• 27 de February de 2024

    Progress in Integrated Amazon Water Management: Brazil opens its National SAP Workshop

    A Boost for Integrated Water Management in the Amazon Integrated water management in the Amazon gained momentum today with the opening of the National Workshop of the Strategic Actions Program [...]

  • 20 de December de 2023

    Bolivia establishes monitoring networks for the sustainable management of aquifers that supply water to over 1.5 million inhabitants in the Madera River basin

    The attentive gazes of 132 children filled the large hall of San Jacinto Educational Unit, a school in the city of Sacaba, located in the Bolivian Amazon. Before them, images [...]

  • 18 de December de 2023

    ACTO and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) explore opportunities for cooperation to strengthen integrated monitoring of water resources in Amazonia

    By invitation of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), through the Amazon Basin Project: Implementation of the Strategic Actions Program (PAE), participated in the annual [...]

  • 18 de December de 2023

    National Coordinators of the Amazon Basin Project highlight progress and challenges at 4th Technical Meeting

    On November 17, the 4th Technical Meeting of the Coordinators of the National Coordination Units of the Amazon Basin Project was held virtually. This project is executed by ACTO, with [...]

  • 17 de December de 2023

    Mangrove restoration project in Suriname will offer financial incentives for the socio-environmental contribution of the communities that depend on these ecosystems.

    To the north of the capital Paramaribo, a portion of the 100,000 hectares of mangroves covering Suriname's coast suffers constant flooding caused by accelerated erosion, negatively affecting the provision of [...]

  • 15 de December de 2023

    ACTO Member Countries bring together decision-makers, experts and civil society to promote strategic actions for integrated management of Amazonian waters

    In the context of the Amazon Basin Project, Bolivia, Colombia, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela held National Workshops for the implementation of the Strategic Action Program - SAP, marking the [...]

  • 3 de November de 2023

    ACTO works to increase and make women’s participation in water management in the Amazon more effective

    Since August, gender training has been underway in all Amazonian countries as part of the implementation project of the Strategic Actions Program (PAE) for the integrated and sustainable management of [...]

  • 30 de October de 2023

    Bolivia installs glacier monitoring stations and advances in the protection of water supplying 1.8 million people in La Paz and El Alto

    This October, the Institute of Hydraulics and Hydrology (IHH) of the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés installed monitoring equipment on the glaciers that supply water to the cities of La [...]