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Equator Initiative Case StudiesLocal sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities

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RESIDENTS ASSOCIATIONFOR THE PROGRESS ANDDEVELOPMENT OF CAMPOAMOR, ZARUMILLA

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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.
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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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