📋 Tender Overview
From October 11 to 13, in Lima, two meetings on alternative development will be held where authorities, public officials and civil society experts from various countries will participate.
The first of them is the meeting of the Group of Experts on Alternative Development, which will take place the first two days, and the second is the meeting of the Group of Experts of the Inter-American Commission for the Control of Drug Abuse (Cicad) on Comprehensive and Sustainable Alternative Development (Gedais), which will be held on the final day.
“This is a great opportunity to show the progress and coordination of various organizations around the world, which for years have implemented a series of strategies in favor of alternative development,” said the executive president of Devida, Carlos Figueroa.
"In our case, we provide technical support to thousands of families in the cultivation of various products, such as coffee, cocoa, turmeric and ginger, in order for them to generate sources of income, improve their quality of life and thus reduce their vulnerability to illicit drug trafficking,” he added.
The first meeting is organized by Devida and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on behalf of the Government of Peru. Likewise, by GIZ on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of Germany.
Also included are the Mae Fah Luang Foundation under royal patronage of Thailand; the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and CICAD, consultative and advisory body of the Organization of American States (OAS).
Gender and native communities
In this first meeting, representatives of these entities, from Colombia, Thailand, Albania and Brazil, will present their experiences in sustainable alternative development, implementation of strategies and regulations.
This meeting also seeks to promote the topic of alternative development with a gender and environmental conservation approach. Furthermore, from the native communities with which, for example, Devida is working in favor of their association and the cultivation of various products.
Therefore, in the first two days of the event, producers promoted by Devida will participate in discussions where they will present the processes of their communities to organize and form companies that produce grains, cocoa paste, chocolates and other derivatives.
Cicad experts
Finally, on October 13, the Gedais meeting will be held, where there will be exhibitors from Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia, Brazil, the United States, Costa Rica and more.
On this day, they will debate the preservation of biodiversity and the challenges of alternative development in protected natural areas, design of national policies and strategies for the issue of drugs, environmental crimes, among others.
The Gedais meeting is organized by Devida and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, representing the Peruvian Government, and the executive secretariat of Cicad.
