📋 Tender Overview
It is trained to identify environmental and social risks to improve the link with communities and prevent socio -environmental conflicts.Listen, understand and act. Under that slogan, the National Service of Natural Areas Protected by the State (Sernanp), attached to the Ministry of Environment in Cooperation with the Natural Heritage Initiative of Peru (PDP) have been strengthening the implementation of environmental and social safeguards, as well as citizen care, in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon. This time, through face -to -face training in Puerto Maldonado aimed at the personnel of the headquarters of protected areas on the use and implementation of the Environmental, Social and Indigenous Peoples Management framework (MGAS), Mechanism for the Attention of Complaints, Consultations and Suggestions (MAQS) and socio -environmental conflict management.
During the workshop, personnel from four protected natural areas of the Madre de Dios region participated - the Amarakaeri communal reserve, the Alto Purus National Park, the Bahuaja Sonene National Park and the Tambopata National Reserve -, together with strategic allies such as the Zoological Society of Frankfurt, the Aider Administration Contract Executor and the ECA AMARAKAERI.
The training was developed within the framework of the implementation of the Environmental, Social Management and Indigenous Peoples framework of Sinanpe (MGAS-SINANPE) providing fundamental tools for effective, inclusive and sustainable management of protected natural areas.
A Amazon who listens
MAQS is a key tool for good social and environmental governance. It allows citizens to register complaints, consult or leave suggestions on the activities carried out in protected natural areas, either in patrols, meetings, headquarters, assemblies or control stalls.
The training was not only aimed at the technical and administrative staff of the ANP, but also to members of the Management Committees, composed of local actors who perform a crucial role in conservation. In this way, it seeks to improve the institutional response to possible socio -environmental conflicts and reinforce the confidence link with the population.
This mechanism is an open door for local voices to be heard and considered in conservation decisions, said the organizers of the workshop.
More accessible, closer
The MAQS is available in two formats: a physical book located at administrative venues and surveillance positions, and a digital channel accessible from the official Sernanp website (www.gob.pe/sernanp), allowing any citizen to exercise their right to be treated transparently and effectively.
This strengthening process is part of an institutional policy aimed at ensuring more participatory, inclusive and respectful management of the rights of communities that inhabit or interact with the protected areas of Peru.
People in the heart of ANP management
The MGAS-SINANPE reinforces the institutional commitment to the integral and sustainable management of the protected natural areas. MGAS-SINANPE is aimed at understanding local and institutional dynamics to identify environmental and social risks, as well as for the implementation of measures that allow them to reduce them. In that sense, it establishes criteria and guidelines for the application of safeguards, ensuring participatory management, with prevention approach and adapted to local contexts, so that both conservation of biological diversity is promoted and the well -being of populations linked to the protected natural areas.
