14OCT22- "Now that the government and indigenous organizations signed a document with 218 agreements reached in ten technical roundtables, monitoring for compliance is the next phase of this process.

On October 11, the indigenous social organizations and the government approved the methodology for monitoring agreements.

In the 60-page document, it is clarified that the monitoring process begins once the closing act of the process is signed. In order to start the follow-up process, the Ecuadorian Episcopal Conference (CEE) convened the first meeting of the Agreement Follow-up Commission for Wednesday, October 19.

The president of CONAIE, Leonidas Iza, is clear that the implementation of these "partial agreements," after three months of discussion in working groups, does not fall on the social organizations or the protesters,

but remains under the responsibility of the State and its different portfolios. "There is partial progress, but substantially we need to work; otherwise, people will simply not be able to pay their debts and we will have to go back to the streets again."

Other leaders of indigenous organizations, such as Gary Espinoza, from FENOCIN, or Édgar Sáenz, from FEINE, believe that the fight is not over yet, because —they point out— in this next phase, social organizations must be united to demand that the government execute and comply with the agreements reached.

Regarding the signing of agreements, the United Nations in Ecuador welcomed the progress made between the Government and indigenous and peasant organizations in the process of technical roundtables:

"We recognize the parties for their commitment to dialogue as a fundamental tool to reach agreements that benefit people, as well as the role of the Ecuadorian Episcopal Conference and the universities involved in the process."-

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