14. Title: Sustainable Management of
the Water Resources of the La Plata Basin with Respect to the Effects
of Climate Variability and Change.
PI, CoPIs: UNEP; Regional-level: GS/OAS. Local-level: The Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee for the La Plata Basin (CIC).
Institution/s: Water management national executing agencies of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay
Period: 2009-2014
Total budget: US$ 11,031,880 GEF; 51,034,087 co-financing (participant countries and other agencies)
Funding Agency: GEF
Web site: www.cicplata.org
Overall goal:
The overall project objective is to strengthen
transboundary cooperation among the riparian country governments of
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay [ ] to ensure
management of shared water resources of the LPB in an integrated
sustainable manner, within the context of climate variability and
change, while capitalizing on development opportunities
Summary:
The purpose of the project is to enable the riparian
governments and stakeholders to obtain the institutional and analytical
tools to prepare the LPB TDA, and to formulate an Strategic Action
Program for adaptive and sustainable basin-wide water resources
management. The project a) contributes to the attainment of the higher
objective set forth by the five riparian signatory countries to the LPB
Treaty - Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay - to
coordinate actions and investment for the sustainable IWRM in the LPB;
b) supports creating an institutional and legal framework, and
technical capacity for SAP formulation and eventual implementation; and
c) initiates efforts to better understand adaptation to climate
variability and climate change, with a goal to mitigate the negative
impacts while capitalizing on potential opportunities. Therefore,
through coordinated component activities, the project introduces
adaptation to climate variability and change as a crosscutting issue,
and mainstreams this issue throughout all anticipated basin projects
and actions; and promotes an adaptive integrated water resources
management (IWRM) process.