This general purposes renewal grant will focus on strengthening the Center for Socio-Environmental Support's administrative, operational, and resource mobilization capacity. The Center for Socio-Economic Support is a Brazilian grantmaking and capacity-building organization founded by a group of Brazilian nongovernmental organizations. Its mission is to provide both technical and financial support for the work of community organizations and nongovernmental organizations throughout Brazil and neighboring countries. It supports organizations that monitor environmentally damaging projects; develop coordinated strategies to expand sustainable development options for local communities, and work to make large-scale energy and infrastructure investments more environmentally and socially sustainable.

International Finance and the Amazon Program, a project of Amazon Watch, monitors and works to influence extractive industry and infrastructure projects financed by international financial institutions and other public and private banks. This renewal grant will support Amazon Watch to strengthen the capacity of constituencies in Amazon countries, particularly environmental and indigenous organizations, to influence and hold accountable international financial decisionmakers for the environmental and social impacts of energy and infrastructure projects. The grant will also support monitoring of emblematic highway, waterway, and hydroelectric dam projects in the Amazon region.

This renewal grant to Sobrevivencia, a Paraguayan nongovernmental organization, will support its efforts to increase the capacity of communities and government agencies to participate effectively in decision making related to large-scale investments in infrastructure and energy in Paraguay, as well as the neighboring countries of the Paraná-Paraguay River basin. Sobrevivencia will continue its program of technical assistance, training, and capacity building aimed at improving the design and implementation of local, national, and regional development plans, and at minimizing the negative environmental impacts of large infrastructure projects such as dams and waterways.