Description/achievement of initiative
Development of a sustainable protection zone of 5,000 square kilometers that provides biosphere and ecosystem services internationally that is controlled, owned and managed by the Piaroa inhabitants that live there through this partnership. To help them offset and finance their economic shortfalls through international cooperation partnerships to issue carbon trading certificates to finance agroforestry installations and engage in other partnerships with various United Nations agencies and partners.
➤ Partner with us to assist the indigenous Piaroa of the Northern Amazon in Venezuela living in 13 remote forest communities (settlements) to protect their native land rights and revitalize their agricultural production to make their communities ecologically and economically sustainable while addressing 12 of the 17 SDGs. The project will promote common values in agroecology, biodiversity, land protection and forest management through an assimilated indigenous scouting program and a local agricultural extension service.
➤ Through a partnership in this initiative over 500 people will escape poverty in their own communities by gaining access to running water, sanitary bath houses, community centers, local employment and an authoritative educational module operated by well-educated local figures promoting indigenous culture and language non-politically and non-religiously. The long term relationships that will follow and can evolve will be the most important.
➤ The project focus covers an area of over 5,000 square kilometers and creates sustainable socioeconomic alternatives in their forest communities for their agricultural production by providing an avenue to the global market for their cacao, cupuacu and exotic fruit products. The project monitors and prevents illegal mining and deforestation among other objectives.
Implementation methodologies
Globcal International is looking to implement the project using a combination of methods involving hands on workshops and activities in the Piaroa communities.
➤ The Piaroa Protectorate Partnership needs to raise a significant amount of international cooperation and multilateral support to intelligently and intentionally accomplish all of its objectives with a variety of sponsors to successfully implement its primary initiatives.
➤ Globcal International through Ecology Crossroads in the US in partnership with others through the SDGs, as they will develop a detailed 5-7 year action plan with other stakeholders to establish a raw processed agricultural materials marketing network with a chocolate factory representative of the Piaroa Protectorate Partnership's (PPP)’s agricultural production which will partially finance (30%) this SDGs project. The initial timeline target is five (5) years and can be extended by organizers and sponsors as needed for up to 5 additional years to meet the 2030 SDG Agenda Objective date.
➤ Globcal International is helping to establish a forest-to-bar chocolate factory which will be operated by the Piaroa, where we believe they can generate over $200K per year in addition to getting fair-trade pricing from current agricultural production for community improvements under a transparent, managed and well-organized international cooperation program. The chocolate factory will create 36 new part-time jobs that realize a good annual salary and upstream opportunities for workers on the farm.
➤ To make the project sustainable and autonomous of the national government and to protect stakeholders it is being established offshore through Ecology Crossroads. The non-profit agricultural and forestry cooperative we build with the Piaroa stakeholders will be dedicated to the provisioning of ecosystem services (air, water, biodiversity, forests, ecotourism) from their relatively pristine forests through agroforestry, sustainable ecotourism, reforestation, and protecting watersheds of the area. This will be accomplished through education, community improvements, organization and training in forest management, watershed protection and integrated natural resource conservation to make their livelihoods more sustainable based on their natural capital and remove them from poverty.
➤ Other funding will be provided through donations, grants, sponsorships and international cooperation partnerships to accelerate the establishment of jointly managed forestry programs and the formal protection of the 5000 square kilometer region with a recognized transparent international development project operated by capacitated official Piaroa native residents.
Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer
Currently we have two Piaroa indigenous leaders that are graduates from universities whom are capable of providing capacity training in the target communities once we have the materials, supplies and equipment to accessorize them. Currently we need basic equipment, solar-charged battery packs and highly portable computers that can be used in remote villages.
➤ We additional want to develop a protected pen-drive with 30 hours of universal format YouTube video that can be played back in any PC or laptop and played using a downloadable phone app, the 30 hours (10 learning sessions) would be presented in person over a period of 6-8 hours per session with live workshops.
➤ The Piaroa are the exclusive native inhabitants of an area that includes a total of 30,000+ square kilometers (approximately the size and shape of Belgium) most of their communities are only accessible by river or overland by foot; the 5,000 square kilometer focus area in Venezuela is the most important ecological protection area in the region encompassing three major river watersheds the Catañiapo, Cuao and Paraguaza. They are receptive to technology and will quickly use and adapt to internet access solutions once available to them.
Coordination mechanisms/governance structure
The project is being overseen and managed by Globcal International under the direction of Ecology Crossroads Cooperative Foundation which will administer the funding to members engaged as remote oversight coordinators in the field.
➤ The Piaroa Protectorate Partnership will be managed internationally through its trustees who are designated by Globcal International to act on the behalf of the organization.
➤ Globcal International is a decentralized commission and international civil society organization that is part of Ecology Crossroads Cooperative Foundation (ECCF) established by the founder Col. David Wright when he relocated to Venezuela after serving as an international goodwill ambassador for Metropolitain Caracas in 2004; it was formed as part of ECCF to project a variety of supplemental assistance initiatives to popular human and environmental rights areas to form an international civil team effort that could address the top 30 world issues identified by the United Nations through online programs in the social media and through its members abroad, only now is it taking on new character. Ecology Crossroads is based in Kentucky and is dedicated to the development of international missions, programs and projects that protect the environment and promote sustainable ecological values.
Partner(s)
Ecology Crossroads Cooperative Foundation, Globcal International, Goodwill Ambassador Foundation
Progress reports
Goal 1
1.1 - By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day
1.a - Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions
Goal 2
2.3 - By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
2.4 - By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
2.a - Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries
2.b - Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round
Goal 4
4.1 - By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes
4.3 - By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university
4.5 - By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations
4.7 - By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development
4.c - By 2030, substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and small island developing States
Goal 5
5.1 - End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
5.a - Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws
5.b - Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women
Goal 6
6.1 - By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all
6.2 - By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations
6.6 - By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes
6.b - Support and strengthen the participation of local communities in improving water and sanitation management
Goal 8
8.1 - Sustain per capita economic growth in accordance with national circumstances and, in particular, at least 7 per cent gross domestic product growth per annum in the least developed countries
8.9 - By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
Goal 10
10.1 - By 2030, progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the population at a rate higher than the national average
10.2 - By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
Goal 11
11.4 - Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage
11.c - Support least developed countries, including through financial and technical assistance, in building sustainable and resilient buildings utilizing local materials
Goal 12
12.2 - By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
12.8 - By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature
Goal 13
13.1 - Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
Goal 15
15.1 - By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements
15.2 - By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally
15.4 - By 2030, ensure the conservation of mountain ecosystems, including their biodiversity, in order to enhance their capacity to provide benefits that are essential for sustainable development
15.5 - Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species
15.a - Mobilize and significantly increase financial resources from all sources to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and ecosystems
15.b - Mobilize significant resources from all sources and at all levels to finance sustainable forest management and provide adequate incentives to developing countries to advance such management, including for conservation and reforestation
Goal 17
Finance -
17.3 - Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources
17.5 - Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries
Technology -
17.7 - Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed
Capacity-Building -
Trade -
17.12 - Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access
17.16 - Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
17.17 - Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships
Data, monitoring and accountability
April 2020
