The document discusses a project to manage water resources in the Amazon River Basin across countries, considering climate variability and change. It describes the project structure, objectives, and components including understanding the Amazon society and natural base, response strategies, and monitoring. Key products will include a shared vision, analysis of transboundary issues and climate vulnerability, and a strategic action plan. Examples are given of engaging high-level policymakers through ministerial meetings to support the project's outcomes, such as agreements for a common weather forecasting system and adapting plans for relocating communities affected by sea level rise. National diagnostic analyses of transboundary issues have been conducted and presented to high-level government officials in participating countries.

1. Examples for the Engagement of high level policymakers
to sustain project outcomes
GEF IW LEARN Workshop
Jamaica 23-25 March 2014
Norbert Fenzl
Maria Apostolova
Regional Project Coordination
Integrated and Sustainable Management of
Transboundary Water Resources in the Amazon River
Basin, considering the variability and climate change.

2. Is a basin of approximately
7.5 million km2
Is the largest continuous
area of tropical rainforest in
the world
THE AMAZON REGION
The Amazon is the habitat
of one third of the world’s
species

3. Approximately 385
indigenous peoples and
71 references of isolated
peoples
About 40 million of
inhabitants

4. OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
Development of a Strategic Action Plan (SAP) for
the Amazon Basin and creation of a propitious
environment for future implementation.
The SAP will provide the basis for the ACTO
Member Countries to implement an integrated
management of water resources in the Amazon
Basin, and adapt measures to mitigate the
impacts of climate change
Integrated and Sustainable Management
of Transboundary Water Resources in the
Amazon River Basin, considering the
variability and climate change.

5. PROJECT STRUCTURE
Component IV
PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
Component I
UNDERSTANDING THE
AMAZON SOCIETY
Component II
UNDERSTANDING THE
NATURAL BASE
Component III
RESPONSE STRATEGIES
Component V
MONITORING AND
EVALUATION

6. Component I
Subproject.1.1: Vision of the Amazon Basin
Subproject I.2 : Strengthening the legal and institutional
framework
Subproject II.1: Directed Research
Subproject II.2: Hydroclimatic Vulnerability Atlas
Subproject II.3: Formulation of the TDA
Component II
STRUCTURE OF THE PROJECT COMPONENTS
Component III
Subproject III.1: Pilot Projects
Subproject III.2: Adaptation Measures
Subproject III.3: Integrated Information System
Subproject III.4: Communicatio, Extension and Finance
Subproject III.5: SAP
Activities for project supervision
Component V Monitoring and Evaluation of the Project
Component IV

7. MAIN PRODUCTS OF THE PROJECT
 A shared Vision of the Amazon Basin
 Understand common problems, priorities, needs and
goals of the stakeholders of the Amazon basin
concerning IWRM and define future development
scenarios for the Region
 A Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA). Based
on prioritized research activities on transboundary
water resources of the Amazon basin and climate
vulnerability analysis, the TDA provides scientific and
technical input to the Strategic Action Programme
(SAP).
 The Strategic Action Programme (SAP), developed on
the basis of all the results and products of the project.

8. Examples of Project Activities for the
Engagement of high level policymakers to
sustain project outcomes
• High Level Ministerial Meetings
• Adaptation to Climate Change in the
Transboundary MAP Region (Bolivia, Brazil, Peru)
• Climate Change, Ecosystem Services and
Government in the Transboundary Purus River
basin
• Adaptation to Sea Level Rise in the Amazon Delta
• TDA process in the ACTO member countries

9. XI MEETING OF FOREIGN MINISTERS OF
THE AMAZON COOPERATION TREATY
MANAUS, 22 NOVEMBER 2011
STATED THAT THE START OF THE PROJECT
Integrated and Sustainable Management of
Transboundary Water Resources in the Amazon River
Basin, considering the variability and climate change
IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE ADVANCES OF AMAZONIAN
COOPERATION

10. II MEETING OF THE MINISTERS OF ENVIRONMENT OF THE
AMAZON COOPERATION TREATY
LIMA, PERÚ, 21 MARCH 2012
THE MINISTERS AGREED TO SUPPORT
THE CONTINUITY OF THE PROJECT
EXECUTION AND ENDORSE THE
PROJECT WORKPLAN APPROVED AT
THE I STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING

11. XII MEETING OF FOREIGN MINISTERS OF THE
AMAZON COOPERATION TREATY
EL COCA, ECUADOR, 3RD MAY 2013
EXPRESSED THEIR SATISFACTION IN RELATION TO THE RESULTS
ACHIEVED BY THE PROJECT Integrated and Sustainable
Management of Transboundary Water Resources in the Amazon
River Basin, considering the variability and climate change.
.

12. Adaptation to Climate Change in the
Transboundary MAP Region

13. Floods in the MAP region March
2014

14. Engagement of high level policymakers to
sustain project outcomes
• Agreements of Governments of Brazil, Peru
and Bolivia to share information for a common
meteorological forecasting system
• Agreements and active participation of the
local governments of Acre (Brazil), Pando
(Bolivia) and Madre de Dios (Peru) in training
of technicians to operate the system and to
install the necessary situation rooms

15. Climate Change, Ecosystem Services and
Government in the Transboundary Purus
River basin

16. Engagement of high level policymakers to
sustain project outcomes
• Participation of the Brazilian Ministry of
Integration to foster the adoption of the
meteorological prevision model by the local
governments.
• The local governments are committed to
participate in the testing phase of the model
and agreed to apply the model in the future

17. Adaptation to Sea Level Rise in the Amazon
Delta

18. Affected areas of land loss

19. Land losses on the Marajo Atlantic
Coast

20. Engagement of local policymakers to
sustain project outcomes
• The periodic relocation of communities due to the
advances of the coast line and the missing long term
strategy to tackle this problem causes high economic
and political price to the local politicians and
municipality administration.
• Since the project offers a consistent log term strategy
for relocation of the local affected population, the local
policymakers are committed to adapt the strategy and
already discussed the policies to be voted to
implement the strategy developed by the project.

21. • Until today the project carried out three national TDAs
(Peru, Ecuador and Colombia). Three more are
scheduled for Suriname, Guyana and Brazil during the
month of May.
• The results of the national TDAs are being presented
officially in each country counting with the presence of
high level policymakers. In the case of Peru the
presentation has been assisted by the vice presidency,
ministers and senators.
Engagement of high level policymakers in
the TDA process in the ACTO member
countries

22. Thank you,