Integrated Management of Aquatic Resources in the Amazon (AquaBio)

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The Brazil Integrated Management of Aquatic Resources in the Amazon Region Project aims to support the mainstreaming of a multi-stakeholder, integrated management approach to the conservation and sustainable use of freshwater biodiversity in public policies and programs in the Brazilian Amazon River Basin. There are project components. Component 1, Planning and Public Policy, aims to ensure the institutional and financial sustainability of Action Programs integrated management of aquatic resources in three sub-basins of the Brazilian Amazon. Component 2, Demonstration Activities, aims to develop demonstration activities targeting various productive sectors, providing inputs for the development of action plans for the integrated management of aquatic resources. Component 3, Building Capacity, aims to prepare stakeholders, especially local ones, to be able to actively participate in the forming, implementing, and monitoring strategies and action plans aimed at the conserving and sustainably using aquatic resources in the Amazon Basin. Component 4: Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), and Information the scope of the project, and to foster integration among the various components, as well as with other related projects and programs, to indicate the possible need for changes in project development, and to disseminate results at local, state, regional (Brazilian Amazon), national and international levels.