BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

This is the Foundation's regulatory instrument responsible for defining the institutional policies, guiding, supervising and measuring the results of the diverse activities ensuring that the institutional objectives are achieved. It is composed of 7 members who carry out their functions voluntarily and for a period of two years.

Board of Directors 2005-2007:

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR:

Mainly responsible for technical, financial, administrative and legal management of the Foundation, the executive director implements the institutional policies and program activities approved by the Board of Directors with the help of three technical departments and the administrative/accounting department.

Executive Director: Karin Columba
 

DEPARTMENTS:

Conservation Department:

Contributes to the management of representative and functional ecosystems in Bolivia, building environmental, social, economic and political-legal sustainability.

Department Coordinator: José Argandoña

Protected Areas Unit: Develops and co-implements strategies for the integrated management of Protected Areas.

Environmental Services Unit: Develops long-term finance mechanisms that contribute to the sustainable management of representative and functional ecosystems.

Territorial Management Unit: Promotes an adequate territorial management in municipalities, communities and private properties through planning instruments.

Science Department:

Provides the scientific basis and the tools so that different stakeholders can optimize their management of biodiversity conservation.

Department Coordinator: Natalia Araujo

Conservation Science Unit: Prepares and applies scientific concepts and tools based on the latest principles of conservation science, promoting biodiversity conservation.

Environmental Information Laboratory Unit: Guarantees the optimum use of geographical information tools available for all of FAN's activities to improve their quality.

Botanical Research and Development Unit: Develops alternatives for the sustainable use of native phytodiversity in Bolivia.

Live Specimen Collection and Flora Research Unit: Provides training for taxonomic-flora research to complement the activities of conservation and reinforce the scientific expertise of FAN.

 

Department for Institutional Development:

Guarantees the quality of internal management and optimizes external relationships to achieve institutional sustainability.

Projects. Organization and Methods Unit (Institutional Development): Controls the functional efficiency of the organization, the quality of the techniques used and directs the management of the portfolio of projects.

FAN Publishing Unit: Distributes and facilitates scientific knowledge about Bolivian biodiversity, publishing scientific documents about biodiversity to establish a mechanism for environmental education and the dissemination of scientific information.

Communication Unit: Promotes the social awareness and public support for biodiversity conservation and encourages the support of the organization.

Sustainable Biotrade National Program:

Supports technically and financially productive initiatives and the commercialization of biodiversity goods and services, produced under criterions of sustainability.

The Sustainable Biotrade National Program is a National Government Program that has been delegated to FAN.

Program Manager: Richard Vaca

INSTITUTIONAL PROFILE