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Strategic Focus Area | Program | Project |
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Environmental governance | Environmental education | Education as a tool to build a safe and sustainable territory |
Territorial capacity | Capacity development of the Basin Council | |
Strengthening capacities of community aqueducts | ||
Participatory and collaborative management for the ordination and management of the basin | ||
Development of community capacities to implement conservation measures, risk management and adaptation to climatic change | ||
Financial management for the POMCA sustainability | ||
Harmonization of management and planning instruments | ||
Protection and safeguard of cultural heritage | Research, education, conservation, protection, and safeguard of cultural heritage | |
Environmentally sustainable productive systems | Sustainable agricultural productive Systems | Integration of methodological strategies for the strengthening of the sustainability of agricultural production in the influence area of the Rio Campoalegre POMCA |
Green businesses | Sustainable green business strengthening and development | |
Sustainable tourism and associated strategic projects | Development and consolidation of entrepreneurs and business units of the ecotourism and agrotourism sector as green businesses | |
Comprehensive disaster risk management and Adaptation to climate change | Disaster risk knowledge | Strengthening the level of risk knowledge in the basin |
Disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change | Preventive measures for risk reduction | |
Corrective and mitigation measures for risk reduction | ||
Risk transfer | ||
Disaster management | Strengthening preparation for emergency response | |
Comprehensive management of biodiversity, water resources and their ecosystem services | Consolidation of the ecological structure of the watershed | Ecological structure of the basin with recognition in the planning instruments, environmental and territorial management |
Conservation of the watershed ecological structure | ||
Basic sanitation | Implementation of individual domestic wastewater treatment systems (Sistemas de Tratamiento de Aguas Residuales Domésticas STARD) in the rural areas of the basin | |
Evaluation, adjustment, implementation, and monitoring of the master plans of aqueduct and sewer systems (Planes Maestros de Acueducto y Alcantarillado PMAA), Sanitation and Wastewater Management Plans (Planes de Saneamiento y Manejo de Vertimientos PSMV) and the Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plans (Planes de Gestión Integral de Residuos Sólidos PGIRS) | ||
Water safety | Formulation and/or updating and implementation of methodological guidelines by sector for the presentation and implementation of programs for the water efficient use and saving (Programa de Uso Eficiente y Ahorro del Agua PUEAA) | |
Knowledge management | Regional environmental observatory for monitoring, follow-up, control, and evaluation | Regional and integral technological platform of monitoring, control, and evaluation |
Watershed technical studies | Identification of the threat, vulnerability and analysis and risk assessment | |
Studies for the evaluation of the state of biodiversity and its ecosystem services | ||
Studies for the incorporation of environmental sustainability in the productive sector |
Serious Game | Developer | Scope of Application | Main Objectives | Geographic Focus |
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Aqua Republica | DHI: Danish Hydraulic Institute, 2016 [31] | Water resources planning and management | Understand river basin concepts and visualize the consequence of their decisions | Fictional basin |
Shariva (Shared River) | Douven et al., 2014 [32] | Transboundary cooperation, Flood management | Build capacity in transboundary cooperation addressing flood management and mitigation | Mekong River Commission |
Irrigania | Seibert and Vis, 2012 [33] | Water use education | Represent water conflicts among farmers to educate students | Not specified. Fictional villages |
SimBasin | Craven et al., 2017 [34] | Water resources planning and decision support | Bring stakeholders together and illustrate the uncertainties, relationships, and feedback in the basin, acting as an accessible introduction to modelling and decision support for non-experts | Magdalena-Cauca Macrobasin in Colombia |
Component | Description |
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Water quality for human consumption | Availability of water resources in terms of quality for human consumption |
Water resources quality | Physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the water bodies in the basin |
Availability of water for human consumption | Availability of water resources in terms of quantity for human consumption |
State of conservation of natural covers | Status of natural coverage in the sub-basins that favor the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services. |
Ecological structure planning and land management instruments | The territorial entities and the environmental authority include in the land management instruments the strategic areas and ecosystems of the basin that should be conserved or restored. |
Governance | The technical, administrative, and political capacity of the environmental authorities and territorial entities for water and natural resource management in the basin. The institutional arrangements and the supporting regulatory framework help to fulfill this purpose. The agreements between institutional and social organizations that contribute to water and natural resources management. |
Risk-hazard flash floods | The risk of flash flood danger to lives or property |
Risk-fire threat | The risk from plant cover fires, which can occur due to combustibility conditions of plant covers, temperatures, or lack of rain. High and medium threat levels are considered. |
Risk-threat mass movement | Risk is considered in terms of a threat from mass movements, such as landslides. |
Agricultural sector | Agricultural and livestock production systems that improve the production process and generate positive environmental impacts. |
Tourism sector | Productive activity that consists of enjoying the natural attributes of the environment and that is carried out in an environmentally responsible manner. |
Subject | Action |
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Sanitation | Do nothing sanitation related |
Implement sanitation and wastewater management plans | |
Implement individual domestic wastewater treatment systems | |
Cleaner production | |
Risk mitigation measures | Do nothing risk mitigation measures related |
Riverbanks management | |
Stability, erosion control and water management | |
Fire preparedness | |
Environmentally sustainable production systems | Do nothing environmentally sustainable production systems related |
Implementation of agroforestry, organic and conservation agriculture | |
Implementation of sustainable livestock | |
Implementation of polycultures | |
Comprehensive management of biodiversity and ecosystem services | Do nothing comprehensive management of biodiversity and ecosystem services related |
Conservation and restoration of strategic areas and ecosystems | |
Ecological structure of the basin in land use and environmental planning instruments | |
Safe and sustainable use of water | Do nothing safe and sustainable use of water related |
Sectoral programs for the water efficient use and saving | |
Sustainable tourism systems with a strengthened superstructure | Do nothing sustainable tourism systems with strengthened superstructure related |
Strengthened sustainable value networks | |
Environmental governance in the basin | Do nothing environmental governance in the basin related |
Environmental education | |
Strengthening of community aqueducts | |
Capacity building of the River Basin Council | |
Strengthening of institutional capacities | |
Real and effective environmental participation to influence decision-making in the basin |
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