📋 Tender Overview
Spaces for citizen participation will strengthen the sustainable management of forestry and wildlife resources in Piura and prioritized regions.The National Forestry and Wildlife Service (SERFOR), an entity attached to the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri), promotes the formation of Forestry and Wildlife Management Committees (CGFFS) in Piura and other departments of the country, as a strategy aimed at strengthening governance and citizen participation. This seeks to improve the management of forest and wildlife resources and generate more opportunities for local actors, including peasant and native communities.
During the technical assistance meeting held in Piura, SERFOR announced that the CGFFS are spaces for forest users, peasant or native communities, producers, local governments, civil society and public or private institutions to develop activities in a certain geographic area.
The director of the Serfor Capacity Building Directorate, Fabiola Nunez, pointed out that Piura has been prioritized, due to the predominantly community nature of the management of its forest resources, so the CGFFS will promote, among other topics, the creation of Community Forest Management Technical Units (UTMFC) to strengthen sustainable productive chains in Piura communities. We seek participatory management of the territory with local actors, identifying strategic areas with prioritized production chains where these committees develop an effective governance model that responds to the needs of the sector and the population, he said.
It should be remembered that the UTMFC are units created to provide efficient and quality care to peasant and native communities, in order for them to develop community forest management activities.
In turn, the technical administrator of Serfor in Piura, Roberto Fernandez, highlighted the interest of the Piuran peasant communities associated in CECOBOSQUES, of the Micaelas womens organization (Sechura base), of State institutions, such as the National Service of Natural Areas Protected by the State (SERNANP), the Supervisory Body of Forestry and Wildlife Resources (OSINFOR), the Regional Directorate of Agriculture, the Fund for the Promotion of Protected Natural Areas of Peru (Profonanpe), as well as the Association for Integral Research and Development (AIDER) and the International Bamboo and Rattan Organization (INBAR).
These institutions agreed on the need to develop a governance scheme for forestry and wildlife resources in Piura. As a result of the meeting, the Serfor operational headquarters in Piura (Piura, Chulucanas, Sullana, Ayabaca and Huancabamba) will identify key actors and prioritized areas to begin the formation of the committees, with the technical support of SERFOR.
The intervention in Piura is part of a pilot that will promote the creation of CGFFS and UTMFC in three departments of the country.
