To promote an Integrated Water Resource Management framework related to a watershed approach in central Veracruz, México (literacy, management, environmental services, ecosystem-based solutions, rain harvest)
SENDAS A.C.
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Civil society organization
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#SDGAction50750
Description
Sendas AC is a 24-year-old environmental NGO located in central Veracruz, Mexico. Sendas' vision is to promote sustainability through the management of natural resources, rural development with justice and the search for new environmental rationality that allows a good life for people in the countryside and the cities. At central Veracruz, México, close to Xalapa City, we are currently experiencing a series of problems related to the absence of territorial planning that puts the WATER in the first place for public policies and rural and urban development. Forests deteriorate due to urban and industrial expansion, as well as scale-up crops with high use of agrochemicals, jeopardising the balance in the region. For 16 years, SENDAS, a non-profit NGO, has promoted territorial management with a watershed approach. The work proposals emerge from a socio-environmental assessment of the reality of the watershed, networking processes that enclose citizen initiatives in which WATER has relevance above other interests. That is why we work at: *Environmental compensation policies *Productive alternatives to maintain the health of the forest, water and soils *Community water committees to strengthen distribution and supply networks. *Rain Harvest Pilot Programs We have a 5 year strategic planning to valuate the strategies and re-focused them We ask the international community and representatives of the Mexican government for the recognition of community-based water management. It is imperative that water management be transparent and efficient and not depend on changes in the political will of the governments in power, which are an obstacle to generating new forms of water management.
Sendas Ac has a 5-year strategic plan with a vision of our medium-term goals. We made a monitoring and evaluation strategy that has to be reviewed to land our main goals to the changing reality (political, social, environmental and economical). Part of our work is to strengh social netowork connections and strategies to maintan the WATER as the main issue in a regional development agenda.
Redes del Agua México, Guardianes del Agua, Comité de Cuenca del río Pixquiac, Comunidad de aprendizaje de Cuencas y Ciudades (Cities and watershed learning community), Proyecto de Fortalecimiento y articulación de Sujetos Colectivos para la defensa y gestión del agua en el territorio=Somos Agua, Municipio de Banderilla, Users of Rain Harvest systems, Upper Antigua rural communities (near 25) among others.
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- Latin America and the Caribbean
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Upper Antigua Watershed territory (Xalapa's region inhabitants, more than 11 municipalities), Veracruz State.
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