Fundación de la Cordillera

The Cordillera Foundation is a non-profit organization with a social character. It works at regional and local departmental level, whose general objective is to contribute to the creation of conditions for Living Well in harmony with nature, through the incidence in The construction of normative, political and institutional frameworks at all departmental, regional and local levels, and the development of investment processes in projects, training, research, technical assistance, planning for environmental management, natural resources, water and health , Productive processes, climate change and economic development in general.

The Foundation aims to:

 
Planning
Elaborate participatory - and through the construction of interinstitutional and social platforms with multiple actors from the public and private sector and civil society - plans for economic development, environmental management, natural resources, water, health and environment and in particular adaptation Regional and urban levels to climate change by preventing and reducing vulnerabilities and threats of poor populations and improving their productive capacities and living conditions.
To contribute to the normative development in the environmental, health and water, natural resources and climate change areas of the departmental, regional and local level through the central government and the autonomous regional, municipal and indigenous autonomous department,
Investment
To build financing lines for investment projects in economic development and in the management of the environment, health and water, natural resources and in particular for adaptation to climate change in the framework of regional urban and rural adaptation plans to reduce climate change The vulnerability of populations and improve their living conditions.
To carry out investment projects in economic development and management of the environment, health and water, natural resources and in particular for adaptation to climate change in the framework of regional and urban adaptation plans for climate change aimed at reducing the vulnerability of Poor people and improve their living conditions.
The projects will strengthen local technologies and incorporate technologies for adaptation to climate change, particularly in productive sectors, health, water systems for human production and consumption, and risk management and management.
Training, Research and Communication
To train operators in economic development and in environmental, health and water management participatory development of local, subregional and regional adaptation plans, urban and rural to climate change aimed at reducing the vulnerability of the poor and improving their living conditions, and specialized in the Management of the execution of these plans through academic programs.
Develop specialized and propositional research for economic development and environmental management, natural resources, health and water, natural resources, forests and climate change.
To train technicians for the execution of the plans of development and environmental management, health and water, natural resources, forests and climate change.
Develop communication programs and manage media and information