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participation of project partners, technical meetings with project partners, as well as community assemblies. In addition, an extensive process of 10 village-level information sessions covering 14 villages, led by ACT-Brasil and local Surui promoters also provided the opportunity in detail to discuss the nature of REDD and climate change mitigation finance, and the types of commitments they would be likely to entail. This process has been documented through an extensive archive of video footage as well as a detailed summary report prepared by ACT-Brasil (Ávila, 2009). The signing of the cooperation agreement between the clans was a milestone in an extensive and carefully constructed, highly participative consultation process that embodied the principle of free, prior and informed consent, an important standard for respecting indigenous rights established in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, acknowledged in the ILO 169 Convention, as well as a recommended best practice by the international indigenous rights community. Strengthening the Capacity of the Surui to Reduce Deforestation and Make a Long-term REDD Commitment The formal cooperation agreement of June 2009 signed by all four clans of the Surui to participate in the REDD project overcame initial hesitancy on the part of some clans and community members who had most directly benefited by illegal logging activities. However, it was further strengthened in a meeting of clan leaders formally stopping illegal logging activities – a moratorium and process of social control which has now held for six months – largely in anticipation of REDD finance providing alternative sources of income. Notably, the stakes are high for the Surui REDD project, as it is expected to replace the informal and unsustainable economy that the Surui were forced to adopt over the years, such as allowing illegal logging in their territory, a practice that was initially incentivized by Funai itself with the signing of contracts with logging companies in 1987 under the Presidency of Romero Jucá Filho (Borges, 1991). Aware that illegal logging is causing the degradation of their forest resources and the resulting poverty that follows as experienced by other indigenous groups in the country, coupled with the consistent lack of services by governmental agencies, the Surui envisioned and wrote a 50-year comprehensive ethno-development program, led by Almir Narayamoga Surui among other leaders in partnership with Kanindé (Associação Metareilá et al., 2008). This long-term development vision seeks to gradually improve the quality of life for the Surui people through a series of activities based on socio-environmental sustainability principles. It values and recuperates traditional knowledge and resource use, and fosters development of economic alternatives to promote conservation, food security, health, education, and cultural 116 Av o i d e d d e f o re s t A t i o n (redd) A n d i n d i g e n o u s p e o p l e s: experiences, chAllenges A n d o p p o r t u n i t i e s in t h e A m A zo n c o n t e x t
evitalization. Therefore, the REDD project has been conceptualized within this framework of ethno-development, becoming a key activity to provide bridge financing for the development of additional income-generating activities, diversifying income streams based on more traditional forest commodities linked to established long-term markets. In addition, REDD financing will fund territorial surveillance, refinement, and monitoring of technical activities and strengthen the institutional capacity of the Metareilá Association and the other associations representing all four clans. It is clear that reducing the deforestation and degradation of the Surui territory is in a direct relationship with improving the communities’ way of life and their ability to control their borders. Based on this development vision and framework, the Surui REDD project has been designed through a collaborative partnership between the Metareilá Association, which is the project proponent, with a selective group of project partners, each with complementary and specific responsibilities, as follows: Associação Metareilá do Povo Indígena Surui – The Metareilá Association is the official project proponent for the Surui REDD project. It is entitled to represent the Surui people in the design and implementation of project activities, including all external institutional relations. It provides the interface between the communities and project partners, co-designing and implementing specific project activities, such as ethnozoning and reforestation with Kanindé, leading the socio-economic survey of the Surui communities, co-developing the overall project budget and the Surui Trust Fund with Funbio, and assisting ACT-Brasil, Idesam and Forest Trends with key information for inclusion in land-use mapping, carbon methodology, development of Project Idea Note (PIN) and Project Design Document (PDD), and other required information for project validation and verification purposes. Associação de Defesa Etnoambiental Kanindé (Kanindé) – A partner of the Surui for 12 years, Kanindé along with ACT-Brasil, is leading the ethno- biological zoning, designing the reforestation plan and monitoring its technical implementation. Kanindé has also been instrumental in assisting the Metareilá Association in the identification of key project activities and associated budget, and supporting the Surui in the definition and construction of the Trust Fund with Funbio. Equipe de Conservação da Amazônia (ACT-Brasil) – ACT-Brasil is assisting the Surui in the participatory planning process, as well as leading the mapping and land-use change modeling in collaboration with Idesam and Forest Trends. It also led the documentation Av o i d e d d e f o re s t A t i o n (redd) A n d i n d i g e n o u s p e o p l e s: experiences, chAllenges A n d o p p o r t u n i t i e s in t h e A m A zo n c o n t e x t 117
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Summary Introduction Raul Silva Tel
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Amazon region is currently the pref
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Indigenous Lands and the Climate Cr
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approximately 13 million hectares,
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legal risk that these lands can be
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has the duty (and exclusive compete
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derived from them, such as from the
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communities of the sierra and jungl
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