Bolivia Tropical Forestry and Biodiversity Assessment: Final Report

ARD (Associates in Rural Development, Inc.)

2008

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USAID/Bolivia conducted its last Tropical Forestry and Biodiversity Assessment in 2002, in conjunction with the development of its 2004-2009 Country Strategy. Since that assessment, the political and economic situation in Bolivia has changed dramatically. Given these changes, USAID/Bolivia requested this updated assessment as an input to the development of its 2009-2013 Country Strategy. The objectives of this assessment were to update information on: Threats to Bolivia’s tropical forests and biological diversity, and their direct and indirect (root) causes; Actions needed to reduce and/or mitigate the direct and indirect (root) causes of those threats in the current political, economic, social context; and Opportunities for USAID to support such needed actions within its proposed strategy and program. We used the information gathered from all sources in this analysis to develop five general principles for USAID to consider as it develops a strategy and programs that may assist Bolivia to meet its needs in tropical forest and biodiversity conservation. We then applied those general principles to the broad set of “actions needed” that were identified by our participatory analysis, and identified four priority areas to recommend for USAID support. [Extracto, Executive Summary]

Biodiversidad; Bolivia; Bosques;