Panama

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Panama - Enabling Environment

Action 1 - Promote ownership of National Water Resources Policy by all national stakeholders

IWRM Dimension: Enabling Environment
SDG 6.5.1 Question: 1.1a. National policy
Level: National
Status of action: Awaiting funding
Related SDG Goal: - 6.5 Integrated water resources management & transboundary cooperation
Responsible Agency: Ministry of the Environment, DSH and Planning, CONAGUA
Timeline for implementation: 2022-2024

All actions for Panama

Action 1 - Promote ownership of National Water Resources Policy by all national stakeholders

Action 2 - Achieve approval of the draft law to update the rules regulating IWRM

Action 3 - Approval of new regulations on environmental flows

Action 4 - Update Law 44 pertaining to River Basin Committees

Action 5 – Prepare and implement the Sewer Network and Wastewater Treatment Master Plan 2022-2052

Action 6 – Promote transboundary basin management agreements

Action 7 – Climate Change Plan for Integrated Basin Management

Action 8 - Promote the development of technical standards and procedures to calculate Water Footprints and Carbon Footprints in Agricultural Products.

Action 9 - Implement best practices for sustainable land management and restoration of productive landscapes with large-scale agroforestry

Action 10 – Develop a participatory awareness-raising-dissemination strategy for the PAGIRH to foster collaboration in its implementation

Action 11 - Design and develop a Diploma Course on Effective Operation of Basin Committees in Panama with a gender approach

Action 12 – Build water users’ administrative and organizational capacities (Basin Committees)

Action 13 – Build private sector capacity to comply with subnational regulations

Action 14 – Build the capacity of water sector technicians

Action 15 - Promote local actors' engagement in implementation of the Increase Water Resilience Project

Action 16 – Develop the National Climate Data System, with participation by the private sector

Action 17 - Strengthen and/or increase the network of hydrometeorological stations at the basin level

Action 18 - Establish the Panama Meteorology and Hydrology Institute

Action 19 – Establish and Strengthen the Water Quality Laboratory

Action 20 - Strengthen environmental management instruments

Action 21 – Prepare water use balance study for sources under water stress or experiencing high demand

Action 22 – Establish environmental flows for water sources experiencing higher demand

Action 23 – Strengthen groundwater studies

Action 24 – Strengthen the water information module in SINIA (Environmental Information System)

Action 25 – Prepare Detailed Assessment (DP)

Action 26 – Prepare Environmental Land Use Plans (POAT)

Action 27 – Prepare Management Plans at the basin level

Action 28 – Monitor surface water quality in main rivers at the national level

Action 29 – Capacity development in seawater monitoring methodology

Action 30 – Prepare climate risk maps and a vulnerability index for Panama

Action 31 – Establish a cooperation roundtable for State institutions

Action 32 – Establish coordination platforms with NGOs prioritized by the Ministry of the Environment and the private sector

Action 33 - Prepare a project proposal for the Green Climate Fund

Action 34 - Create municipal community projects to address water governance elements at the local level

Action 35 - Review water fee rates, as well as initial water use inspection fees and annual fees