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El pasado 21 de junio, la Profesora Isabel Guerrero participó del XIX Biennial IASC Conference ‘The Commons We Want: Between Historical Legacies and Future Collective Actions’ en Nairobi, África. La Dra. Guerrero presentó la investigación que viene realizando, titulada Do indigenous organizations have the capacity to prevent and combat environmental crimes in the Amazon?: A holistic and participatory framework to assess their capacities. Esta fue presentada como parte del panel “Reconstituting institutions and norms for forest commons in contexts of multiple transitions”.
Cabe señalar que esta conferencia tiene como fin exponer y difundir investigaciones orientadas hacia el futuro con una mirada retrospectiva, donde se pone en discusión el tema de los bienes comunes en el contexto de la Agenda 2030.
Local and regional indigenous organizations in the Amazon are actors with increasing relevance in preventing and combating environmental crimes (illegal logging, illegal mining, and wildlife trafficking). However, their lack of capacities (institutional and administrative) limits their active participation in governmental spaces to discuss corrective actions. Therefore, international organizations aiming at addressing this lack of capacity problem include in their intervention, activities to strengthen local capacities. Nevertheless, these organizations do not have a pathway to follow because there is limited understanding of the needed capacity to be improved, the level of capacity at the beginning of the intervention, and therefore what exactly needs to be strengthened.
This study aims to, first, provide guidelines to design and implement a framework to assess the capacities of indigenous organizations to prevent and combat environmental crimes in the Amazon. The participatory design of the assessment tool includes i) an SESF approach to understanding the underlying situations that enable these environmental crimes to happen; ii) the norms and mandate of the organization (internal and as part of the system); iii) the services that these indigenous organizations provide to the local communities they represent.
Second, perform a comparative analysis of the assessed capacities for two indigenous organizations in the Peruvian Amazon with different mandates, regions, and scales of operation. Finally, analyzing the quantitative (the level of capacity) and qualitative (written report) assessment results, this study will provide guidance to governmental and international organizations in the Amazon aiming at strengthening institutional capacities.
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