Co-management Amazon Peru

The project provided financial support to the existing organisational structure being used by local communities for co-management. Training in institution-building and management has been provided to the co-management partners. Instruments such as boundary markers, a local monitoring system to combat illegal logging, conflict management, environmental education and biodiversity monitoring were all being further developed and implemented. The project has been helping local communities with the sustainable use of forest products for additional income generation. Indigenous communities, among others, have been empowered to establish their own commercial enterprises to, for example, purchase products like rubber from members of their community and subsequently process and market such products. The lessons learned from these activities were fed back into the national nature protection reform process by SERNANP and MINAM using publications, events and targeted advisory support.

Project data

Countries: Peru
IKI funding: 5,114,333.18 €
Duration: 01/2013 till 06/2017
Status: completed
Implementing organisation: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Political Partner: Ministry of Environment (MINAM) - Peru
Implementing Partner: ECOSIRA, ECOAshaninka, ECAMaeni

Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MINAGRI) - Peru*

National Office of Protected Areas (SERNANP) - Peru

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State of implementation/results

Project completed-- The legal framework for Co-Management of protected areas – the Regimen Especial – has been revised in a joint effort with SERNANP, ECA and national representations of the indigenous organisations (AIDESEP, CONAP).
In the pilot areas of the project, various instruments for the detection of illegal deforestation have been applied: new boundary demarcations were installed, village committees were instructed und provided with special equipment (field glasses, solar lamps, boats)
Within the activities on intercultural environmental education biodiversity competitions on 17 schools were organised and workshops for teachers were held. The developed teaching concepts are highly demanded by regional school authorities. In Ucayali, the concepts were institutionalised.

Latest Update:
05/2026