Posada Amazonas is a participatory project by nature. The lodge is owned by the community and co-managed with Rainforest Expeditions. For its ownership, the community receives 60% of the profit. To make the co-management practical a Control Committee was created since the outset of the project, participating in the planning, implementation and management phases. The ten member committee is elected by the communal assembly and hold monthly meetings with RFE staff to decide upon human resources, financial and operational issues. It also has the responsibility of overseeing RFE operations and management and of communicating decision to the rest of the assembly.

Although the control committee still takes backstage to RFE´s hands on approach to day to day management, the intensity and quality of its participation has increased to the point where it is an asset to the project. In the final report to the Macarthur Foundation Training and Communication Project, a list of some tough CC decisions taken during the year 2004 is a great example:

.	Definition of communicator CC functions and accountability.
.	Negotiation with the Communal Assembly in profit reinvestment.
.	Establishment and management of a selection process for training courses.
.	Establishment and enforcement of a widely accepted Human Resources Policy
.	Implementation of a communications strategy to the community.
.	Management of a revolving training fund
.	External audits on RFE financial documents.

Finally, communicator surveys (see awareness raising, below), reflect a warm but not homogenous, acceptance of the CC. Seventy-three percent of the community member answered the CC's main function was to take decisions on the community project and 65% answered they did this well. Forty- two percent thought their biggest problem was communicating with the community.