Evaluación del programa de pago por servicios ambientales en Gachalá Cundinamarca jurisdicción de Corpoguavio

Abstract

The municipality of Gachalá in the jurisdiction of the Regional Autonomous Corporation of Guavio - CORPOGUAVIO, was one of the municipalities of Cundinamarca where the first phase of the Payment for Environmental Services Project (PSA) was implemented, starting in 2016, were integrated into the Project 14 buildings located in the paths of San Isidro, Guacamayas, Bocademonte, Escobal, Florida and Tendidos de Rionegro and belonging to eleven (11) owners. The total number of hectares that were part of the program amounted to (259.6) hectares and where total incentives were given the sum of FIFTY-SIX MILLION THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOUR PEOS ($ 56,337,435) M / CTE. The assessment of the payment policy for environmental services in the municipality of Gachalá, through a socio-environmental diagnosis to determine the results of the program, in addition to evaluating the methodology used by the Governor of Cundinamarca through Corporación Ambiental Empresarial (Caem), Operator of the program and in turn generate a proposal for improvement. Although there was a clear and precise methodology for the incorporation of farms into the program, there was a lack of technical rigor in several aspects of the methodology, such as technical evaluation, call, review of strategic areas, among others. There is no evidence of monitoring and monitoring of the resources that supported the access to the PSA project, fundamental for quantifying or qualifying the improvement of the resource. The perception that we had of the participants of the PSA program was that they received an extra economic resource for the traditional management that they make in their farm, a sector conserved forest and bodies of water sprout in their lands and the other sector dedicated to the cattle raising Traditional, this extra income contributes to the sustainability of the farm, but did not go beyond the mentality of the beneficiaries in the sustainable management of resources to ensure environmental services.