Last month in the city of Huaraz, Peru, the COMPANDES team held a scientific seminar to disseminate the project findings towards the Development of Benefit Sharing Mechanisms to improve management of water in the Santa river basin. The highly glaciated basin has a number of conflicts over water use and its dependence [...]
Carmen Candelo Reina, Directora Programa Gobernanza y Medios de Vida Sostenible – WWF Colombia El contexto de justicia, respeto y reconocimiento de los derechos que promueven e integran los conversatorios de acción ciudadana, ha mejorado los conocimientos, capacidades y habilidades, y brindado herramientas y condiciones de equidad, aprovechadas por las mujeres [...]
Este blog es disponible tambien en Español. The citizen call to action (in Spanish, a conversatorio de acción ciudadana) is a process that articulates environmental conflicts and citizens’ rights. The approach enables traditionally excluded groups to participate in the analysis of issues affecting them and also take part in decision-making. [...]
To achieve equitable sharing of the full range of benefits from water resources, policies should be promoted that encourage collaborative behavior, dialogue and sharing of benefits and risks. One major area of CPWF work focuses on the identification of the multiple uses of land and water resources and how the [...]
CONDESAN, CPWF’s lead partner organization in the Andes, will be contributing to the Rio+20 dialogue in a major way. From June 13th to the 24th, they will be actively involved in a Mountain Pavilion, which aims to engage stakeholders in a series of discussions around issues related to sustainable development in mountain [...]
In celebration of the events in Rio de Janeiro, over the next two weeks CPWF will be providing a series of posts on Rio+20 progress. The CPWF-Andes lead partner, CONDESAN, is hosting the Mountain Pavilion at Rio+20 and the CGIAR is hosting a major discussion on June 18th along with [...]
Thoughts from the Andes 2012 Study Tour Leaving Lima, en route to the upper Cañete basin, we passed through some of the bleakest landscapes imaginable – mining towns like La Oroya, described by Time Magazine as one of the world’s most polluted places, where the average lead level is three [...]
This past March I had the pleasure of participating in a field trip to two of the dozen or so Andes Basin Development Challenge field sites. I had visited other sites on previous trips. The first site was in the water-rich municipality of Coello, near Ibague in Colombia. In Coello there are [...]
One of the most surprising aspects of the Planet Under Pressure (PUP) conference has been the general agreement that technical solutions alone will not bring about the desired changes needed to address the different problems facing global systems. Many leading scientists at the conference this week have called for more ‘dialogue’, [...]
The community of Cruz de Mayo, in the Ancash region of Peru will be awarded this year’s National Human Rights Award for its involvement in advocating for the protection of Lake Paron from hydropower development. Cruz de Mayo is a partner community of the Andean system of river basins‘ AN3 project. AN3 [...]
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