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Participating countries: Costa Rica, Nicaragua Date: January 2001 - 2004
Level/Type of Collaboration: Official/Economic, social and environmental program
Principal Issue: Water quality, economic development, joint management, technical cooperation/assistance
Source: http://www.environment-directory.org/Search/
showDetails.asp?i=193&v=2&t=0&ti=2&st=0&pu=0&
IUCN project: International System of Protected Areas for Peace
In February of 1988 at the XII General Assembly of the IUCN, the Ministers of Natural Resources of Nicaragua
and Costa Rica signed a letter of intent to facilitate the establishment of an International System of
Protected Areas for Peace (SI-A-PAZ). In 1989 the countries requested the continued participation of IUCN,
which acted to some extent as broker between the countries, in order to strengthen the binational intentions
for biodiversity conservation which were viewed favorably by the international community. In August of 1990
at the meeting of the Central American Commission on Environment and Development (CCAD) the Ministers
of Natural Resources established a SI-A-PAZ National Commission in each country as well as a Binational
Coordinating Commission.
Participating countries: Costa Rica, Nicaragua Date: 1988
Level/Type of Collaboration: Official/Economic, social and environmental program
Principal Issue: Joint management, border issues
Source: http://www.unep-wcmc.org/
OAS project: Dialogue on Water and Climate in the San Juan River Basin, Costa Rica and Nicaragua
Binational workshop. The objective of the workshop was to identify the practices used by the Basin’s population
to confront climate variability.
Participating countries: Costa Rica, Nicaragua Date: September 3 and 4, 2002
Level/Type of Collaboration: Official/Environmental program
Principal Issue: Joint management, other: research and education
Source: http://index.html?http://www.unep-wcmc.org/protected_areas/transboundary/somersetwest/
somersetwest-40.html~main
SAN MARTIN
Agualtiplano
Agualtiplano is a virtual center of information about water resources of the area, create to compile, organize,
analyze and spread the information that identifies problem areas, to identify knowledge caveats, to promote
applied investigation, to solve conflicts that involve the indigenous populations and as a reference for
drafting up proposals and policies for the altiplánicas zones of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.
Participating countries: Argentina, Chile Date: 2001
Level/Type of Collaboration: Non-official/International initiative
Principal Issue: Other: research and training
Source: http://www.agualtiplano.net/
SARSTUN
Red ed de Investigadores sobre el Agua en la Frontera Mexico-Guatemala-Belice (RISAF) or Network of Investi-
gators on Water in the Mexico-Guatemala-Belize Border
Goal: to strengthen the existing academic capacities in the three countries. By means of conferences, ideas
and knowledge are exchanged.
Participating countries: Belize, Guatemala Date: June 22, 1905
Level/Type of Collaboration: Non-official/International initiative
Principal Issue: Other: research and education
Source: http://www.ecosur.mx/redesdecooperacion/redagua/risaf.html
Appendix 3. Riparian Country Collaborations — 125