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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.

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to scale, to improve the global knowledge base on local environment and development solutions, and to serve as models

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EditorsEditor-in-Chief: 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

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AcknowledgementsThe Equator Initiative acknowledges with gratitude the Serraniagua Corporation, and in particular the guidance and inputs o Césa

Franco Laverde, Director. All photo credits courtesy o Serraniagua Corporation; © Juan David Ramírez ( page 8, Pipreola jucunda). Ma

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PROJECT SUMMARYSerraniagua Corporation works to ensure the connectivityo protected areas throughout Colombia’s CordilleraOccidental mountain range, a key component o theChocó-Manabí Conservation Corridor. The group connectsthe conservation corridors o the Tatamá National Park and Serrania de los Paraguas (renowned or their highbiodiversity and species endemism) through a series o 60community-managed and seven state-managed naturereserves, and encourages a high level o participation on thepart o local and indigenous communities in environmentalplanning processes or these areas.

Working through a broad stakeholder base, includingcocoa, coee and sugar producers, ecotourism operators,environmental groups, rural schools, and women’sassociations, this dynamic social network is leveraged toprotect the biodiversity and ecosystems o the surroundingregion in a manner that also respects the livelihood needso the local population.

KEY FACTS

EQUATOR PRIZE WINNER: 2008

FOUNDED: 1996

LOCATION: El Cairo and surrounding region

BENEFICIARIES: Rural communities, farmers & producers

BIODIVERSITY: Network of 60 community nature reserves

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SERRANIAGUA CORPORATIONColombia

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Background and Context 4

Key Activities and Innovations 6

Biodiversity Impacts 8

Socioeconomic Impacts 8

Policy Impacts 9

Sustainability 10

Replication 10

Partners 11



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he Serranía de los Paraguas Mountains and the Tatamá National

ark in Colombia are two important eco-regions that orm part o

he Cordillera Occidental mountain range and the Chocó-Manabí

Conservation Corridor. The high level o biodiversity, species

ndemism and connectivity in these regions has made them the

ocus o signicant conservation eorts. The Serranía de los Paraguas

s covered with montane rainorest, which serves as an important

watershed or surrounding communities. The mountains are home

o thirty dierent nationally endangered animal and plant species,

ncluding the gold-ringed tanager (Bangsia aureocincta), cauca guanPenelope perspicax ) and the spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus).

erraniagua Corporation (Corporación Serraniagua) promotesivil society-managed nature reserves, encouraging the active

articipation and management o local and indigenous community

takeholders in the ecoregion. The organization is involved in

articipatory processes to develop environmental management

lans or the Serranía de los Paraguas, and its connection to

he management plan o the Natural Tatamá National Park. The

rganization also owns and manages a 700-hectare protected area,

he Cerro El Inglés Natural Reserve. It is the largest privately owned

eserve in the Cauca Valley, an area with the highest endemism and

iodiversity in Serranía de los Paraguas. As part o its connectivity

trategy, 12 civil society reserves in the Valle de Cauca and Chocó

epartments are developing harmonized management plans to

nsure habitat connectivity and sustainable livelihoods.

rimary goals o the association are the genuine empowerment

local communities and the eective integration o local

takeholders into decision-making processes. The ultimate objective

s community input into the governance o local lands and territory

nd into policymaking in the area o resource management. The

ssociation brings together a diverse base o stakeholders, including

roducers o cocoa, coee and sugar, as well as ecotourism

entures, environmental groups, rural schools and women’s

ssociations. This dynamic social network is leveraged to advance a

comprehensive communications program that employs comm

radio, newsletters, environmental murals, educational videos,

community tours. Serraniagua Corporation operates at both the

and regional levels, employing a zone-based connective stra

or land use planning, social networking (grassroots comm

mobilization), and the creation o productive agricultural sys

that link local producers into equitable market supply-chains.

Conservation and agro-ecosystems in the Andes

Conservation and sustainable livelihoods work takes place in

corridors o the Andes where the predominant ecosystems

high Andean orests, Andean orests (on the eastern slope), Andean orests and secondary orests. The Tatamá Paraguas cor

contains the greatest wealth o threatened and endemic spec

the continental Pacic region o Colombia. Several o these sp

are the ocus o Serraniagua Corporation conservation e

The organization is also active in a number o agro-ecosyst

notably including cocoa and coee, ruit orchards, and timber

landscapes that contain palm ruit, plantains, avocadoes, and bo

Coee agro-ecosystems oten contain shade trees like guamo

carbonero, which are staple oods in the regional diet.

Bridging policy and practice

The association was ounded in 1996 to ll a number o poland socioeconomic voids. The organization was initiated

communities within the Serrania de los Paraguas mountain cor

but beneted rom the support o environmental conserva

NGOs and corpocuencas, state organizations with public

private involvement in watershed protection. One o the prim

project catalysts was that local communities had extremely lim

opportunities to participate in the development o land-use pol

As a result, there was little local ownership o government policie

the ground and a good deal o distance between prevailing p

rameworks and the realities o resource management activities a

Background and Context



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rassroots. Other gaps which the association ormed to address were

lack o awareness on the state o local biodiversity and ecosystems

specically, the growing threats and drivers o biodiversity loss

and a lack o documentation on zoning. To address these issues,

he organization set out to help land owners improve their spatial

wareness and understanding o the territory (and connectivity

etween adjacent areas) and to better equip communities with the

ools needed to orm alliances, lobby government and participate in

ecision-making processes.

Community protected area network

erraniagua Corporation uses a connectivity strategy to link

ommunity protected areas, local landowners, surrounding

municipalities, and areas protected within Tatamá National Park.

he strategy aspires to the protection and conservation o species

within the important wildlie corridor by creating and promoting

ustainable production networks in the agricultural sector, in

municipal plans, in park administration, and in community-based

nterprises. The association aims to combine respect or local culture

nd with a strong conservation ethic. Culture and conservation are

nked through the promotion o traditional and customary resource

management practices and land management systems.

The association has successully ostered a rare link betw

community practitioners (armers and producers), local and nat

government authorities, and the biodiversity science commu

This multi-stakeholder model enables equitable territorial plan

which in turn produces a strategic vision that is inormed by so

science and research, is guided by the needs o the local popula

and which helps to extend the policy objectives o governm

authorities. Serraniagua Corporation emphasizes accurate

collection and the application o cartographic tools, econneeds assessments, and biological surveys in the manageme

the Serrania de los Paraguas region. These tools are the ounda

o land-use planning and coordination activities.

Serraniagua Corporation is guided by our overarching object

namely: i) saeguard biodiversity in strategic ecosystems

expanding protected areas and sustainably managing the a

orestry systems that connect Tatamá Natural National Park wit

Paraguas Mountains; ii) implement sustainable production mo

with armers in the region; iii) secure support rom a numb

dierent stakeholders; and iv) increase protected areas or end

and threatened species.

“The villages of the world have the right to inform themselves, to participate in every decisio

that concerns their common destiny. The world’s leaders have a duty and a responsibility to liste

to community voices and to the groups that safeguard the environment.”

César A. Franco Laverde, Director, Serraniagua Corporation



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Key Activities and Innovations

ounded in 1996, Serraniagua Corporation connects the

onservation corridors o Tatamá National Park and Serrania de los

araguas through a series o 60 community-managed and seven

tate-managed nature reserves. The organization maintains a

ision o sustainable development that improves the quality o lie

or local inhabitants while also respecting and protecting regional

biodiversity. The community-based network evolved in response

o a need or greater stakeholder input into natural resource

overnance and more detailed documentation o local biodiversity.

ringing together both rural and urban populations, Serraniagua

Corporation carries out participatory land management planning

nd has pioneered an eective and inclusive community-based

ature reserve model.

he association oversees a diverse base o stakeholders, which

ncludes producers o cocoa, coee and sugar, as well as ecotourism

entures, environmental groups, rural schools and women’s

ssociations. This dynamic social network is leveraged to protect the

biodiversity and ecosystems o the surrounding region in a manner

hat also respects the livelihood needs o the local population. A

omprehensive communications program employs community

adio, newsletters, environmental murals, educational videos, and

ommunity tours. Two important partners in their work are the

Colombian Network o Associations o Civil Society Nature Reserves

which brings together more than 600 civil society reserves across

he country) and the Association o Producers o San Jose delalmar (a community-based organization o cocoa, palm, avocado

nd banana producers that aims to protect natural orests and

watersheds).

Protected area network

erraniagua Corporation brings together community-based and

private protected areas to promote biodiversity conservation and

he protection o threatened species in the region. Protection o

he Serrania de los Paraguas wildlie corridors requires connectivity,

which has necessitated the involvement o community, public (s

and private land owners, as well as a number o dierent produce

resource user groups. The association coordinates activities betw

these stakeholders, developing landscape level conservation p

that connect public protected areas (such as municipal watersh

community protected areas, and national protected areas (

as Tatamá National Park-Serrania de los Paraguas). Importa

Serraniagua Corporation is also the proprietor o Cerro El In

a natural reserve that conserves the majority o threatened

endemic species within the conservation corridor. Building out

this ‘conservation epicenter’, the association has ormed a core

o natural reserves in the region that include 60 private rese

which represent more than 2,250 hectares across ve municipaand two departments.

Agriculture, tailored production plans and seed exchan

The conservation corridor where the Corporation operates co

a sizable area o dierent ecosystems, altitudinal ranges and

uses. Serraniagua Corporation promotes harmony between t

ecosystems and production landscapes to ensure the conserva

o local culture, native arm species and biodiversity. The Corpor

promotes a range o landscape management tools, inclu

biological conservation corridors, living ences, the enrichm

and diversication o coee plantations, strategic reoresta

with indigenous tree species, the operation o community nurseries, organic ruit orchards, and more. Farmers working

the organization develop individual production plans thro

agro-orestry systems where dierent species o plants are gr

and coexist. Secondary crops are added to production landsc

dominated by cocoa and coee cultivation. In cocoa landscapes

most common secondary crops include palm o chontaduro, bo

avocados, and bananas, while in coee landscapes the most com

secondary crops include guamo, ruit trees, plantains, and wa

and cedar trees. Some members o the Serraniagua Corpora

also work in apiculture and honey production. The organiza



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acilitates learning exchanges between communities, where armers

xchange seeds that orm the basis o local agricultural diversity and

ood security.

Environmental research and education

erraniagua Corporation works with local universities to carry out

esearch on ecosystem unctioning, biodiversity and health, and on

ndividual species living within the Cerro El Inglés reserve. Long-erm agreements are in place with these educational institutions to

nsure ongoing support with research, environmental assessments,

nd biological monitoring. The association carries out environmental

ducation programs with schools throughout the region. A

rogram called Herederos del Planeta (“Heirs o the Planet”) targets

children and youth and aims to ensure the strong oundation

conservation ethic in uture generations. The Herederos del Pla

group has grown into a national movement that orms part o

RED Colombiana de Reservas Naturales, a Colombian netwo

community-based natural reserves. In partnership with two reg

radio stations (El Cairo Estereo and Palmar Estereo), Serrania

Corporation oversees environmental education programming

instructional shows that promote conservation and the sustain

use o natural resources in the region. On average, the organizatransmits more than 260 programs per year. Included in

programming are reports on the progress o existing projects

plans or new initiatives. Bulletins and promotional videos are

developed and distributed on an ongoing basis to improve p

awareness on its programming.

“Aside from a profound respect for all forms of life, our organization understands that biodiversi

is linked to cultural diversity, where traditions of land management, food security, and genet

diversity reside. And so, the only way to guarantee biodiversity is to guarantee the cultures th

guard it, the people who understand that we cannot impose on the planet a singular logic th

markets what is not tradable or replaceable.”




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Impacts

BIODIVERSITY IMPACTS

The association maintains a strong commitment to biological

monitoring, documentation o biodiversity, and land use planning

based on these studies. As a partnership o community managed

nature reserves, the association has registered 343 species o birds,

6 species o mammals, 79 species o amphibians, 20 species o

eptiles, three species o snails, 24 species o insects and 646 species

o plants. Over 500 community sites have received direct technical

ssistance on biological monitoring tools. These trainings regularly

nclude learning tours, reorestation and conservation workshops,

nd agricultural conerences. Biodiversity conservation and

ecosystem management have also been mainstreamed into school

urriculums by way o a partnership the association has cultivated

with teen rural schools.

erraniagua Corporation has created a biodiversity database or the

egion, lling an important void in available mechanisms to identiy

priority species and conservation interventions. Collected data is

used to identiy uture conservation targets and land use plans. As a

esult o inormation gathered through the biodiversity database, the

egion was names an Important Bird Area (IBA). Collected data has

lso helped to drive expansion o (and coordination between) the

60 participating protected areas. More knowledge and inormation

on the state o key resources and species has translated to more

eective and balanced land management strategies.

Monitoring o biodiversity impacts is done through species

egistration. The group has steadily expanded its conservation

orridors and the number o ocially designated protected areas.

ince its inception, Serraniagua Corporation has integrated more

han 3,000 hectares o community nature reserves into the Tatamá-

Paraguas regional network o private natural reserves. Cerro El Inglés,

he group’s proprietary natural reserve has itsel expanded by 500

hectares. At least ten new plant species and two new amphibian

pecies have been ound within the reserve and its associated areas.

Ten endemic or threatened species are currently under protection

within the reserve.

Among the many key species protected in the region are a num

o birds, including: Empress Brilliant (Heliodoxa imperatrix ); Puthroated Woodstar (Calliphlox mitchellii ); Gold-ringed Tan

(Bangsia aureocincta); Munchique Wood-Wren (Henicorhina neg

Black-and-gold Tanager (Bangsia melanochlamys); Velvet-p

Coronet (Boisonneaua jardini ); Multicolored Tanager (Chloroc

nitidissima); Fulvous-dotted Treerunner (Margarornis stella

Purplish-manted Tanager (Iridosornis porphyrocephalus); C

winged Manakin (Machaeropterus deliciosus); Indigo Flowerpi

(Diglossa indigotica); Glistening-green Tanager (Chloroc

phoenicotis); Black-chinned Mountain-Tanager ( Anisogna

notabilis); Gray-and-gold Tanager (Tangara palmeri ); Tanager

(Oreothraupism arremonops); Crested Ant-Tanager (Habia cris

and Beautiul Jay (Cyanolyca pulchra).

SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS

The primary beneciaries o this project include campesinos

their amilies, those living within the conservation corridor, pr

owners o the natural reserves, eco-agricultural armers, produ

associations, community environmental education groups,

indirectly, those living on indigenous reservations in the region

positive socioeconomic impacts have been varied and widesp

The association has been at the oreront o creating a market i

region or organic agriculture, providing local armers with a rel

and steady source o income and an outlet or their produce

association has also catalyzed a number o sustainable produc

groups – producer ederations and cooperatives – including in

areas o cacao, coee, sugar and ecotourism. These networks pro

otherwise economically marginalized armers with colle

bargaining power and market access benets that were previo

unattainable. Out o these producer ederations and coopera

have emerged a number o ‘environmental deenders’; local lea

who, above and beyond championing environmental conserva

and proper stewardship o local resources, have been abl

successully advocate or technical assistance and the provisio

social services.



Serraniagua Corporation is not only an environmental network,

but a social network that aims to improve communication and

collaboration between land owners, eco-agricultural armers and

ustainable producer groups. Average amily and producer group

ncomes have improved by an average o 25 percent rom Serraniagua

Corporation activities. But while many o the benets rom the

nitiative all in the category o more traditional socioeconomic

gains – greater household incomes, more jobs, improved market

access, etc. – an even greater number o the benets are non-monetary and include the strengthening o the social abric (which

makes collective action possible), a sense o pride and belonging

or armers and those working in agricultural production sectors,

community empowerment, and the kind o capacity development

hat comes rom peer-to-peer learning and exchange. Three new

community associations have been ormed since the project began.

Serraniagua Corporation itsel employees teen individuals, and

has created more than 100 indirect jobs through its programming

and activities. The president o the board is a woman, as are a

ignicant percentage o the operational team. Gender equality, the

empowerment o women’s groups and the promotion o the rights

o local communities are central preoccupations o the initiative.

Among the more notable socioeconomic impacts has been ocial

ecognition o 60 civil society (community) nature reserves, as well

as a management plan that outlines conservation and sustainable

production activities and interventions within the geographical

area this network covers. Within the greater management area,

more than 500 project sites have received direct rural technical

assistance, where local community members participate in learning

ours, capacity building and training, agricultural conerences

and workshops, and environmental and reorestation training.

Through this on-site training – and by way o other program

– the association has actively (and successully) promoted org

agriculture, ostered receptive markets or organic products,

created production ederations in cocoa, coee and sugar.

POLICY IMPACTS

Serraniagua Corporation has contributed to the ormulation

regional territorial regulation plan or 2000-2010 as well as a 22002 development plan or the municipality o El Cairo. The g

also contributed to the participatory environmental managem

plan o the Serrania de los Paraguas. The association has bee

active participant in contributor to the debate on new prote

area legislation in Colombia, both through the rst protected a

congress o Colombia and the eighth Inter-American private

conservation congress in 2008.

The association is a ounding member o the La RED Colo

Verde and occupies the presidency o its board. In addition to

post, the organization participates in Mesa Local Noste del Sist

Departamental de areas protegidas del Valle de Cauca (The L

Committee on Protected Areas or El Valle de Cauca) and ovethe Technical Secretariat o the local system o protected areas in

José de Palmar—Chocó. Serraniagua Corporation provides tech

support to surrounding municipalities and assists in the ormul

o the management plans within these areas.

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Sustainability and Replication

SUSTAINABILITYong term social and organizational sustainability are dening

eatures o Serraniagua Corporation. The association maintains

n ocial headquarters – which oversees projects and program

ctivities – has a dedicated, permanent sta, and works with

ustainable production groups on long term business plans. The

roup is also in the process o creating an endowment that will

nsure the sustainability o its projects. Since 1996, the scope o

he association’s operations has expanded. In its rst two years,

he association was ocused geographically on the regional river

asin and programmatically on protected areas, natural reserves,

erritorial mapping, and environmental planning. Since that time,erraniagua Corporation has transitioned rather organically into the

reas o social services and social networking, namely through the

stablishment o producer networks. Campesinos and their amilies

acked resources and capacity, leading to an emphasis on sustainable

roduction methods and networking. It was through this evolution

hat a conservation organization became inused with an emphasis

n sustainable production.

erraniagua Corporation emphasizes the role o building local

apacity in establishing public consensus and, in turn, catalyzing

ollective action. Capacity building is a undamental component

the association’s long-term strategy. Investments into local

apacity building have paid dividends or community solidarity,he sense o community ownership o project activities, and

articipatory management. Particular investment has been made in

outh programs as a way o educating and empowering the next

eneration o conservationists and organic armers. Local producers

coee, corn, cocoa and brown sugar have been empowered to

onnect with one another and improve their collective purchasing,

argaining and marketing power.

he association maintains a connective conservation strategy

hat prioritizes environmental, social and economic sustainability.

Equitable and sustainable production systems or local produ

are central to this strategy and all association operations.

association aims to build and oster an identity among its mem

and target population o communal interests and communal suc

and achievement. This group ethos has slowly supplanted indiv

prot motives, replacing it with a spirit o collaboration that

strengthened social cohesion and the sustainability o conserva

interventions in the region.

REPLICATION

Serraniagua Corporation is celebrated regionally and nationally

model o successul community-based conservation. The associahas been invited to participate in various regional orum

inormation exchange and peer-to-peer transer o best prac

including the Inter-American Conservation Congress. Addition

it has served as a progenitor organization, spawning o

community-based activities and grassroots collaborative e

The organization has developed and implements a communica

strategy that includes community radio, newsletters, street art

murals, interest groups meetings, web-based campaigns and mo

holds annual General Assembly meetings or its national assemb

regional organizations, as well as or its various social, environm

and production networks across the conservation corridor.

The replication o best practices has been carried out primthrough two national networks: RED Colombiana de Rese

Naturales, through which organizations and associated groups s

experiences on issues o conservation and sustainable produc

and La RED Colombia Verde, which brings together commu

based organizations and sustainable producers. RED Colombian

Reservas Naturales holds an annual assembly where members

discuss lessons learned rom implemented initiatives and wher

successes and challenges experienced by landowners, produc

groups and organic armers within the reserve can be sh

Serraniagua Corporation is a noted leader in this space and is



“With a shared ethic of respect for the planet, we can create common solutions and lead b

example in showing how to coexist with nature”


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urrent chairman o the board o this group. La RED Colombia Verde

arries out workshops and ‘learning days’ that allow or the exchange

experiences and learning with dierent associated groups within

he eco-region.

PARTNERS

erraniagua Corporation is a consortium of smaller, community-

ased organizations within the Chocó and Valle regions. There isubstantial overlap with an umbrella organization called, Herederos

e Planeta, an inter-generational group that ocuses on producer

ederations, cooperatives and sustainable production groups.

erraniagua Corporation and Herederos de Planeta work together

with municipalities and town associations to provide technical

ssistance to campesinos, to small producers associations, and to

ooperatives within the Valle and Chocó.

he organization maintains an alliance with the Tatamá National

ark administration and with regional corporations. Serraniagua

also a part o the RED Columbiana de Reservas Naturales. Other

artners include:

Asociación RED Colombiana de Reservas Naturales de la

Sociedad Civil: conservation and sustainable production on

public and private land.

National coordination o Herederos del Planeta, construction o

social and organizational tissue.

• GREEN NETWORK de Colombia: Columbian network o amic

community-based sustainable producers: acilitates produc

initiatives and sustainable markets

• Fondo Para La Acción Ambiental y la Niñez: (Youth Fund

Environmental Action) initiates public calls or youth

environment projects

• Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF)

• CVC: Corporación Autonoma Regional Del Valle de Cau

Codechocó: regional environmental authorities who promconservation initiatives within their areas o infuence

• The municipality o San José Del Palmar

• Alliance or Conservation in Latin America

Between 2003 and 2005, Serraniagua Corporation impleme

a Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) project t

Development and Implementation o Private Nature Reserve

Serranía de los Paraguas. The aim was to promote a netwo

private reserves in the Tatamá-Paraguas Conservation Corridor,

included preparing needs assessments and management plan

twelve private reserves. The grant also supported small sustain

agriculture projects aimed at maintaining orest cover to prom

connectivity between private reserves and the development

marketing plan to promote eco-riendly products made by arm

involved with the project. The total size o this grant was

152,945.



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‘Serraniagua, motor de conservación’ (Vimeo) vimeo.com/25426546

Video page o Corporación Serraniagua (Vimeo) vimeo.com/serraniagua

Corporación Serraniagua website: serraniagua.org.co

Corporación Serraniagua Facebook page: acebook.com/serraniagua

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