We work on designing and executing political, judicial, and educational advocacy strategies to strengthen the promotion and guarantee of human rights and the rights of nature; nationally and internationally.
We support the peoples, communities, and indigenous nationalities of the Amazon in defending their territories and collective rights through our legal assistance. We generate incidence processes for the strengthening of democracy and the guarantee of rights.
Strategic Litigation
We accompany victims and rights defenders searching for truth, justice, and reparation. We sponsor cases with high impact at the national and international levels to generate systematic changes that promote the full validity of human rights and the rights of nature.
Training and Strengthening of Rights Capabilities
To strengthen the capacities of the indigenous organizations of the Ecuadorian Amazon and their government councils, we created a plan:
Training in rights and justice.
Workshops on democracy and strengthening of governance systems.
Leadership, incidence, and communication.
We give permanent support to the Organizational Political Training School for leaders of young defenders of the forest, an initiative promoted by CONFENIAE.
Impact
Through the global open government initiative, we seek to promote spaces that strengthen democracy in local governments in the Amazon region.
We design capability-building projects on Open Government, strengthening transparency and public participation in decision-making, and developing permanent anti-corruption and accountability mechanisms.
Impact processes
Incidence on the entry into force and promotion of the Escazú Agreement, within the Grupo Impulsor Escazú Ahora! Ecuador
Follow-up on managing the Technical Secretariat and the Civil Society Group of EITI Ecuador.
Presentations participation in Climate Finance Strategy and Sustainable Finance Index of Ecuador.
Participation in the World Movement for Democracy.
Participation in the Platform Against the Environment.
Impact with the candidates for the presidency of Ecuador.
Participation in the REDD+ Working Group.
Ecuador has now more than 56 cases related ro rights of nature compiled in the Legal Observatory for the Rights of Nature.
Fundación Pachamama is one of the founding organizations of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature.; Since 2010, the alliance has welcomed more than 1400 organizations from 100 countries around the world.
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