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Instituto Socioambiental

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
Economic and Social:
  • Agriculture
  • Biodiversity
  • Business and Industry
  • Children
  • Citizenship and Governance
  • Climate Change
  • Culture
  • De-mining
  • Decolonization
  • Development
  • Economics and Finance
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Financing for Development
  • Food
  • Governance
  • Habitat
  • Human Rights
  • Humanitarian Affairs
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • Information
  • Intellectual Property
  • International Law
  • Justice
  • Least Developed Countries
  • Media
  • Migration
  • Minority Rights
  • New Global Institutions
  • Population
  • Social Development
  • Sustainable Development
  • United Nations Funding
  • Volunteerism
  • Water
  • Women
  • Women/gender Equality
  • Youth

    • Financing for Development:
  • Addressing systemic issues
  • Increasing financial and technical cooperation for development
  • Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development
  • Mobilizing international resources for development

    • Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
  • Advocacy and outreach
  • Capacity building
  • Education and training of women
  • Human rights of women
  • Indigenous women
  • Information and communication technologies
  • Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women
  • Policy advice
  • Research
  • Women and the economy
  • Women and the environment
  • Women and the media
  • Women and the media
  • Women in power and decision-making

    • Population:
  • International migration
  • Population distribution and internal migration

    • Public Administration:
  • Ethics, Transparency and Accountability
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • Public Financial Management
  • Public Service and Management Innovation
  • Socio-Economic Governance and Management

    • Social Development:
  • Conflict
  • Indigenous issues
  • Information and Communications Technologies
  • Social policy
  • Youth

    • Statistics:
  • Environmental Accounts
  • International Economic and Social Classifications
  • International migration
  • National accounting
  • Social Statistics and Social Monitoring

    • Sustainable Development:
  • Agriculture
  • Biodiversity
  • Capacity-building
  • Climate change
  • Consumption and production patterns
  • Desertification and Drought
  • Disaster management and vulnerability
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Gender equality
  • Information for decision-making and participation
  • Integrated decision-making
  • International cooperation for an enabling environment
  • International law
  • Land management
  • Major Groups
  • Mining
  • Partnerships
  • Protecting and managing the natural resources
  • Rural Development
  • Science
  • Sustainable Tourism
  • Sustainable development in a globalizing world
  • Trade and environment
    • Geographic scope: National
    Country of activity:
  • Brazil
    • Millennium Development Goals:
  • Promote gender equality and empower women
  • Ensure environmental sustainability
  • Develop global partnership for development
    • Mission statement:
    Year established:
    Year of registration: 1994
    Organizational structure: ISA is structured around programmes based on the protection of collective socio-environmental rights; monitoring public policy and developing policy alternatives; research, dissemination and documentation of socio-environmental information; developing participative models for socio-environmental sustainability; and strengthening institutional capacity of local partners.In 2001 ISA was accredited under Brazilian law as a public interest civil society organization (OSCIP). It´s headquarters are in São Paulo and it has offices in Brasília (Federal District), Manaus (Amazonas), Boa Vista (Roraima), São Gabriel da Cachoeira (Amazonas), Canarana (Mato Grosso) and Eldorado (São Paulo).
    Number and type of members: 180 members divided into the national and local programmes, the administrative board, executive board.. compassing lawyers, journalists, biologists, anthropologists..
    Affiliation with NGO networks: Observatório do Clima, RAISG, Observatório do Código Florestal, Rede de Sementes do Xingu, Rede de Cooperação Amazônica, ..
    Funding structure:
  • Membership fees or dues
  • Fundraising campaigns
  • Funds from other Non-Governmental Organizations
  • Fees for providing consulting or research services
  • Product sales and business services
  • Grants from Governments
  • Other sources
  • Donations and grants from domestic sources
  • Foreign and international grants
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