Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization

The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) is an Intergovernmental Organization formed by eight Member Countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela, encouraging sustainable development and social inclusion in the region.

As an international organization, ACTO coordinates the procedures in the framework of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (ACT) and expedites the execution of its decisions through its Permanent Secretariat (PS). 

The various dimensions of the ACTO's political-diplomatic, strategic and technical operations correspond to the different spheres of the Treaty and ensure compliance with the purposes of both the ACT and the Organization itself. 

The ACTO is, without a doubt, a contemporaneous instrument of the ACT with a broad vision of South-South cooperation process that strengthens its government's vocation to build synergies with other players, nations, multilateral bodies, development agencies, social movements, scientific community, productive sectors and society in general. 

Our work is oriented by the Amazonian Strategic Cooperation Agenda (ASCA), which was approved by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs in 2010, for an eight year implementation horizon. This instrument reflects the priorities of the Amazonian countries according to the political and social reality of the region.