Although the
legal and institutional framework reaffirms the importance of research as an
essential part of SINAC´s everyday work, there are still some relevant
weaknesses along the entire knowledge management process, where the adequacy,
disclosure, socialization and use of the results are probably the weakest
linkages.
That is why SINAC´s
Research Strategy has been reformulated through a highly participative construction
process, which included the development of several diagnoses and a series of
technical workshops. As a final result, the profile and strategic guidelines
that SINAC´s Research Program should follow for the next decade have been outlined.
According to
this approach, the purpose of research at SINAC is to support decision-making
for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and the ecosystem
services it provides, so that it also contributes to improving human
well-being. Likewise, its vision for the next ten years is that
scientific-technical research is developed and its results are analyzed and
disseminated, in a pertinent and timely manner, with the support of a
technological platform, thus positively influencing the effective management of
biodiversity and ecosystem services. In order for SINAC to reach this outcomes,
it have been proposed such values as commitment, reciprocity, respect,
objectivity, and ethics. In addition, SINAC´s role in research includes be a
part of it, as well as to facilitate, to promote, to execute, to communicate
and, ultimatly, to lead these processes.
Therefore,
research strategic framework has been divided into four strategic axes, three
of them based on the pillars of the knowledge management cycle and a fourth one
focused on the financial sustainability of SINAC´s Research Program:
1st strategic axis: Identification of needs and research contents orientation.
2nd strategic axis: Systematization, analysis and transfer of
research results.
3rd strategic axis: Use of research results in decisión-making
processes.
4th strategic axis: Financial sustainability for research at SINAC
For each of
these four strategic axes, goals and activities have been developed in the
National Action Plan, which focus on concrete actions for the generation,
dissemination and use of research results and financing. Likewise, three-year
regional action plans have been generated for each Conservation Area, which
have converged in such actions as strengthening SINAC´s Research Program thru
personnel and financing, building a common research agenda and establishing key
partnerships with Academia, as well as transforming of research activities at
every conservation area into a cross-cutting issue, building staff capacities
and developping a technological platform for information management.
Estrategia
Nacional de Investigación del SINAC (ENI) 2014-2024
Agenda
de Investigación del SINAC