IUCN projects

La cuenca del río Sixaola es compartarget_ida entre Costa Rica y Panamá. Desde el 2011, el proyecto BRIDGE: Construyendo Diálogos y Buena Gobernanza del Agua ha trabajado en promover una mejor cooperación alrededor de las aguas trasfronterizas, implementando un enfoque no convencional para la hidrodiplomacia.

The Sixaola river basin is shared between Costa Rica and Panama. Since 2011, the BRIDGE project: Building River Dialogue and Governance has worked to promote better cooperation around transboundary waters, implementing a non-conventional approach for hydrodiplomacy. This document summarizes the socioeconomic context of the basin, existing institutional arrangements, interventions by the BRIDGE project and advances of the Binational Commission of the Sixaola River Basin.

The Building River Dialogue and Governance Programme (BRIDGE, currently in phase 3) set out to do something quite new: to facilitate the development of international networks of Champions of water governance in its target basins.