Implementation of the Strategic Action Programme for the Bermejo River Binational Basin: Phase II

This project catalyzes the implementation of the Strategic Action Program for the Bermejo River Binational Basin. The project will implement specific strategic activities identified in the GEF-financed strategic action program (SAP), that address the principal root causes of soil degradation as set forth in the transboundary diagnostic analysis (TDA) and, in doing so, will provide the necessary institutional, legal, and informational basis to enhance and restore the environmental functioning of the system, and provide protection to endemic species within the five component ecosystems - montane, humid forest, arid Chaco/savannah, sub-humid Chaco, and humid Chaco. These actions, with increamental costs, will complement Basin-scale interventions by the Binational Commission, and the governments of Argentia and Bolivia, financed in part from national and provincial/prefectural sources and by international loan funding, many of which address expected baseline activities. Strengthening of Basin institutions, building of agency and organizational capacity, and integration of environmental concerns into economic development activites on a sustainable basis, and the promotion of the public awareness and participation are key elements of this project.

• Mr. Hector Martinez
  Technical Coordinator,
• Ms. Isabelle Van der Beck
  Task Manager for GEF International Waters Projects , United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP),
• Dr. Enrique Bello
  Project Manager, Organization of American States (OAS),
• Dr. Jorge Rucks
  Chief, Geographic Group II (Latin America), Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment in America, Organization of American States (OAS),
• Gabriel Gaite Uzqueda
  Technical Coordinator, Binational Commission for the Dev. of the Upper Bermejo and Grande de Tarija Rivers,
• Marcela Alicia Di Blasi
  Graphic Designer, Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS),
• Carlos Alberto Brieva
  Technical Unit staff, Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS),

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• Project Documents
  • Bermejo - Project Factsheet. 2p. - [20K]
  • Bermejo II - Project Document. 151p. - [24K]
• Technical Reports
  • Bermejo River Basin Project - Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis of the Binational Basin of the Bermejo River. 2000. (6.1 MB)
  • Bermejo - Strategic Action Program for Binational Basin of the Rio Bermejo. (1.0 MB)
  • Bermejo - Programa estratégico de acción para la cuenca binacional del río Bermejo. 2000. (1.7 MB, Spanish)
  • Participation Plan for the SAP for the Bermejo River