After the successful national workshops in Bolivia and Colombia, Peru is preparing to host the National Workshop of the Strategic Actions Program (SAP), a joint event organized by the National Water Authority (ANA) of Peru and the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO). This important meeting will take place on September [...]

On September 7 and 8, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia and the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (OTCA), through the Amazon Basin Project (OTCA/UNEP/GEF), will hold the Strategic Actions Program (SAP) Implementation Workshop in Leticia, a city bordering Brazil. The event aims to identify, along with relevant [...]

Gathered in Belém do Pará, Brazil, on August 6 during the Amazon Dialogues, Directors and Water Authorities from the eight member countries of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) - Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela - agreed to create the Amazon Network of Water Authorities (RADA). [...]

The Permanent Secretariat of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (PS/ACTO), together with UNEP and IDB, presented the PIF (Project Identification Form) proposal “Towards a better understanding of the Amazon Aquifer Systems for their protection and sustainable management” to the Global Environment Facility (GEF-8). This proposal was approved on June 26 [...]

ACTO will facilitate the articulation between the countries to obtain compatible information on the entire basin and thus inform decision making for IWRM and the conservation of aquatic ecosystems, through the Amazon Basin Project, under its execution. ACTO, which has the Amazon Regional Observatory (ORA), presented the Situation Room to [...]

Satellite for the Amazon The eight Member Countries of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) will participate in the Regional Workshop on Monitoring Water Resources of the Amazon Basin, where disruptive, innovative technologies on spatial hydrology will be presented in order to obtain complementary information to monitor the current and [...]

Alexandra Moreira, Secretary General of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) will chair the Regional Workshop on Monitoring Water Resources in the Amazon Basin, an event where new satellite technology for hydrological monitoring from space will be presented. The meeting will be attended by the 8 Focal Points of the [...]

As part of the implementation of the national interventions of the Project – Amazon Basin: “Implementation of the Strategic Action Program to Ensure the Integrated and Sustainable Management of Transboundary Water Resources of the Amazon River Basin Considering Variability and Climate Change,” funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), implemented [...]

The Secretary-General of the ACTO, Alexandra Moreira, conducted the pre-launch today of the "Project for the Implementation of the Strategic Action Program to Ensure an Integrated and Sustainable Management of the Transboundary Water Resources of the Amazon River Basin Considering Climate Variability and Change." This event took place alongside the [...]