This Framework Agreement signed on June 5, by the Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Ms. Alicia Bárcena, and the Secretary General of ACTO, Ms. Alexandra Moreira, establishes terms and mechanisms of collaboration aimed at the development and execution of technical cooperation initiatives to identify and strengthen the prospects for sustainable development in the Amazon Region.
Likewise, the Framework Agreement allows the articulation and join efforts between ECLAC and ACTO to meet the challenges of sustainable, harmonious and inclusive development in the Amazon Region, include in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, considering its environmental, economic, social and cultural particularity, within the framework of the sustainable use of natural resources and taking into account the productive heterogeneity of the region.
For ACTO, one of the main components of this partnership is to generate actions that make it possible to contribute and deal more effectively with the fight against social inequality and the different asymmetries existing in the Amazon Region, according to the Amazon Cooperation Treaty of 1978. In this direction, ECLAC has important knowledge and experience to contribute in the construction of the future of the region, taking into account its work in the approach of equality as an essential condition of development and its role in promoting equitable long-term economic growth in the Latin America and Caribbean region.
The activities of the Framework Agreement include technical assistance to strengthen regional capacities; the generation, systematization and management of knowledge; the development of applied research; the establishment of joint spaces to promote a regional technical-political dialogue; as well as other initiatives to strengthen the sustainable development of the Amazon Region.
