With funding from the European Union, International Alert has been coordinating since 2010 the Red Andina project in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. With the support of three local partners in each of the countries, the project is aimed at strengthening the capacities of civil society organisations to better understand and address conflict issues resulting from the presence of large companies, national and multinational, from the extractive and agribusiness sectors.
The three-year project is expected to contribute to the resolution of conflicts that may arise between companies, communities and government authorities in areas of large scale investment projects while building a transnational network of organisations doing advocacy and raising awareness on issues related to business and human rights, with a special focus on ethnic communities’ rights, at the national, regional and international levels.
As a way to promote dialogue, share experiences, processes and lessons learned regarding socio-environmental conflicts in the region, the Red Andina project has developed a website: the Andean Forum for the Transformation of Socio-Environmental Conflicts [2](Foro Andino para la Transformacion de Conflictos Socio Ambientales). The Forum, which is in Spanish, aims to become a regional dialogue space open to all parties that can also serve as a bridge between the different organisations working on these issues in Latin America.
To know more about the project and participate in the discussions, please visit www.forosocioambiental.org [2].
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