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Equator Initiative Case StudiesLocal sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities
Peru
RESIDENTS ASSOCIATIONFOR THE PROGRESS ANDDEVELOPMENT OF CAMPOAMOR, ZARUMILLA
Empowered live
Resilient nation
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UNDP EQUATOR INITIATIVE CASE STUDY SERIES
Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that wo
or people and or nature. Few publications or case studies tell the ull story o how such initiatives evolve, the breadth
their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practition
themselves guiding the narrative.
To mark its 10-year anniversary, the Equator Initiative aims to ll this gap. The ollowing case study is one in a growing ser
that details the work o Equator Prize winners vetted and peer-reviewed best practices in community-based environmenconservation and sustainable livelihoods. These cases are intended to inspire the policy dialogue needed to take local succ
to scale, to improve the global knowledge base on local environment and development solutions, and to serve as models
replication. Case studies are best viewed and understood with reerence to The Power o Local Action: Lessons rom 10 Years
the Equator Prize, a compendium o lessons learned and policy guidance that draws rom the case material.
Click on the map to visit the Equator Initiatives searchable case study database.
EditorsEditor-in-Chie: Joseph CorcoranManaging Editor: Oliver HughesContributing Editors: Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Erin Lewis, Whitney Wilding
Contributing WritersEdayatu Abieodun Lamptey, Erin Atwell, Toni Blackman, Jonathan Clay, Joseph Corcoran, Larissa Currado, Sarah Gordon, Oliver Hughe
Wen-Juan Jiang, Sonal Kanabar, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Rachael Lader, Patrick Lee, Erin Lewis, Jona Liebl, Mengning Ma,
Mary McGraw, Gabriele Orlandi, Juliana Quaresma, Peter Schecter, Martin Sommerschuh, Whitney Wilding, Luna Wu
DesignOliver Hughes, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Amy Korngiebel, Kimberly Koserowski, Erin Lewis, John Mulqueen, Lorena de la Pa
Brandon Payne, Mariajos Satizbal G.
AcknowledgementsThe Equator Initiative acknowledges with gratitude the Residents Association or the Progress and Development o Campo Am
Zarumilla. All photo credits courtesy o Eduardo Dios, via ickr. Maps courtesy o CIA World Factbook and Wikipedia.
Suggested CitationUnited Nations Development Programme. 2012. Residents Association or the Progress and Development o Campo Amor, Zarumilla, Pe
Equator Initiative Case Study Series. New York, NY.
http://equatorinitiative.org/images/stories/events/2012events/Book_Launch/power%2520of%2520local%2520action%2520final%25202013%25208mb.pdfhttp://equatorinitiative.org/images/stories/events/2012events/Book_Launch/power%2520of%2520local%2520action%2520final%25202013%25208mb.pdfhttp://equatorinitiative.org/index.php?option=com_winners&view=casestudysearch&Itemid=858http://equatorinitiative.org/images/stories/events/2012events/Book_Launch/power%2520of%2520local%2520action%2520final%25202013%25208mb.pdfhttp://equatorinitiative.org/images/stories/events/2012events/Book_Launch/power%2520of%2520local%2520action%2520final%25202013%25208mb.pdf7/27/2019 Case Studies UNDP: RESIDENTS' ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT OF CAMPO AMOR, ZARUM
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PROJECT SUMMARYThe Residents Association or the Progress andDevelopment o Campo Amor, Zarumilla (Asociacin dePobladores por el Progreso y Desarrollo de Campo Amor,
Zarumilla ASPOPRODECAZ) represents the 11,000inhabitants o Campo Amor, a coastal town in the buerzone o the Tumbes National Mangrove Sanctuary. Theregion is a gateway to this important protected area, andhome to many community members who depend on theaquatic products provided by the mangroves ecosystem.
ASPOPRODECAZ was created in response to the pressures
on this ragile natural reserve resulting rom populationgrowth, logging, and solid waste pollution. In response,the association has reorested the surrounding mangroveswamps, devised environmental education programmes,and established the rst tree nursery in the region. A keyinnovation o the organizations work is a sustainablewaste management program that employs 250 amilies inrecycling and solid waste collection.
KEY FACTS
EQUATOR PRIZE WINNER: 2008
FOUNDED: 2003
LOCATION: Campo Amor, Tumbes Region
BENEFICIARIES: 11,000 inhabitants of Campo Amor
BIODIVERSITY: 750-sq. km. coastal ecological reserve
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RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROGRESS ANDDEVELOPMENT OF CAMPO AMOR, ZARUMILLAPeru
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Background and Context 4
Key Activities and Innovations 5
Biodiversity Impacts 6
Socioeconomic Impacts 6
Sustainability 7
Replication 7
Partners 7
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Within the buer zone o Tumbes National Mangrove Sanctuary in
he province o Zarumilla, the Residents Association or the Progress
nd Development o Campo Amor, Zarumilla (ASPOPRODECAZ)
s working to improve local livelihoods while saeguarding this
cologically diverse coastal environment. The association was
ounded in 2003 in response to increased pressure on local ecosystems
nd resources rom solid waste pollution, logging, and excess
xtraction o mangrove resources. Since then, ASPOPRODECAZ has
een involved in several ambitious initiatives designed to improve
he livelihoods o local residents, including the treatment o solid
waste, the reorestation o mangrove plants, educational programs,
nd the development o a local tree nursery.
Campo Amor is a town o roughly 11,000 inhabitants in the Tumbes
egion o northern Peru. Human settlement around the region
ontinues to expand, placing growing pressures on the local
nvironment, and especially on the ragile mangrove ecosystemswhich line the coastal zone. The principal threats to the Tumbes
National Mangrove Sanctuary are urban development, aquaculture,
verexploitation o timber, sh, crustaceans and shellsh,
ontamination rom domestic efuents and agricultural runo.
A vital resource or local communities and biodiversity
Coastal communities such as Campo Amor depend upon the many
esources provided by the Tumbes mangrove ecosystem. Mangroves
re a valuable ecological and economic resource, being important
ursery grounds and breeding sites or birds, sh, crustaceans,
hellsh, reptiles and mammals; a renewable source o wood;
nd accumulation sites or sediment, contaminants, carbon andutrients. They also oer protection against coastal erosion, among
ther threats. Mangrove orests protect inland coastal areas by
bsorbing the potentially destructive eects o storms and intense
wave action. They also have the potential to mitigate ood damage
y dispersing the energy o oodwaters.
The Tumbes mangrove stands are home to a large variety o com
and endemic species. The sanctuary provides reuge or sh, m
than 200 species o birds (including many rare or endang
species), and rare and threatened mammals, including the c
eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus) and the neotropical river
(Lutra longicaudis). The mangrove orests are composed o ov
varieties o plants, among them the red mangrove (Rhizop
mangle).
Mangrove orest destruction contributes directly to the collap
vital coastal ecosystems; sheries decline, coral ree systems are
productive, clean water supplies are degraded, coastal soils bec
salinized, land erodes, and there is an increased risk o dama
oods. Food chains that stretch ar beyond the boundaries o
mangrove orest are also severely disrupted. Ocean predators
as swordsh, sharks, whales, dolphins, and the hawksbill, O
Ridley, and giant leatherback turtles all depend upon healthy co
habitats and an adequate resource base or their own surviv
decrease in the coastal resource base reduces productive cap
o the ecosystem resulting in increased competition or m
resources among local wildlie and human populations.
There are also real and proound economic consequence
mangrove deorestation. Island residents depend on the mangorests or timber to use in construction, or rewood, an
make charcoal. The exploitation and deterioration o the Tum
mangrove habitat was thereore not only endangering the he
vitality, and productive potential o the delicate coastal ecosyst
but was compromising the economic security o communities
as Campo Amor as well. In response to this threat, ASPOPRODE
has taken a series o steps to arrest the degradation o the Tum
National Mangrove Sanctuary.
Background and Context
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Key Activities and InnovationsAs part o the Participatory Management o Protected Areas Project
sponsored by the World Bank and the Global Environmental
acility (GEF), and executed by the Peruvian National Trust Fund
or Protected Areas (PROFONAPE) ASPOPRODECAZ has helped to
pioneer a development approach involving participation o local
takeholders in the management o protected areas. The approach
ombines alternative livelihoods support or a sustainable natural
esources management strategy that has led to several key activities
nd innovations.
Waste management
n one o its agship programme areas, the association has
mplemented a solid waste collection and recycling program that
mploys over 250 amilies and reduces damage to the mangrove
orests rom pollution and contamination. As part o this programme,
waste cans are placed around the community and in the schools andlean-ups are regularly scheduled. Waste and other solid residuals
hat once choked tributaries and contaminated waterways are
ow collected and disposed o in an environmentally responsible
manner. Tributaries and waterways ow reely and cleanly as
hey eed into the Tumbes Mangrove Sanctuary. The dramatic
mprovements in environmental health and sanitation have even
llowed ASPOPRODECAZ to explore the potential or ecotourism in
nd around the sanctuary.
Environmental education
ASPOPRODECAZ has also taken steps to address a lack o
nvironmental awareness among the general population. With anye towards the uture, they have created the ecological classroom,
programme designed to increase the scope and accessibility o
nvironmental education within their community. The association
works extensively with local youth in order to educate them on both
global and local environmental issues. More than 3,000 chil
rom dierent educational institutions have participated in
programme which includes ecological competitions, plays
activities to encourage participation.
Reorestation
The initiative has also successully implemented the rst comm
tree nursery in the region in order to reorest degraded mang
and inland humid-tropical orests. So ar, ASPOPRODECAZ
contributed more than 100,000 seedlings o orest species to a va
o civic and community organizations engaged in the restoratio
local areas.
Womens empowerment and animal husbandry
The association also supports the creation o small-scale arms ware managed by emale community members. The arms a
these women to learn skills such as seed selection, planting,
animal husbandry. In addition, the women are able to incorpo
a wider variety o resh, locally-produced arm produce into
amilys diet. The small-scale arm programme yields an addit
benet in the sense o empowerment it provides to emale he
o household. This eeling o empowerment then allows or bro
participation in traditionally male-oriented activities, such as po
or community planning.
Sustainable energy
As an oshoot o the animal husbandry programme, the associis also currently implementing a bio-gas manure and organic m
project. The goal o this is to harness and utilize biogas rom live
manure and organic waste. This program has signicantly low
demand or local rewood and the exploitation o local orests.
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ImpactsBIODIVERSITY IMPACTS
The Tumbes National Mangrove Sanctuary lies within the 750-square
kilometre Tumbes Reserved Zone, a coastal ecological reserve in
northern Peru. Created in 1994, the reserve spreads across the
provinces o Tumbes and Zarumilla and provides habitat to a
ich variety o both animal and plant species. Deorestation had
everely reduced the available productive habitat and diminished
he available supply o orest products and hardwood species
hat were once abundant. To counter the ongoing degradation o
he protected areas, ASPOPRODECAZ has directly supported the
eorestation o mangrove and inland orests with over 100,000 tree
eedlings planted, including algarroba (Prosopis pallida), charan
Caesalpinia sp.), cedro (Cedrela sp.), madero (Gliricidia sp.) HuayacanTabebuia sp.), ceibo (Erythrinacrista-galli), and palo santo (Bursera
graveolens), among other species.
These hardwoods provide a habitat which is critical or the survival
o a variety o plants and animals, including the Mantled Howler
Monkey (Alouatta palliata), American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus),
aguar (Panther onca), Margay (Leopardus wiedii), ox (Vulpes vulpes),
White-tailed squirrel (Ammospermophilus sp.), anteater (Vermilingua
p.), Gray Brocket Deer (Mazama gouazoubira), peccary (Tayassu
ajacu), and oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus). The orests are also home to
many endemic bird species, such as the Little Tinamou (Crypturellus
oui), Magnicent Frigatebird (Fregata magnifcens), Hook-billed
Kite (Chondrohierax uncinatus), and the Ruous-headed Chachalaca
Ortalis erythroptera). Given this abundance o species, these
hardwood orests constitute a vital component o Perus coastal
biodiversity, making them a target or conservation eorts. Thessociations work in raising conservation awareness has played a
key role in these eorts.
n addition, the groups reorestation activities have contributed
o a reduction in greenhouse gases through the sequestration o
tmospheric carbon, while the solid waste treatment component o
he project has also led to reduced pollution o the local environment
nd to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that occurred
hrough the burning o waste.
SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS
Through their various programs, ASPOPRODECAZ is able to provide
employment opportunities or the benet o more than 300 amilies.
The increased participation o women has also led to an increase
n amily incomes and brought economic revitalization to the
ommunity. Womens groups have implemented sel-sustainable
ctivities such as the production o handicrats, preparation o ood
products and poultry arming.
ASPOPRODECAZ has also entered into contracts with private se
companies such as Consorcio Hidalgo e Hidalgo, Padko, the Peru
Army, private education institutions, and local businesses i
eort to scale its solid waste collection and treatment operat
The World Bank, in reviewing these initiatives, identied key su
actors as being: (i) a past history o continued assistance national and international NGOs that helped build the associa
capacity, and (ii) the act that proposals had been develo
and implemented by the association itsel, rather than exte
actors, which has contributed to its high level o ownership
commitment to success. The increased and diverse opportun
that ASPOPRODECAZ provides communities are a valuable so
o income in the local economy.
Social inclusion and gender equality
ASPOPRODECAZ is strongly committed to social inclusion
gender equality. The associations non-discriminatory organizat
structure enables previously disenranchised social groups, suwomen, children, and the elderly to participate in decision-ma
processes. These groups oer unique and valuable contributio
ASPOPRODECAZs eorts which then urther inorm the evoluti
the associations mission. The participation o a larger cross-se
o civil society groups has also allowed or a larger overall im
o project activities as these groups are now invested in pro
outcomes.
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Sustainability and ReplicationSUSTAINABILITY
ustainability o its programmes is a priority or ASPOPRODECAZs
work. The capacity building and social inclusion components o the
nitiative ensure the continuity o the associations leadership and
ision. The various programmes that the association supports provide
iversied employment and income opportunities or the residents
Campo Amor, which are important motivators or continued
ommunity engagement with ASPOPRODECAZ. Furthermore, the
nvironmental conservation and agricultural components o the
nitiative are providing Campo Amor with a more resilient resource
ase rom which to derive sustainable livelihoods.
ASPOPRODECAZs commitment to education also demonstrates the
ssociations vision o sustainability. By educating local youth on
nvironmental and economic topics, ASPOPRODECAZ is helping to
ultivate an emerging leadership that embodies the spirit and corealues o the organization.
REPLICATION
ASPOPRODECAZ has been instrumental in developing leadership
apacity at the local level. As part o the World Bank/GEF-
unded Participatory Management o Protected Areas Project,
ASPOPRODECAZ has been able to support eorts to expand the
echnical and organizational capacity o project participants. Thanks
o these partnerships, communities such as Campo Amor which
were suering rom extended economic and environmental decline
ave seen a resurgence o community leadership and civic action
which have halted these processes. The positive example thatASPOPRODECAZ is setting in terms o social inclusion has garnered
egional and international attention, making the initiative a best
ractice case or replication by other organizations within the region.
PARTNERS
ASPROPODECAZ has ormed important partnerships with
domestic and international partners. The World Bank attrib
part o the groups success to its ability to capitalize upon t
partnerships in order to build capacity at the local level. Not
partners include the ollowing:
The Peruvian National Institute o Natural Resources (INRE
works closely with ASPOPRODECAZ in developing sustain
resource management strategies or the Tumbes Nat
Mangrove Sanctuary.
The Peruvian Trust Fund or National Parks and Prote
Areas (PROFONANPE): has provided nancing thro
the Economically Sustainable Activities Program (PAES
workshops, training and technical assistance or the waste and recycling programme, the biogas project, an
reorestation activities.
The World Bank and Global Environment Facility: provide
endowment or technical and nancial assistance, the drati
master plans and protected areas management contracts, s
scale sustainable economic activities, training and adv
services or INRENA, capacity building or local civil soc
monitoring and evaluation, and inormation management
dissemination.
The Regional Government o Tumbes: co-nanced
ASPOPRODECAZ community nursery which has contributing to the restoration o degraded orestland.
The Peruvian Government: through the Peruvian U
Employment Program, ASPOPRODECAZ was able to enga
several capital and inrastructure improvement projects, su
the construction o culverts to prevent overow and oodi
populated areas rom the requent and heavy rains.
The Spanish Agency or International Development Cooper
(AECID): nanced portions o the community nu
management, the ecological classroom, and unds va
capacity building workshops.
The Provincial Municipality o Zarumilla: has provided na
and in-kind support or the solid waste treatment program
The National University o Tumbes: has provided environm
lectures and workshops, and has also assisted in the va
reorestation programs.
The Cayetano Heredia University: provides technical assist
or the womens small arm project.
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Ponticia Universidad Javeriana, Facultad de Estudios Ambientales y Rurales.
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