On February 17, 2021, the Peruvian National Congress, through its Commission on Andean, Amazonian and Afro-Peruvian Peoples, Environment and Ecology, organized the Virtual Forum Towards a Framework Law for Environmental Monitoring and Surveillance in cooperation with indigenous peoples associations and civil society organizations. The forum sought to promote environmental monitoring and surveillance as well as the need of a regulatory framework in this field.
The Amazonian peoples have sought to preserve their territory and resources through the Indigenous Territorial Surveillance Programme (PVTI). Indigenous federations are working jointly to coordinate strategies and actions aimed at protecting the natural environment, their livelihoods and their health within the framework of this initiative.
During the Virtual Forum, UNDP Peru and the Platform of Amazonian Indigenous Peoples United in Defense of their Territory (PUINAMUDT) presented a new study identifying the contributions that the PVTI has had in improving dialogue with the Government of Peru. As part of these efforts, the PVTI has registered more than 1,200 reports of impacts caused by extractive industries in territories inhabited by indigenous peoples.
UNDP has been developing Participatory Environmental Monitoring within the framework of the Environmental Governance Programme (EGP). This joint initiative with the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency supports countries to integrate environmental and human rights protection into mining governance. In Peru, the EGP has worked with the PVTI and the Huarmey Environmental Monitoring, Vigilance and Enforcement Committee in Ancash, to promote capacity building and the exchange of best practices.
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