The Biodiversity Foundation has just published the “Manual for the integration of the environment in development projects” aimed especially at technicians from Non-Governmental Organizations dedicated to international development cooperation (NGDOs).

This eminently practical guide prepared by the IPADE Foundation aims to help make the specific mission of each project compatible with the conservation of natural resources. The publication is part of a programme of actions in this regard, launched by the Biodiversity Foundation in 2009, with the intention of reversing the idea of the environment as an ‘externality’.

The Biodiversity Foundation thus aims to intensify the training of cooperation professionals and volunteers for the integration of environmental sustainability in Spanish Cooperation initiatives. In this case, through a manual that provides NGDOs with the necessary tools to consider the environmental protection component in all phases of execution of these projects.

The manual is therefore offered as a tool for the adaptation of the different phases, from start to finish of each project, from the assessment of the initial environmental conditions in the countries in which it intervenes and the identification of local needs in this area, precisely in cases of projects that do not have a purely environmental character. the adjustment of actions to the basic criteria for the sustainability of resources.