Peru : Questions

Is there a national forest forum?

Is there any form of government-recognised national level roundtable dialogue which meets regularly (annually or more often) to allow citizens to raise issues of concern with the national forest authorities? If so, what is the status of any discussions or decisions made (are they documented; are they legally binding in any way)?  Read the report...

Partially. As far as permanent dialogue spaces goes, Article 5 of the Forests and Wildlife Law, approved by Law No.27308, establishes the creation of the National Consultative Council of Forest Policy (CONAFOR) which, similarly to the National Table for Forest Dialogue and Consensus (MNDCF), formalised by Ministerial Resolution No.235-2005-AG, has not been implemented so far.
Currently, the participatory and decentralised process of revision and up-date of the Legislation on Forests and Wildlife is underway. This is established by Ministerial Resolution No.0544-2009-AG, whose conclusions will have to be merged with the agreements of the National Group of Coordination for the Development of Amazonian Peoples, which is in charge of outlining a Comprehensive Sustainable Development Plan for Amazonian Peoples, with regard to Education, Health, Titling and Formalisation of Lands and other necessary measures, according to what Supreme Resolution No.117-2009-PCM establishes, and which is modified by the Supreme Resolution No.211-2009-PCM Read more...

Are there local forest forums?

Are there any government-recognised local roundtable dialogue forums which meets regularly (annually or more often) to allow citizens to raise issues of concern with the forest authorities? If so, what is the status of any discussions or decisions made (are they documented; are they legally binding in any way)?  Read the report...

The state has set up a Rountable of Forest Consensus in some regions. Read more...

Is there an established, government-recognised list of stakeholders?

Is there an official list of individual stakeholders or stakeholder types whom the government is obliged to consult or to share information with?  Read the report...

An official identification of the actors of the sector does not exist. However, some stakeholders can be identified as part of different institutional assessments and according to their participation in the design of some policy tools. Some actors of the forest sector are recognised by Ministerial Resolution No.315-2005-MINAG, which formalises the structure of the National Roundtable for Dialogue and Consensus. Read more...

Are reports on consultation processes public?

Does government publish the results of any forest-related consultation processes?  Read the report...

No (So far, no consultation process in the forest sector has been carried out) Read more...

Is there a procedure for consultation on new norms?

Are there any documented procedures (in the form of regulations, official guidance notes etc) that lay out the methodology for consultations that should take place regarding new forest-related policies, laws, regulations etc? If so, is it implemented?  Read the report...

The development of Concerted Development Plans at regional level and the Participatory Budgets can be included, but these are regional norms that we are not analyzing in the first year of the Report Card.

Yes. Among others, there is the case of the Organic Law of Municipalities, approved by Law No.27972, whose Title VIII regulates the Rights to Local Participation and Control.