The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) and the Fund for the Development of Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean (FILAC) signed on October 14 a Framework Collaboration Agreement for the benefit of the Amazonian Indigenous Peoples of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
According to the Secretary General of ACTO, Alexandra Moreira López, and the President of FILAC, Mirna Cunningham, this collaboration agreement commits the networks already established in their respective institutions and their experiences to strengthen indigenous peoples and other tribal communities.
The Regional Observatory of FILAC and the Amazonian Regional Observatory (ARO) of ACTO will become the spearheads of a dynamic and proactive exchange of information about these peoples’ situation.
Priority is given to collaboration in the areas of education, culture, and technology so that resources for project development, studies, research and meetings are mobilized at the national and international level.
Thus, it seeks to promote interculturality, ancestral knowledge and experiences; the protection, and promotion of indigenous languages; or the approach to development with identity when it comes to economic initiatives.
To comply with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) from the UN through its 2030 Agenda and under this Decade of Action in which we are all committed, this framework agreement will give priority to humanitarian technical assistance, food security and sovereignty, intercultural health, border traffic and other actions that are based on respect for Mother Earth and the worldview of Indigenous Peoples.
According to FILAC’s Technical Secretary, Álvaro Pop, this Framework Agreement becomes a milestone in South-South collaboration with a new vision over one of the most important populations, the Amazonian indigenous peoples, owing to its strategic role in the preservation of forests and Climate Change.
Representatives and focal points of the ACTO Member Countries, as well as other organizations, such as the General Coordinator of COICA, Gregorio Mirabal were present in this event.
Attend the signing of the Framework Collaboration Agreement between ACTO and FILAC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoTC1ZDkpcY&feature=youtu.be
