and implementing agroecological and sustainable production practices, as well as developing alternative livelihoods that are compatible with or strengthen forest conservation.<\/p>\n

From this perspective, the initiative focuses on: A: Strengthening the organizational capacities of management committees; B: Increasing and improving the knowledge and capacities of local and regional representatives in management committees through knowledge management; C: Increasing the social, ecological, and productive resilience of ecological landscapes in protected areas and their areas of influence; and D: Developing processes for monitoring, evaluating the project's progress, and forecasting the sustainability of its scope in the medium and long term. These inter-institutional local governance actions seek to substantially reduce the negative impact of climate change on indigenous and peasant territories and on society in general.<\/span><\/p>\n

Project Details:<\/strong><\/p>\n

General Objective and Specific Objectives.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDesign and implement a Program for the development and strengthening of capacities in Biodiversity Management, under the mixed modality, face-to-face and distance (virtual), aimed at the management committees of protected areas, park ranger corps, as well as local leaders of communities settled in buffer zones.\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Specific objective 1:<\/u> Strengthen the organizational capacities of management committees, the Association of Management Committees, local communities within the areas and their immediate areas of influence, and park ranger corps, for good governance and management of protected areas under a platform approach, promoting the articulation and coordination of strategic actions and activities in a joint, comprehensive, and systemic manner.<\/span><\/p>\n

Specific objective 2:<\/u> Increase and improve the knowledge and capacities of local and regional representatives in management committees through knowledge management, to improve governance and integrated management of protected areas, their areas of influence and ecological connectors, with a gender focus.<\/span><\/p>\n

Specific objective 3:<\/u> To increase the social, ecological and productive resilience of ecological landscapes in protected areas and their areas of influence, promoting the protection and recovery of forests as providers of water sources and local livelihoods.<\/span><\/p>\n

Location, geographic and population coverage of the project.<\/em><\/p>\n

The proposal includes the Provinces of Cordillera, Chiquitos, Germ\u00e1n Busch, \u00c1ngel Sandoval and Velasco, encompassing 3 national protected areas of enormous importance in the lowlands of the department of Santa Cruz: KAA IYA National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area located in the Gran Chaco ecoregion; OTUQUIS National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area, located in the Pantanal ecoregion and transitions to the Chaco and the Chiquitan\u00eda; SAN MATIAS Integrated Management Natural Area, covering an important area of the Chiquitano forest and large areas of the Pantanal and Cerrado.<\/span><\/p>\n

The proposal includes subnational protected areas that play a strategically important role as bio-connectors or ecological corridors: the Tucabaca Municipal Nature Reserve (Robor\u00e9 municipality); the Santa Cruz la Vieja Historical Park (San Jos\u00e9 de Chiquitos municipality); and the \u00d1embiguasu Indigenous Protected Area (Charagua Autonomous Region). The Tucabaca Reserve acts as a connector between Kaa Iya and San Mat\u00edas, the Santa Cruz la Vieja Historical Park as a connector between the forests of the extensive San Jos\u00e9 mountain range and Kaa Iya, and the \u00d1embiguasu Indigenous Area as an excellent connector between Otuquis and Kaa Iya.<\/span><\/p>\n

Communities and actors involved in the Project.<\/em><\/p>\n

The actors directly involved are all the representatives of the management committees of the national protected areas (Kaa Iya, San Mat\u00edas, Otuquis) and of the subnational protected areas that ensure the connectivity of biodiversity (Tucabaca, Santa Cruz la Vieja, \u00d1embiguasu), in addition to the parent body, which is the Association of Management Committees. <\/span>These actors comprise approximately 50 people, with the key local Indigenous communities, both within the protected areas and in the immediate surrounding areas, being the relevant social actors directly related to the park. Kaa Iya: Guandare (TICCA), Quarirenda, Aguaiti, La Brecha; San Mat\u00edas: Santo Coraz\u00f3n, Turub\u00f3 (TCO-TICCA); Otuquis: Yacuces, and allied ranches of the park. These actors comprise approximately 160 people.<\/span><\/p>\n

The relevant social actors indirectly involved are the key communities in the region immediately surrounding the protected areas: San Jos\u00e9 de Chiquitos, Robor\u00e9, Puerto Su\u00e1rez, Santiago de Tucabaca, and Charagua. These actors comprise approximately 500 people (considering the most interested groups). In each case, these communities, for logistical reasons, would not participate directly in the events or training workshops, but they would benefit from the widespread dissemination of information and technical materials.<\/span><\/p>\n

Key stakeholders directly involved in the management of protected areas, but who will indirectly benefit\u2014for example, by participating in specific training events or the large Committee workshop\u2014are the park ranger corps of national and subnational protected areas. These stakeholders number approximately 65 people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other stakeholders in the municipalities within the project area, who are not part of the management committees but may indirectly benefit, include municipal technical staff involved in resource management and representatives from key state or private institutions. These stakeholders would total approximately 12 people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Projection of the initiative.<\/em><\/p>\n

Gender perspective:<\/u> For many years, SAVIA has incorporated the concept of gender inclusion into its activities and projects, for example, by promoting empowerment processes through workshops and events that foster the exchange of experiences and strengthen Indigenous women leaders from organizations in the Chiquitan\u00eda and northern Amazon regions. In this way, capacity building and empowerment are prioritized, seeking to strengthen cultural perspectives through specific awareness-raising and sensitization activities for women leaders.<\/span><\/p>

Communication of results and replicability:<\/u> In this respect, SAVIA has acquired extensive experience over the years in the processes of disseminating, communicating, and sharing information, generating key and strategic content aimed at diverse stakeholders, including simplifying scientific information to make it accessible. Likewise, it has considerable experience in managing information on protected areas, biodiversity, and Indigenous communities through various forms of written and audiovisual communication, as well as through social media. Furthermore, it interacts by sharing information with various regional, national, and international institutions and platforms. These dissemination and communication efforts serve as a vehicle to encourage similar actions in other areas of the region or country, with a view to replicability and scaling up.<\/span><\/p>

Sustainability of the objectives achieved:<\/u> The strategy for the sustainability and continuity of the project's results involves several aspects. One action will be to anticipate the submission of new projects to various international or regional bodies that can ensure the continued achievement of training objectives in governance, strengthening the management of protected areas, and defending local livelihoods. Another action relates to the potential co-participation in projects with similar objectives, based on the creation or strengthening of alliances with various institutions working in the region.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Las \u00e1reas protegidas\u00a0del Chaco, Chiquitan\u00eda, Pantanal y Amazon\u00eda Sur, al encontrarse\u00a0en un momento altamente vulnerable ante las m\u00faltiples amenazas, se considera prioritario que los actores locales se fortalezcan entre s\u00ed para llevar adelante la gobernanza y proteger sus valiosos territorios.\u00a0Las jurisdicciones de estas regiones que pertenecen al departamento de Santa Cruz, se constituyen en la […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saviabolivia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saviabolivia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saviabolivia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saviabolivia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saviabolivia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.saviabolivia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3888,"href":"https:\/\/www.saviabolivia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions\/3888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saviabolivia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saviabolivia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saviabolivia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saviabolivia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}