CBWM Community Based Watershed Management in Santo Andr

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CBWM Community Based Watershed Management in
Santo André, Greater São Paulo Region

• To elaborate and initiate the implementation of a
  more effective and participatory watershed
  management, which takes into account the
  situation of informal settlements in the
  watersheds
• Management and democratization of
  socio-environmental information
• Elaboration of sustainable Socio-economic
  activities (gender, neighborhood local economic
  development plans)
• Institutional structure Scaling of the project,
  role of the consortium, legal dimensions
• Learning by doing pilot projects with all these
  dimensions

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Partners involved

• Centre for Human Settlements - University of
  British Columbia
• UBC - Institute for Recourses and Environment
• Fraser Basin Council
• City of Vancouver - City-Plan
• National Round Table on the Environment and the
  Economy
• Institute for Conflict Resolution
• Cidade e Democracia
• University of São Paulo
• Intermunicipal Consortium of the Greater ABC
  Region

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Outputs reached

• Training needs identified for the first phase of
  the project
• Training provided forSocial Impact Assessment,
  Environmental Sensitive Analysis ESA, CD-ROM
  production, Conflict Resolution, watershed
  management, participatory planning techniques
• Network developed among ABC region planners
• Strategy was implemented to ensure political
  support necessary for the acceptance/adoption of
  CBWM concepts regionally
• Strategy linking CBWM system to pilot project
  actions
• Base pilot project information as input in PP
  designs and action
• Identification of information and organization of
  data bank for the establishment of
  Environmentally Sensitive Areas and
  pre-definition of a macro-zoning planning

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Outputs expected

• CBWM methods becoming part of municipal
  government procedures
• Increased sharing and cooperation between
  technical and social-oriented sectors within the
  municipality
• Regular communication and conflict management
  with the main stakeholders regarding watershed
  management
• Collaboration from regional entity (ABC
  Consortium) in the CBWM process dissemination and
  implementation
• Environmentally sustainable human settlement in
  Watershed Protection Area operational in Santo
  André
• Reduction of risk for families living in marginal
  and environmentally sensitive areas

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Lessons Learned

• We learn from collaborative problem-solving
• Linking participation to action is a process that
  needs continuous monitoring and assessment
• Linking biophysical data with social and economic
  information is difficult in the context of
  watershed areas
• Better and more integrated planning does not only
  mean integrating sectoral departments in various
  levels of government, but mainly involves
  implementing these new cooperative and
  integrative models of planning using the leverage
  of community participation in the elaboration and
  implementation of urban planning