Fondo Socioambiental del Peru

The Fondo Socioambiental del Perú is a non-profit organization established on February 25, 2019. It is registered in the Registry of Legal Entities of SUNARP with File Number 14277474 and with SUNAT under Tax ID Number 20608818724. Its purpose is to finance and promote specific small-scale investment projects and initiatives in Peruvian communities that contribute to local sustainable development. In this regard, it aims to promote environmental conservation, combat climate change, address inequalities, strengthen democracy, promote social justice, value peace, ethnic and cultural identity, dignity, and quality of life. These efforts aim to build capacity and knowledge in human rights, with an emphasis on proposals originating from indigenous and non-indigenous grassroots groups and organizations, whether in rural or urban sectors of civil society. The goal regarding these initiatives, which can be complex when considered individually, is to collaborate in defending citizens' rights.

The founding members of the Fondo Socioambiental del Perú have been working on human rights, environmental, and indigenous issues for many years, closely with social organizations in urban and rural sectors, including native communities in the Amazon and the Andes. Our work has accumulated extensive experience that supports our ability to understand reality, analyze needs, and link issues to the broader context our civil society faces. The current areas and regions where projects are being implemented enable the team to have objective criteria for effectively allocating and distributing resources to grassroots organizations in need, with the goal of building a true democracy as a society united by common goals.

Our Vision: Indigenous communities, grassroots organizations, and social collectives with sustained working structures contributing to an equitable, democratic, socially just country, with an intercultural, gender-focused, and intergenerational approach, where people live with dignity and in full respect of their human rights, in harmony with the environment and ecosystem conservation, striving for sustainable development in Peru.

Our Mission: To contribute to sustainable development through social promotion of environmental conservation and integrity, poverty reduction, territorial defense, identity, democracy, and social justice with an intergenerational, intercultural, and gender focus. We aim for indigenous communities, grassroots organizations, social collectives, and individuals to live with dignity, in harmony with biodiversity and ecosystems, in accordance with human and collective rights.

These approaches are addressed through our Local Support Program, with which we have collaborated with 57 local initiatives to date, and the Environmental Defenders Program, aimed at complementing the efforts made by the Local Support Program. Often, local leaders and defenders need support and strengthening in the face of violations of their collective and territorial rights for the sake of environmental conservation.

In our Local Support Program: We aim to support a minimum of approximately 50 small-scale actions/projects/initiatives of local advocacy that emerge from civil society collectives each year.

In our Environmental Defenders Program: We aim to promote capacity building through a course at least once a year, applying a participatory, intercultural, and differentiated methodology, tailored to the specific needs of rural and native communities. It involves intercultural dialogue between educators and learners, recognizing that it is mutual learning requiring active participation and feedback.

In our Strengthening the Fondo Socioambiental del Perú Axis: It generally has three main objectives. The first is to operationalize the Local Support Program through a technical team to assist grassroots communities and actors whose rights are affected by illegal or legal extractive, energy, and infrastructure activities. The second is to implement the Environmental Defenders Program, and the third is to consolidate our institutional strengthening strategy.