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Development, Adaptation, and Mitigation through Watershed Protection in Bolivia

Closed
Combination
Forestry
Water and sanitation
Call 8
Bolivia
Time consumed
 
Start: 18-Dec-19 End: 18-Dec-22
Lead Nordic partner
Stiftelsen GRID-Arendal
Country of Lead Nordic partner
Norway
Local partner(s)
Fundación Natura Bolivia, Cuencas Sustentables S.R.L.
NCF grant size
392,506
Total project cost
662,338
Methods
Reforestation, Water resource mgmt
Country of implementation:
Bolivia
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Description

The project will promote a new climate change adaptation ethic by kick-starting the creation of integrated watershed management and water potabilization programs. These “Watershared” programs will provide clean water to 12,000 downstream families and alternative development programs to 600 upstream families in exchange for the conservation of 12,000 hectares of watershed forests. The project will test the business viability of this climate solution by providing...
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Objective

1. Community members will protect watershed forests from agriculture and cattle incursions. In exchange for conservation, upstream landowners will receive in-kind support packages (beehives, fruit tree seedlings, irrigation systems etc.).
2. To complement the watershed conservation programs, the project will build community water systems that include chlorination tanks, and train community members in system management and monitoring
3. Municipal governments will implement a new user tariff to...
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Results

Natura Bolivia has for almost 15 years developed an incentive-based conservation program, that provides upstream landowners with development project in exchange for forest conservation activities which protect water sources and secure downstream water supplies. Our NCF project focused on finding out if we can link conservation and the construction of pipes, dams, taps etc. and simultaneously achieve both at reasonable cost. We achieved this...
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Sustainable Development Goals
Relevant links
Stiftelsen GRID-Arendal, Fundación Natura Bolivia

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