Advocacy Coalitions and Natural Resource Management

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Advocacy Coalitions and Natural Resource
Management

• Iowa State University
• Heifer Project, International, Ecuador
• Terra Nueva, Ecuador
• Instituto de Estudios Ecuatorianos, Ecuador
• Grupo Yanapai, Peru

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Magdalena Vice President of UNORCAC
Florencia Campana, I.E.E. SANREM researcher
Mary Garcia, TerraNueva, SANREM researcher
Alicia Guajan, Indigenous research asst
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The objectives of the study are--

• to understand how key natural resource management
  decisions are made,
• to encourage grassroots participation so such
  groups can use that knowledge in the decisions
  that most affect them,
• with the Andean team, develop decision-support
  tools that are science-based and utilize local
  knowledge

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Market
State
Civil Society
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Market
State
Civil Society
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Changes affecting Natural Resource Management in
L.A.

• Governmental decentralization
• Privatization

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Market
State
Civil Society
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Key concepts related to identification of
potential advocacy coalitions

• Desired future states
• Mental causal models
• Decision nodes
• Information use
• Other decision making tools

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Criteria for choosing issues

• Local people active around issue
• Institutional actors come from at least two
  sectors (market, state, and civil society)
• Issues have policy implications
• Issues at different degrees of resolution

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Themes in Ecuador

• Mineral extraction
• Water quality and distribution
• Management of bio-reserve

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Example of Ecuadorian issue--Mining

• Multilevels local (bottom or base) to
  international (top)
• Civil society on the left, market in the middle
  and state on the right

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Int'l
RIC
Amigos de la Tierra
Centro de Investigación de Bosques Tropicales
Banco Mundial
Mitsubishi Materials
Agenica Intl de Coopn del Japon
AECI
Global Response
Retter Den Regenwald
Japan- Brazil Network
SANE- Japon
CODIGEM
SIM
Natl
Fund. Brethren Unidada
DINAPA
Acción Ecológica
Fund. Natura
Cementos Selva Alegre
Congreso Nacional Pachukutic
Min. Ambiente
Min.de Minas
CONAIE
FENOCIN
CEDHU
Arzobispo Quito
DINAMI
CEDEMA
PRO NADER
INEFAN
PRODE- MINCA
ECUA- RUNARI
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COSDHI
Gob. Prov..
Consejo Provincial
FICI
Prov.
Canton
Asemblea
Alcalde
Curia
Consejo Municipal
UNORCAC
DRI Cotacachi
Local
Junta Parroquial Peñaherrera
Aso. Cafeteros
DECOIN
J.P. Apuela
J.P. Cuellaje
J.P. Garcia Moreno
Com. Desarrollo
J.P. Plaza Guitierez
J.P. Vacas Galindo
ATTACU
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Community Capitals
Human Capital

• Social Capital

Healthy ecosystem Vital economy Social equity
Natural Capita l
Financial/Built Capita l
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HUMAN CAPITAL

• Strengthened capacity to work in harmony with the
  environment, inc. environmental education
• Good health of citizens
• Values that integrate natural capital with
  financial capital
• Leadership that takes the environment into account

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NATURAL CAPITAL

• Uncontaminated air
• Healthy soils
• Pure drinking water
• Biodiversity of flora y fauna
• Green and diverse landscape
• Preservation of the Cotacachi-Callapas
  Bio-reserve

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FINANCIAL / BUILT CAPITAL

• Funds to invest in green businesses
• Funds to pay organizers
• Breeding livestock, seeds, machinery, equipment,
  and other inputs for sustainable agricultural
  production

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SOCIAL CAPITAL

• Trust based on a common recognition of the
  environment
• Networks of reciprocity with social, ecological,
  and economic objectives
• Organized local groups
• Shared symbols regarding sustainable development
• Collective local identity
• Sense of a shared sustainable future

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Importance of alternatives

• Makes clear there is no silver bullet
• Privileges local and regional solutions
• Encourages more people to the table
• Increases social, economic and biological
  diversity

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Current Activities of DECOIN
Organic coffee production
Searching for funding
Environmental education
Ecotourism
Community organizing
Artisanry
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Family from Colpar
Elizabeth Mayer, Mother of President of Grupo
Yanapai
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Personnel of Grupo Yanapai
Maria Fernandez, sociologist and godmother
Enma Edgar, agronomists, bride and groom