The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) is an intergovernmental organization made up of eight Member Countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela, which encourages sustainable development and social inclusion in the Region. 

As an international organization, ACTO, through its Permanent Secretariat (SP), coordinates the procedures within the framework of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (TCA) and streamlines the execution of its decisions.

The various dimensions of ACTO action - political-diplomatic, strategic and technical - correspond to the different instances of the Treaty and guarantee the fulfillment of the purposes of both the ATT and the Organization itself.

Without a doubt, ACTO is a contemporary instrument of the ATT with a broad vision of the South-South cooperation process, which strengthens the vocation of their governments to build synergies with other actors, nations, multilateral organizations, development agencies, social movements. , scientific community, productive sectors and society as a whole.

Their work is guided by the Strategic Agenda for Amazonian Cooperation (AECA) with an 8-year horizon for its implementation, approved by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs in 2010. This instrument reflects the priorities of the Amazonian countries, in accordance with reality political and social of the region.