Sani Isla Case Study Apendices · Sani Isla Case Study Apendices 1. Community Selection Criteria, 2010 2. Story Board from First Workshop, July 2010 3. 2012 Evaluation Plan 4. 2013

Sani Isla Case Study Apendices1. Community Selection Criteria, 20102. Story Board from First Workshop, July 20103. 2012 Evaluation Plan4. 2013 - 2014 Project Timeline

1. Community Selection Criteria, 2010

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Community Selection Evaluation:

Sani Isla


Rainforest Partnership: Vision Statement Rainforest Partnership envisions a world in which we all recognize our individual and collective responsibility to preserve and maintain global resources by working together for the common good.

Rainforest Partnership Mission Statement To develop a global network of partners to protect the Earth’s rainforests by:

• Identifying threats to forest integrity in partnership with local stakeholders; • Working with local communities, businesses, government, and nonprofit agencies to create sustainable economic development

alternatives to deforestation, ensuring the integrity of the forest and all its resources for generations to come; • Raising awareness in our communities of the issues relevant to protecting the forest and the need for action to connect activities in each

partner community to global impacts on climate change; • Acting as a catalyst - linking people to people - to achieve a sustainable future.

And to do so in a way that respects all, protecting human rights and preserving indigenous integrity.


COMMUNITY SELECTION CRITERIA

Objectives

Rainforest Partnership’s aim is undertake projects with the potential to simultaneously address climate change, support local community needs for long-term economic sustainability, and, where possible, conserve biodiversity. Essentially RP partners with communities to support projects that are focused on making it more valuable for them to keep their trees standing, than to cut them down. RP believes that sustainable economic growth can be consistent with rainforest preservation, address global climate change and protect biodiversity. To this end, RP supports projects that accomplish these objectives in a few, carefully selected rainforest communities in Latin America. During these early stages of development, using a bottom-up approach, RP will actively seek out partner communities with an interest in undertaking projects that foster forest preservation while supporting community’s needs. Only later will we implement a system of directly requesting proposals from communities. Criteria described below may be adapted as RP gains experience in using them. RP will undertake projects that accomplish its objectives in two ways:

Direct effects – increased carbon storage (for example, through revegetation and aforestation) and reduced carbon loss (avoiding deforestation through set-aside). Indirect effects – reduced carbon loss by developing economic alternatives to logging, controlled and sustainable logging, sustainable agriculture, ecotourism, and other methods.

The criteria set out below focus on selection of communities with the potential to carry out projects of these kinds, rather than assessing specific project activities, which will happen subsequently. The criteria follow many of the same principles as the project design standards set out by the Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA). We expect that many of the CCBA standards not adopted here will be considered at the project development stage.


COMMUNITY SELECTION EVALUATION

Community Background

Name of the communities Sani Isla, Quechua Community. Location (Coordinates, region, province, country)

Ecuador, Province Orellana, Yasuní National Park, Northwestern part in the National Park, borders are: in the north the River Napó, in the south the River Tiputini, in the east the community of Edén and in the west the communities of Mandaripanga and San Francisco de Chicta. (Need coordinates for the community.)

Type of Community (Association, indigenous community, political subdivision)

Indigenous communities that live along with the river. Northwestern part of Yasuni National Park, six different Quechua communities. Pompeya, Indillama, Nueva Añangu and San Roque belong to the community of Alejandro Labaka, while a part of San Roque also belongs to the community El Edén and Sani Isla belongs to the community Pañacocha.

Contact Information (name, address, phone numbers, email addresses)

See below. Community contact through CyD.

Local Partner Information (Contact information)

Conservación y Desarrollo (CyD) http://www.ccd.org.ec/

• Jose Valdivieso, director and Alfedo Duenas, Project Manager • Carlos Guarderas N47-340 y Gonzalo Salazar esq., Quito, Ecuador, Apdo. 1716-1855

Tel. (593) 2-224-3183 Fax. (593) 2-246-9089

• Founded in 1992 • Non-Profit based in Quito. The group collaborates with government agencies and the private sector with a mission “to

promote sustainable development and the rational use of natural resources, and to raise public consciousness about resource management.”

• C&D focuses on ecotourism, agriculture and community-based projects. It collaborates with several international organizations including the Rainforest Alliance, and is working with the government of Ecuador to develop a national policy for sustainable agricultural production.

• Is also member of the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN)

http://www.ccd.org.ec/�


Criteria common to selection of communities to undertake either direct and/or indirect projects

(a) Essential: To be able to evaluate the community’s ability to undertake direct or indirect projects, sufficient information must be available for each of these criteria. The criteria serve as a check list for gathering of comprehensive data to allow for adequate assessment. See comments for definition and elaboration for each criterion.

Community Interest and Profile Score Description of the community or communities including basic socioeconomic information.

Since the second half of the 19th century the Quechua communities live around the river Napo. Their culture is based on spiritual ceremonies, rituals, imaginations. These beliefs in many cases are no longer transmitted to new generations due to social and economic changes. The target community is: Sani Isla – approx. 20,567 hectares (ha) It is part of six communities that live on 95,979 hectares. There are 302 families with 1,652 inhabitants. The others are: Indillama – approx. 14,083 ha; Nueva Providencia – approx. 5,886 ha; Añangu – approx. 21,465 ha; San Roque – approx. 22,446 ha; Pompeya – approx. 19,620 ha Source: (Conservacion en Areas Indigenas Manejadas, USAID, Wildlife Conversation Society, August 2005) There is also Pilche Community, on the north banks of the Napo, probably the smallest community of 7 quechuas communities outlined in this proposal. Recently, La Selva Lodge along with other organizations have taken an interest in helping the Pilche community. Note: We may want to discuss with CyD about including Pilche. It is difficult for these communities to produce goods reasonably. Production costs of the goods they can sell on a local market are too high and it is not profitable for them. There is larger demand for rice and maize than for coffee and cocoa. There exists a big nutrition problem with children and women. The ministry of education provides food for schools every 40 days. Oil companies often support through medical care, transportation to the local market, school transportation and provide electricity and gas.


Community buy-in: local community/communities and other stakeholders are already engaged in thinking about, and providing input for, potential projects.

CyD has been working with Sani Isla with certification of agroforestry products such as Cacao. Sani Isla has an ecolodge that is yet not certified. Nor do the communities have certification for production though members of the Pompeya community are part of a cacoa growing association. Both communities are opening up to work with CyD to increase production, to learn better methods of producing cacao and for understanding how to market it. The project “Kichwa Arts and Crafts” aims at a major involvement and integration of the community Sani Isla into tourism and conservation. Currently, only the employees of the hotel and the few families of some naturalist guides are involved in tourist activities. Therefore, the opportunities of having a direct income from tourism are very limited and to few people the need to preserve nature is obvious. The project combines small business development and environmental education: fostering the production of elaborate traditional Kichwa arts and crafts, made from natural products as seeds and fibres, increases benefits and boosts personal development in the frame of tourism, and at the same time it’s a promising way to raise awareness for the importance of an intact environment / biodiversity and traditional culture. As a larger part of the community – and especially the women, who up to now are fairly excluded from business – will be given the opportunity to get involved, the “Kichwa Arts and Crafts” project will provide a complement to cocoa production in the maintenance of families and in conservation. Non-Profits like Wildlife Conservation Society and the Foundation Ecuatoriano Populorum Progressivo (FEPP) are already involved in a project in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment (Ministerio del Ambiente).

A mechanism exists for stakeholders to express concerns and grievances in relation to the project.

For Pilche and San Isla, they meet as a community for a meeting or "minga" (Barn raising) at least once a month to discuss , and make decisions regarding community issues all families are urged to attend. In Pompeya, they hold regular community meetings or when necessary.

Potential for positive impacts on the social and economic wellbeing of the community/communities.

There are many ways of having positive impacts: to get paid fair prices for their products (Fair Trade Certification), to reduce transportation costs, to develop strategies for planting products with the option to sell them in cooperation with NGOs. Marketing in the cities or outside the country through certification across different platforms would be helpful to the communities to improve their economic situation thereby reducing the pressure of deforestation. Also, cooperation between NGOs and these communities could provide educational support and help to improve nutrition and health in the communities. Swings in commodity prices for cacao and coffee produce large fluctuations in villager income. This makes primary education and basic health care uncertain, and ultimately less effective and more expensive. CyD has been able to establish trust by working with both Pompeya and Sani Isla. Both communities are now open to


developing better means of producing their agroforestry products. For RP, working with CyD means that there is a respectable partner on the ground with a track record for getting results. RP has cultivated its relationship with CyD over many months and both parties are ready to move forward to work together to leverage what each has to offer and together get results while meeting each’s mission.

Description of current land use in the community.

Natural forest: Primary forest with high biodiversity, used for extraction of wild animals and for non-harvestable products. Forests with human influence: mostly on the east side of the river Napo, used for agriculture, “chacras” (little farms). Areas without vegetation: around bigger streets and villages, red, acidic and poor soils, degraded by human impact or the nature itself.

Quechua communities have their own agricultural system which is called “chacra”. That means producing on a certain area for a few years, then abandon this area and start producing in a new place where they have to cut and burn the forest before they can produce anything. This is for allowing soils to recuperate. Depending on the use, they can be used between 2-7 years. Chacras are mostly close to the villages where the communities plant goods for their own use, for sale as well as medical plants. Around the chacras they also have their domestic animals. A chacra is each family’s property. For many years, Pilche and San Isla leased land to La Selva Eco lodge for an unspecified amount of money, which allowed La Selva to use the oxbow lakes, and tracts of primary forest in the area. Overall the area between Pilche and San Isla have some floodplain forest that has somehow escaped the disturbances of logging and human settlement as evident elsewhere in the province and offers a diversity of plants and wildlife not seen elsewhere on the Napo. The fact that both La Selva and Sacha lodge (nearby lodges) operated in that area for years (offering employment options to just working for an oil company) is a testament to the wildlife diversity found in the area. A lot of the Sani lodge workers (guides, cooks, housekeeping) from the community got their start at either La Selva or Sacha lodge.

Land use history Communities lived on very small space together and had their agriculture only for subsistence. Agricultural production changed due to an orientation on the local market, changes in their spiritual beliefs and their society. Inefficient land use has resulted in deforestation within the buffer zone of the protected areas.


Ecuador has one of the world's highest rates of deforestation (300,000 hectares annually, 3%) and much of original pristine forests are now gone.

Analysis of location of the community in relation to national borders, protected areas, current and future development, and projects in the region.

This area is along the Napo river and is in the Amazon jungle. It has been under threat from oil companies and from exploration and production of oil.

Note: Still waiting for information on oil company dealings (Occidental Petroleum), including the agreement for funding of Sani Lodge by an oil company.

The community is in close to the National Park Yasuní and Nature Reserve Cuyabeno.

Community/project boundary definition The geographical location of the community and basic physical parameters (e.g., soil, geology, climate).

The communities are located in the tropical humid forest between 200 and 300 meters over the sea (msnm). The climate is warm and humid with 2,860 – 3,000 mm of annual rainfall. The average temperature ranges between 24 and 28 degrees celcius and there is an atmospheric humidity between 86 and 94%. During the rainy season from April to July temperature can fall to 15 degrees celcius. During the rest of the year it can go up to 39 degrees celcius. For water supply the River Napo is the most important source followed by the rivers Indillama, Tiputini, Shypati, Jandiyacu, Sabaleta and Yuturi. Contamination in River Napo is a big problem because of its importance to the communities. Volcanic eruptions in the past had a big impact on soil development of the area. Several formations like Curaray (Mioceno) and Chambira (Mioceno Superior – Plioceno) can now be found.

The types and condition of vegetation at the community site.

Evergreen forest, inundaded by clean, seasonal flood water, rich soils. Vegetation reaches an altitude of 35-40 meters and giant trees up to 50 meters. Evergreen forest, inundaded by aqua negra (brackish water), almost all species are endemic. Inundated palm tree-forest, big flat areas, inundaded because of lots of rain. Simple vegetation around small rivers, temporal swamps, inundations during rain season. Agricultural areas for food supply around the communities and main roads.

Land Ownership The community owns or has rights to the land on which a project can be undertaken

Although rights of indigenous communities have existed and still do under the newly adopted constitution, this needs to be clarified over the next months as legal scholars and others clarify some of these rights.


The community is able to gain the right to own or control activities on the land

See above

Level of threat to the existing forest From land use changes. Oil exploration and other extractive exploitation has negatively affected the existing forest and continues to do so.

Natural reactions introduce new parasites that adversely affect the vegetation.

From in-migration of people from surrounding areas.

In 1999 a protection plan was accepted by the government. The communities started to negotiate with the Ministry of Environment to get protection from migrant communities which had different customs of using the land decades ago..

Climate change It is difficult to know how climate change will affect this part of the Amazon, however, loss of the forests here will have an impact on overall climate change.

Political Environment Local Communities have their own governance with limited autonomy where natural resources are

concerned.

Regional National The newly adopted constitution gives environmental protection and indigenous autonomy but

also has contradictory clauses that has muddled issues. The national government is democratic and stable.

Measurability and Monitoring Variables can be selected to measure community benefits, e.g. income, food security, etc.

Yes, there are variables that can be used and prior research and assessment provides baseline information. An example is better nutrition for children and women in the communities due to nutrition plans in keeping with local goods.

Ability to measure changes in carbon stocks due to potential project activities (i.e. carbon stock changes with the project minus carbon stock changes without the project).

This will be defined when the project gets defined.

Sustainability-life cycle costs

Ability of the community to manage project(s) to meet unanticipated needs.

The local market in Pompeya only demands simple products. This reduces the possibilities for the communities to sell or offer more products. People in Pompeya also abuse the communities’ needs to sell their products and put pressure so that the prices stay at a very low level. Hence earnings are insufficient to ensure maintenance of the families. In this


sense, it may be difficult for the community to adapt to manage projects due to economic circumstances. Also, they do not have a long-term history of managing projects but Sani Lodge is one such project for Sani Isla.

Plan to meet long-term needs. The communities need support to develop strategies and sustainable economic activities. Also, can use support from the local or regional government to leverage support from NGOs. RP project plans would take this into account when project is defined.

Degree of Risk for a Project to Fail in the Community Land issues: risk of potential disputes, rising land opportunity costs, fire devastation

No special risks to RP as a NGO with CyD as a local, trusted partner. There is much distrust of oil companies.

Social and/or political instability Oil companies caused much damage to the soils from their oil exploration activities. Due to financial aid and support of infrastructural development for the communities, oil companies have been able to expand their rights to exploit more and more areas. However, there exists a serious lack of confidence between the two groups; misunderstandings quickly cause new conflicts between the communities and the companies. Some communities received support from petroleum companies. Oil companies invested in building schools, roads for transportation. (Añangu, for instance, doesn’t receive any support from oil companies although it has its own water supply, electricity, schools and runs a lodge).

Economic risk Geologic risk (earthquakes, landslides, etc)

N/A

Risk of extreme climatic events (floods, drought, etc)

In some regions around the rivers there will always be a risk of inundations as water level rises frequently during rainy season.

Risk of management failure There is always this risk due to these communities not knowing how to manage projects. However, with the right project controls with partners such as CyD, this shouldn’t be a problem.

(b) Less Critical Criteria


These criteria are deemed less critical in the initial years of community selection and project development. As RP matures as an organization, criteria from this list may be moved to the list of essential criteria.

Less Critical Criteria Additionality

Is the community considering a project that has not been undertaken before?

Since 2003 Wildlife Conservation Society, the Ministry of Environment (Ministerio del Ambiente) and the Foundation Ecuatoriano Populorum Progressivo (FEPP) have been developing a plan for a better use of the territories and the natural resources. With this plan the communities already tried to work on protecting and conserving the biodiversity in its territory.

If the work was happening anyway, can specific activity/activities be undertaken and specifically attributed to RP?

Yes.

Biodiversity Conservation Can a description of current biodiversity in the project area and threats to that biodiversity be provided.

Yasuni National Park nearby is one of the most biodiverse areas in the world (UN designated bioreserve). It has about 4,000 different species of plants. Yasuni Scientific Station (Estacion Scientifica Yasuni) found in an area of 25 hectares 1,104 different species. That is only exceeded by part of the tropical rainforest in Limbar, Malaysia. - 491 species of birds - 173 species of mammals - 83 species of reptiles All these species depend on the rainforest and continued deforestation would mean their extinction.

Can a list be provided of all IUCN Red List threatened species and species on nationally recognized list.

Threatened species in Ecuador (2008 Red List): 43 mammals, 69 birds, 11 reptiles, 171 amphibians, 15 fish, 48 mollusks, 12 other invertebrates, 1,839 plants. 2,208 total

History/Past Performance


Is anything known about the community’s past performance in relation to avoided deforestation, etc?

No, but they managed to get protection from the state concerning migrant communities. So they are aware that a non-sustainable use of soils and natural resources will lead to bad impacts on the environment.

Local partner organization involvement and partnership with RP in on the ground oversight. Local partner organization involvement and partnership with RP in on the ground oversight.

CyD. RP has an agreement with CyD.

Potential to link communities in US and Central/South America Potential to link communities in US and Central/South America

- sharing of knowledge - connecting schools - marketing of local goods such as cacao. - Ecolodge at Sani Isla

Marketability of Project • Marketability of project The forest around this area is very biodiverse and is under threat from deforestation. There

is a potential for working with indigenous communities to make a difference that would meet RP’s objectives and mission and be marketable to US audiences.

Innovation in Project Design • Innovation in project design Can not be determined until project is defined.

Cost Cost Can not be determined until project is defined.

Physical Access Physical Access By canoe and from the closest village on by car, in some cases also to villages in the

communities. To Coca by plane from Quito.

Safety Safety Travelling during the day is always recommended, although it is not a high risk-zone.

Ability to graduate projects i.e. potential to handoff for long-term sustainability Ability to graduate projects i.e. potential to handoff for long-term sustainability

The idea of supporting agroforestry and ecotourism projects is just that: ability to hand off the project after ensuring long-term sustainability.

3. Additional criteria for direct carbon projects (for which it may be initially easier to “sell” carbon offsets).


These criteria are taken from the Nature Conservancy’s1

Permanance project verification criteria for voluntary carbon offset projects:

Will the project be around long enough (minimum of 25 years) to actually capture the carbon over time and keep it there?

N/A at this time. Also, can not be determined until project is defined.

Is there a reserve of carbon offsets to buffer for potential carbon losses resulting from storms or other natural events?

Yes, there are pristine forests still remaining.

Additionality Ideally the offset should be supporting projects that add new carbon sequestration or reduction options that would not be possible without our support. This could include new efforts to protect and reforest land and new opportunities to preserve old growth forests.

N/A

Leakage (Escape) Leakage

If the new carbon project is going to change the use of land from an old purpose to the new carbon storage purpose, is the old use of the land simply going to move to an area that would have been forested?

Can not be determined until project is defined.

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Standards of Verification What third party is verifying the quality of the offsets and holding the supplier to a high standard?

N/A

How often will the project be measured and how will you the consumer be kept informed?

Can not be determined until project is defined.

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Additional criteria for indirect projects:

Additional Criteria for Indirect Projects Forest Stewardship Council FSE certification

Where it is necessary that some degree of logging continues, feasibility that the project can gain this certification.

N/A

Rainforest Alliance Certification Feasibility that agricultural projects e.g. coffee, cacao, etc., can achieve this certification

The production of coffee and cocoa plantations decreased during the last few years due to the impact of infestations of Hypothenemus hampei (insect that attacks coffee beans) and Crinipellis perniciosa (a fungus that attacks Cacao trees). This also caused lower prices on the markets. Until now production hasn’t increased again and there hasn’t been found a solution to market the products better. The acceptance of rice and maize on the local markets is disproportionately higher than for cocoa or coffee. So farmers prefer to sell these products as they can be sure that they will sell their whole harvest although production costs are still not profitable. This is an area that CyD and RP can partner to support a project that allows for better production with decreased impact on the forest.

Fair Trade certification


Fair Trade certification N/A Ecotourism potential

Ecotourism potential

Sani Isla is one of two communities in the larger area which already run a lodge. Sani Isla lodge is supported by the petroleum company OXY and is managed by Sani Lodge. (Napo Wildlife Center operates the lodge in Añangu. The NGO holds 51% and the community 49% of the lodge.) There is ample opportunity for animal and birdwatching, fishing, canoeing, and hiking.

Potential product marketability, locally and in US Potential product marketability, locally and in US

An improvement to the transportation system would help the communities a lot. A reliable and predictable canoe for transporting heavy goods up to 2,275 kilos and a truck would make it possible to carry the agricultural products directly from the community to the local market in Pompeya as well as to the regional markets in Coca, Lago Agrío. The communities could make more profit with that system as they wouldn’t have to pay middlemen for transportation and more. More research is necessary in the local and regional markets, as well as product demand and pricing. Markets for coffee and cacao as well as other goods from the forests could be created by making direct links. There is a market for high quality products.

Biodiversity monitoring Biodiversity monitoring Yasuni National Park is home to many different species of vegetation which only exist in

such rare places in the world. This unique biodiversity also maintains ecotourism potential as well as research opportunities for biologists. This can be monitored through partnering with other NGOs and providing education to the community as part of adopted projects. However, this can not be determined until the project is defined.

2. Story Board for First Workshop, July 2010

Rainforest Partnership and Conservación y Desarrollo held the introductory workshop for the artisan project in Sani Isla, Ecuador in July 2010. During this workshop, women

think about what made them rich and what made them poor.

The women answered these questionsthrough their own artistic representations and revealed their personal views regarding the concept of wealth.

People around the world have varying perceptions of rich and poor. In the community of Sani Isla, everyone is not only personally, but physically, emotionally and culturally attached to their environment and their Amazonian rainforest.

The new artisan studio, built in Summer 2010, allows the women to gather and work together.

The women want the ability to pay for better education and healthcare for their children.

“Our homes are old homes and we have no chickens”

“The river makes us rich” “We have land”

“Oil pipeline is a concern”

“We are rich in natural resources”

“What makes us rich.” “ What makes us poor.”

“We have too many children”

Doña Margarita and RP’s Niyanta Spelman

Women’s Artisan Project Sani Isla, Ecuador

3. 2012 Evaluation Plan

Rainforest Partnership Evaluation Plan: Kichwa Arts and Crafts Project, Sani Isla, Ecuador

Goal Objective Strategy Method of Evaluation

Improve the artisan group's

understanding of the supply

chain and national market

for crafts

An educational tour in

Quito where women will

visit tourist markets and a

range of shops that sell low

to high end crafts

An initial workshop at the beginning of the tour to collect baseline data on women's

understanding of the market, supply chain, and the pricing of crafts to understand

the women's current knowledge; a second workshop at the end of the tour to

evaluate what the women have learned from the tour and identify remaining weak

areas that need continued attention

Workshops to educate

women in business &

administration

Focus groups with women's group and selective interviews to evaluate if they felt

the workshops were helpful and if they feel the tracking/accounting system

implemented is useful

Focus groups and surveys with a sample group of women to evaluate their

understanding of basic business principles and if they understand the accounting

system and like using it

Quarterly reports that include information of product sales, input costs, time, gross

revenue and net profit to determine if there is consistency and accuracy in the

tracking system

Certificate of recognition

and graduation for

attending workshops to

help create buy-in,

recognition and incentive

for attending the

workshopsNumber of women who attended all or majority of the workshops to receive the

certificate

Research best practices for

monitoring and evaluation

for development and

environmental

conservation programs

Develop monitoring

program and identify

responsible actors

Develop

Business Skills

& Improve

Management

Techniques

Establish strong

infrastructure for the

women's business and

improve women's capacity

to manage the business on

their own

Implement a program to

collect socioeconomic and

environmental data to

evaluate project success

and impact by Fall 2012

Informal evaluations and feedback provided by outside experts and on-ground

partners to evaluate the best practices gathered for monitoring and evaluation

Improve

Project

Monitoring

Platforms

Analyze existing

community-level

accounting systems and

implement the best format

for the women's group

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Analyze environmentally

sustainable production

limits for harvested and

recycled materials to help

identify appropriate

marketsCyD will determine this information and report it to RP Program Manager.

Research and build

relationships with

distribution channels

Report including the names of boutiques or shops that have agreed or showed

significant interest in selling the women's crafts and clearly track the requirements

for the women to sell in the boutiques

Begin sales in 1-2 selected

boutiques in QuitoThe number of items that are placed and sold in the boutiques will be tracked and

part of the 2012 report

Develop a business plan

focused on national and

international markets

based upon the above

information

A business plan, in Spanish and user friendly so that it serves as a guide for the

women, completed by December 2012

Increase production levels

to meet demand for selling

in multiple shops in Quito

by December 2012

CyD and women's group

community coordinator

will encourage women to

increase production of

crafts that are less time

intensive but still

marketable (such as shigras

made out of plastic bags)

Records of production and sales, which will be available after the women develop

more clear accounting methods; Surveys conducted by the women to track the

changes in time allocated for artisan production

Develop Larger

Scale

International &

National

Markets

Identify desired/appropriate

markets by Summer 2012

Increase and

Improve

Quality of

Artisan Craft

Production

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Improve the quality and

consistency of crafts to be

more attractive to high end

shops by December 2012

CyD and local crafts

teacher will work with

women to ensure the

quality and consistency of

crafts and develop craft

making skills; the tour in

Quito will demonstrate

that higher quality crafts

have a higher priceEvaluation of craft quality by CyD Project Coordinator and RP staff when visiting

community sites

Improve

Connections

Between Sani

Lodge &

Visiting Tourists

Ensure Sani Lodge tours

visit the women's group

twice a week in high season

and once a week in low

season by April 2012

Establish regular contact

with the lodge to ensure

visits to the women's group

are regular Verification of tourist visits through monthly CyD reports and calls to Sani Lodge &

leadership of women's group

Complete business plan to

guide all project

stakeholders in short and

long term objectives

Final version of the business plan

Create a clear exit plan that

all partners understand and

agree toAn informal, but written agreement developed between RP, CyD, and RP detailing

the execution plan

Identify the key objectives

in the successful planning

and implementation of the

project for future

replicationEvaluation of the key objectives and project plan, executed by RP with the support

of project partners

Increase and

Improve

Quality of

Artisan Craft

Production

Complete a model that CyD

and RP can replicate in

other project areas by the

end of 2013

Scale artisan craft business

by 2013

Develop a

partnership

model to scale

Sani Isla artisan

project & allow

RP to replicate

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Identify key activities for

the development of a

natural forest product with

a natural market Evaluation of key activities, executed by RP with the support of project partners

Develop an overall

investment time frame for

project activities and the

shifting roles of project

partners over the course of

the projectEvaluation of the investment timeframe and the evolving roles of project partners,

executed by RP with the support of project partners

Create timelines and

determine infrastructure

needs, and other resource

needs for long-term

sustainabilityFinal project replication and scalability plan

Complete a model that CyD

and RP can replicate in

other project areas by the

end of 2013

Develop a

partnership

model to scale

Sani Isla artisan

project & allow

RP to replicate

project

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4. 2013-2014 Project Timeline

TIMELIME – SANI WARMI PROJECT – 2013 – 2014

COMPONENT 1 – FIELD COORDINATOR

APRIL MAY JUN JUL AUG SEPT OCT NOV DIC JAN FEB MAR

1.1 Provide technical support to the project Sani Warmi in order to respond to the needs of its members and run the activities proposed for the year 2013.

Visit the community once a month (with one week stays) to monitor activities of the organization and work directly with the women.

Create and help maintain ongoing record (digital or physical) of income from passengers, artisans and sales of products

Create and ensure quality control and proper storage of handicrafts.

Identification, connection, collection and delivery of crafts for shops in Quito Help create and establish a priority of needs of the organization. 1.2 Implement methods that will help to improve the quality of service in the artisan house

Attendance at the tour made by the artisans to recognize the weaknesses of this service.

Development of 2 recordings of the tour made by the artisans Interviews and research of the information obtained in the recordings in order to strengthen the tour made by the artisans

Transcribe the information obtained in the recordings of the tour (with the help of a volunteer)

Creation of 1 script written in Spanish of the craft tour Creation of 1 script written in English of the craft tour (with the help of a volunteer)

1 formalization of the script in Spanish with the women's group 4 training sessions on the use of the script in Spanish (1 training per group) Follow-up on the implementation of the script Creation of a procedures manual for the attention of tourists (sale of crafts, food preparation, activities before the arrival of tourists, during the visit from tourists and after the visit of tourists)

1 formalization of manual procedures for attending to the tourists 4 training sessions on the manual of procedures (1 for each group) Creation of explanatory booklets in several languages about the process of gathering and processing of fibers and making crafts.

1.3 Maintain active communication with Rainforest Partnership and women's organization

Bimonthly meetings by Skype with Niyanta Spelman or her designee at Rainforest Partnership and a designated CyD (if they would like to participate) to inform what is being done, not done, ongoing issues, new issues, adjustment to overlap plan.

Monthly in person meetings and weekly communication with the coordinators of the Group of artisans and the community.

Weekly reports (Friday) on the work carried out to RP and CyD. COMPONENT 2 – BASIC NEEDS APRIL MAY JUN JUL AUG SEPT OCT NOV DIC JAN FEB MAR

2.1 Improvement of the facilities of the project Sani Warmi in order to improve the quality of service and the sale of handicrafts.

Implementation of a basin to wash dishes with running water in the artisan house

Improvement of the bathroom in the artisan house Implementation of a storage facility for the crafts in the artisan house Purchase of 1 machine to make holes in the seeds Maintenance of the nursery in the artisan house (with a volunteer’s help) Improvement of show room in the artisan house Improvement of show room in Sani Lodge 2.2 Improve the system of communication in order to achieve an efficient organization, increase quality of service and sales of handicrafts

Implement and formalize and implement a new system of communication with the Office of Sani Lodge in Quito.

Update the calendar of the activities for 2013, maintenance and care of artisan house

Reactivation of the Skype account and the email of the Organization Creation of a business account (email) managed by the Coordinator ([email protected] / [email protected])

Getting a phone number for sales and contact with the project COMPONENT 3 - STRENGTHEN THE WOMEN’S ORGANIZATION,

ADMINISTRATIVE AND MANAGEMENT SKILLS APRIL MAY JUN JUL AUG SEPT OCT NOV DIC JAN FEB MAR

3.1 Make a diagnostic analysis of the current situation of the project Sani Warmi

Visit the artisan house (infrastructure, bathroom, Garden, Office, use of technologies, storage, showroom of community and lodge)

Observation of the tour performed by women to recognize their strengths and weaknesses

1 workshop to: • Register participants and groups of artisans on a map. • Recognition of the authorities of the Organization (coordinating,

Treasurer, Secretary). • Recognition of the responsibilities of each of the artisans and

authorities and choice of auxiliary coordinators for each group. • Identification of the financial situation of the project and their

needs.

3.2 Improve sales of handicrafts according to the 2012 marketing study completed during previous project phase

Elaboration of handicrafts counters to implement in shops in Quito Preparation of ecological and recycled material packaging for handicrafts

Contact with shops where handicraft products were traded in Quito Contact with new stores for the sales of crafts in Quito or around of Ecuador Improvement of logo "Sani Warmi" Creation of the white label that includes the name of the craftsman and the materials used

3.3 Making a catalogue of the Kichwa community Sani Isla crafts to use as a tool in the standardization of production, marketing and sales on the internet

Identification of crafts which include information regarding materials, codes, techniques used, photography, production, cost, symbols, cultural value, etc.

Group workshop to complement the information of handicrafts for the catalog Personal interviews with artisans, and historians to complement the information in the catalogue (with the help of a volunteer)

Development of Power Point presentation as a selling tool that contains information about the project, catalogue of handicrafts, costs, etc. (Can get help from RP Austin personnel)

Opening of facebook account to implement the sales catalog. (Can get help from RP Austin personnel)

COMPONENT 4- WORKSHOPS APRIL MAY JUN JUL AUG SEPT OCT NOV DIC JAN FEB MAR

4.1 Training in the use of tools of communication and technology to members of the project women Sani Warmi

Training in the use of software such as Skype, email, and Word for the women's group (with the help of a volunteer)

4.2 Training on issues of organization, strengthening, leadership and conservation

1 training concerning organization, empowerment and leadership (with the help of a volunteer)

1 field trip with artisans leaders to learn about a successful initiatives of indigenous artisans (eg. ANWAE - WAORANI WOMEN ARTISAN)

Involving 4 women leaders in marketing, promotion, and the organization accounting

1 meeting of strengthening and conservation of territory with the leader of women waoranies AMWAE

4.3 Training women artisans in English focusing mainly on issues related to the attention to the tourist and environmental conservation (with the help of a volunteer)

Training of the weekly woman’s group in the English language including issues like guidance, conversations with tourists, environmental conservation, recycling, wildlife protection, water, Earth, air, forests and others (through a volunteer)

4.4 Training women artisans in quality and innovation of crafts Training with artists focused on the quality and innovation of handicrafts using recycle materials from the forest

Workshop to recover ancestral knowledge of crafts for youth dictated by community artisans

Creating innovative and recycled crafts counter with materials of the forest with the support of artists

4.5 Implement formats or accounting systems that help the financial organization of the Sani Warmis project, which can be handled by craftswomen.

Using software such as Excel and Word related with: incomes and outflows of crafts, income from visitors, prices of crafts, payments, appropriations (backup is simple spreadsheets)

Implement a system of inventory of handicrafts (Kardex) to know the flow of sales

Training in the use of formats and software such as Excel and Word (with the help of a volunteer)

Training in basic mathematics and accounting (with the help of a volunteer) Monitoring of the proper use of the accounting formats 4.6 Training in techniques of promoting crafts and improvement of service procedures

4 training in the use of the script and promotion techniques (with the help of a volunteer)

4 training in the manual of procedures for the receiving of tourists 4 training in use of the English script (with the help of a volunteer)

COMPONENT 5 – ENVIORAMENTAL EDUCATION APRIL MAY JUN JUL AUG SEPT OCT NOV DIC JAN FEB MAR

1 Taxi tour to show the effects caused by oil drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon 1 workshop on the biology and ecology of plants used in handicrafts and the relationship and importance to the animals, the ecosystem and daily life (with the help of a volunteer)

1 workshop regarding recovery, traditions and culture (handicrafts regain importance as oars, ceramic, hammocks, nets, etc.) (with the help of a volunteer)

1 workshop on importance of natural resources (water, land, air, flora and fauna) and the allocation of these resources extraction activities (economic analysis of natural resources value versus logging and oil) (with the help of a volunteer)

Gathering all the information from the workshops and research plants, seeds or meanings of craft to be captured as stories for young children or the use, tradition, culture and importance of conservation in order to publish in the future a book of stories told by women to their children (including a CD of songs kichwas sleeping) (with the help of a volunteer)

Documents

Sani Isla Case Study Apendices · Sani Isla Case Study Apendices 1. Community Selection Criteria, 2010 2. Story Board from First Workshop, July 2010 3. 2012 Evaluation Plan 4. 2013