During 20 years of history, CORNARE has been well known, in its region, department, and country, as well as internationally; because of Its efforts to get a better life conditions for the regional people. These actions come from a principally goal: to work for the sustainable human development into the East Antioquia.

This is the reason that makes CORMARE deserves innumerable acknowledgments by non-government organiza­tions, industries, municipal governments from the area, professional associations, international institutions, and, mainly, communities of 26 East Antioquia towns.

 

The Ministry of Environment

 

The Ministry of Environment acknowledges CORNARE as a leader organization in environmental issues in Colombia, because of its programs that looks for preservation, protection, and conservation of environment and natural resources. This Ministry rules the Colombian environmental politics and coordinates the SIMA Environmental Matlonal System- that includes 34 Independent corporations.

 

The World Bank

 

World Bank's officers have traveled to the East Antioquia with the goal to know environmental advances that make CORNARE a credible and exemplary organization in Colombia. They considered the Implantation of Retributive Rates Process and the Support to the Industrial Re-conversion, as examples to show to the whole world. For this reason, they Invited the Corporation to explain Its experience about this matter in a lecture for an International audience, in Washington City. Besides, the World Bank acknowledges the CORNARE's experience about inversion and recovery of waters as one of the three most important in the world, in the Bank's annual book "Greening Industry".

 

 

Organized Communities

 

The CORNARE's support and advice, about natural resources and environmental management, have benefited East Antioquia communities. More than 180 Community Action Boards have shown their thankfulness by giving homages and insignias to The Corporation, acknowledging it as a key organization for their community

 

 Municipal Governments

 

Municipal Governments have never hesitated to acknowledge CORNARE as an organization that helps municipal action, even The Corporation has been often principal investor and co-investor of municipal projects.

 

Thus CORNARE is recognized for its contribution to the municipal development by 26 towns in this area. Therefore, Town Councils have done honored it.

 

Professional Associations

Different professional associations acknowledge CORNARE as an honest organization that seeks the best for its region. Consequently, the Corporation always tries to get the best experts and counselors to be able to give the higher quality works keeping in mind the regional human resource.

The Corporation won the Medal to the Environmental Merit in September, recognition by the national Association of Sanitary and Environmental Engineers, as a result of its excellent work for Basic Sanitation and its being pioneer about this matters in Colombia.

CORNARE has been invited, as an honor guest, to different professional meetings, to expose its successful pro­grams, and thus to make possible to reproduce them.

       Other Institutions

National and international entities, which have worked in association with CORNARE, have acknowledged The Corporation as a respectable organization, for its well managing of co-financing investments and Its performing of its own functions and tasks. Progressively CORNARE have done enough merit to get international organizations' credibility and trust. In 2000, the Corporation made an agreement with the International Organization of Tropical Woods, in which this organization would give financial support for the sustainable management of the "Valles de San Nicolás" forest area.

This interinstitutional cooperation agreement is to explore financial tools to get the East Antioquia Forest Area to be one oxygen reserve, and thus to lower the climatic change, as the Kioto Protocol advises. This Antioquia Area is important because of its function as a capturer of Co2.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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