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Project’s Official Name: BRIDGE: Building River Dialogue and Governance
Water resource management implies making many complex decisions that may affect the environment. We refer to environmental governance as the existence of regulatory frameworks and technical, institutional and social capabilities used to reduce and mitigate irreversible degradation processes.
Good governance is fundamental to reduce the overuse of the ecosystems that provide the water resource. In this way, it is possible to reduce vulnerability, as well as prevent the loss of biodiversity and livelihoods. When we talk about cross-border basins, good water governance supposes cooperation and understanding among coastal countries for good water resource management and with the engagement and empowerment of key actors from a local, national and regional level.
Project Objectives
At a global level, this project has undertaken to improve governance in nine cross-border basins, using as approach the building of capabilities, promotion of leaderships, establishing consensus and demonstrating field results in shared basins located in four areas: Mesoamerica, the Mekong Region (Asia), Africa and South America.
In Mesoamerica, work is done in three basins:
1. The Sumpul river basin, shared between Honduras and El Salvador.
2. The Goascorán river basin, shared between Honduras and El Salvador.
3. The Sixaola river basin, shared between Costa Rica and Panama.
