The process of building the Amazon Indigenous Agenda goes from January 2002 through October 2004. It was a process that involved actors of the indigenous movement throughout the region. To build this Agenda, we have worked together with member organizations through their representatives, such as the CONFENAE and its grassroots organizations; the OPIAC, its representatives and technical staff on the plans and programs executed in the Colombian Amazon; the COIAB, with their coordinators of productive projects together with grassroots and general representatives; the CONIVE and ORPIA, within which we visited experiences of eco-tourism, developed by the organization. On our visits to AIDESEP, we they explained us the methodologies used to elaborate their life plans, which has been a fundamental support for the general design of the Amazon Indigenous Agenda. In OIS,we saw from up close the organizational conditions and the need for better infrastructure, the efforts of the leaders to boost an indigenous local movement and strengthening it; in the FOAG, a dialogue was held with elders and their representatives; in APA, we were able to see the penetration of manual extractors in their territories as well as the absence of the constitutional guarantees as well as those of the State. In addition to the dialogues held in each country, we have had access to other information within the narrative reports of the diverse events promoted by the organizations and without a doubt, on organizations reports, presented at the meetings of CCC and CDC of COICA, in all the organizational history of COICA.

A fundamental part of this process was the participation of each country’s indigenous organizations in the definition of specific priorities to be dealt within the Amazon Indigenous Agenda, which demonstrates the importance of this process. For the COIAB, the main actions to be developed were human sustainability, as well as all that referred to building economic alternatives for the organizations of the Brazilian Amazon. The FOAG assumed the entire elaboration of the Amazon Indigenous Agenda as its action plan in the French Amazon. The APA sustained that the issue of territoriality and ancestral and organizational wisdom are their working priorities and as such, these topics are the base of their already under implementation work; AIDESEP identified the topic of human sustainability on what they referred to the consolidation of their own financial mechanism, having as their support the already under implementation, maintenance fund. The CONIVE affirmed that the topic of territories is their priority and the OIS defined the topic of organizational strengthening as the base of their actions. CIDOB pointed out two topics as important for them, territoriality and academic and scientific education; CONFENAE also stated the topics of territory and human sustainability as its priority, regarding economic alternatives to support the actions of the organization and OPIAC has defined the topic of Territory and Rights as issues to be priorized.

The programmatic areas elaborated within the framework of the Amazon Indigenous Agenda-AIA, had a second step that consisted on assessing the social, political, economic cultural and spiritual reality in the core of the peoples and the indigenous organizations of the Amazon Basin, with the purpose of aiding the guidelines, strategies and actions of the collective work of the members of COICA. In this sense, the journey made together with consultants and representatives of Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Guyana, Surinam and French Guyana, provided us with a great amount of information on fundamental and essential rights concerning life, health, free development of our own “personality”, on territorial, cultural, spiritual and social integrity and on the development of our own economies. All of these comprehensive elements bind together the Amazon Indigenous Agenda- AIA.