Guatemala

All actions for Guatemala

Guatemala - Enabling Environment

Action 1 - Continue formulating and adapting a water policy, supporting actions between the institutions

IWRM Dimension: Enabling Environment
SDG 6.5.1 Question: 1.1a. National policy
Level: National
Status of action: Awaiting funding
Related SDG Goal: - 6.A WASH cooperation and capacity building
Responsible Agency: MARN, SEGEPLAN

Guatemala

All actions for Guatemala

Action 1 - Continue formulating and adapting a water policy, supporting actions between the institutions

Action 2 - Identify bottlenecks and propose mechanisms that enable advocacy for the approval of the water law

Action 3 - Implement an awareness campaign on the need for the water law

Action 4 - Create and strengthen regulations for the conservation, protection and efficient and sustainable use of water resources

Action 5 - Coordinate the management flow of institutional processes to streamline checks and balances and the correct implementation of IWRM through partnerships between actors at the national level

Action 6 - Create and/or strengthen mechanisms for the participation of the different users and actors in IWRM to achieve effective administrative and technical strengthening.

Action 7 - Promote the creation, strengthening and support for the institutionalisation of the OMAS (Municipal Water and Sanitation Offices)

Action 8 - Strengthen the Basin Technical Advisory Committee

Action 9 - Review, improve and approve the instruments and regulations for implementing basin and aquifer management plans with an IWRM approach

Action 10 - Promote the formation of management organisations at basin level, for the 38 basins of the country and strategic aquifers

Action 11 - Creating and strengthening the IWRM Inter-Agency Technical Committees, at basin level

Action 12 - Elect coordinating members of the National River Basin Council from the Coordinators of the Technical Basin Committees

Action 13 - Strengthen the capacities of key IWRM entities through the creation of specialised support units

Action 14 - Develop training projects according to institutional competencies on IWRM related issues

Action 15 - Encourage academia to offer specialised training programmes in IWRM

Action 16 - Train officials of basin authorities and organisations, as well as the participants of the Technical Committees on IWRM-related issues and other relevant topics for the functioning of these bodies

Action 17 - Link water management entities to the National IWRM Information System for decision making (scientific technical entity)

Action 18 - Strengthen technological capacities in the light of the country's environmental vulnerability

Action 19 - Create, develop, approve and institutionalise the National IWRM Plan

Action 20 - Promote the socialisation of the National IWRM Plan at various levels to promote its incorporation into planning and implementation instruments

Action 21 - Promote the development of the identification, diagnosis and plans for the protection and conservation of watersheds

Action 22 - Operationalise guidelines to formulate management plans for basins, micro-basins, aquifers, springs and water bodies

Action 23 - Mapping and categorisation of actors that generate, process, archive and/or use hydrological information, identifying strengths and weaknesses

Action 24 - Define the IWRM indicators necessary for permanent monitoring through the National Information System

Action 25 - Standardise methodologies, instrumentation and calibration for data generation, collection, scoring and categorisation; data homologation, reporting and exchange; and data aggregation and systematisation, based on partnerships

Action 26 - Promote the training/strengthening of the Digital Unit attached to the MARN

Action 27 - Produce inter-institutional coordination guidelines and promote the establishment of agreements/partnerships with actors that manage IWRM information to promote data and information exchange in the framework of the National Water Resources Inf

Action 28 - Carry out a baseline survey of indicators to enable decision-making for water security and IWRM

Action 29 - Elaborate the National Programme of Water Regulations, considering climate risk factors, establishing criteria for prioritisation and urgency

Action 30 - Strengthen the Water Quality Laboratory as a branch of the MARN

Action 31 - Design programmes for the registration, control and monitoring of water availability, exploitation and pollution (including groundwater at urban level); as well as conservation and ecological flows

Action 32 - Link the Strategic Actions with SEGEPLAN's programmatic network and MINFIN's budget allocation platform

Action 33 - Develop annual operational plans of government bodies with institutional and territorial budget allocation oriented towards national priorities and SDGs 6.5.1.

Action 34 - Promote budget decentralisation to municipal governments and Development Councils, linking these with the Basin Committees, maintaining mechanisms for monitoring and reporting IWRM-related investment

Action 35 - Promote international cooperation investments within the IWRM strategy

Action 36 - Promote public-private partnerships for the implementation of Strategic Actions for IWRM

Action 37 - Develop and strengthen environmental incentives schemes with a basin approach

Action 38 - Promote programs of payment / compensation for ecosystem services