Colombia
Environment and Children's Action Fund - Fondo Accion
Fondo Acción was created in 2000 as a non-governmental, non-profit organization that promotes the construction of a better relationship between the community and the environment, in addition to supporting children's development processes, with the aim of generating significant and sustainable changes in society, benefiting units as diverse as basins, protected areas, private reserves, community territories and indigenous reserves in various areas of Colombia.
Fondo Acción works at different levels to have a positive impact on Colombian society, opening competitions and calls for proposals to select and co-finance projects, while managing a system of accounts created with resources from various sources to be subsequently allocated to initiatives in line with its strategic lines - environment, children, cross-cutting programmes related to capacity building and public policy - in several of which it also plays the role of direct executor.