What is the Puna Competitive Fund?
It is the financial mechanism of the Resilient Puna Project which seeks to provide long-term funding to high-Andean communities for local initiatives that integrate:
Climate-Resilient Value Chains (CRVCs)
Priority will be given to initiatives aimed at increasing the resilience of relevant Puna value chains to the effects of climate change, particularly those related to camelids (alpaca and vicuña) and high-Andean crops such as quinoa and native potato varieties. These initiatives can be complemented by linking these chains to the main value chains, which include guinea pigs, handicrafts, community-based tourism, and other crops such as tarwi, mashua, cañihua, kiwicha, Andean grains, and oca.
Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) Measures
These are those that are intended to protect and restore the Puna ecosystem, such as the conservation and restoration of wetlands, qochas, agroforestry, infiltration ditches, restoration of terraces, among others.
