Prior consultation to indigenous and native peoples in Peru: advances and setbacks

• In Event: Participación Política Indígena y Afrodecendiente

Abstract

This paper provides an analytical description of the recent process of institutional design and implementation of the Prior Consultation to Indigenous and Native Peoples in Peru. The main objective is to reconstruct the complex relationships that have developed regarding this policy in an extractive economy. What are the institutional characteristics of prior consultation in Peru? How the design process of these regulations developed? Which are the postures and political commitments to this topic? Which factors enable or block the implementation of this regulation? What challenges did indigenous organizations face in this context? These are some of the questions answered in the document.

Author

• Paolo Andre Sosa Villagarcia, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos