Monarch Conservation Toolbox

Incentive Programs

Community Surveillance Program (Programa de Vigilancia Comunitaria, PROVICOM)

Commission nationale des aires naturelles protégées

Region
Multiple

Land Use / Land Cover
Catégories multiples

Agency Type
Federal

Publication Type
Website/web hub

Original Language
Spanish

Years of Implementation
Ongoing

Conanp’s Provicom program provides support to create and equip community watch committees in protected natural areas under federal jurisdiction and their areas of influence, as well as at so-called Priority Conservation Regions (Regiones Prioritarias para la Conservation—RPCs).

These committees perform preventive activities as a strategy to foster social involvement in oversight and monitoring activities, and act as an awareness-creating instrument to foster the conservation of ecosystems and their biodiversity. Their members are trained in community watch planning and operations, biological monitoring and the laws applicable to environmental offenses.

  • Gloria Tavera and Marco Castro, Central Region and Neovolcanic Axis Bureau (Dirección Regional Centro y Eje Neovolcánico), National Commission for Protected Natural Areas (Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas—Conanp).
  • Conanp (2016), Community Watch Program (Programa de Vigilancia Comunitaria—Provicom).

Amount of the Incentive
Varies. One project provided average P$15,000 per project

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