Community Based Watershed Management

This four-year CIDA-funded project aimed to improve the protection and rehabilitation of watershed areas affected by human settlement in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area (SPMA). The project focused on the municipality of Santo André, where the project partners developed and implemented a Community-Based Watershed Management (CBWM) system.

The project enhanced an effective stewardship consciousness amongst the residents of the watershed area. In the long-term, the project's impact will lessen the enivronmental damage caused by settlements in sensitive watershed areas.