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Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion

Mobilizing the wealthof the Andes to overcome

poverty and social exclusion

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20 years working in the Andes

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CONDESAN is an organization committed with the sustainable natural resources

management that contributes to mobilize the wealth of the Andes to

overcome poverty and social exclusion

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Strategic areas of work

Andean basins Sustainable Rural Livelihoods

Biodiversity

1. Global changes and their impacts2. Rural societies dynamics

…focus on

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Institutional Programs

We seek to mobilize our allies to generate regional synthesis, dialogue on policies and share information and knowledge base on problems related to sustainable development and natural resource management in the Andean ecoregion

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ANDEAN MONITORING

Network of 22 sites: Venezuela to Argentina

More of 7000 km with social and environmental gradients

Producing information to facilitate analysis from the local (micro) to the regional(macro)

Articulate more than 60 organizations all over the Andes

1.Biodiversity monitoring

2.Carbon Monitoring

3.Hydrological monitoring

4.Land use and cover change monitoring

5.Livelihoods monitoring

1. Payment for hydrological enviromental ecosystems

2. Rural innovation in agricultural system3. Climate change in the Tropical Andes:

vulnerabilities and adaptation

Only in this year we have the following process soported and facilitated:

1.Water, Food Security and Climate Change 2.Knowledge Rural Communities 3.Linking Science and Policy4.Hidrological Monitoring in Andean Ecosystems5.Andean Forest Monitoring6.Benefits Sharing Mechanisms

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Alianzas internacionales

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Construyendo Construyendo soluciones soluciones juntosjuntos, ,

desde nuestra desde nuestra diversidaddiversidad, ,

desde nuestro desde nuestro sabersaber, , en armonía con el en armonía con el ambienteambiente..

musuq.briceno@condesan.orghttp://www.condesan.org http://www.infoandina.org

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