Inclusion in Territorial Planning Policy

COLOMBIA, Tadó

Ethnic and Environmental Inclusion in Territorial Planning Policy in Colombia

COLOMBIA, PNN Tatamá Territorio Colectivo Asocasan Tadó (Chocó)

Pacific Environmental Research Institute (IIAP), National Natural Parks Colombia (PNNC) and Consejo Comunitario del Alto San Juan (ASOCASAN) in the municipality of Tadó

In her 2012 study, Paredes-Leguizamón concluded that there is a need to integrate natural and cultural diversity in the instruments of territorial planning in Colombia to tackle the existing confusion, proliferation and disarticulation of instruments applied to the same territory; the disintegrated vision of the territory; and the low priority and positioning of protected areas in territorial planning. To accomplish this, a multilevel and inter-institutional process lead by PNNC (National Natural Parks Colombia) created a political, technical, and operational strategy and complementary, initiated 8 pilot cases. One of these was the “Neighbourhood”, which allowed existing local initiatives to identify topics of common interest, design methodologies, and generate processes that are contextualized to the local, cultural, and environmental reality. The goal of this collective and horizontal way of working of the different actors, was to strengthen joint capacities and influence the policies and instruments of territorial planning in the departments Chocó and Risaralda*.

This MOOC shares the experience of this pilot case with three objectives: 1) share the inter-institutional and community process of harmonization between instruments of ethnic and environmental planning in Colombia; 2) propose the socio-environmental and intercultural methodological design for the joint work between environmental authorities, academics and ethnic communities from a differential approach to influence territorial planning instruments, and 3) share progress, challenges and proposals for the effective integration of natural and cultural diversity in public policies for land use planning.

*In this territory, the Pacific Environmental Research Institute (IIAP) develops research to support environmental and sustainable development issues and promotes the collective progress and consolidates the cultural identity of the region’s black and indigenous peoples; National Natural Parks (PNN) acts as environmental authority in the Tatamá National Natural Park; and ASOCASAN focuses on ethnic-territorial rights and “bienestar” (good life) for the population.

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Hosting platform: Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia
Status: in review process


Lead Partner

Gisela Paredes Leguizamón MSc

Gisela Paredes Leguizamón

Urban Planning, Sustainable Development

Team

Juan Carlos Troncoso Saavedra: Head of Protected Area, Tatamá National Natural Park

MSc. Jovanny Mosquera Pino: Associate Researcher II, Pacific Enviornmental Research Institute – IIAP

José Aristarco Mosquera Mosquera: General Coordinator of the Major Community Council of Alto San Juan – ASOCASAN

Sayuri Matsuyama: Anthropologist & Documentalist – Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia

Ruth Pineda-Ingeniera: Agroforestry Engineer – Tatamá National Natural Park


Local Experts ASOCASAN

Francisca Nelly Mosquera

Luis Hernando Mosquera Martínez

Yanith Suleima Reneria Aragón

Heyler Serbando

Moreno Palacios