Promotion of Best Social and Environmental Management Practices in the Amazon Region   3

This activity will contribute to the achievement of the Project Purpose by promoting environment and social best practices. Through the activity, USAID seeks to focus neither on supporting nor inhibiting the extraction of resources or development of infrastructure, but rather to ensure that such activities, where they occur, are done in a way that safeguards natural resources and indigenous rights and cultures in the Amazon region.

The objectives of the Activity are:

To reduce biodiversity loss, deforestation, and forest fragmentation in high priority landscapes of the Amazon Region; and

2. To reduce loss of water systems' integrity and quality in the main-stem Amazon River, (the principal trunk of a river or a stream), key tributaries, and associated aquatic areas (swamps, lagoons, marshes, etc.).