The long-term success and viability of ACT's conservation strategy to conserve the Amazon rainforest depends on the depth, breadth, and proper implementation of land management plans devised by our indigenous partners. ACT supports the design and implementation of indigenous management and development plans with legally recognized indigenous associations in Colombia, Brazil, and Suriname. The plans typically are deeply informed by the information gathered from ethnographic mapping and other types of geo-spatial land use assessments, information that ACT has taught indigenous representatives to interpret and synthesize. In all of the areas where ACT has guided ethnographic mapping projects, ACT has subsequently helped the indigenous groups draft, publish, and execute their land management and community development plans, which are understood as a necessary precursor to on-the-ground forest protection efforts.
Once management plans are in place, in order for our indigenous partners to be effective managers of their lands, they require relevant training. ACT has trained hundreds of indigenous representatives in day-to-day institutional operations, project development, computing and other essential skills necessary for the proper administrative management of their traditional territories.
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