{"id":30833,"date":"2024-12-11T11:44:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T17:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/?p=30833"},"modified":"2024-12-11T11:44:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T17:44:21","slug":"catie-fortalece-capacidades-en-el-financiamiento-para-la-adaptacion-al-cambio-climatico-y-la-gestion-sostenible-del-recurso-hidrico-en-el-corredor-seco-centroamericano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/2024\/12\/11\/catie-fortalece-capacidades-en-el-financiamiento-para-la-adaptacion-al-cambio-climatico-y-la-gestion-sostenible-del-recurso-hidrico-en-el-corredor-seco-centroamericano\/","title":{"rendered":"CATIE strengthens capacities in financing for adaptation to climate change and sustainable management of water resources in the Central American Dry Corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em><em>Training provides tools to key actors in the region to manage financing for climate change adaptation and sustainable management of water resources.<\/em><\/em><\/li><\/ul><p>The Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), through the ESCALAR project (Scaling Climate Change Adaptation Solutions for Resilience and Migration Reduction in the Central American Dry Corridor), with support from the Swedish Embassy and in coordination with WINROCK - USAID, has initiated the Climate Adaptation Financing Course.<\/p><p>The objective of this course is to provide participants with the tools and knowledge necessary to manage financing that will enable local stakeholders and users to improve adaptation to climate change and sustainable water resource management in the Central American Dry Corridor, with special emphasis on the upper Lempa River watershed.<\/p><p>The course is developed under a hybrid modality. The first session, held virtually on November 28, 2024, was attended by 62 professionals from public, private, civil society and academic institutions from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. Attendees included officials leading initiatives related to climate change adaptation in the region, as well as representatives of associations, commonwealths, cooperatives and Associative Rural Enterprises (ERAs), including key partners of the ESCALAR project.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/financiamiento-ESCALAR2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/financiamiento-ESCALAR2-1.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/financiamiento-ESCALAR2-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/financiamiento-ESCALAR2-1-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/financiamiento-ESCALAR2-1-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/financiamiento-ESCALAR2-1-600x339.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><p><\/p><p>In this initial session, entitled \u201cIntroduction to Climate Finance,\u201d participants were introduced to key concepts related to climate, climate change and variability, the effects and impacts of climate phenomena on the agricultural sector in Central America and the conceptual bases for their analysis and evaluation.<\/p><p>The following modules will address key topics such as climate rationality, sources and mechanisms of climate finance, project design and financial evaluation, preparation of financing proposals, project and risk management, culminating in a face-to-face module focused on practical exercises and case studies with a focus on climate solutions.<\/p><p>This course is supported by the \u201cCuenca Alta del R\u00edo Lempa\u201d project, funded by WINROCK - USAID, which aims to strengthen climate resilience and improve the governance of natural resources in the basin. The municipalities benefiting from this initiative are Esquipulas, Olopa, Jalapa and Asunci\u00f3n Mita in Guatemala; San Antonio Pajonal, Candelaria de la Frontera, Santiago de la Frontera, Metap\u00e1n and La Palma in El Salvador; and Ocotepeque, Sinuapa, Santa Fe and Concepci\u00f3n in Honduras.<\/p><p><\/p><p><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><p><strong>More information:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n<p>Dra. Leida Mercado<br>ESCALAR Project leader \u2013 CATIE<br><a href=\"mailto:lmercado@catie.ac.cr\">lmercado@catie.ac.cr<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Flor Elisa Molina<br>Instructor<br><a href=\"mailto:flor.molina@catie.ac.cr\">flor.molina@catie.ac.cr<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><p><strong> Written by:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n<p>Patricia Orantes<br>Development Communication Specialist<br>ESCALAR Project - CATIE<br><a href=\"mailto:patricia.orantes@catie.ac.cr\">patricia.orantes@catie.ac.cr<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Centro Agron\u00f3mico Tropical de Investigaci\u00f3n y Ense\u00f1anza (CATIE), a trav\u00e9s del proyecto ESCALAR (Escalando soluciones de adaptaci\u00f3n al cambio clim\u00e1tico para la resiliencia y reducci\u00f3n de la migraci\u00f3n en el Corredor Seco Centroamericano), con apoyo de la Embajada de &hellip; <\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"pmpro_default_level":"0","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[536,88],"class_list":["post-30833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-resiliencia-climatica","tag-sistemas-agroforestales","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30839,"href":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30833\/revisions\/30839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}