Colombia

Andean Community
CAN

The Andean Community is a subregional organization with international juridical personality made up by five countries that comprise the organs and institutions of the Andean Integration System (AIS).The main objectives of the Andean Community (CAN) are: the promotion of a stable and harmonic development of its member countries in conditions of equity, to speed up the economic cooperation through integration and the economic and social cooperation, to encourage the participation in the regional integration process so as to have a gradual training in the common Latin American market and thus procure a persistent improvement in the living standards of Latin Americans. Located in South America, the five Andean countries group over 111 million inhabitants in a surface of 4, 700,00 km2, whose internal gross product reaches to US$272 million in 1999.

http://www.comunidadandina.org

Andean Community
CAN

The Andean Community is a subregional organization with international juridical personality made up by five countries that comprise the organs and institutions of the Andean Integration System (AIS).The main objectives of the Andean Community (CAN) are: the promotion of a stable and harmonic development of its member countries in conditions of equity, to speed up the economic cooperation through integration and the economic and social cooperation, to encourage the participation in the regional integration process so as to have a gradual training in the common Latin American market and thus procure a persistent improvement in the living standards of Latin Americans. Located in South America, the five Andean countries group over 111 million inhabitants in a surface of 4, 700,00 km2, whose internal gross product reaches to US$272 million in 1999.

http://www.comunidadandina.org

Andean Foment Corporation
(CAF)

The Andean Foment Corporation (CAF is the acronym in Spanish) is a multilateral financial institution with a mission to support a sustainable development policy in its shareholding countries and to pursue regional integration. It deals with both public and private sectors by purveying multiple financial items and services to a wide array of customers ranging from governments of shareholding states and financial institutions to public and private enterprises. Within the framework of its arrangement policies, CAF puts together social and environmental solutions. Such terms as ecological efficiency and sustainability are highlighted by CAF.
This organization has maintained a permanent representation in each and every one of its shareholding countries, a presence that has allowed CAF to strengthen its effectiveness as far as resource allocation is concerned. Today, it stands for the main source of multilateral bankrolling for member nations of the Andean Community, providing as much as 40% of all endowments granted by multilateral international institutions in the last decade.
Membership:
CAF is currently made up of twelve countries from Latin America and the Caribbean. Its major shareholders are the five member nations of the Andean Nations Community, plus other seven C-series extra-regional partners and stockholders and 22 B-series private-owned banks from the Andean region.
Caribbean States Association
CSA

AEC was set up around five years ago, being one of the most important organizations of the hemisphere fostering cooperation, consultation and increased trade and investment in several subregions. The Association actively participates in the elimination of linguistic barriers, as well as in the promotion of a closer link among State members.The Association is a forum to foster cooperation among other organizations involved in the hemispheric integration as can be the Secretariat of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Economic System of Latin America (SELA), the Integration System of Central American Integration (ISCA). The Association has signed also agreements with the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL). An example of this can be the concern for the establishment of the Area of Sustainable Tourism, the Agreement of Regional Cooperation for 2222.

http://www.acs-aec.org

Economic Commission for Latin America
CEPAL

The Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL) was set up under Resolution 106 (VI) passed by the Economic and Social Council on February 25, 1948 and started off that same year. In its Resolution 1984/67 dated July 27, 1984, the council voted the Commission be renamed Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
CEPAL is one of the UN’s five regional commissions and it’s headquartered in Santiago de Chile. It was founded with a view to help in Latin America’s economic development, in the coordination of actions aimed at promoting and buttressing that development among the member countries and the rest of the world. Later on, it scope embraced Caribbean nations and a new objective to foster social development was added to its agenda.
CEPAL counts on two sub-regional headquarters: one for Central America based in Mexico, D.F. and a second one for the Caribbean in Port of Spain, established on June 1951 and December 1996 respectively. Moreover, the organization has national offices in Buenos Aires, Brasilia, Montevideo and Bogota, plus a liaison office in Washington, D.C.

http://www.un.org/Docs/SG/SG-Rpt/ch3d-3.htm