Objectives: Share experiences and lessons learned from GEF- International Waters (GEF-IW) projects in LAC. Enhance sharing of critical w.r. management knowledge, experiences, and best practices among water management organisations and river basin authorities, via the Internet as well as through other media. Strengthen collaboration amongst riparian countries leading to improved water resources management policies. Strengthen Inter-American Water Resources Network. Strengthened civil society participation in water resources management projects.

1. DELTAmerica Project
Development and implementation
of mechanisms to disseminate
Lessons Learned and Experiences
in Integrated Transboundary
Water Resources Management
in Latin America and the Caribbean

2. DELTAmerica Project
Objectives:
• Share experiences and lessons learned from GEF-International
Waters (GEF-IW) projects in LAC.
• Enhance sharing of critical w.r. management
knowledge, experiences, and best practices among
water management organisations and river basin
authorities, via the Internet as well as through other
media.
• Strengthen collaboration amongst riparian countries
leading to improved water resources management
policies.
• Strengthen Inter-American Water Resources Network.
• Strengthened civil society participation in water
resources management projects.

3. DELTAmerica Project
Strategies:
• Regional dialogs and virtual fora
• Development of a Common Strategy amongst LAC
countries for water resources management
• Development of IWRN Strategic Plan
• Development of IWRN Internet Communication System
• Identification of best practices in GEF-Projects and in
the regional literature on water resources management
• Creation of a virtual library on best practices and IWRN
Best Practices Award
• Preparation of publications and newsletters

4. DELTAmerica Project
Regional Dialogs
Four meetings
Brazil, Uruguay, St Lucia and Peru
SIx workshops
Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Trinidad-Tobago
and USA
with a total about 400 people involved
Support to the preparation of the
GEF-Amazon Project
Support to the development of the
ISARM-Americas Project

5. DELTAmerica Project
Commitments from
International Declarations:
• Sustainable development
• Poverty reduction
• Consolidation of democracy

6. DELTAmerica Project
Commitments from
International Declarations
Priority:
Health and wealth for the Latin American and Caribbean
people
Basic conditions:
- water quality, water quantity and access to water;
- capacity building for natural resources management,
including water.
Water issues are not being sufficiently addressed,
on the basis of the present statistics.

7. DELTAmerica Project
Proposal of a Common Strategy to Cope with
the International Declarations
• A permanent process of discussion,
implementation and follow-up of water management
activities in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Sharing common achievements, thorough
horizontal cooperation
• Pinpointing problems that prevent from
implementing the agreements in progress, seeking
concrete results
• Medium term target: Common policies of water
management in Latin America and the Caribbean.

8. DELTAmerica Project
Proposal of a Common Strategy to Cope with
the International Declarations
• No need of another declaration
• Rather, Countries see the need of a working
strategy which will ultimately lead them
altogether to a higher level of efficiency in
water use and to a better position in the
international scenario.

9. DELTAmerica Project
Proposed Schedule
Survey of the various legislations existing in each country.
2007
Systematization of activities developed and activities in progress for the management
of transboundary waters. 2007
Analysis of the legislations and evaluation of what is missing so as to make them compatible
With the agreements already signed. 2008
Establishment of measures to meet water quality targets and to limit values of pollutant
emissions in transbaoundary waters and in national water.
2008
Establishment of National Management Policies, agreeing on national management targets,
practices and commitments. 2008
Agreements for sharing cross-border rivers/basins. 2008
Definition of National Legal Frameworks, specific to the reality of each country,
but in compliance with the requirements shared by all the countries. 2010
Strict and transparent rules of water allocation for various uses, allowing sector-based
planning, productive investments and guidance to expand access to water in each country. 2010
Development of National Institutional Frameworks for water management, establishing
systems that are suited to the water resources management, providing conditions to render
the relevant legislation operational.
2010
Creation of a Common Fund for the Development of Water
2010

10. DELTAmerica Project
Inter-American Water Resources Network
Internet Communication System

11. DELTAmerica Project
IWRN new website

12. DELTAmerica Project
IWRN Internet Communication System
A community of
- 34 Countries
- Private Sector
- NGO’s
- Networks

13. DELTAmerica Project
IWRN Internet Communication System
VIRTUAL LIBRARY ON BEST PRACTICES
1. Collection of Best practices from GEF-Projects in LAC
Bermejo
FREPLATA
Pantanal-Alto Paraguay
São Francisco
San Juan
Guarani
Plata
IWCAM
2. Collection from Technical Literatura in LAC 1994-2004
~ 80 cases

14. DELTAmerica Project
IWRN BEST PRACTICES AWARD
Objectives:
To stimulate dissemination of best pratices
To stimulate new additions to the Virtual Library
To establish a standard case description format
Ref: UN Habitat/Dubai Best Practices Award

15. DELTAmerica Project
PUBLICATIONS
Under preparation

16. DELTAmerica Project
CONCLUSION
GEF-DELTAmerica: a project of significant
impact on the water resources political
agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean.