The foundation takes action on a local level with a strong presence and emphasis in the communities and the people. As well it works by means of joint territorial proposals such as the creation and management of protected areas, support to public territories (black and Indian communities), private and municipal conservation areas; on a regional level with local and regional administrations, governmental administrations such as CARs and MAVDT, universities, investigating organisations, other NGOs; on a national level with NGOs, governmental institutions etc, for the political support and formulation; on an international level ít interacts with other NGOs, organisations, networks and knowledge support formation of the biodiversity and its' different approximation levels.

In its work to obtain the desired impact on different partners, and considering its influence it doesn’t work by itself since it is more productive to work in alliances with different groups to create a win-win situation, Fundación Natura applies its process on the development of planes, programs and projects. This process consists of six sequential steps and some transversal lines- participation, spreading, monitoring, evaluating and sorting, on an institutional platform defined by its statues.

1.      Situational analyse

Is the Understanding of a situation, this to be able to design a plan and make a change. We try to identify the necessary measures in such a way so that they permit the multiplication of the change, identifying the concrete problems.

2.      Reality characterisation

Analyse of the socioeconomic, cultural and biophysical aspects, based on the knowledge of the rich bio diversity through the investigation, presence on field and the participation of the communities.

Fundación Natura articulates itself with the national and international problems and deals with the understanding of the relation between richness in biodiversity, poverty and equity of the population; because of that it searches for sustainable alternatives for the bio diversity which will improve the life conditions in the communities where it´s active, most of these are as well immerses in a context of armed violence, a conflict about the use of the natural resources and illegal cultivation.

3.      Partner identification

In agreement with the situational identification, it includes the characterisation of the different kinds of partners with whom to form alliances.

4.      Participation Plan

The design of strategies and actions to be taken where the strategic partners participate. The process responds to the lineaments of the integral conservation plan based in eco regions, founded in the biology of conservation, concentrated in short to long term processes that work for the bio diversity and recognise the importance is has over the permanent environmental changes, many natural as well as human caused, to satisfy a process of sustainable development and usage of regional planning tools.

5.      Activity Execution

The identified activities are developed in the previous step, fulfilling the established agreements, based on the adaptive management; and a periodic evolution for the action objectives and if there is a necessity to make changes they take the necessary actions and opportunities to incorporate them.

6.      Closing

When the plan or project is concluded, it moves on to the closing stage. It generally consists of consolidating the products, giving them to partners and shares them; this part can go in two directions: either it gives the action continuity and starts the process from the participate planning or it closes the cycle.