The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) announces a call for proposals for specialized technical services from a Specialist in Climate Resilience and Methodologies based on the Water-Food-Energy and Ecosystems Nexus Approach, which will cover the eight ACTO Member Countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. The consultancy [...]

The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) announces a call for specialized technical services to update the Atlas of Hydroclimatic Vulnerability in the Amazon Region, a strategic tool for integrating scientific and territorial information from the eight ACTO member countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. This consultancy [...]

The Amazon Basin Project has launched an educational video that will be used in community workshops to raise awareness about groundwater conservation in the border region of Leticia (Colombia) and Tabatinga (Brazil). The audiovisual material, produced as part of the intervention “Hydrogeological, vulnerability and risk assessment for the development of [...]

The Amazon Basin Project (ACTA/UNEP/GEF) promoted the Regional Course on Space Hydrology: Monitoring river levels and sediment flows by satellite, in Brasilia, between September 1 and 5, in partnership with the Research Institute for Development (IRD-France) and with support from the National Water and Basic Sanitation Agency of Brazil (ANA). [...]

By María Eugenia Corvalán*   A precious embryo with awakened eyes stirs vigorously inside a voluminous abdomen. She is about to give birth… oh! She is very old, with white hair. She does not complain, barely moves… we cannot see her contractions. Now she is dripping… oh, her waters just [...]

The Amazon Basin Project participated in two important panels during World Water Week, held in Stockholm from August 24 to 28. Represented by Fernando Cisneros, technical specialist in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), the Project contributed to the debate on the links between forests, water, and agriculture, as well as [...]

Developed under the Amazon Basin Project – Implementation of the Strategic Action Program (SAP), the Toolbox for Water Management in the Amazon is now available in Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Dutch on the Project website. The tool adapts the content of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) global platform IWRM Toolbox [...]

The Regional Monitoring Protocols, approved by the Amazon Water Authorities Network (RADA) in April this year, are coming to life thanks to the commitment of the Member Countries of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) and the technical leadership of their teams of experts. With support from the Amazon Basin [...]

The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) is launching a public call for the hiring of a consulting firm specialized in the design and implementation of a Regional Monitoring Program on Erosion, Sediment Transport and Sedimentation (ETS) in the Amazon River Basin. This action is part of the Strategic Action Program [...]

An innovative Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) intervention was recently completed in two highly vulnerable communities in the Upper Takutu Region of Southern Guyana: Lethem, the central municipality of the region, and Tabatinga. The initiative, carried out in partnership with the University of Guyana and the Hydrometeorological Service of Guyana, has effectively [...]