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Equator Initiative Case StudiesLocal sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities
Nicaragua
ALEXANDER VONHUMBOLDT CENTER
Empowered live
Resilient nation
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UNDP EQUATOR INITIATIVE CASE STUDY SERIES
Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that wo
or people and or nature. Few publications or case studies tell the ull story o how such initiatives evolve, the breadth
their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practition
themselves guiding the narrative.
To mark its 10-year anniversary, the Equator Initiative aims to ll this gap. The ollowing case study is one in a growing ser
that details the work o Equator Prize winners vetted and peer-reviewed best practices in community-based environmenconservation and sustainable livelihoods. These cases are intended to inspire the policy dialogue needed to take local succ
to scale, to improve the global knowledge base on local environment and development solutions, and to serve as models
replication. Case studies are best viewed and understood with reerence to The Power o Local Action: Lessons rom 10 Years
the Equator Prize, a compendium o lessons learned and policy guidance that draws rom the case material.
Click on the map to visit the Equator Initiatives searchable case study database.
EditorsEditor-in-Chie: Joseph CorcoranManaging Editor: Oliver Hughes
Contributing Editors: Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Erin Lewis, Whitney Wilding
Contributing WritersEdayatu Abieodun Lamptey, Erin Atwell, Jonathan Clay, Joseph Corcoran, Sean Cox, Larissa Currado, David Godrey, Sarah Gordon,
Oliver Hughes, Wen-Juan Jiang, Sonal Kanabar, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Rachael Lader, Erin Lewis, Jona Liebl, Mengning MaMary McGraw, Brandon Payne, Juliana Quaresma, Peter Schecter, Martin Sommerschuh, Whitney Wilding
DesignSean Cox, Oliver Hughes, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Amy Korngiebel, Kimberly Koserowski, Erin Lewis, John Mulqueen,
Lorena de la Parra, Brandon Payne, Mariajos Satizbal G.
AcknowledgementsThe Equator Initiative acknowledges with gratitude Alexander von Humboldt Center, and in particular the guidance and inputs o
Javier Mejia. All photo credits courtesy o Alexander von Humboldt Center. Maps courtesy o CIA World Factbook and Wikipedia.
Suggested CitationUnited Nations Development Programme. 2013. Alexander von Humboldt Center, Nicaragua. Equator Initiative Case Study Series. N
York, NY.
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PROJECT SUMMARYAlexander von Humboldt Center operates in one o the driest
regions o Nicaragua and one o the areas most susceptible
to hurricanes, severe droughts, and reshwater shortages.
The organization provides local communities with training
in sustainable water management and has drilled more
than 40 reshwater wells and repaired 35 community water
systems. The objective is year-round access to clean water
using sustainable technology and building on community
capacities. The emphasis has been on improving and
restoring water systems that have allen into disrepair.
Equally impressive have been the Centers advocacy eorts
or community water rights. Through public consultation,
social mobilization and lobbying, the Center has prooundly
impacted the evolution o national water laws, including
Law 620 which made water a public resource and allocated
unds to increase clean water access.
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ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT CENTERNicaragua
KEY FACTS
EQUATOR PRIZE WINNER: 2012
FOUNDED: 1990
LOCATION: Northwestern Nicaragua
BENEFICIARIES: 116 rural communities
BIODIVERSITY: Avoided deforestation
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Background and Context 4
Key Activities and Innovations 5
Biodiversity Impacts 7
Socioeconomic Impacts 7
Policy Impacts 8
Sustainability 9
Replication 10
Partners 10
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ince its establishment in 1990, Alexander von Humboldt CenterCentro Alexander von Humboldt) has promoted sustainable
evelopment and responsible environmental management across
Nicaragua. Projects supported by a wide range o international
onors are carried out by technical sta in three areas sustainable
nvironmental management, territorial development management,
nd institutional sustainability and across nine o Nicaraguas
teen departments: Managua, Chinandega, Estel, Len, Jinotega,
Matagalpa, Chontales, and both the North Atlantic Autonomous
egion (RAAN) and Southern Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAS).
Centro Humboldt was among the rst Nicaraguan NGOs ounded
with a specic environmental ocus and has developed an excellent
eputation both or its work with indigenous and rural communities
nd its advocacy work at the national level. Current priorities includehe development o local strategies or adaptation to climate change
nd disaster risk reduction.
Water shortages and climate change
ince 2004, Centro Humboldt has prioritized local water security
nd access. Particular attention has been given to helping alleviate
he chronic water crisis in the north-west o the country. The region
s among the driest and most environmentally ragile in Nicaragua,
with the departments o Leon, Chinandega and Estel suering
remendous damage as a result o extreme weather events including
Hurricane Mitch in 1998 and Hurricane Felix in 2007. The region also
xperienced a severe drought in 2001, causing the loss o virtually allmaize and bean crops. Climate change is urther exacerbating these
egional challenges; the ow o reshwater into rivers and lakes has
lowed drastically in recent years, resulting in a drop in water table
evels.
As a result, the provision o sae and reliable access to water is among
he primary challenges acing local communities in the region. In
004, 48 per cent o the population o Nicaragua, the majority o whom
ved in rural areas such as the north-west region o the country, did
ot have access to municipally provided water systems. A lack o water
ccess had dire implications or local population health. Waterborne
diseases were prevalent, particularly among children under the ave. Adding to the health challenges, chemical ertilizer and pest
inputs were comparatively high, leading to run-o and contamin
o the water table.
Filling gaps in public service delivery
Historically, public services in Nicaragua specically water, educ
and health services have ailed to reach rural populations. This
in service delivery has eectively marginalized rural populat
limiting access to the most basic o essential services, creati
poverty cycle, and limiting the potential or local participatio
resource governance. With international support, Centro Humb
initiated its Community Water Project in 2004 as a vehicleaddressing this range o service gaps and as a means o empow
local communities. The project guides community use o sustain
technologies to procure and maintain potable water sources. It
provides education and undertakes awareness-raising campaign
the prevailing environmental threats to local watersheds, inclu
the use o chemical pesticides and poor waste management. L
the project aims to enhance local understanding o national w
legislation, equipping communities with the knowledge they ne
advocate or their rights.
Meeting local water security needs
Centro Humboldt has worked in 116 communities acrosmunicipalities to drill wells, repair water provision systems,
provide eco-stoves and solar stoves to reduce the amount o rew
needed or cooking. The Community Water Project prioritizes
control o resources, a priority that is achieved mainly through
ormation o Community Water Committees (CWCs). The lo
elected committees collect water-user ees, which are dire
towards system maintenance and remuneration o CWC mem
To date, the project has reached over 75,000 beneciaries, secu
local access to water and empowering rural communities to
ownership o their water resources.
Background and Context
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Key Activities and Innovations
While the project activities o Centro Humboldt are diverse,
he organization has seen its greatest impacts in the area o
ommunity-based water management. Through the Community
Water Project alone, Centro Humboldt has drilled 40 wells and
epaired 76 community water systems in communities across the
orthern departments o Nicaragua. This historically marginalized
population now has year-round access to clean water, an
chievement that would have seemed impossible prior to initiation
o the project. At the same time, water security has been achieved
hrough the use o sustainable technologies and clean energy, an
nnovation that has environmental and economic benets. Women
n particular have beneted rom the project. Women have been
raditionally responsible or procuring the daily water supply orheir amilies. Where this task used to require walking long distances
o collect water rom rivers or streams, women now have immediate
ccess to potable water, considerably lessening the time burden on
heir shoulders.
y installing solar-powered and hand-generated wells, communities
re able to avoid the costs o uel and electricity traditionally
eeded to pump water rom the ground. Solar power has been
particularly well-suited to a region that receives an abundance o
un year-round. To curb excesses in water use, and to eectively
manage the strain placed on local water tables, Centro Humboldt
as helped distribute and install water use measurement devices
or all beneciary households, enabling the local population tomeasure household water consumption and regulate their water
se accordingly.
he organizational ocus on water inrastructure and access has
been complemented by health and hygiene education programs,
providing inormation and services to a previously under-served
population. Outreach and awareness-raising eorts incorporate
adio vignettes, posters, and workshops that aim to enhance
community understanding o the linkages between environm
and human health. Community outreach has also helped to cat
support, local labour and collective action to meet other so
environmental and economic challenges, such as reoresta
watershed protection, sustainable natural resource managem
and steps to reduce soil erosion and ooding.
Community Water Committees
One noteworthy strength o the Centro Humboldt approach
been its emphasis on local ownership and empowerment.
local population drives development planning and makes cho
that are relevant to their particular circumstances and capac
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articipating communities, or instance, control the number o
wells drilled in the region to ensure the water table is not drained
y excessive extraction. They are also responsible or maintaining
he wells, which are built on communal land to ensure equal access
cross the community. Wells are equipped with a measurement
ube that runs the depth o the well and allows water committee
members to assess water table levels. The wells typically replenish
hemselves overnight. I they do not, water committee members
ome up with a ration plan to ensure the well does not run dry.
he platorm Centro Humboldt has used to ensure direct community
nvolvement and responsibility in water management is the
Community Water Committee. The organization has conducted
16 training workshops to help communities orm inclusive and
articipatory committees capable o strengthening long-term local
water management capacity. Community Water Committees are
omposed o between seven and ten community leaders, each o
whom is elected by a Community Assembly, to which every member
the community is invited. Centro Humboldt ensures that the
ommittees are gender-inclusive.
he committees manage and regulate the water use oheir respective communities and hold responsibility or the
maintenance o water inrastructure. Each committee elects a
reasurer who, with the assistance o a Water Project Coordinator
rom Centro Humboldt, maintains an account or locally collected
water-use ees. These ees are put into unds that are used
to nance maintenance projects, water system upgrades,
remuneration o committee members, and, in some cases, t
planting initiatives around well sites.
Avoided deorestation and advocacy
Centro Humboldt has distributed over 450 eco-stoves and 28 s
stoves to households in participating communities. The st
reduce the amount o rewood required or cooking, thereducing the pressure on local orests and, by extension, redu
deorestation. The stoves also bring important social and he
benets, particularly to women, who benet rom reduced dem
on their time rom wood collection and improvements in he
rom reduced smoke inhalation during cooking.
The centre has also assumed an active role in advocacy. In partic
it has campaigned or community rights to water to be ree
in national legislation. The center participated in the p
consultation process surrounding the drating o Nicaraguas
Water Law (Ley No. 620 Ley General de Aguas y su Reglamento),
more recently, encouraged and acilitated public engagement in
drating o Nicaraguas Water Committee Law (Ley de CAPS), wwas passed in May 2010. Additionally, Centro Humboldt has ca
out 26 knowledge sharing workshops to enhance the understan
o municipal governments about community best practices in w
governance.
Ms. Sindile Mamba, Member Services Manager, Swazi Indigenous Products
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Impacts
BIODIVERSITY IMPACTS
Centro Humboldt activities have positively impacted local
biodiversity, ecosystem unctioning and environmental health. As
one example, water wells are powered using renewable energy
ources, e.g. solar and manual. Solar-powered wells also eliminate
he need or gas generators. This shit away rom gas-uelled and
tandard electric pumps has reduced local reliance on unsustainable
energy sources as well as the nancial burden associated with
uel and electricity inputs. Eco-stoves and solar-powered stoves
chieve similar benets, while also reducing orest degradation.
The solar stoves run on sunlight, while eco-stoves use 25 per cent
ess wood than traditional stoves. This has reduced the amount orewood gathered to meet domestic needs, thereby reducing the
elling o trees and deorestation. These interventions have been
omplemented by public outreach and education campaigns on
he linkages between conservation, reorestation, environmental
health, water availability and local wellbeing. Campaigns ocus
on mitigating negative environmental impacts, reducing resource
onsumption and living within the limits o nature.
Environmental education and reorestation
One particularly eective environmental education and outreach
ampaign has encouraged the creation o community tree nurseries
s a disaster risk reduction strategy. Since 2010, Centro Humboldt hasworked in Santa Mara de Pantasma and El Cu, two municipalities
o the northern department o Jinotega, to use tree nurseries as a
means o strengthening local environmental empowerment. The
project has been a partnership. Municipal government environment
units provide the land or the nurseries and are responsible or
heir maintenance and upkeep. Meanwhile, the National Forestry
nstitute (INAFOR) supplies technical equipment and other relevant
esources. Centro Humboldt organizes outreach days that target
econdary school students as entry points or instigating local
eorestation eorts. Students are taught how to plant seeds and how
to transer seedlings or replanting. Species used include grana
(Dalbergia retusa), laurel, pine, mahogany, yellow acacia (Caesal
peltophoroides), pink cedar, pochote (Pachira quinata), macu
(Tabebuia rosea), walnut and bamboo. More recent reorest
eorts in Cao Central, La Concepcin, Valle Los Condegas a
Cedro have engaged local response brigades (Brigadas Local
Respuesta - BRILOR) and local committees or disaster response
prevention. The Cao Central nursery holds 12,000 plant seedl
with each participating community receiving a thousand to re
local degraded areas.
SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS
Centro Humboldt has empowered communities to improve
health and wellbeing, expand livelihood options, and relie
great deal o household burden in providing or basic needs. W
the main emphasis has been on water access, the developm
dividends o Centro Humboldt activities have been wide-ran
including in the areas o health, education, womens empower
and poverty reduction.
Income and health benefts
Improvements to local water inrastructure have translated to
savings or participating communities in two ways. The rst is
the use o renewable energy sources to pump water has relieveburden o rising electricity and uel prices, both o which are su
to signicant uctuations. The second is that access to sae
reliable water sources has lowered incidence o water-borne dise
particularly among children. As a result, amilies no longer hav
spend large amounts o their income on the medical and health
costs associated with treating inectious (and preventable) dise
Since the Community Water Project began, locally collected
indicates that rates o diarrhoea and waterborne disease amo
community members, particularly children, have rapidly decre
an unambiguous result o having access to sae, clean drin
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water. Improvements in child health have also had spill-over benets
n school and education. Attendance rates at local schools have
mproved in the region as children suer rom ewer illnesses and
pend less time helping their mothers collect water rom streams
and rivers. Womens health has also benetted rom the provision
o solar stoves and eco-stoves which are designed to remove smoke
rom the home through chimneys. This simply technology has
ranslated to ewer cases o respiratory health problems rom smoke
nhalation.
Women as agents o positive change
Centro Humboldt projects have been particularly empowering
or local women. Importantly, improvements to local water
nrastructure have meant that women no longer have to walk long
distances to collect and carry water, as was previously the case. This
change has granted women a greater degree o reedom and the
ability to dedicate more time to participate in decision-making,
community lie and resource governance. It has also increased their
eisure time. As one example, a group o women in the village o
Santa Teresa organized the regions rst Womens Baseball League
n 2010. Since then, women rom ve other villages have organizedheir own all-emale teams. Today women are able to enjoy recreation
ime, exercise, and building networks with other women.
n addition to the sel-evident benets o increased recreational
ime, reduced demands on women or manual labour have had
mportant collective action implications and benets. One o the
ong-term social impacts o Centro Humboldt work is that women
are organizing in new ways in their communities. Women have been
empowered to step outside their traditional gender roles, voice their
opinions regarding resource management decisions, and actively
engage in local governance and advocacy eorts.
Centro Humboldt projects have been designed to enlist the
participation o women and have eectively created avenues
or leadership in water governance and resource management.
Women receive training in community organization, national water
egislation, and regional advocacy or the rights o rural populations.
O the 116 Community Water Committees in north-western
Nicaragua, women account or 40 per cent o the 702 community
member representatives. This is having a bottom-up eect on
national consciousness regarding the role o women as agents o
positive change. More than 20 women rom the water committees
are also members o the National Coalition o Community Water
Committees. Centro Humboldt has publicized the important role
hat women play in this coalition. Gender equality training has alsobeen included in municipal capacity building workshops to ensure
hat beneciaries are aware o gender issues in their jurisdictions,
especially as they relate to water management.
POLICY IMPACTS
All Centro Humboldt projects include an advocacy component.
The organization is represented at the national level through the
National Coalition o Community Water Committees, which has been
a ormidable orce in advocating or the modernization o national
water laws and the decentralization o decision-making auth
around water governance. The evolution o public policy in term
national water legislation in Nicaragua is perhaps the most not
success o the initiative.
Passing o Ley No. 620 and Ley de CAPS
Rural communities have historically been excluded rom provi
inputs into national policy, particularly with regard to public servincluding the provision o water. Centro Humboldt has empow
traditionally marginalized communities to participate direct
governance and resource management. For Centro Humb
that empowerment begins with a better understanding o nat
water laws, so that communities are able to eectively advocate
lobby or their rights.
One important aspect o the rst phase o the Community W
Project was participation in public consultations which were
around the drating o Nicaraguas new water law. Law 620
passed in September 2007 and declared water a public reso
while also outlining the various responsibilities o stakeholde
the provision o water or public consumption. The law establishNational Advisory Committee and a National Water Fund that w
assume responsibility or administering government resource
water projects. Centro Humboldt was able to make meani
contributions to the public consultations, which ultimately inor
Law 620.
The second and third phases o the Community Water Pr
saw Centro Humboldt participation in the drating, p
consultation and passing in May 2010 o Nicaraguas Ley de C
or Water Committee Law. Centro Humboldt was able to eect
increase public engagement and coalition-building around
development o the law, which recognizes local water commit
as ofcial organizations with local responsibilities and rights
allows them to receiving unding rom the National Water
and rom external sources to execute and manage water pro
in their communities. With the passage o these two laws, the
human right to potable water was enshrined in national law
Community Water Committees were ofcially recognized as w
providers and stewards.
Centro Humboldt advocacy has since ocused on helping
National Coalition o Community Water Committees esta
itsel as a legitimate, potent network and national advo
group. Inclusive o those committees seeded by Centro Humb
there are now more than 5,200 Community Water Commiacross Nicaragua. Together, these committees are responsib
managing and delivering water services to more than 50 per ce
the countrys rural population approximately 1.2 million peopl
such, the coalition represents a signicant orce or both norm
and regulatory change in terms o inuencing the trajectory
water policy in the country and advocating or the rights o
communities to directly govern their water resources. Ce
Humboldt is also part o a Latin American observation networ
climate change which has made proposals or strategies and po
related to climate change adaptation.
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Sustainability and Replication
SUSTAINABILITYong-term sustainability has been a central consideration in the
esign and implementation o Centro Humboldt projects. As one
xample o this commitment to sustainability, all o the wells drilled
n 2004 when the Community Water Project was rst launched
re still operational today. There are three main reasons why the
roject impacts have endured and are likely to continue to do so,
nd they respectively highlight the socially, economically, and
nvironmentally sustainable elements o the organization. First,
ommunities have been empowered to assume control over their
wn water resources. Second, ater initial installation o the wells,
heir on-going operation and maintenance is based on communitynputs o resources, time and energy. Third, the restoration o
egraded areas and monitoring o the water table is ensuring that
nvestments in community inrastructure are complemented by
nvestments in natural inrastructure and ecosystem unctioning.
Enhancing community capacity and social capital
here is perhaps no greater precondition or sustainability that
utting the design and management o community projects in
he hands o the beneciaries themselves. Responsibility or the
management and maintenance o water inrastructure alls to
ommunity members, reducing local dependence on aid agencies,
xternal technical expertise, and decision-making that may not beligned with or responsive to local needs. All 116 Centro Humboldt
ommunities are outright legal owners o their water systems.
nrastructure was either constructed on communal land or on
rivate land purchased or community use. This level o literal and
gurative community ownership provides a solid oundation on
which collective action is built and is made able to thrive.
Ensuring long-term fnancial viability
Each Community Water Committee elects a Treasurer wh
ultimately responsible or the collection o water-use ees rom
local population. These collection accounts provide sufcient
or the maintenance o water systems and the nancing o o
committee activities and interventions. The only inrastruc
service that Centro Humboldt provides or the communiti
regular water testing, to ensure the water is clean. In some c
water systems have been upgraded by communities, w
members agreed to pay slightly higher ees in order to purchas
tubes and other equipment necessary to expand the system o
accommodate local population growth. Centro Humboldt hasensured that local municipalities are directly involved in the de
and implementation o its projects, thereby creating an addit
source o support, guidance and expertise, where needed.
Restoring environmental health
The restoration and maintenance o the water table is cr
to the ongoing development and survival o rural commun
in Nicaragua. Environmental health is central to ecosy
unctioning and the continued delivery o ecosystem serv
such as water provision. Centro Humboldt education campa
promote water conservation and better water management, as
as the distribution o water-use meters to individual househThe organization has also helped catalyse community-driven
planting and reorestation eorts in degraded areas and aro
watersheds. These interventions go some way towards ens
that water resources are used sustainably, that there is
understanding o the linkages between environmental health
human health, and that critical ecosystem service delivery wil
be lost.
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REPLICATION
hrough the Community Water Project, Centro Humboldt works in
16 communities, reaching over 75,000 beneciaries. The centre
ontinues to expand its portolio o environmental management
ctivities and operates with a high level o ambition, with plans
n the works that include the establishment o a local solar stove
nd solar panel production acility. While the project has been
uccessully scaled across the northern region o Nicaragua, just asoteworthy has been its power to inuence policy makers and other
elevant stakeholders to ensure that the lessons learned by Centro
umboldt benet other regions o the country. Centro Humboldt
mentors other environmental NGOs and civil society organizations in
icaragua, sharing inormation, knowledge and best practices rom
s project portolio. Its goal is to increase the participation o NGOs
nd civil society groups in water management and to strengthen
heir collective inuence with respect to national water legislation.
nowledge and lessons learned are also shared at the community
evel. Centro Humboldt creates opportunities or the peer-to-peer
haring o good practices during the regular trainings held with
epresentatives rom various Community Water Committees. At the
ational level, knowledge is shared through the National Coalition
Community Water Committees. Centro Humboldt is also a
member o several regional and international coalitions [including
oalitions on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), climate
hange, seed banks, biodiversity, environmental protection and
ustainability]. Further, Centro Humboldt participates in a number
Central American, Latin American and international networks
romoting environmental preservation, sustainable resource use
nd strategies to mitigate and manage climate change impacts,
haring its experience in project implementation with the members
these networks.
PARTNERS
entro Humboldt receives unding rom a wide range o
nternational donors including: DANIDA (the Danish International
Development Agency), the Canada-based Change or Children
Oxam International, Hivos (The Humanist Institute or Developm
Cooperation), Ibis Denmark, KEPA (an umbrella organization
Finnish civil society organisations), the Heinrich Bll Founda
The Embassy o Holland, Lutheran World Relie, and the Luth
World Federation.
Among its Nicaragua-based partners, Centro Humboldt coun
similarly broad range o supporters, including many Nicaraguan
society associations, government ministries and line agencies,international NGOs. These include the Association o Municipa
o North Len (AMULEON), the Association o Municipalities o N
Chinandega (AMUNORCHI), the Association or Social Developm
(ADES), the Chancellorship or Natural Resources and Environm
(MARENA), the Chancellorship or Health (MINSA), the Chancello
or Education and Sports (MINED), the National Institution or W
and Sewage (INAA), World Vision, the Central American bra
o the Freshwater Action Network (FANCA), National Networ
Watershed Organisations (RENOC), Global Water Partnership (G
Sustainability Watch Network (SUSWATCH), National Coalition
Risk Management (MNGR), and the Regional Coalition or
Management (CRGR).
Critical support or the Community Water Project has come
the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) via
Canadian NGO Change or Children, with whom Centro Humb
has partnered since 2002. The NGO has provided nancial resou
and acilitated sharing o best practices or success in implemen
water and environmental management initiatives, helping
develop the project to address north-western Nicaraguas se
water crisis, which rst received unding rom CIDA in 2003
date, CIDA has unded three phases o the Community W
Project in this region based on the strong working relation
between Centro Humboldt and Change or Children. Through
partnership, Change or Children has also supplied volunteerstechnical experts to support the centers work, sending more
100 Canadian dental and medical practitioners, donors, and stu
construction brigades to visit Centro Humboldt projects.
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