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2. Identification of stakeholders: With the information provided by the local organizations, the
supporting institutions and the data generated by the PEU, all of the indigenous communities and
creole families that are located within the area under discussion are identified and mapped.
3. Participatory Workshops for the adjustment of the indigenous-creole territory: The participation of
the local population in the adoption of decisions for the agreements between parties are the
fundamental basis of the work carried out by the PEU. These workshops are summoned through
the local radio stations and the organizations of the area. They are held approximately every 15
days in the field, and include the participation of representatives of the indigenous communities and
the creole families, representatives of second-degree organizations that represent each sector,
supporting institutions and members of the PEU.
3.1. At the start of the meetings for the agreements between parties, in the participatory workshops,
a brief description of the advances of the process is made, recalling the most important events, and
the necessary information is provided to the participants.
3.2. First the work is divided between two groups, that correspond to each sector (indigenous and
creole). These work with satellite images, identifying the territories inhabited and used by each one
(families and communities), with the support of members of the PEU technical team.
3.3. Once the group work is finalized, a plenary meeting is held where each group presents its
results and explains the work it has done on the images. With this, a ‘Territorial Superposition Map’
is made, on the grounds of which the dialogues are undertaken, aimed at reaching the agreements
between the parties.
3.4. Once the Territorial Superposition Map is defined, the participants go to work in their
communities and/or organizations based on the results of the workshop, so as to present their
communal proposals in the next meeting, where the dialogues are continued in order to obtain a
first version of a map, with a delimitation between the indigenous and creole territories.
3.5. Once this delimitation is made, a technical team from the PEU, together with representatives of
each sector, travels throughout the territory mapping the agreement that has been reached, and
sketching a ‘Geo-referential Map of Agreements between the Parties’, which constitutes the input
for future measurements.
4. Participatory workshops for the adjustment of the territory between creole neighbours: once the
limit between both social sectors has been demarcated, a stage of agreements between creole
families is begun, in order to locate –in their territory- the parcels with the number of hectares that
corresponds to each one. For this purpose it is necessary for each family to identify the
improvements it has made in its lot, and to negotiate and agree with the neighbouring family the
location of the lot. (…)”
As a result of this methodology, the Provincial Government reported the following “Advances and
Agreements” per zone as of May, 2011:
“Zone I: This zone covers an area of approximately 40.000 ha, inhabited by 5 indigenous
communities (La Puntana, La Puntana Chica, Monte Carmelo, La Curvita and Santa María Sector
Norte) and 22 creole families. The following achievements were made during the five Participatory
Worshops: obtaining the territorial superposition map, reaching an agreement on the division of the
territory on the grounds of the physical boundary set by Cañada Magdalena, mapping the
indigenous-creole agreement, obtaining the consent to relocabion of 8 creole families, and
liberating the territory claimed by the communities from creole occupation. This agreement is
currently finalized and mapped. The Minutes of the Agreement were signed by the indigenous
communities and creole inhabitants of the area. Fieldwork was conducted in order to map (georeferentiate) the agreement between creole neighbours. The final base map of the agreement
between all of the parties of the Zone was made and delivered.
Zone II: The next zone to be defined was Misión La Paz – Las Vertientes, which includes 9
indigenous communities (Misión La Paz, Km 1, Km 2, La Bolsa, Las Vertientes, El Sauce, La Paz
Chica, Misión Anselmo, San Emilio) and 65 creole families. As of this date, seven Participatory
Workshops have been held, in which it was agreed that within this zone there may be spaces left
open for the creole posts that are located within the indigenous claim area and who do not have the
will to relocate and have reached agreements with the neighbouring communities, upon the
condition that the continuity of the indigenous territory is respected and guaranteed. The map of
superposition of indigenous-creole territory was obtained. 30 creole families who are willing to
relocate were identified, and they expressed their wish to migrate to the zone of Puesto El Rosado.
Zone II –Misión La Paz – Las Vertientes- was divided into three sets of dialogues:
1. Sector of Misión La Paz, La Bolsa, La Paz Chica, Km. I, Km. II and La Estrella, who shall
dialogue with the families located to the Routh of Rout 86 until before the Los Mogotes post.