Partners-Perú
Local Name: Socios Perú/Centro
de Colaboración Cívica
Director: Carlos Salazar
# of Staff: 4
Center since: 2006
Contact Information:
Av. 28 de Julio No.1420
Miraflores, Lima
Tel/Fax: (511) 242-9251
Email:
csalazar@sociosperu.org.pe
Partners’ Peruvian Center, founded in Lima in 2006, is dedicated
to managing conflict and forging consensus around a broad
range of political, social, and economic development issues.
The Center is an independent and locally-staffed not-for-profit
organization that specializes in: building a culture of
peaceful change and conflict management, promoting good
governance, and resolving contentious issues using Partners’
model of multi-stakeholder consensus facilitation.
Peruvian society and institutions are highly polarized
and lack the capacity to forge consensus around critical
development issues. Partners’ Center, Socios Perú: Centro
de Colaboración Cívica, was established as a neutral organization
to address these challenges and increase the effectiveness
of Peruvian development initiatives by building trust between
sectors and increasing institutional capacity. The Center
emerged from the shared interest of key entities in the
government, civil society, and corporate sectors to strengthen
and expand a culture of peaceful conflict resolution and
cross-sectoral collaboration. In particular, the Center
brings together diverse stakeholders to develop collaborative
solutions to conflicts surrounding the extractive industries.
The Center focuses on three core program areas:
1. Resolving Contentious Issues through Multi-Stakeholder
Consensus-Building
Socios-Perú builds consensus around contentious development
issues through its multi-stakeholder consensus building
services, one of Partners’ signature methodologies.
Center facilitators, acting as a neutral third party, convene
and facilitate multi-stakeholder collaborative processes
that move contentious economic and social issues beyond
dialogue into long-term sustainable agreements for change.
Facilitators train and convene government, civil society,
and corporate stakeholders to discuss issues of common concern,
achieve consensus, and develop implementation plans. Socios
Perú is also creating a Consensus Facilitation Network which
will facilitate the building and sharing of consensus facilitation
expertise.
2. Promoting Good Governance at the Municipal Level
In Peru, public distrust of municipal authorities is high
due to weak local government capacity, a general lack of
accountability to citizens, and/or deeply entrenched practices
of corruption or clientelism among the local elite. Socios
Perú addresses these challenges by increasing citizen participation
in decision-making at the municipal level through dialogue,
cooperative planning, and participatory budgeting. In particular,
the Center is improving municipal accountability on the
expenditure of mining canon funds (the royalty funds received
by communities hosting mining operations) through community
engagement initiatives.
3. Building an Institutional Culture of Cooperative
Change and Conflict Management
Socios Perú collaborates with existing organizations and
associations to strengthen the institutional capacity of
governments, civil society organizations, and corporate
stakeholders to embed a culture of peaceful change management
and resolve complex issues by:
- Training diverse groups in critical change and conflict
management methodologies;
- Advocating for new policies that advance the negotiation
and mediation professions toward advanced consensus-building
and conflict resolution techniques; and
- Enhancing university-level change and conflict management
curricula through the introduction of advanced conflict
resolution and consensus facilitation methods.
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