Infrastructure development and Local Environment Monitoring Committees in Bolivia

FUNDESNAP is the Bolivian Environmental Fund. It was established in 2000 to support the National System of Protected Areas (SNAP), which integrates protected areas and their buffer zones at the national, department, municipal, and community levels.

Social environmental monitoring mechanisms have been conceived as a way to strengthen and complement institutionalized mechanisms for prevention, control, mitigation, and supervision available to Bolivian governmental authorities and in the context of safeguard policies established by the World Bank (WB), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and other entities funding the construction of highway infrastructure.