Presented to Sustainable Summits 2014.

2. Working on Resource Management Practices
with highland Aymara communities in the
Cordillera Real, Bolivia
A Progress Report from Sendas Altas - La Paz on
Foot
La Paz, Bolivia
Sustainable Summits 2014
Golden Colorado

3. La Paz - El Alto
2 million +

4. Tuni Condoriri
Illimani
Illampu

5. Illampu
Tuni Condoriri
Huayna Potosi
Illimani
The Cordillera
Real
Akhmani

7. Denver
La Paz

8. Illampu
Tuni Condoriri
Huayna Potosi
Illimani
The Cordillera
Real
Akhmani
Tiwanaku

9. Tiwanaku Archeological
Site

10. El Alto
La Paz
La Paz & El Alto - The New Center of Command &
Control

11. Local actores in the Cordillera Real

13. Community-based Tourism -
CBT

14. CBT in practice

16. Waste Management in
CBT

18. WM in CBT - barriers
● Opportunity costs are high
● Limited to non existent access to information and technologies for
preventing waste impacts
● Unsustained intervention from entities seeking to help improve
conditions for waste management (information, technology, materials)
● Trekking and climbing are incipient and highly seasonal/sporadic
sectors in the Cordillera Real’s mix of human activity
● Lack of trained guides and other actors as well as local norms to guide
high mountain sports activities
● What else? You are an experienced bunch!

19. WM in CBT - opportunities
· Existing organizations, including the more “classic” ones such as UIAMGB
and innovative ones such as Mujer Montanha
· Technicians that know how to work with local communities on implementing
novel resource management systems
· Growing middle class that can be encourage to engage more with local high
mountain landscapes (if security, access and conditions are improved) and
thereby add value to them and invest in their care
· Strong spiritual beliefs among both rural and urban populations about
mountain landscapes that can be “activated” or “called upon” through innovative
information and action campaigns to foster sustainable behavior in “defense of
mother earth”
· Increasingly strong attitudes and norms in favor of “protegiendo lo nuestro”
from exploitation by outside actors

20. What are we doing?

22. Association of Mountain and Trekking Guides of
Bolivia

23. Generating local awareness about and support for WM in high mountain regions

24. Lessons being learned
1) Long term operator-community partnerships that are
transparent, fair and include a mix of training and support
combined with gradually increasing income generation is
the way to go
2) Benefits from such cooperation must produce tangible,
mutual benefits for partners
3) Opportunity costs can not be underestimated and must
be taken into account when planning joint projects

25. Opportunities for
collaboration

26. Thank you . . . and come visit
us!