CONDESAN is an organization that has worked in the Andes for 20 years to promote sustainable natural resource management and alleviate poverty. It focuses on areas like Andean basins, rural livelihoods, and biodiversity. CONDESAN operates a network of 22 monitoring sites across South America and facilitates collaboration between over 60 organizations. Some of its work includes biodiversity, carbon, hydrological, and land use monitoring, as well as projects related to payments for hydrological services, rural innovation, and climate change adaptation.

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Consortium for the Sustainable Development of
the Andean Ecoregion
Mobilizing the wealth
of the Andes to overcome
poverty and social exclusion

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20 years working in the Andes

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CONDESAN is an organization committed
with the sustainable natural resources
management that contributes to
mobilize the wealth of the Andes to
overcome poverty and social exclusion

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Strategic areas of work
Andean basins
Sustainable Rural
Livelihoods
Biodiversity
1. Global changes and their impacts
2. Rural societies dynamics
…focus on

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Institutional Programs
We seek to mobilize our allies to generate regional synthesis,
dialogue on policies and share information and knowledge base on
problems related to sustainable development and natural resource
management in the Andean ecoregion

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ANDEAN MONITORING
Network of 22 sites: Venezuela to Argentina
More of 7000 km with social and environmental
gradients
Producing information to facilitate analysis from
the local (micro) to the regional(macro)
Articulate more than 60 organizations all over
the Andes
1.Biodiversity monitoring
2.Carbon Monitoring
3.Hydrological monitoring
4.Land use and cover change monitoring
5.Livelihoods monitoring

7. 1. Payment for hydrological enviromental
ecosystems
2. Rural innovation in agricultural system
3. Climate change in the Tropical Andes:
vulnerabilities and adaptation

8. Only in this year we have the following process soported and facilitated:
1.Water, Food Security and Climate Change
2.Knowledge Rural Communities
3.Linking Science and Policy
4.Hidrological Monitoring in Andean Ecosystems
5.Andean Forest Monitoring
6.Benefits Sharing Mechanisms

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10. Alianzas internacionales
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musuq.briceno@condesan.org
http://www.condesan.org
http://www.infoandina.org
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