Updated from the DGIB internal management system 'MIS'
May 1998
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DGIB MIS System
internal management system
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| Title : | Rider No.1 to Fin.agreem.B7-6201/IB/96/007 COAMA |
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| Description : | 1. Strengthen and broaden the participation of indigenous captains, promoters and women in the design, implementation and evaluation of departmental development plans for the Matavén Forest, empowering the resguardos to act as a buffer zone around the forest.
2. Carry out community research which would enable the Indians to achieve the recognition of their territories and recuperate their traditional knowledge of the management of their environment.
3. Set up an information system within the communities that would monitor environmental and social problems, analyse their causes and evaluate the impact of different programmes.
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| Objectives : | Contribute to the development of a community system for the conservation of biodiversity in the Mataven Forest in the Colombian Amazon, as an addittional part of the COAMA III programme, financed under agreement COL/B7-6201/I/96/007. |
| Justification : | The third phase of the Coama programme was presented by the Gaia Foundation in 1996 as an array of 16 smaller projects covering a large part of the indigenous territories in the Colombian Amazon .
Out of this programme, 6 projects where presented for financing to the EU, the others being proposed to the governments of the Netherlands, Austria and Denmark. On 16 July 1996, the ALA/PVD Committee unanimously approved financing for the amount of 2531887 ECU. In October 1996, a contract was signed between the EC and the Gaia Foundation for the execution of the programme that the ALA/PVD Committee had agreed to fund.
At the end of 1996, the Dutch Government decided to redesign its policy regarding actions to support the protection and management of tropical forest , with the result that the component of the Coama III programme concerning the Protection of the Mataven forest could no longer be funded. In January 1997, the Dutch Government. recommended the EC to take over the financing of the Mataven project. To achieve this, a Rider to the existing contract with an additional financial contribution of the Community budget under 20 %. of the original commitment is now presented . The justification for this additional funding is that it is the only way to guarantee the coherence and the continuity of the Coama Programme as a whole.
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| Execution : | Within the framework of the COAMA programme this component will be executed by the Colombian NGO Etnollano, which has been working in the Indian resguardos surrounding the Matavén Forest since 1990, carrying out local projects of environmental management, recuperation of foodstuffs and traditional seeds, in order to improve the health of the communities and to promote a sustainable use of natural resources.
This area is essential for the whole of the COAMA because it is one of the places where colonisation is trying to break through into the resguardo areas.
Etnollano's work in the region led to a project on the recuperation of Indian foodstuffs in the previous phase of the COAMA programme. Through the drawing up of maps of the different areas of use and the inventory of products used in these areas, the communities realised the quantity of seeds, varieties, knowledge and management techniques that were falling out of use. A process of identification and exchange of seeds and plant varieties was initiated between different communities, leading to the identification of numerous species. By means of local seed banks many of these species have now been recuperated in the communities.
This process also led to the establishment of two local associations (OPROSRIVIM and CESIP) with 18 community promoters. The work of these two organisations on the recuperation of traditional foodstuffs, led to an active involvement of the population, especially on the part of women. A series of women's associations and other grass roots groups were created, and these groups are currently involved in small productive and environmental management projects.
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