CONSULTATION WITH BILATERAL
DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES
Lisbon
05.20.2010
• Binational Project for Zoning,
Management and Development of the
Catamayo-Chira basin.
• Building up the Right to Water in rural
indigenous communities of Argentina.
• Water and Sanitation Cooperation
Fund.
Binational Project for Zoning,
Management and Development
of the Catamayo-Chira basin
Background
• 1971: Agreement of the hydrographic basins
Puyango-Tumbes and Catamayo – Chira.
• 1998: Ecuador – Perú Peace Treaty.
• 2000: Technical mission of the Binational Plan:
Ecuador, Peru, AECI (Ministerio de Medio
Ambiente de España).
• 2001 -2007: Preparation Phase: diagnosis and
binational planing.
• 2008: Planning, Management and Development
of the Catamayo-Chira basin (document).
• 2009 – 2011: Execution phase and
institutionalization.
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Suriname Frenc h
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Colombia
Ecuador
Ecuador
Perú
Perú
Brasil
Bolivia
Chile
Paraguay
Uruguay
Argentina
17,199 km2
ECUADOR
7,212 km2
42 %
9,987 km2
58 %
PERU
CATAMAYO
4,184 km2
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MACARA
2,833 km2
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CHIPILLICO
1,170 km2
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QUIROZ
3,108 km2
18.1 %
Context
• Migration and population reduction due to social,
economic and enviromental problems.
• Inadequate management of natural resources.
• Lack of training and knowledge in the
management and treatment of solid and liquid
wastes.
• Water suply deficit: only 20% in Ecuador area;
50% in Peru.
• Inadequate tariff system.
• Atomized and low productivity.
• Weak institutions.
• Diffused and difficult access to information.
Description
• Beneficiary: Peru-Ecuador Border Region Binational
Development Plan.
• Total cost: 8.768.935 euros. AECID: 70%.
• Goal:
Comprehensive and share management of CatamayoChira basin, permitting a better use of resources and
socioeconomic development of the population.
• Specific goals: 1.Binational management organization;
2.Binational center for technical formation; 3.Zoning,
Management and Development of the Catamayo-Chira
basin Plan.
1. Binational management
organization
• Designed: previous constitution of a
binational technical secretary.
• Ecuador-Peru shared institutions in charge
of implementing the plan (Zoning,
Management and Development of the
Catamayo-Chira basin Plan).
2. Binational center for
technical formation
• Two headquarters: Mallares (Peru) and
Zapotepamba (Ecuador).
• Aims: promotion of young enterprising
initiatives, scientific projects and technical
and technology transference.
3. Zoning, Management and Development
of the Catamayo-Chira basin Plan
• Long-term plan: 15 years horizon.
• Document: pretends to guide the
comprenhensive and share management
of the basin.
• Includes six specific goals,nine programs
and several projects.
PROGRAM
PROGRAM
A.1.
C.3
Comprehensive
management of
water resources
PROGRAM
Agricultural and forest
development
C.4
Sustainable development of the
tourist and handcraft activities
B.2.
C.5.
Management of
natural renewable
resources
Services of support to the
productive and comercial
processes
PROGRAM
D.6.
Development and
institutional strenghten
D.7.
Institutionalization of
gender approach
PROGRAM
E.8.
Development of skills
PROGRAM
F.9.
Information system
Lessons Learnt
• Comprenhensive management of the
water resource.
• Enviromental sustainability.
• Experience in binational management of a
border basin.
• Binational institutional strengthening.
• Peacebuilding through binational plans.
Building up the Right to
Water in rural indigenous
communities of Argentina
Consultation with Bilateral Development Agencies
Lisbon 20th May 2010
Index
• Description
• Criteria.
How does the practice meet the criterion of…?”
• Final remarks, challenges, lessons learnt.
Description: Aims
1. Strenghtening of rural organizations by
his technical and political capacities
2. Implementation of demostrative
community modules of water supply
3. Investigation orientated to the
participative planning of water resources
Description: Target group
• Rural indigenous
communities, most of
them in situation of social
exclusion, without
access to the resources,
socially organized , with
high participation.
• These organizations are
articulated around the
MNCI – Movimiento
Nacional de Campesinos
Indígenas
Description: Partners involved
• MNCI (Mocase Vía Campesina, Sercupo, Red
Puna, Encuentro Calchaquí, Movimiento
Campesino Córdoba, Unión de Trabajadores
Rurales sin Tierra)
• Spanish NGOs: Engineering without Borders
Navarra, Catalunya, Valencia and Baleares
With the support of AECID between others.
Description: Duration of practice
2004
2007
Beginning
1est Phase
2010
2nd Phase
(still going on)
Description: Financing
Budget: 550.000€ over the passed 6 years
Description: Brief outline
Comprehensive response to all factors
related to the actual situation, from a
human rights perspective.
Axes:
1. Technical and political outcomes, to improve
legal frames and public politics
2. Promotion of participation and democratization
in the management of the resource
3. Building infrastructure in an appropriate manner.
Criteria: Accessibility and
Availability
There has been built demonstrative modules for
water supply.
Calculation of the volume:
- drinking needs
- cleaning needs (personal and house cleaning)
- animals and land
- future perspective (during the construction’s life)
- rains
Book published with all factors taken in consideration
Criteria: Affordability
Water is consider as a good so no price is given to it.
The right to water is considered essential for a full
development so, the effort goes to political
pressure and public dialogue, to achieve access
and the community’s responsibility of its
maintenance and control.
The own community is who takes care that the
resource is properly used, in a responsible way.
Criteria: Quality / Safety
• Analysis campaign of water quality adapted to each
use depending on each source contamination
(microbiological and physicochemical analysis)
• Periodic trainings on hygiene , proper use and
maintenance of the infrastructure
Criteria: Acceptability
The strong participation
and proaction of the
communities in relation to
the type, use, shape and
place where the modules
were built has supposed
an absolute acceptation.
As a consequence they were chosen such diverse
solutions as wells, tanks, community dams, etc.
Criteria: Non-discrimination
Use of the infrastructure is totally free and controlled
by the community, all member are part, so there have
not been situations of discrimination.
Criteria: Active, Free and Meaningful
Participation
Through all the practice participation has been an esencial axe.
All decisions were taken in assambly, as;
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Place of modules
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Technical solutions
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Construction process
In trainings the maximum participation was promoted
Specially women’s. Example: placing meetings in accessible place
or helping with travelings
Always information was accessible to strengthen decision making
Criteria: Accountability
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Definition of roles and responsibilities of each
actor
Meetings each 3 months: Evaluations and
discussion about the achievement of actions and
results.
Continuous follow up of actions
Continuous observation of the non violence of
community’s rights by jurisdictional consultants
→ Improving community’s knowledge of rights.
Criteria: Impact
Various levels:
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Improvement of the access to water
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Improvement of the dialogue with the
public organizations → Agreement
achieved with the competent ministry in
order to:
1. Guaranty total access to water and,
2. Guaranty production instruments
Criteria: Sustainability
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Local materials, appropriate construction methods,
adapted to physical availability of resources (water
resources with the minimum intervention)
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Pressure on the
Government so that he
guaranty the Human
Right to Water
Final remarks, challenges,
lessons learnt
• The principal defeat was the constant fight for
the water due to the indiscriminated use by
strong agriculture activities, resulting in negative
effects on small farmers.
• Strengthing their capacity and their organization
skills has proved that improves significantly their
access to water as the development of their
activities and for a healthy life.
Water and Sanitation
Cooperation Fund
Implementation of the right to
water and sanitation.
Background
• At the 17th Ibero-American Summit,in
November, 2007, the President of the Spanish
Government announced the creation of a Fund
for cooperation in the field of water and
sanitation.
• Budget of 1.500 million dollars for a period of
four years.
• In June, 2008, the Office for the Water and
Sanitation Cooperation Fund was created
Goal
• Implement the human right to water with
the purpose of contributing to the
achievement of target 7.c of the MDG´s:
“Halve, by 2015, the proportion of
population without sustainable access to
safe drinking water and basic sanitation”.
Purposes
• Extend sustainable access to drinking water
and to basic sanitation services.
• Favor public, comprehensive and participative
management of the water resource.
• Reinforce countries institutional system for a
suitable sector management.
• Contribution to the establishment of sustainable
systems of water and sanitation services.
Action Lines
• Sustainable access to drinking water.
• Sustainable access to basic sanitation services, included
solid waste management.
• Strengthening of policies and institutional frames of
water management.
• Strengthening of comprehensive water resources
management.
• Establishment of sustainable public services systems for
supply of water and sanitation.
Financing Criteria
• Mainly non-refundable funds, grants
• Beneficiaries: public administrations and
civil society organizations.
• Focused in Latin America: 85% of the
resources directed to priority countries.
• Co-financing requirements according to
development level and sector needs.
Principles
• Poverty reduction as a priority: the Fund is focused on
urban peripheral and rural areas.
• The right to water as a fundamental and universal
human right: available, healthy, acceptable, accessible
and affordable water for personal and domestic use.
• Recognition of the diversity and heterogeneity of the
territories: inclusion of marginal population.
• Bottom-up process: participative management.
Principles of the Fund
• Environmental sustainability and environmental
governance.
• Peacebuilding through social and economic
development.
• Transparent and participative public
management with efficient policies in the field.
• Emphasis on the hygiene and health education.
• Alignment with the Paris Declaration principles in
order to increase aid effectiveness.
Monitoring
• General Plan of monitoring and evaluation
of the Fund underway.
• Implements the normative content of the
right to water, according to General
Comment No.15 (CESCR).
Indicators
• Availability: beyond the WHO recommendations: 50 liters
inhabitant/day.
• Quality-safety: water chlorination, sanitation systems in all the
interventions and quality control plans.
• Accessibility: intermediate and optimal access.
• Affordability: adequate tariff system, assuring the sustainability of
projects with in the poor population.
• Acceptability: cultural approach and previous identification of the
peculiarities in the managing of the water resource in the
communities.
Experience
• 46 projects (2009): 782 million dollars.
• 375 m. bilateral and 407 m. multilateral
(IADB).
• Preference for national programs:
governments,departments and regional
and local administration.
• Open national programmes approved that
allow flexibility: earthquake in Haiti and
Chile
Experience
• Leverages new resources: 1.7 billion $ in
total.
• Promotes national plans in water and
sanitation policies.
• 90% of the interventions include
institutional strengthening and community
development, assuring sustainability.
Thank you very much for your
attention.