The CPLI is part of the due diligence process established by SNV to implement projects with indigenous peoples. The objective is to incorporate elements of governance of the peoples, their customs and worldview on natural and cultural resources, in the project implementation strategy in accordance with indigenous rights over their territories and harmonized with national legislation and the immediate context of the communities.

The process seeks to know the activities that the communities habitually carry out, the way in which they do them, what potential these activities have to be incorporated into the project, what weaknesses they present that need to be overcome, the threats they face, and analyze how all these conditions will be addressed by the project. As an added value of the solution, the “Ethnographic Diagnosis” tool was incorporated into the solution and the “identification of Lenca ancestral Best Practices for Resilient Food Production” was carried out.