The Amazon Basin Project (ACTO/UNEP/GEF), in partnership with Colombia’s Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development and with technical support from the Amazonian Institute of Scientific Research (SINCHI), promoted the participatory development of three Payment for Environmental Services (PES) Schemes for the Amazonian departments of Guainía, Guaviare and Vaupés. Designed around [...]

Along the rivers and lakes of Tefé National Forest, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, traditional communities maintain ways of life closely connected to the forest and its waters, with activities such as family farming, fishing and extractivism. It is in this part of the Brazilian Amazon that 26 families [...]

In April, communities and institutions from the transboundary region between Leticia (Colombia) and Tabatinga (Brazil) took another step toward strengthening the protection of the groundwater that supplies both Amazonian cities. As part of an intervention of the Amazon Basin Project (ACTO/GEF/UNEP), implemented since 2022 with the support of Colombia’s Ministry [...]

The application of open data and digital tools in water management was the central theme of another stage of the Amazonian Capacity-Building Plan of the Amazon Network of Water Authorities (ANWA), promoted by the Amazon Basin Project (ACTO/UNEP/GEF) on April 13, 2026. The virtual course, entitled “Open Data Services and [...]

The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), officially launched the Amazon Aquifer Systems (AAS) Project on Monday, the 18th, in Brasília: “Toward a Better Understanding of Amazonian Aquifer Systems for Their [...]

Brazil assumed the presidency of the Amazon Network of Water Authorities (ANWA) for the 2026–2028 term during the network’s 4th Meeting, held on May 15 in Brasília at the headquarters of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO). The new term will focus on the institutional consolidation of ANWA and the [...]

Representatives from the eight Member Countries of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) participated, at ACTO headquarters in Brasília, in the 5th Meeting of the Amazon Basin Project Steering Committee, a strategic forum for regional coordination aimed at strengthening the implementation of the Strategic Action Program (SAP) for Integrated Water [...]

Representatives from the Member Countries of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) participated on May 13, in Brasília, in the Regional Financing Workshop: Exchange of Experiences and Financing Strategies for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), held within the framework of the Amazon Basin Project (ACTO/UNEP/GEF), which implements the Strategic Action [...]

The Amazon Basin Project (OTCA/UNEP/GEF) and the Caribbean Blue Economy Financing (CAR BluEFin) project, implemented by the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF), held on May 12, in Brasília, the first in-person meeting between the teams of the two projects under the GEF IW:LEARN Twinning Program. The following day, representatives from CAR [...]

In the region between the Xingu and Iriri rivers, known as Terra do Meio, in the Brazilian Amazon, areas previously degraded by illegal occupation are once again becoming covered in forest—and offering new possibilities for those who live there. Located in the municipality of Altamira, Terra do Meio is a [...]