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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.
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

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO

FAO was founded in October 1945 with the objective of raising the nutritional levels and quality life and also of improving agricultural productivity and the situation of the rural population.At present FAO, made up by 180 member States, in addition to CE a member organization, has over 4,300 officials all over the world.The Organization provides a direct assistance for development, gather, reviews and analyze information, furnishes government with assessment on policies and planning and serves as an international forum for the debate on topics related to agriculture and food.FAO actively participates in the fostering of lands and waters, vegetal production, forestry, fishing, economic and social policy, investment, nutrition, food standards, goods and trade. Another of its main functions is to face urgent situations regarding food and agricultural problems as draught, pests, insects and the like.A concrete priority of the Organization is the fostering of the sustainable agricultural and rural development, a strategy at a long run for the conservation and ordering of the natural resources. Its aim is to satisfy the needs of the present and future generations through programs that do not damage the environment and that can be technically appropiate, economically viable and socially accepted.

http://www.fao.org

Group of 15
G-15

The Group of 15 (G-15) is made up of some of the most outstanding member countries of the Non-Aligned Movement. Founded in 1989 to boost economic cooperation and development among developing nations. The groups works hard to foster South-South relations among those nations, as well as to coordinate North-South aide from industrialized nations to developing countries. One of G-15’s most remarkable successes is the Trade Investment and Technological Information Exchange Program for the South, which includes the creation of a database system that allows exchange of economic, commercial and technological information among developing countries.
Group of 19
G-19

The Group of 19 (G-19) was formed by developing countries that took part in the Conference on International Economic Cooperation held in different rounds of sessions from December 1975 to June 1977.