communities, and territorial rights in Bogota, Colombia addressed the boom in the extractive industries in Latin America. The Dialogue brought together NGOs and community leaders with representatives from the extractive industries to discuss the environmental, economic and social potential of mining; links between extractive industries and climate change, forest and collective rights policies; and mechanisms for the promotion of forest rights. RRI Collaborators from Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, developed studies of mega-projects and their source of investments, producing the first mapping of the overlapping of investments, forest and community lands of the Pacific Coast Region (an area of more than 28 million ha). Afro-descendant organizations from Latin America and the Caribbean held the first international Colloquium, and agreed on a common agenda to advocate their rights and created an international representative body.