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Extra-sectoral activities affecting forests

Are decisions about extra-sectoral operations - such as mining, road building, large-scale agriculture, hydropower or other infrastructure projects - transparent? What transparency rules apply to these? Are there extra-sectoral threats to the forest? How?

Decisions about extra-sectoral operations are not transparent.
There are extra-sectoral threats to the forest as long as the legal dispositions give priority to the development of extractive activities of other sectors, to the detriment of the adequate management of forest resources.

Is there a strategic process to assess priorities between development options?

Is there a Strategic Environmental Assessment to identify and resolve conflicting land uses between forests, mining, large-scale agriculture and infrastructure development? Does the National Forest Policy document seek to address this? Do any policy documents from the other sectors?  Read the report...

No. Read more...

Is it clear who decides if / when to make decisions between development options?

Are there clear, documented, and understood steps for making decisions over the use or conversion of forest lands for other purposes such as mining, large-scale agriculture or infrastructure development?  Read the report...

No. Read more...

Is there a stakeholder consultation process on decisions between different development options?

At the time an area of forest is identified for allocation to any sort of non-forest purpose, are stakeholders consulted, for example on any conditions or mitigation commitments?  Read the report...

With regard to Indigenous Peoples, the process of consultation set by the Agreement 169 of the International Labour Organization (ILO) has not been implemented. Currently, different Law Projects on the issue are awaiting judgement or debate in the Congress.
It is worth noting that, in accordance with the Alternative Report 2009 on the fulfilment of the Agreement 169 of ILO on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Peru, the existing rules for participation, applicable to mining and oil-extraction activities, wouldn't meet the requirements of a free prior and informed consultation. The same would be the case for the rules for citizen participation in the implementation of power-generation activities. Read more...

Is the final decision-making process on different development options transparent?

Is the final decision to allocate any forest to non-forest use made in way which allows citizens to assure themselves that the correct process has been followed? – is the process documented and published?  Read the report...

This cannot be established, in as much as the process of preliminary consultation has not been implemented in Peru. Read more...

Is information on implementation of non-forest use / conversion given to the public?

Once the final decision has been made, are local people informed of where mining, large-scale agriculture or infrastructure development in forests will be / is occurring, so that they are aware operations should be happening in their area, and to give them the opportunity to know if operations are legally in that location?  Read the report...

This cannot be defined, in as much as the process of preliminary consultation has not been implemented in Peru. Read more...

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