The Governance and Infrastructure in the Amazon project seeks to create, strengthen and expand a Community of Practice and Learning (COP-L) on the use of tools and strategies by conservation and development practitioners from NGOs, community organizations, government and academia. The GIA theory of change is that by bringing practitioners together to share experiences, reflect and dialogue, they will collaboratively learn and adapt, improve their use of tools and strategies to improve social-environmental governance, and thus be more effective at mitigating or stopping poorly planned infrastructure development.

The GIA project is led by an Executive Committee of faculty from UF’s Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) program, in the Center for Latin American Studies; they are from multiple disciplines with diverse professional and geographic expertise. For more information about the project, visit their website.