Social Assessment Builds a Project for People and Parks in Argentina

In the Argentina Biodiversity
Conservation Project, a social assessment (SA) helped the
Government of Argentina/World Bank team develop a
cooperative approach to protected areas management. Social
analysis and participatory research helped the task team
understand the range of potential social impacts and risks
to people living in proposed protected areas, and to the
project itself. The resulting recommendations were put
forth in a mitigation plan and a public
participation/training plan for the project that will
promote collaboration among the public sector, private
sector, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), increased
community participation in protected areas management, and
sustainable land use practices that will reduce the threats
to protected areas.