This international pre-launch workshop is key to defining the scope, activities, challenges, stakeholder mapping and country perspectives on management, for the success of the project. These issues will be worked together by the more than 30 specialists from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela who will be participating.
This cooperation agreement, recently signed by ACTO and the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) for the implementation of the priority strategic actions of the Strategic Action Program (SAP), has a funding by US $ 11.7 million from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and this will be executed by ACTO until 2024.
The Amazon Basin project will promote Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), to improve ecological, social and economic benefits, allowing countries to meet their relevant Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the goals of the convention in the Amazon basin.
The launch of the project is scheduled for June this year with the start of its activities defined in this workshop.
Strategic Actions Program (SAP)
The SAP is part of a regional initiative implemented and enforced by the UN Environment, between 2011 and 2018, by the ACTO called “Integrated and Sustainable Management of Transboundary Water Resources in the Amazon River Basin considering Climate Variability and Change”. The project provided ACTO Member Countries with a shared vision of the Amazon Basin, improving the understanding of common problems, priorities, needs and objectives related to Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM).
The main result was a Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA) and the Strategic Action Program (SAP). The SAP was duly supported by the 8 ACTO Member Countries.
