📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P172893
Region: Latin america and caribbean
Total Project Cost: Us$ 12.84 million
Component1: Enhancing management and accessibility of traditionaland scientific knowledge and information.This component will support the development of a knowledge management system43that will be locally, regionally and globally accessible to support the development of a shared vision for integrated basin management. The system will interrelate with the other components of the project, specifically for an improved international cooperation and multi-level governance in support of the shared vision (component 2); reduced mercury and other chemical pollution from legal and illegal activities (component 3), and for sustainable management of water resources and fisheries (component 4). Knowledge will enhance understanding of the dynamics of the watershed, will support dialogue to identify joint opportunities for action, and will ultimately advance informed decision-making and improve adaptive integrated water resource management. The project will support development of baselines and monitoring of trends and patterns of water resources, and associated ecosystems, by government institutions and agencies, and will help systematize and disseminate information to all stakeholders as the basis for consensus building. Information from this component will be used to develop scenarios for the future to inform the development a shared vision for the region.Knowledge will come from multiple sources, building on more than two decades of work in the basin by key stakeholders, including inter alia, SERNANP, PNN, Instituto Sinchi, IBC, FCDS, Fundación Gaia, Amazon Conservation Team-Colombia, WWF, the Field Museum, WCS and others. Through scientific and participatoryassessments gaps of information will be identified, and through the project, support will be provided for thegeneration and synthesis of scientific knowledge and the endogenous recovery of traditional knowledge about the Putumayo-Içábasin.Capacity of governmental and civil society organizations to fill in information gapswill be enhanced (forexamplethrough the acquisition of equipmentand training to assess water qualityandthe levels of mercury and othercontaminants in theenvironment). Endogenous recovery of traditional knowledge by indigenous communities in the area will receive a particular focus, particularly coming from elder and women. Information and knowledge will be made available through existing platforms (such as IW-LEARN, governmental platforms, Amazon Waters and Citizen Science for the Amazon), as well as in culturally and gender-appropriate formats to facilitate integrated decision-making processes.WCS will centralize the information collected coming from different sources and agencies to ensure it is accessible to all interested parties. Data collection on t
