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About Us
Iniciativa Amotocodie is legally established as a non-profit association.
It has a permanent field team made up of five persons and offices in Filadelfia (Paraguayan Chaco). The team’s work is supplemented with the external collaboration of several specialized professionals.
The actions of Iniciativa Amotocodie are followed closely by the institution’s Board, which includes specialists in different areas of intervention who come from the national as well as international spheres.
Board
- Luis María de la Cruz
Formosa, Argentina
- Manuel Glauser
La Paz, Bolivia
- José Elizeche
Asunción
- Bernd Fischermann
La Paz, Bolivia
- Verena Friesen
Neuland, Chaco
- Benno Glauser
Filadelfia, Chaco
- Gregorio Gómez
Asunción
- Jieun Kang
Filadelfia, Chaco
- Beate Lehner
Asunción
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- Miguel Lovera
Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Antonio Mompó
Filadelfia, Chaco
- Irma Penner
Filadelfia, Chaco
- Esther Prieto
Asunción
- Rosa María Quiroga †
La Paz, Bolivia
- Miguel Angel Alarcón
Filadelfia, Chaco
- Manuela Schmundt
Bern, Switzerland
- Teresa Vargas
Asunción
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Staff
field / operational team
| Benno Glauser |
General Coordinator |
| Jieun Kang |
Deputy Coordinator |
| Antonio Mompó |
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| Miguel Angel Alarcón |
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| Milner Alarcón |
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external collaboration
| Esther Prieto |
Legal affairs |
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| Luis María de la Cruz |
Research, mapping and GIS database |
| Bernd Fischermann |
Anthropological advisor |
| Ever Barreto |
Web Site |
Institutional relations
the state
Iniciativa Amotocodie (IAM) relates and coordinates its activities with centralised and decentralised government bodies, such as the Ministry for Environment (SEAM), INDI (National Institute of Indigenous Peoples), the State Attorney General’s Office and the Governor´s Office of the Department of Boquerón.
With SEAM, Iniciativa Amotocodie has signed a three-year agreement that establishes the framework for concrete inter-institutional cooperation projects in the area of environmental activities.
indigenous organisations
Iniciativa Amotocodie maintains a close and permanent relationship of support and mutual cooperation with UNAP (Union of Ayoreo Natives of Paraguay). As of March 2003, Benno Glauser and Jieun Kang, members of the operational team, have also been acting as official advisors to this organisation, as appointed by the UNAP Assembly.
non-governmental organisations/national and regional networks
Iniciativa Amotocodie coordinates its activities on a permanent basis with SOBREVIVENCIA/ Friends of the Earth - Paraguay.
Iniciativa Amotocodie has a cooperation agreement with Fungir Foundation in Formosa, Argentina.
IAM is a member of ACHA - Articulación Chaqueña, a forum of organizations of the civil society of the Paraguayan Chaco working for the indigenous peoples; of ROAM (Network of Non-governmental Environmental Organisations of Paraguay); and of Pojoaju – the Association of NGOs of Paraguay.
It is also part of Iniciativa Walamba, a network that brings together a number of NGOs of Bolivia, Argentina and Paraguay, the three countries that make up the Gran Chaco.
international
Iniciativa Amotocodie is part of the International Alliance for the Protection of Isolated Peoples and is on its Executive Committee.
Iniciativa Amotocodie maintains a relationship with the European Gran Chaco Network, as well as with UICN, the World Rainforest Movement (WRM) and the Global Forest Coalition (Holland).
Last Update: January 31, 2006
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