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Component 6: Capacity Building and Institutional
Strengthening
This component will foster the formation of basin
councils in critical subbasins and encourage the participation of such
councils within the municipal sustainable development councils existing
within the SJRB. The Federation of Local Border Governments will be
strengthened through specific activities with clearly defined goals in
order to promote the strengthening and further development of coordination
mechanisms at the local level. A proposal to strengthen institutions will
be drafted with measures for: i) building sustainable development planning
and management capacities; ii) improving infrastructure; iii) equipping
institutions; and iv) designing mechanisms to increase the incomes of
local and regional institutions. These activities will be supported by two
demonstration projects establishing costs and feasibility of achieving
integrated management as well as assessment of specific paradigms to be
developed at specific sites within the SJRB.
The execution of these activities will be undertaken by the relevant
national institutions and organizations such as MARENA, and MINAE, and
municipal organizations such as AMURS. The coordination and supervision
will be ensured by the Technical Units at MINAE and MARENA. Specific
detailed Terms of Reference will be prepared by the Technical Coordinators
in close consultation with UNEP and GS/OAS, during the first quarter of
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