In Peru, the Association for the Protection of Dry Forests in The Choloque (Asociación de Protección de los Bosques Secos de El Choloque – ASPROBOS)- ASPROBOS, received an award from the Food and Agriculture Organization-FAO for good forest management practices and their contribution to the sustainability of forests. The Association has been supported by the GEF Small Grants Programme since 2003 for the initial phase where the community performed a forest resource inventory and assessment of the potential use of the forest in a sustainable way. The organization also received training on Sustainable Forest Management and was able to prepare a Community Forest Management Plan identifying economic initiatives through the sustainable use of the forest. Currently, ASPROBOS is replicating the project in the upper basin of the Chiniama River.