Fundacion Avina

We are a Latin American foundation that promotes sustainability through collaborative processes, leading to large-scale positive impact. To fulfill our mission we work from the Global South (Latin America and Africa), in line with the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations, to advance innovations that promote the care of the planet and the well-being of all people.

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At Avina, we believe in deepening and strengthening efforts that promote human dignity, equity, environmental sustainability and our democracies. We promote collaborative change processes that allow us to understand the challenges and offer specific responses to each context, creating systemic and resilient changes.

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Amid growing awareness of climate change's influence on Andean economic activities, microfinance sector lacks sufficient climate-focused microcredit for smallholder farming families.

Innovation in the microfinance sector for resilient smallholder farming in Ecuador

Learn about how the Andes Resilientes project, in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Water, and Ecological Transition (MAATE), is spearheading a transformative initiative within the framework of the National Climate Financing Strategy (EFIC) to tailor financial products for the unique needs of climate-vulnerable agriculture. 

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Climate information based on local needs to adapt small farmers to climate change

“El Niño” is knocking on our door: How can climate information help Andean families?

Learn about the Agroclimatic Management Platform model which seeks to strengthen agroclimatic governance to improve agricultural productivity in the Andes. It highlights the importance of family farmers being able to access information and practices that help them adapt their activities to climatic events.

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Leaders of the communities benefiting from APH Quinllunga in learning sessions on water management in the páramo

Community governance to conserve moor water as an adaptation measure in Ecuador

Discover how climate change and gender criteria are being integrated into Water Protection Areas (APH in Spanish) in Ecuador with the help of the Resilient Andes project guide. The guide aims to strengthen community governance and increase the climate resilience of family farming.

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Effective MEL systems to make visible adaptations progress in the Andes

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Systems for Adaptation Action in the Andes

Learn more about NAPs through this series of webinars organized by the Climate Change Resilient Andes covering Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, also bringing in experience from other regions, giving unique opportunities to exchange experiences, perspectives, and lessons learned on adaptation and MEL. 

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Panelists COP26 Side Event

The importance of equitable and fair access to climate finance as a theme at COP26

Local communities in the global south face the greatest impacts of climate change. They provide climate solutions based on their local knowledge without being targeted by climate finance funds.

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Andes resilientes

Andes Resilientes al Cambio Climático (Resilient Andes)

A project working to increase the resilience of the most vulnerable communities that live in the mountain ecosystems of the Andes to the effects of climate change and natural hazards.

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