Gaia Amazonas

Establishment of indigenous resguardos over 26 million hectares, collectively owned by 70,000 indigenous inhabitants, for their management, administrative and constitutional recognition, and with the charcter of being inalienable, imprescriptible and cannot be embargoed.

Promoting the establishment of protected areas over 4 million hectares of Amazon rainforest.

Negotiating, in 1989, the Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples (ILO Convention 169), ratified in Colombia by Law 21 of 1991.

Conformation of 17 indigenous governments, AATIs (Associations of Traditional Indigenous Authorities) in the departments of Amazonas, Guainía and Vaupés, to manage, administer and conserve their territories based on their indigenous cultures, representing 23,600 indigenous people and with a catchment area of 13 million hectares.

Definition of policies between AATs and the government, based on local processes in education, health, territorial ordering and environmental management.

Agreements for state programs and the investment of public funds, between 10 AATIs and Amazonas departmental government, through the Permanent Panel for Inter-administrative Coordination (MPCI).

Decentralization of basic primary education into the hands of six AATIs, which have 84 officially recognized community schools, curricula and indigenous teachers trained in intercultural education.

Construction of intercultural health plans based on traditional medicine by the nine AATIs with systems for epidemiological surveillance, food safety, vaccination, fumigation, sexual and reproductive health, child care and oral health care appropriate to local contexts.

Development of endogenous research processes, by which two hundred young indigenous people learn the traditional knowledge of the ancestral land, health, education and natural resource management under the guidance of the elders and according to traditional gender roles.

Joint construction of guidelines for the socio-environmental management of the Caquetá River Basin, with indigenous representatives, government agencies and civil society.

Trans-boundary coordination with NGOs and indigenous organizations in Brazil and Venezuela to conserve 62 million hectares of forest, through a corridor formed by protected areas and indigenous territories.

Promotion with National Parks and the Natural Heritage Fund of an "Environmental governance strategy for the conservation and sustainable development of the Colombian Amazon", through protected areas and indigenous territories. This has now been taken on by the government, a large number of NGOs and indigenous organizations.

Establishment and coordination over twenty years of COAMA, a network of national NGOs in the Colombian Amazon, which aims for the development of indigenous rights and the conservation of ecosystems.

Establishment and coordination of Canoa.

Creation of Amazonas 2030, with Semana magazine, CECODES, ALISOS and Etnollano Foundation.

Creation, with The Gaia Foundation (UK), of Amazon-Africa exchanges between indigenous organizations and the African Biodiversity Network.