Sostenibilidad

In our previous post  we noted how participatory monitoring helps generate more trust between communities and companies with potentially controversial projects.But there are right ways to carry out these joint monitoring exercises. We’ve boiled down our experience at the IDB into three key tips that can provide a starting point for participatory monitoring.

• Can potentially have significant negative environmental and social impacts (i.e.

Every year, the United Nations celebrate the International Day of the World's Indigenous People on the 9th of August. This is not only an opportunity to take stock of the many challenges that development poses to indigenous people, but also of the ways that indigenous peoples themselves are challenging traditional development practices and promoting their own approaches. The stakes are probably higher than ever.

An extraordinary number and diversity of fish inhabit the Amazon River basin.

Aprovechando la riqueza de su patrimonio cultural, países de América Latina y el Caribe aplican su conocimiento ancestral para desarrollar un estilo de vida sustentable.

The Amazon Basin is becoming a hot spot for oil and gas exploration. New developments are mostly found in the Amazon Headwaters, extending in an arc from Venezuela through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, western Brazil, and Bolivia. These discoveries bring great promise for economic development. Yet they also pose grave threats to indigenous forest dwellers and to the incomparable biodiversity of the region.

Three years ago, three colleagues and I were semi-kidnapped by a crowd of irate citizens. During half an hour, they surrounded our vehicle and held us hostage until their demands were heard.Although this was not the first occasion where I found myself in the middle of such a disturbance, it was the first in which we were the focus of the social conflict.This was ironic, because we were negotiating a transparent, structured and effective public consultation process.