The strategy developed by CIES in Peru has followed an intensive period of meetings with key political actors in the country. The first steps of its inception phase will seek to secure access to some of the spaces that these meetings have offered as well as to identify new spaces through similarly strategic engagement with other key actors –some already identified in their stakeholder analysis. COPLA-Peru will focus its actions on the small agrarian sector, which is the main livelihood source for the rural poor and one of the most sensitive sectors to the changes in the international trade environment. Strategic actions are organized around three main pillars: research, communications & incidence and capacity-development. Research inputs will produce multidisciplinary evidence on the differentiated impacts of international trade in the small agrarian producers. These inputs will feed the communications & incidence and capacity-building pillars, which include actions to raise awareness about the opportunities offered by pro-poor commerce among key political actors and a multi-level partnership strategy to strength the incidence and lobby capacities among the organizations that represent small agrarian producers, selected political actors and the media.