Intervention projects

Through its intervention projects implemented over four years, the Amazon Basin Project endeavors to showcase scalable experiences and best practices at the basin level. These initiatives are designed to enhance the resilience of communities, thereby delivering socioeconomic and environmental benefits to approximately 7.8 million people. Concurrently, the project aims to bolster the management of Amazonian transboundary waters.

Seventeen national, binational and tri-national interventions are planned, focusing on the following topics:
Financial mechanisms

Innovative Incentive-Based Financing Mechanisms for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)

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Nature-based solutions

Protective Measures for Coastal Communities and Ecosystems Against Sedimentation, Drought, Flooding, Wave Damage, and Sea Level Rise

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Early warning systems

Operational Forecasting and Early Warning Systems for Extreme Hydroclimatic Events Response

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Glacial waters

Efficient Water Use and Alternative Supply Solutions for Andean Communities Impacted by Glacier Retreat

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Groundwater

Groundwater Source Protection for Urban Centers to Mitigate Flood Contamination

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  • Border integration: early warning systems in the Madera, Alto Purús and Alto Juruá river basins.

    Early Warning Systems

    Bolivia, Brazil, Peru

  • Community Early Warning Systems for floods in priority rivers of the Mantaro River Basin

    Early Warning Systems

    Peru

  • Conservation, protection, improvement and risk prevention mechanisms in the headwaters of Ecuadorian Amazonian watersheds.

    Nature-Based Solutions

    Ecuador

  • Development of a nature-based solution for vulnerable communities in the Upper Takatu

    Nature-Based Solutions

    Guyana

  • Development of nature-based measures to minimize the effect of floods and recovery of terrestrial ecosystems in the Casiquiare – Rio Negro watershed.

    Nature-Based Solutions

    Venezuela

  • Establishment of groundwater quantity and quality monitoring networks in key urban aquifers of the Madeira River basin.

    Ground Water

    Bolivia

  • Forest Seed Chain: Ecological restoration and payments for socio-environmental services in the Xingu watershed.

    Financing Mechanisms

    Brazil

  • Barco de madera en Leticia, Colombia, río de la selva amazónica

    Hydrogeological, vulnerability and risk assessment for the development of policies for the protection and sustainable use of groundwater in the transboundary region of Leticia and Tabatinga.

    Ground Water

    Brazil, Colombia

  • Implementation of a Water Fund for the protection and conservation of water sources in the Amazon Basin.

    Financing Mechanisms

    Ecuador

  • Implementing Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) Program for Enhanced Water Quality in the Integrated Management of the Amazon-Orinoco Transition Zones (ZOTAO)

    Financing Mechanisms

    Colombia

  • Increasing coastal ecosystem resilience by applying the concept of building with nature

    Nature-Based Solutions

    Suriname

  • Promote climate-smart agricultural practices to improve the livelihoods of rural communities exposed to extreme events, such as floods and massive sediment flushing, through the implementation of an early warning system in the Casiquiare watershed.

    Early Warning Systems

    Venezuela

  • Promoting a blue forest approach to the blue economy

    Financing Mechanisms

    Suriname

  • Water quality management in hinterland communities to protect the aquifer recharge zone in the Upper Takatu region.

    Ground Water

    Guyana

  • Water security in the cities of La Paz and El Alto through the efficient use of water resources from glacier melting

    Glacial Waters

    Bolivia

  • Water supply alternatives to adapt to glacial melting in the Carabaya and Apolobamba mountain area in the Amazonian Inambari watershed.

    Glacial Waters

    Peru