Nuevas tendencias internacionales de la cooperación internacional y la conservación de la biodiversidad: Afectación local y retos institucionales para su financiamiento

Abstract

It's not a mystery that the international cooperation is being revised by the donors, specially from Europe and the United States due to the economic recesion these economies are experimenting. Therefore, these donors are concentrating their efforts in solving their own internal problems and leaving the Official Aid for Development (OAD) as a second choice. In this context, the cooperation for cientific investigation of biodiversity turns out to be a challenge for the governmental institutions that consider only traditional mechanisms to obtain additional resources. This context reflects the necessity to apply contemporary practices of merchandizing in the enviornmental sector of Colombia as an alternative for the enviornmental institutes to generate resourses and accomplish the international obligations that Colombia assumes.