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  • Technical Exchange Strengthens Water Cooperation in the Amazon Basin

    Promoting regional cooperation to ensure that Amazonian countries enhance and strengthen their policies and structures for water resource management is a key strategy of the Amazon Basin Project for implementing Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) in the region. Within this framework, a delegation from Guyana, made up of Professor Paulette [...]

    10 de December de 2024

  • With Source-to-Sea approach, training series aims to strengthen governance and management of Amazonian Waters

    In October, the Amazon Basin Project launched a series of training workshops on water management tools for technicians and water resource managers from government institutions in Amazonian countries. The goal of these training sessions is to improve understanding of the principles and guidelines for the governance and management of water [...]

    4 de December de 2024

  • Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru build Participatory Plan to Implement the Trinational Early Warning System

    Mayors, environmental and water authorities, civil defense managers, technicians, and civil society representatives from Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru gathered in Rio Branco, Brazil, on October 29 and 30 to draft the Participatory Implementation Plan for the Trinational Early Warning System (EWS). This system aims to enhance the adaptation of municipalities [...]

    7 de November de 2024

  • Amazon Basin Project trains technicians from the eight countries to enhance the operation of the Amazon Hydrological Network

    A group of 20 technical professionals from institutions responsible for hydrological monitoring in Amazonian countries participated in the Amazon Hydrology Course, organized by the Amazon Basin Project (ACTO/UNEP/GEF) from October 7 to 13 in Novo Airão, a city in the Brazilian Amazon. This initiative, in partnership with the French Research [...]

    6 de November de 2024

  • Amazonian Network of Water Authorities (ANWA) approves its Regulations in virtual meeting

      Meeting virtually on October 4, the Amazonian Network of Water Authorities (ANWA) formally approved its Regulations. On this occasion, its Work Plan with four action fronts for the 2024 to 2026 period was also approved ad referendum. The fulfillment of the two points on the meeting's agenda was celebrated [...]

    4 de October de 2024

  • Shared Management of the Amazon Basin is highlighted at the GEF International Waters Biennial Conference

      The actions to strengthen the integrated and cooperative management of Amazonian waters, which are being implemented in the eight Member Countries of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), were highlighted at the 10th International Waters Biennial Conference of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Held in Punta del Este, Uruguay, [...]

    27 de September de 2024

  • Implementation of the Early Warning System in the Bolivia-Brazil-Peru tri-border area begins with a field survey

      The climate change adaptation actions of the Amazon Basin Project (ACTO/UNEP/GEF) include the implementation of an early warning system in the transboundary region between Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru, where the occurrence of extreme weather events has become increasingly frequent, with significant impacts on populations and ecosystems. This year, due [...]

    17 de September de 2024

  • V Meeting of the National Coordination Units of the Amazon Basin Project discusses new advances in transboundary water management

    The National Coordination Units of the Amazon Basin Project (NPCUs) met on September 6 in a videoconference with over 40 participants to discuss regional capacity-building actions for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in the Amazon Basin and the development of the Integrated Regional Information Platform on IWRM in the region. [...]

    6 de September de 2024

  • Integrated water management in the Amazon basin at World Water Week

      The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization brought to World Water Week in Stockholm the experience of cooperation and joint action by its eight Member Countries in the shared management of the Amazon Basin. Since 2010, ACTO has been executing and coordinating processes aimed at protecting and conserving the water resources [...]

    30 de August de 2024

  • ACTO brings the Amazon Basin Project to World Water Week

    The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) will be present at World Water Week (WWW) 2024, the main global conference dedicated to water issues, which will take place from August 25 to 29 in Stockholm, Sweden. During the event, ACTO will highlight its initiatives aimed at the integrated management of transboundary [...]

    23 de August de 2024