Subject & Course Guides: Peru: Organizations

NGOs

People of Peru Project
The People of Peru Project is providing aid to the region of Peru that is located at the headwaters of the Amazon River. Iquitos is a city of 600,000 people surrounded by thousands of square miles of jungle. Poverty and all that comes with it plague this city. Disease, parasites, malnutrition, rampant tooth decay, and premature death are but a few.

USAID - Peru
Since 1961, USAID has implemented ambitious assistance programs in Peru across several sectors. Over the last five decades, U.S. assistance has played a critical role in the progress of the country. USAID support has helped Peru reduce poverty, increase literacy, improve communications and transport systems, reduce infant mortality, recover from natural disasters, achieve macro-economic stability, consolidate democratic participation, and advance education, health, agriculture, and economic opportunities. In addition, USAID has also provided life-saving humanitarian assistance, worked to promote alternatives to illicit crops, supported climate change adaptation projects, and forest certification and biodiversity protection.

Instituto del Bien Comun
El Instituto del Bien Común (IBC) es una asociación civil peruana sin fines de lucro fundada en 1998 que trabaja con comunidades rurales para promover la gestión óptima de los bienes comunes, tales como territorios comunales, cuerpos de agua, bosques, pesquerías y áreas naturales protegidas.

MacArthur Foundation Grants - Conservation & Sustainable Development
MacArthur's conservation grantmaking aims to preserve ecosystems and species and to promote development that respects the environment.

ACEER Foundation (NGO)
The mission of the ACEER Foundation is to promote conservation of the Amazon by fostering awareness, understanding, action, and transformation. This is achieved by initiating environmental education programs, supporting basic and applied research, and protecting unique tracts of land. ACEER has been a dynamic force for rainforest conservation for over 20 years.
Stroud Water Research Center - Peru Project
Stroud Water Research Center applied its 40 years of experience studying stream and river ecosystems to the development of an integrated scientific research/environmental education project in headwaters of the Amazon in southeastern Peru.
Amazon Aid Foundation
Mission is to bring awareness and environmental sustainability to the Amazon rainforest through diverse integrated multi-media educational materials while assisting partners on the ground who provide solutions.
CACE - Center for Amazon Community Ecology
The Center for Amazon Community Ecology’s mission is to promote the understanding, conservation, and sustainable development of human and other biological communities in the Amazon region.
CEBIO - Centro de Ecologia y Biodiversidad
CEBIO cuenta con la colaboración de investigadores de alto nivel, grupos de investigación e instituciones afines interesadas en la generación y divulgación de información sobre la biodiversidad, ecología y conservación.

Environmental Change Institute
The Environmental Change Institute was established in 1991 'to organize and promote interdisciplinary research on the nature, causes and impact of environmental change and to contribute to the development of management strategies for coping with future environmental change'.