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Prodern is jointly managed with the Peruvian Ministry for the Environment.
It focuses on key issues in environmental management.
The programme fits within Peru's recent move
to combine economic development with environmental management.
It is a unique occasion to put the country's new environmental guidelines
laws and policies into practice.
It is also why we gave priority to five regions
that are most representative in terms of natural resource management.
In order to cover the main issues in natural resource management,
the programme has five major components.
The first component is environmental governance.
How to apply the national environmental management processes of the Ministry,
in coordination with the regional governments,
who now also have the authority to manage natural resources.
And with the local authorities, who are in direct contact with the people
who actually manage the land.
This is a first concern of Prodern.
Next, how to match this with regional conservation zones.
These are all new tools to help us preserve small ecosystems,
which are very important for delivering ecosystem services.
The second component concerns the strengthening of protected natural zones.
They cover more than 14% of Peru's territory,
but they do need to be strengthened.
Peru's biological diversity is very important in the world.
Ecosystems must be preserved too since they deliver ecosystem services.
For hydrological services in particular, because Peru is vulnerable to climate change.
Peru is the third most vulnerable country.
It is essential to preserve ecosystems that deliver hydrological service.
That is complementary to the regional preservation areas.
The third component is closely related to conservation.
It concerns putting in place sustainable production systems.
This is a challenge, as it relates to the balance between development and conservation.
How to set up productive processes that will develop a region like this one, Oxapampa,
while preserving biodiversity,
and the local basins and microbasins that deliver these services?
The challenge for Prodern is to combine these management and preservation aspects,
and stimulate sustainable development.
This is related to the fourth component: environmental education.
We really need people to be aware of conservation issues,
that is why we foster environmental citizenship
through environmental education.
At this level the right to preserving ecosystems
and so-called functional landscapes is exercised.
To that end, we work closely with the universities
of each of the five programme regions
as well as with pilot schools where we will implement the environmental policy.
The fifth component aims to boost understanding between actors.
It aims to stimulate consultative bodies
where authorities, private players and civil society representatives
can meet and take decisions on land management.
We cannot manage these territories and foster development
unless we involve all these actors. That is our mission.
Such bodies exist, but need to be strengthened. That is what Prodern aims to do.
For us the programme will be a real success
if the institutions and organisations we work with, apply the new guidelines,
for instance on management,
and that these lead to environmental management policies
on a national, a regional and a local level.
If Prodern can contribute to managing and improving this policy,
by giving feedback of concrete and tangible experiences,
then we can say that our environmental policy
will be based on reality and therefore be better.