| Affiliation with other organizations: |
The Latin American and Caribbean Network of Environmental Fund, REDLAC. |
| Purpose of the organization: |
Its mission is to set up an effective system of learning, strengthening, training, and cooperation through a Network of Environmental Funds aimed at contributing to the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources in Latin America and the Caribbean. RedLAC is a learning community integrated by 26 trust environmental funds that manage more than US$ 700 million in extinguishing, property and revolving funds, and have financed more than three thousand projects in the region. |
| Activities relevant to the conference of States Parties to the convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: |
Each member fund carries out programs in its country, and together, the members have managed over 5.00 conservation projects and supported 495 protected areas since their establishment.
RedLAC is also developing projects as a whole, presented as follows:
Ecofunds Database, with the objective of organizing information on conservation investments in Andes Amazon region and making it available on an online portal, accessible to the general public (see www.redlac.org/ecofunds) (supported by the Gordon and Betty More Foundation and AVINA).
RedLAc capacity Building Project for environmental funds, aims at strengthening member and non member funds in their operations and in the use of innovative financial mechanisms that reduce their dependency from international donations (supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the French Fund for the Global Environment –FFEM). |
| Confirmation of the activities of the organization at the regional, national or international level: |
For more information on the activties, you can visit http://redlac.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=246&Itemid=228&lang=en |
| A list of members of the governing body of the organization, and their countries of nationality: |
Between 2012 and 2014, the president of RedLAC will be José Luis Gómez, the Executive Director of Fondo Acción. The Secretariat will be held by Fondo Acción and presided by Ann Marie Steffa. There are 7 Executive Committee members, which rotate every 2 to 4 years. At present it is composed by funds from Costa Rica, Paraguay, Panama, Belize, Colombia, Bolivia and Peru. |
| Description of the membership of the organization, indicating the total number of members: |
At present, there are 26 members, all enviromental funds from Latin America and Caribbean countries. There are public, private and private/public funds in RedLAC. |
Forests
| Major group affiliation: |
Non-governmental Orgnizations
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| Affiliation with other organizations: |
The Colombian Climate change roundtable (Fundación Natura, Conservation International Colombia, The Nature Conservancy, Fundación Ecoversa, Patrimonio Natural). |
| Publications: |
Avoided deforestation: REDD + Colombia handbook, 2010, published in collaboration with the Colombian Ministry of Environment, CI Colombia, TNC, Fundación Ecoversa, Fundación Natura, USAID and Patrimonio Natural). |
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