On December 11, the Amazon Basin Project (ACTA/UNEP/GEF) held a Seminar on the Exchange of Cooperation Experiences for the Management of Transboundary River Basins at the headquarters of the National Water and Basic Sanitation Agency (ANA-Brazil) in Brasilia. bringing together regional organisms responsible for the management of important shared river [...]

The roundtable discussion “Results of the Amazon Project and Prospects for Water Resource Management in the Amazon Basin” was held on December 10, during the closing event of the Amazon Project (ACTA/ANA/ABC), at the headquarters of the National Water and Basic Sanitation Agency (ANA – Brazil) in Brasília. The activity was [...]

Water is the central element through which most of the impacts of climate change manifest themselves: more intense droughts, extreme floods, imbalances in rainfall patterns, accelerated glacier loss, and physical-chemical alterations in rivers. In the Amazon, the largest transboundary river system on the planet, these impacts are multiplied throughout the [...]

Four glaciological, meteorological, and hydrometric monitoring stations have been installed in the Vilcanota and Carabaya mountain ranges in southern Peru to measure in real time the melting and availability of water from the Killa Huasi and Allincapac glaciers, located between 4,800 and 5,300 meters above sea level. These stations will [...]

The Amazon Basin Project (ACTO/UNEP/GEF) has just launched the Amazon Communicators Connection Communication Manual, a practical guide for professionals working directly in the field, in contact with the public benefiting from the Project's actions and interventions. These professionals—National Assistants and communicators from associated institutions—form the Amazon Communicators Network, a network [...]

On October 23 and 24, 2025, the Third Meeting of the Ad Hoc Amazon Water Culture Group (GCA) was held in Brasilia. The GCA was created by decision of the Amazon Basin Project Steering Committee and is composed of representatives from the eight ACTO member countries, with the general objective [...]

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). [...]