The Latin America Institute for Alternative Law and Society (ILSA) organized a workshop titled Climate Change, Financial Mechanisms for Emissions Reductions, and the Role of Communities in Bogot?, Colombia as part of RRI?s strategic response mechanism. The event created a space for dialogue among representatives from the Colombian government, the World Bank, and indigenous and afro-descendant communities of the country?s Pacific coast, in order to ensure community participation in the elaboration of Colombia?s Redd Readiness Preparation Proposal submission to the World Bank. As a result of this workshop, an agreement was made between the government and the afro-descendant organizations to define a ?road-map? for development of participatory workshops with the communities of the Pacific Coast.