Community communication is a powerful tool to tell the stories developed by communicators from the peoples and communities of the Amazon, who teach us about the struggles in defense of their lands from their own voices and narratives. In this sense, Hivos and the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), within the […]
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Closure of the All Eyes on the Amazon program
More than 30 local and international organizations meet in the city of Quito to exchange experiences, achievements, and learnings for the defense of the Amazon. Quito, September 14tn, 2022.- Since 2018, the All Eyes on the Amazon (AEA) program has been implemented in the Amazon of Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil through a coalition led by […]
Innovative Initiatives to foster Climate Action in the Amazon
There are numerous reports and studies that warn us about the destruction of the Amazon. So many, that there is a consent that we are dangerously close to a point of no return. However, civil society organizations, indigenous organizations, and other actors and groups are active, seeking and finding ways to avoid this turning point, […]
Collaborative podcast series on the defense of the Amazon produced by Indigenous communicators
Community communication is a powerful tool to amplify the struggles of Indigenous peoples and local communities in the Amazon. Being developed within and by the members of the communities, it is an approach to the realities that afflict them, which is told from their voices and their experiences. For this reason, within the framework of […]
Virtual Collective Platform contributes to the defense of the Amazon
The AEA Learning Platform is a virtual collective space in which content, tools, and learning resources for the defense of the Amazon and its population are available in various formats and three languages (Spanish, English, and Portuguese). It has been developed collaboratively with partners and allies of the All Eyes on the Amazon (AEA) program […]
COICA and Hivos launch Ebook “Virtual Meetings of COICA Youth”
The Ebook is available in Spanish, Portuguese, English and French. The Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin – COICA, a strategic partner of the All Eyes on the Amazon program, seeks to undertake a management model in the Amazon territory that further promotes the involvement and participation of the youths and connects them with their […]
AEA announces winners of the Data Journalism Contest “All Eyes on the Amazon”
In the framework of the program, we presented the “All Eyes on the Amazon” Data Journalism Contest, as an initiative to encourage the participation of journalists as content creators to give visibility to the threats faced by Indigenous peoples and local communities in the Amazon, and promote social awareness and impact. The call was open from February […]
Amazon Indigenous Health Route winner of SDSN award
The Amazon Indigenous Health Route won first place in the third edition of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network Award, a recognition given to innovative initiatives to face the most challenging problems of sustainable development in the Amazon. The SDSN Amazônia Award was launched in May this year, in association with the Sustainable Amazon Foundation (FAS), the German Cooperation Agency (GIZ) and […]
Amazon Indigenous Health Route: A comprehensive response to COVID-19 in the Amazon
By: The All Eyes on the Amazon team It is impossible to speak of territorial defense on the Amazon, without addressing the effective exercise of human rights, such as the right to health of the peoples and nationalities that live there. In the context of COVID-19, defending the Amazon and its living culture becomes even more challenging, since […]
Hivos and IKIAM University collaborate to process 1008 COVID-19 tests in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Originally published on Hivos América Latina, May 26th 2020 Hivos, through the All Eyes on the Amazon program, supports the response of Amazonian Indigenous peoples and nationalities to COVID-19 and the threat it poses to their existence. In this framework, on May 25, it signed an inter-institutional cooperation agreement with the Amazon Regional University – IKIAM […]