For more than 20 years, WCS has worked with indigenous peoples and local communities in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador on territorial management and natural resource management, helping to strengthen territorial rights and self-determination, promote their cultural values, manage land use, conserve natural ecosystems and improve their livelihoods.
As a result of the systematization of this experience and the lessons learned, a toolbox was developed to be used through a portable multimedia and interactive application. It has been designed to facilitate community participation and generate consensus among all its inhabitants, taking into account the collective organization of indigenous peoples and local communities. The objective is to contribute to efforts to strengthen their territorial management capacities.
The toolbox contains 10 processes, 24 methodological tools, various technical resources and audiovisual materials. A fundamental aspect of the toolbox is the links it maintains internally between processes and tools and between processes and tools and technical resources, as an integrated whole.
Each of the processes focuses on a specific key topic in territorial management: indigenous peoples' rights, strengthening of organizational systems, territorial management planning, territorial zoning, natural resource use regulation, analysis of nature-based production chains with a gender perspective, territorial control, administration, sustainable financing and social, economic, cultural and environmental monitoring. It provides resources such as booklets, manuals, questionnaires, databases, report formats and training modules.
In the GLF Amazon Turning Point Conference, WCS presents a useful, dynamic and interactive toolbox for communities. This is an integral platform that allows them to design their own management instruments, and as such reflect their cosmovision, their ancestral knowledge and their historical experience; define their approaches and priorities for development in the complex context of the challenges of the 21st century.
https://herramientasgti.org/
https://bolivia.wcs.org/