Case Studies UNDP: ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT CENTER, Nicaragua

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Equator Initiative Case StudiesLocal sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities

Nicaragua

ALEXANDER VONHUMBOLDT CENTER

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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

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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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