proposals – Addendum

APPRAISAL SUMMARY
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PS4: Community health, safety and security. The project will ensure that health and safety conditions apply to
communities and personnel working on project activities: for example, the use of life jackets on motor boat trips.
Furthermore, the project will ensure that all sanitation and safety regulations required by the relevant offices issuing
authorizations—fisheries, forestry, processing plants—are complied with. A registry of incidents and accidents will be
kept so that corrective measures may be implemented.
PS5. Land acquisition and involuntary resettlement. The project will not generate the displacement of indigenous
communities. Instead, it will strengthen legal security by promoting land titling and land-use planning. It seeks the
sustainable use of, and unrestricted access to, natural resources in the province, without discriminating between
indigenous and non-indigenous peoples. There is a possibility that non-indigenous peoples and persons from outside
the territory may inhabit the same territory as project beneficiaries. In these cases, the project will develop a policy of
intercultural interaction as is currently being implemented in ACAs.
PS6: Biodiversity conservation and sustainable management of living natural resources. The project will
contribute to protecting and conserving Amazonian biodiversity and ecosystem services by applying community
management plans to large areas of wetlands. Income generation based on sustainably managing and adding value to
local natural resources will provide additional reasons for communities and government agencies to care for and
oversee the resource base. The existing bio-businesses have management plans based on biodiversity conservation
principles. These plans are updated periodically and have strict reporting requirements.
PS7. Indigenous peoples. Indigenous peoples are understood as peoples whose ancestors were in territories that
were conquered and have preserved cultural institutions and their own identity. In Peru, the State has recognized the
rights of 54 indigenous or native peoples, including 7 ethnic groups of this project
(). To date there is no information on the composition of men and women.
However, it is estimated that women make up 50 per cent of the population in the area.
The main socioeconomic activities common to all indigenous peoples are subsistence agriculture (farms), fishing,
hunting, timber extraction to commercialization and extraction of non-timber species with food, craft or medicinal
purposes.
The project will ensure full respect for indigenous peoples. It will be implemented in indigenous territories where
activities can only be carried out with prior informed consent. Its design included this process, as a result of which the
social licensing of the project was obtained. This process included an intercultural approach and was gender sensitive.
The project will develop a process of information and permanent dialogue with indigenous peoples, so that all
decisions regarding it will be taken with consensus as the preferred method.
The project will develop guidelines for social safeguards implementation and all actors involved in it will be trained in
their use so that all can apply the safeguards. Finally, the project includes a strong tracking component to periodically
report on its implementation.
The project does not require an indigenous peoples plan because the beneficiaries of the entire project are indigenous
peoples. Nonetheless, the project will prepare such plans with the communities as elements of the POT process.
PS8. Cultural heritage. The project will fully respect the cultural heritage of indigenous populations. Archaeological
remains in the area must still be legally recognized by the national authority; the Ministry of Culture. If the project finds
archaeological remains or elements of the cultural heritage of ethnic groups and communities, it will follow the rules
and guidelines laid down in the Regulations for Archaeological Intervention (RIA). The corresponding decree stipulates
that chance archaeological findings should be reported to the Regional Directorate of Culture (for the project, the
directorate is located in Iquitos), which in turn is under the Ministry of Culture. This directorate is responsible for
undertaking archaeological assessments, will determine the existence and extent of the remains found, and will take