Araucaria XXI is a program of the Spanish Cooperation for environmental sustainability of Latin America.
A program that promotes the participation of all the Spanish Cooperation actors (Ministries, Independent Communities, NGO’s, City councils, Fundations, Universities and Companies).
The goal of this program is to guarantee the environmental sustainability in Latin America through the conservation and sustainable utilization of the natural capital in the region, in order to increase the life quality of current and next generations in the frame of the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs).
The Central American Commission for environment and development (CCAD) is the organization of the Central American Integration System (SICA) in charge of the regional environmental agenda. Its primary objective consists of "contributing to the sustainable development of the Central American region, strengthening the regime of cooperation and integration for the environmental management".
In order to reach this objective, the CCAD has the Environmental Plan of the Central American Region (PARCA), a medium and long term strategy for the period 2005-2010. CCAD develops through three strategic areas: 1) Prevention and pollution control 2) Conservation and sustainable use of the natural patrimony 3) Institutional strengthen of the central-American environmental commission and development
Wafla is a Project supported by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Program (FP6). FP6 is the European Community Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration. It is a collection of the actions at EU level to fund and promote research.
The European and international dimension Following the principle of subsidiarity, projects have to be transnational. In other words: only consortia of
partners from different member and associated countries can apply; for mobility and training actions the fellows
typically have to go to a country different from their country of origin or residence. Activities that can better be
carried out at national or regional level, i.e. without co-operation across borders will not be eligible under the
Framework Programme.
FP6 provides also possibilities and funding for organisations from third countries (“international co-operation”).
The National Forest Programme Facility is a funding mechanism and an information initiative created in response to recent intergovernmental dialogue on forests which recognizes the essential role of national forest programmes (nfps) in addressing forest sector issues.
The Facility supports active stakeholder participation at country level in the development and implementation of nfps with a focus on capacity building and information sharing. It also offers information services on nfps worldwide.
The Facility's trademark is to stimulate participation in the nfp process by providing grants directly to stakeholders in partner countries, based on a competitive and transparent process to call and select proposals by stakeholders interested in Facility support.
The Facility operates under the authority of a steering committee representing the key partners for forestry development in the developing world; it is financed through a multidonor trust fund supported by eight funding partners. The Facility has been operational since mid-2002 and is hosted by FAO in Rome.
The Ford Foundation is a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. Our goals are to:
Strengthen democratic values,
Reduce poverty and injustice,
Promote international cooperation and
Advance human achievement
Created with gifts and bequests by Edsel and Henry Ford, the Foundation is an non-profit independent organization, with its own board, and is entirely separate from the Ford Motor Company.
The Ford Foundation makes concessions in the 50 states of the United States and many other countries around the world.
Ibis is an organization of the Danish civil society, belongs to its members and works at local, national and global level, to reach equal access to education, advocacy and resources for disfranchised people in Africa and Latin America.
Ibis’s most important message is the vision:
Ibis works for a just world, in which all people have equal access to education, influence and resources.
The mission is the choice of interventions most likely to lead the organisation towards the vision. Ibis's mission concerns the work in the South as well as in the North, namely:
Through support for civil society in Africa and Latin America, Ibis wishes to secure people equal access to education, influence and resources.
Through information and advocacy, Ibis wishes to influence the political agenda, create greater understanding of the problems facing developing countries, and point to specific options for action.
ICCO's mission is to work towards a world where poverty and injustice are no longer present.
The work of ICCO, Interchurch organisation for development co-operation, consists in financing activities which stimulate and enable people, in their own way, to organize dignified housing and living conditions.
ICCO is active in countries in Africa and the Middle East, in Asia and the Pacific, in Latin America and the Caribbean, and in Central and Eastern Europe.
The World Conservation Union is the world’s largest and most important conservation network. The Union brings together 82 States, 111 government agencies, more than 800 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a unique worldwide partnership.
The Union’s mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
The World Conservation Union is a multicultural, multilingual organization with 1000 staff located in 62 countries. Its headquarters are in Gland, Switzerland.
Other Organizations
Other relevant NGOs supporting CICAFOC are IRI, PRISMA and Ecological Foundation Spain.
At an academic level, CICAFOC has developed joint operations with institutions such as: EARTH, URACAN, FLACSO and CATIE
At governmental level, in addition to the CCAD mentioned previously, there is CAF which includes the ministries of Agriculture of the Central American region.
The program “Promoting equity through economic growth” is a cooperation initiative of the British Department for International Development (DFID), whose goal is to get rid of extreme poverty and to improve the well-being of the Nicaraguan population, through the promotion of an economic growth pattern benefiting the population and the increase in domestic product.
