GIA’s Working Groups

Coordinator: Jazmin Gonzales Tovar – jazmin.gt@ufl.edu

We are exploring one case related to each of our 4 mosaics that have had a positive impact on stopping or mitigating poorly planned infrastructure.

• How did exogenous factors make conservation strategies more or less likely to be effective?
• What were the most important conservation strategies and forms of power utilized, and how effective they were?
• How were different conservation strategies combined to enhance effectiveness? (Synergies)
• How did conservation strategies empower conservation actors and shape broader power relations?

Case studies:

• Chepte Bala dam on the Madera river,
• Variante San Francisco – Mocoa road in Yunquillo territory Colombia,
• Hidrovia Loreto, and
• the Tapajos hydroelectric complex

Coordinator: Martha Rosero-Peña – mcrosero@ufl.edu

Based on interviews and focus groups to get perspectives from 3 types of organizations in the Colombian Amazon – indigenous, campesino and NGOs.

• How do internal and external factors influence collaboration?
• What collaboration strategies were used, and how do perceptions of best practices in collaboration differ between NGOs and local organizations?

The indigenous case is with the Pueblo Inga of Caquetá, who are looking at 3 experiences:

• • Parque Indiwasi
  • ethnoeducation program, and
  • paving of the Marginal de la Selva in their territory.
• The campesino case is the Veeduría of Mocoa in Putumayo.
• The NGOs are ACT, WWF, Fondo Acción, Fundación GAIA and FCDS.

Coordinators: Marliz Arteaga – marliz@ufl.edu and Cecilia Sanjinez – doctorasanjinez@gmail.com

Improving infrastructure governance in the Upper Madera via multi-stakeholder partnerships to strengthen the work of the binational committee.

Case studies will reflect on:

• stakeholder analysis and opportunities for local participation in decision making,
• the component conservation actions and synergies between them,
• direct and indirect impacts of those actions on infrastructure governance, and
• how the strategy addresses enabling and limiting factors and power relations for improved governance.

Coordinators: Maryi Serrano – mserrano@fcds.org.co and Vanessa Luna – lunacelino.dv@ufl.edu

Case studies will reflect on:

• opportunities for local participation in the policy
• stakeholder analysis,
• the conservation actions applied and synergies between them,
• direct and indirect impacts of the IVV policy implementation on infrastructure governance, and
• how local participation addresses enabling and limiting factors and power relations for improved governance.

Coordinator: Pamela Montero – pamela.monteroal@ufl.edu and Simone Athayde – sathayde@fiu.edu

Including Stakeholder Analysis as a tool to understand stakeholder roles, positions and interests.

• How can GIA partners and others best engage with stakeholders to promote infrastructure governance?
• What analytical tools can we use to help us develop better collaborative strategies?

Case studies:

• Binational committee, Upper Madera
• Marginal de la Selva, Colombia
• FGV – indicators project in Belo Monte
• WWF – Aliança do Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Sul da Amazonas
• NGO conservation strategies in Loreto.

Coordinator: Andrea Chavez – achavez@ufl.edu

• What specific approaches within these broad strategies have been effective, and why?
• Why have legal and policy approaches been seldom used by GIA partners?
• Communications is a widely-used strategy; how can this strategy be targeted for relevance and impact on infrastructure governance?
• How do external factors enable or limit the effectiveness of these strategies, and how can we respond to these?

Coordinators: Juliana Santiago – julianasantiago@ufl.edu and Neiva Araujo – araujo.nc@gmail.com

• What specific approaches within these broad strategies have been effective, and why?
• Why have legal and policy approaches been seldom used by GIA partners?
• How do external factors enable or limit the effectiveness of these strategies, and how can we respond to these?

Coordinator: Claudia Romero – romero@ufl.edu

This group is collecting and analyzing participatory monitoring data in order to reflect on the value added by the GIA CoP-L.

• How has GIA helped to increase participants’ learning, knowledge and skills?
• How have GIA participants applied increased knowledge and skills to strengthening of their strategies for infrastructure governance?