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Amazon Alliance for Indigenous and Traditional People
of the Amazon Basin
Acronym: Amazon Alliance
Keywords: | Environment | Human Rights | Indigenous Communities | All |
Source of Information: Survey of Civil Society Networks 2001
A. Objectives
| The Amazon Alliance for Indigenous and Traditional Peoples of the Amazon Basin is an initiative born out of the partnership between indigenous and traditional peoples of the Amazon and groups and individuals who share their concerns for the future of the Amazon and its peoples. The eighty non-governmental organizations from the North and South active in the Alliance believe that the future of the Amazon depends on its peoples and the state of their environment. |
B. Contact Information
| Coordinator | David Rothschild |
| Title | Co-Director |
| Telephone | 202-785-3334 |
| Fax | 202-785-3335 |
| david@amazonalliance.org | |
| Website | www.amazonalliance.org |
| Mailing Address | 1367 Connecticut Ave NW Suite 400, Washington, D.C., USA |
C. General Information
| Founding year | 1990 |
| Legal Status | 501c3 |
| Types of actions | Amazon activities are carried out through our regional working groups. |
D. Programs
| Name | Goal | Approximate budget ($US) |
| Andean Amazon Working Group | Defend indigenous peoples and environment in the Andean Amazon region | 35,000 |
| Guyana Shield Working Group | Defend indigenous peoples and environment in the Guyana. Shield region | 35,000 |
| Brazil Working Group | Defend indigenous peoples and environment in Brazil | 35,000 |
E. Geographical Reach
| Countries in which network participates actively | United States, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guyana |
F. Members
The network is composed primarily by: X Organizations _ Individuals
| Principal Organizations | Central Interest | Country of origin |
| COICA | indigenous peoples | Ecuador |
| CESR |
human rights and environment | Ecuador |
| Rainforest Foundation | indigenous peoples and environment | USA |
| Amazon Watch | environment, indigenous peoples | USA |
| AIDESEP | indigenous peoples | Peru |
| Abya
Yala Fund |
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| Acción Ecológica | Ecuador | |
| Amanaka'a Amazon Network | ||
| Amazon Conservation Team | ||
| Amazon Watch | ||
| Arctic to Amazonia | ||
| Asociación Pro-Derechos Humanos (APRODEH) | Peru | |
| Bank Information Center * CAAAP | Peru | |
| CEDIA | Peru | |
| Center for Economic and Social Rights | ||
| Center for International Enironmental Law | ||
| Center for Natural and Traditional Medicines | ||
| Comissáo Pró Yanomami | Brazil | |
| Cultural Survival | ||
| Environmental Defense Fund | ||
| Forest Peoples Programme | Suriname | |
| Friends of the Amazon Forest | ||
| Friends of the Earth | ||
| Frente de Defensa de la Amazonía | ||
| Fundación Sinchi Sacha | ||
| Grupo de Trabalho Amazônico | Brazil | |
| Healing Forest Conservancy | ||
| Indigenous Environmental Network | ||
| Institute for Science and Interdisciplinary Studies (ISIS) | ||
| Instituto Socioambiental | Brazil | |
| International Indian Treaty Council | ||
| Land is Life | ||
| Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns | ||
| Moiwana '86 | ||
| NGO Forum, Suriname | ||
| National Wildlife Federation | ||
| Oxfam America | USA | |
| Pachamama Alliance | ||
| Project Underground | ||
| Racimos de Ungurahui | ||
| Rainforest Action Network | ||
| Rainforest Alliance | ||
| Rainforest Foundation-US | USA | |
| Rethinking Tourism Project | ||
| Seventh Generation Fund | ||
| Share Our Strength | ||
| Solidarity foundation | ||
| South and Meso American Indian Rights Center (SAIIC) | ||
| Tonantzin Land Institute | ||
| World Resources Institute | ||
| Worldview | ||
| World Wildlife Fund (WWF) |
G. Resources
| Approximate
annual budget of the network
(in $US) |
| Year 2000 | Year 1995 | Year 1990 |
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400,000 |
200,000 | 70,000 |
| Sources of funding: | National Foundations, Private National Sources, International Foundations |
H. Network Infrastructure
| Number of paid employees in Central Office(s)/ Secretariat(s) of Network | 4 |
| Number of paid employees elsewhere in the network | |
| Does the network have a physical site of its own? | YES |
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