Mission results Colombian-Dutch cooperation

Water & Climate Services
Mission results
Colombian-Dutch cooperation
9-13 July 2012, Bogota, Colombia,
Hans van Leeuwen
MissionQuinones
CIWK,
Marcela
Introduction
Agentschap NL
Dutch Embassy in Bogota
Colombia-Holland Water House in Bogota
With the intention of establishing contact with Colombian stakeholders in the subjects of
Water and climate services, a pre-identification mission took place in the week of 9 to 13 of
July of the present year in Bogota, Colombia. The mission was supported by Agentschap NL
and the Dutch Embassy in Bogota, executed under the strategy of the 'Transitiefaciliteit'1 and
organized within the frame of the Colombian-Dutch Cooperation and the Holland Water
House in Bogota.
The objective of the mission was to identify mutual interests between Dutch and Colombian
private companies, government institutions, knowledge institutes and NGOs, in terms of
services and technology that might be required on the water and climate sectors in
Colombia.
The presentation of state of the art technology in the Water and Climate information
services provided by Dutch companies was intended to create open spaces of common
interest in which Colombian partners could identify their needs. Also Colombian
Stakeholders presented their specific requirements and needs specifically related to the
extreme climate events occurred in the last years.
The mission established and contacted networks of interest where possible stakeholders
could cooperate in the information chains aiming in the definition of possible short and
long term business opportunities on both sides
Communication and Activities
Communication steps were defined before the mission (figure1). The preparation phase
was done with two week of anticipation. 80 stakeholders of different types of organizations
(government, knowledge institutions , private sector and NGO’s) were contacted and invited
to participate in the pre-identification mission. Members of the Netherlands Cooperation on
Water & Climate Services (in short CIWK) already active in Colombia were contacted and
informed about the mission. The agenda for the mission week was set by making
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The Transitiefaciliteit is financially supported by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and
Innovation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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appointments with stakeholders that showed interest in the mission and who were willing to
share their interest and needs.
The identification mission took place in the second week of July and was conducted by Dr
Hans van Leeuwen (secretariat CIWK) and Dr. Marcela Quinones (Sarvision) on behalf of
the Dutch Government.
Communication steps
Mission Preparation
Identification of Stake Holders in Colombia (80)
Government
Knowledge
Private
Communication steps
Identification of niches of interest shared by many of the
visited stakeholders
Workshop
NGO’s
Netherland embassy
Holland Water House
Presentations of Water & Climate Information services
Questionnaire
Mission execution
Mission Results
Individual meetings with interested stakeholders (15).
Identification of niches of interest shared by many of the
visited stakeholders
Communica
tion
Strategy
Contact
database
Colombia
Detailed
information
on
meetings
Mission
report
Identified
directions of
cooperation
Recommendation
on Short
term/long term
Priority directions
Figure 1: Communication steps followed during the identification mission. Specific outcomes from each step are
explained in the text.
Two main activities were planned during the execution of the Mission. Four days of the week
were dedicated to the individual visits and interviews with the Colombian stakeholders and
one day was dedicated to an integration workshop and discussion.
During the individual visits informal conversations were made between the executers of the
mission and the participants from the Colombian stakeholders. A presentation was given to
the Colombian partners in which the objective of the mission was explained and where
relevant Water and Climate information services form the CIWK were presented, also the
information needs and required technology form the Colombian side where also presented.
The objective of these meetings was to make a first research on the information needed by
different type of stakeholders and to identify possible boundary conditions in the cooperation.
The agenda for those 4 days is presented in the annex1.
In addition notes were taken, during each individual meeting, compiling all the discussed
issues that could be important for the definition of future cooperation and business The
outcome of the meetings was use as the starting points of discussion on the workshop (12 th
July). The agenda for the workshop can be seen in annex 2. During the workshop Maurice
Beers representing the Dutch Embassy in Bogota, and Fortunato Carvajal, representing the
Holland Water House in Bogota gave presentations on the general frame of the actual Dutch
– Colombian Cooperation. In addition Dr Hans van Leeuwen gave an extensive presentation
over the CIWK Climate information services followed by an extensive discussion with the
participants. In addition before getting into the meeting each participant was given a folder
with the list of all the identify stake holders and the total agenda of the mission. This was
done with the idea to share the information with all the participants. A questionnaire was also
distributed within the participants asking some relevant questions about the motivations and
the possible information needs. Results from these activities will be presented in the
following section.
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Mission Results
In total more than 60 Colombian stakeholders were identify within the different types
Organizations. Annex 3 shows the complete list of participants with detail contact
information.
General Findings
Communication
The Mission results will be presented in different ways. First some explanation will be given
in the communication strategy based on the preliminary findings. Secondly a complete
contact list with all the detail information of the identified stakeholders is presented in
addition the main findings from the meetings, the workshop and the questionnaire are
summarized. Finally a road map and some recommendations for future actions are
presented.
Communication strategy
Cooperation in Information chains
PRIVATE - GOVERMENT AND NON GOVERMENT SECTORS
Networks of interest
Step towards cooperation in Information
GEO-INFORMATION- MODELLING AND Information technology
•Identify of boundaries conditions
•Definition of common interest
•Definition of MoU’s
•Share of results
Disaster
management
Spatial
Planning
Transport
Education
Infrastructure
Mining
Agriculture
GOV
I
PRI
GOV
MIX
nonGOV
Figure 2: communication strategy after finding that information technology is transversal for all sectors the best
strategy to follow is the definition of networks of interest that could cooperate on the use of the information
From the meetings with the Colombian Stakeholders representing different types of
organizations it was evident that there was a line of agreement in their exposition of the
problems and the factors limiting the development of the information technology. The issue
has to do more with the way the cooperation and communication between the sectors is
happening at the moment than with the type of data that is needed. The Geo-information,
monitoring and modeling are transversal to all the sectors, they all include maps and
geographical analysis in their work and they need to improve their level of technology in
most of the cases. Nevertheless it was also clear that some underlying problems were
affecting the reliability and accuracy of the geographical information available because it
could happen very often that the baseline information that is used, by different sectors, is
different and therefore the resultant maps are not comparable, retarding in that way the
decision making process and negotiations between the sectors.
In many cases the accessibility to the baseline data is not very easy or is not updated
regularly enough to be useful in the geo-analysis so therefore many stake holders chose to
create their own data bases. In most of the cases the differences between them can be
enormous due to the different interpretation and classification techniques.
Most of the stakeholders that were interviewed, agree in that it would be nice to have a
network of partners interested in the same type of data and then cooperate in the use of
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the data, the baselines, the creation of modeling scenarios and the use of the monitoring
results. In addition the cooperation with Dutch partners was considered of great interest
specially to improve the quality of the existing databases, the definition of the modeling
processes and the implementation of new technology. This kind of partnerships could be
established at medium and long term depending on the type of work.
For this identification mission was very interesting to find that for most of the stakeholders
the communication between the sectors is of great importance whenever it is dealing with
the Geo-information data. Also that the intention of creating groups of interest to cooperate
in the use and management of the information was very open in most of the cases. For that
reason we identify two aspects as part of a communication strategy in order to find the paths
for cooperation in the information. (Figure 2).
Capacity Building
Another interesting observation, resulting from the meetings is that almost all visited parties
clearly indicated a need for capacity building and training in the subject of information
technology in water & climate issues and technology dealing with water and soil
management. A long history of cooperation and knowledge exchange between Holland and
Colombia was established by ITC and (also water institutes like IHE UNESCO), nevertheless
the educational interchange has decrease or at least is been appreciated as been less
intense than in the past. We met many of the alumni students that were educated in the
Netherlands, and most of them are having at the moment important and interesting positions
where they have been contributing to the development of the geo-information technology.
Most of them agree that is important to revive the knowledge to knowledge exchange
between the countries.
Also there was a clear need for being connected to the Delta Alliance network by the multi –
institutional Mega-cuenca project team of the Magdalena and Cauca river delta-system (size
half of the Netherlands).
In addition the Ministry of Agriculture is interested to build a knowledge to knowledge
cooperation with the Dutch research institutes on agriculture, soil management and water.
To them it is crucial that all possible collaboration projects will have elements of knowledge
transfer, institutional strengthening and training.
Another relevant observation is the ambition to have a Colombian satellite and ground
segment infrastructure by the Colombian Space Commission.
Institutional status
The key government stakeholders in Water and Climate adaptation and spatial information
support are respectively the IDEAM and IGAC institutes, who have a central role in
acquiring, storing and producing geo-information databases and baseline maps. They also
are responsible for the production of data and scenarios related to Water, flooding, forest
status, land use/cover, risk assessments and Climate scenarios. However the base-line
information and specific thematic information could be improved and more efficiently
updated and maintained. Besides that, the mechanisms to have access to these data, like
internet portals, for other stakeholders are poorly developed, causing duplication, poor
quality and standardization problems, etc.
Results from the questionnaire
Each of the workshop participants was given a questionnaire, to be filled, regarding their
motivation to participate in the workshop and the specific technology they could be
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interested in. The idea of this questionnaire was to compile in a concise way some extra
information about the stakeholder interests.
The results of the questionnaire are summarized and shown in figure 3. In most of the
participants were interested to participate in the workshop to get more information about
Dutch technology regarding water and climate information. The most interesting subjects
were the modeling and risk assessment and the climate change modeling and other subjects
regarding geo-Information technology.
General findings (1)
• Questionnaire
Motivation
To get information on the Dutch cooperation
To get information on the Holland Water House
To get information on the Climate Water services and the cooperation on information chains
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Interested technology and service
Irrigation
Decontamination
Dragging
Watershed Managment
Infrastructure
Modelling and risk assesment
landslide and modelling
Water storage
Navigation and Harbors
Drinking Water
Capacity building
Communication
Climate change modelling
Risk Mangement
Database structutre and integration
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Figure 3: Summary of the results from the questionnaire distributed to the stakeholders participating in the workshop.
In total there were 25 participants and most of them indicated more than one reason to participate and more than one
technology.
General findings.
From the discussion with the 15 stakeholders, short and long term general opportunities
have been identified. The general findings have been grouped according to three main
topics and are presented in figure 4.
Some of the most mentioned and emphasized topics during the individual meetings were
discussed extensively during the workshop. The workshop participants agree that these
themes were of main interest for most of the stakeholders and that they required priority in
the development of the information technology in Colombia. The identified main 5 central
common themes dealing with water and climate information are:
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Need for Modeling Center (hydro-eco-agro-forest, climate adaptation,
Socio-economic, land use planning, etc)
Integral operational disaster management
Central Database (uniform, standard, interoperable, access, costs, etc.)
Water management for Agriculture (Irrigation, Water
distribution/storage, etc.)
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Need for Monitoring center (Remote Sensing, Colombian space /sat
ambition)
General findings (2)
Water and soil technology
•Need for technology on water purification for agricultural use
•Need for technology for soil purification and desalinization for agricultural use
•Need of technology and irrigation techniques and knowledge for water security
in the agricultural sector. Banana, coffee, sugarcane, cacao etc. ( in scarcity
and flooding).
•Implementation of technology for sustainable production specially in the
agricultural focused on water and soil protection.
• Need for irrigation technology and efficient water use.
•Information on the use of water and governance in the Magdalena watershed
to support watershed management.
• Dragging technology to solve sedimentation problems of the Laguna de
Fuquene.
•Technology to improve living conditions of people living on the river shores.
•Implementation of technology for pest infestation in agricultural sector.
General findings (2)
Geo- Information Technology
•Need to Improve of geo-database structure and handling for soils and cadasters
•Need for a centralized monitoring office for flooding and deforestation with
remote sensing capacity.
• Need for a centralized modeling center for flooding risk assessment and
landslides.
•Increase capacity in modeling for different applications
•Need to construct geo information systems that can be updated, that evolve
with time and technology that contains time series that are comparable
•Need for a geo-integrated system for navigation in the Magdalena River
•High resolution DTM of the Magdalena Watershed
General findings (3)
Climate change and risk assessment
•Need for climate change scenarios for different applications.
•Increase capacity in modeling for different applications
•Create alert systems for flooding at different scales
•Create alarm systems for flooding on different regions at different scales to
predict main risk areas
Figure 4: Summary of the specific results grouped in three main branches of possible cooperation
Specific Findings
Notes from each of the 15 meetings, consigning most of the results of the conversations are
available annex 4.
Specific stakeholders have made explicit request for technology in different topics. The
following bullets summarize their interest:
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Ceniacana (sugar cane industry): Information in Remote sensing for crop damage and water
use efficiency, also they will like to do some climate mitigation project by reforesting
watersheds
Megacuenca (Large consortium of the Magdalena and Cauca river Delta): consultancy in
water accounting and use (distribution) and direct help in the formulation of the
comprehensive plan (Dutch funded 9 months project, finalizing in dec 2012: currently in
definition/inventory phase). Request to be member of the Delta Alliance group to represent
the Colombian river delta systems.
CorpoBOYACA-CORPOICA: GIS initiative on base line for the Chicamocaha River.
IDEAM (key institute advising the government and producing Water & Climate information):
support in modeling center for flooding, landslides, and land cover (land use planning) and
climate change scenarios.
IDEAM: Center with good capacity for RS image processing and base line creations in land
cover and flooding. For monitoring purposes.
IDEAM: improve their national rain prediction system
TNC( The Nature Conservancy, NGO & research on climate change and biodiversity): climate
change adaptation technology to support the CC project with USAID , flooding map of the
Magdalena, request High resolution DTM (<30m), vegetation maps and flooding frequency
maps of the river
Humboldt Institute (strategic government advisor and research): Generate climate change
scenarios, Create a system of biodiversity monitoring, help in understanding of aquatic
ecosystems, to have information on the ground water, ecosystem services
CORPOICA (Agriculture Research and advisor of the Min of Agriculture): open access and
structural database (including interoperability) on soil database for agriculture; technology on
purification of water (especially cadmium), purification of water/groundwater system due to oil
exploitation activities, interested by recovering land/production capacity of flood (sediments
are polluted). Increase the meteorological information acquisition by ground stations, soil
moisture mapping on country level.
FedeCacao (National Cacao industry): information on irrigation systems related to adaptation
to climate change, drought problems solved with distribution mechanisms, risk of landslides
4D elements (GIS company): more robust way of image/information processing, share
baselines: structural access of databases,
Min of Agricultura: need for K2K on spatial information on agriculture, Cadastre & Register,
Land planning and ownership information strategies, monitoring on mining and related
impacts to agriculture (groundwater pollution, heavy metals and water purification, etc.
CorMagdalena ((semi)private water management board of Magdalena river): Automated river
navigation and communication, further develop the climate scenarios and modeling tools with
Deltares and others, improvement of data structure and information sharing, risk reduction
procedures development (urban/regional flooding), DTM Magdalena river, Flooding map
Magdalena river, Valuation of environmental services (payment of services, water quality,
quantity)
CAR (Water management Administration Bogota): information river hydraulics (models), Pilot
project of systematization of Bogota River on early warning on flooding (water levels).
Information on the ground water potential aquifers (6000) in Bogota. They want information on
learning sedimentation of the lakes, dredging, improve buffering of lakes. Information on
water quality in Bogota area (monitoring system). Propose a pilot project in quenca.
ANDI (National representative/platform of Colombian Private industry); they want to facilitate
discussion on disaster risk reduction (APC), they like to be in contact with AgentschapNL on
Biomass waste mission findings
Next steps and roadmap
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From the meetings and workshop a list of opportunities have been identified (see previous
sections). Without a proper communication strategy these leads are deemed to end up
unanswered. It is therefore anticipated by the mission team to develop a “network of interest
groups” consisting of public & private stakeholders addressing the 5 central themes. Market
opportunities are expected to come out from these specific matching activities and
consortium formations and Commercial and /or projects within the Dutch-Holland
cooperation schemes could result (figure5).
Roadmap based on mission output and
network of interests Colombia
Consortia formation in identified directions
Key partners
Colombia
Match proces
Consortia
Information
chains
Market
Opportunies
Key Partners
Holland
Communication Strategy
Colombian & Dutch Mechanisms
Figure 5: Specific road map suggested answering the 5 main themes of work. Consortium formation between
Colombian and Dutch Partners interested in the same subject is advised. Market opportunities will come out from
these groups of interest.
All information and contact details will be shared amongst all the stakeholders in order to
have optimum transparency to bring efficiency and to avoid duplication of information. The
mission results are to be distributed amongst Dutch CIWK members and Colombian
stakeholders and following reactions to the CIWK secretariat will be filed and answered.
However a transition period of identifying opportunities towards materialization into direct
projects and benefits for the Dutch and Colombian partners, need to be abridged and will be
proposed by the mission team and discussed with the Dutch Embassy and Dutch Ministry
(EL&I).
The Dutch Embassy asked the mission team to define a proposition to safeguard the
outcomes of the mission in the aftermath of the mission by developing a work plan on the
communication strategy with the Dutch and Colombian groups of interest. During the mission
the near future of Water & climate services in Colombia have been discussed with the
Embassy and the Holland Water House to create either an additional “Orange” on ICT
(spatial information) or integrate this within in the near future planned Orange themes of the
water house (Water, Agriculture, and evt. other not yet identified sectors). Embassy is open
for suggestions for either one strategy. One suggestion was to have a desk hosted in the
Water House specifically on facilitation on Water & Climate Services and the mechanisms
involved to realize cooperation and business.
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In the Netherlands the current involvement of the CIWK members will be investigated and
especially the interest in the identified opportunities. Important Dutch (CIWK) key actors
already present in Colombia (such as Deltares) will be approached for hosting partnerships
by inviting companies with specialized niche services to complete solution chains for specific
issues. These key actors already have projects and good networks in Colombia and can
help SME’s and other members of CIWK to startup and create middle/long-term business in
Colombia.
Conclusions & recommendations
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The Mission has received great attention and interest amongst Colombian
partners(See also annex 4); therefore it is recommended to define a follow-up
strategy together with the Embassy and Dutch government to support the identified
primordial opportunities
The Dutch Embassy and the Holland water House acknowledge the importance of
information services supporting the other Water House themes in the future (or
socalled “Oranges”). The Mission team is invited to bring forward suggestions for
incorporating Water & Climate Services either as a new Orange or a “Mandarino” in
an existing Orange)
It is important to have dedicated meetings with the presidential offices (risk, climate
change, licences) and the key stakeholder IDEAM and IGAC in order to find
understanding and opening procedures and creating the proper policy context to
organize (base-line) information access in support of the Dutch Colombian public and
private initiatives.
It is recommended to pursue the suggested communication strategy of “network of
interests groups” in order to manage/facilitate the initiated opportunities until Dutch
companies and institutes take further initiative for future activities with Colombian
partners.
The Holland Water House is open to support identified promising opportunities in the
first difficult stages of market approach facilitating with the mechanisms in place
(Transition Facility, ORIO, etc.) under the appropriate conditions.
Some of the themes are already been set in motion by various Colombian stakeholders,
but all are not yet put into practice and could directly benefit from the Dutch experience
of the CIWK members and her service portfolio. Figure 6 shows some of the portfolios
that are at the moment open for the presentation of projects within the Transition Facility
of the Dutch Embassy.
Acknowledgments
The Mission Team wants to thank at first the Dutch AgentschapNL for offering the opportunity to
conduct this mission to Colombia and secondly the Dutch Embassy in Bogota in helping us finding the
right direction in Colombia. In particular we like to thank the personal discussions with Corina
Kerkmans en Claudia Schutte en Ruud Grim (Netherlands Space Office) for defining and promote the
mission in the Netherlands and Colombia. Furthermore we like to thank Maurice van Beers and
Fortunato Carvajal and their colleagues respectively at the Dutch Embassy and Holland Water House
in Colombia
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Reactions to mission in Colombia
Consortia formation and identification of common interest (Pilot cases)
Short term tracks
long term tracks
•Reforestation for water shed protection and Nature conservation.
•Magdalena River group of interest. Submitted- rejected
•Chicamocha river flooding risk assessment group of interest. Information system.
To be submitted
•Monitoring group of interest. To be follow
•Modeling group of interest. To be follow
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•Projects should have explicit commercial benefits for NL companies
•Pilot or demostration projects should show the possibilities of replication in
other areas.
•Projects should be dealing with water and climate change issues
•Sustainability and monitoring concepts are of much interest
Figure 6: List of Short term and long term Portfolios opened by stakeholders for possible projects The Orange box
shows some of the important and relevant aspects to consider in a project for the Actual Cooperation between the
Netherlands and Colombia.
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ANNEX 1: Agenda of the identificación misión during the
week of July 9-13 / 2012
Misión Técnica-Comercial del Gobierno Holandés en
temas de agua y cambio climático
Agenda Abierta
Lunes 9 Julio
Mañana
Tarde
8.30
15.00
Embajada de Holanda y Holland Water House
13.00 Min Agricultura
IDEAM
Mart es 10 Julio
Mañana
Tarde
8.30
11:00
13.00
15:00
TNC
Instituto Humboldt
CORPOICA
FEDECACAO
Miércoles 11 Julio
Mañana
Tarde
8.30
10.00
13.00
15.00
4D Elements Consultores
CorMagdalena
CAR
IDEADE
Viernes 13 de Julio
Mañana
8.30
11.00
ANDI
Proyecto Macrocuencas
Tarde
13.00 Embajada de Holanda
15:00 Preparación de reporte “Busqueda de un camino adecuado hacia la
cooperación, seguimiento .
Cierre de agenda
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ANNEX 2: Agenda of the workshop that took place en the
forth day of the mission July 12 - 2012
Reunión de trabajo conjunto. Presentación de
Servicios y Discusión
Jueves 12 Julio
Lugar: Hotel Suit Jones
Calle 61 #5 39
Hora: 9:15 h
Agenda
9:15 - 9.30
9:30 - 9:40
Bienvenida
13:00-14:00
Apertura por La Embajadora de Holanda en Colombia: Señora Marion Kappeyne
Van de Coppello
Hans Van Leeuwen & Marcela Quiñones: Representantes de “Water and Climate
services”Holland. Estrategia de la misión
Maurice Beers: Embajada De Holanda:
Instrumentos de desarrollo del sector Privado disponibles para Colombia
Fortunato Carvajal :Holland Water House
Presentación de la alianza Colombo-Holandesa por el agua & la casa Holandesa del
agua “Holland Water House”
Cafe
Hans Van Leeuwen. Representantes Water and Climate services”Holland
Presentación de servicios
Sección Interactiva Presentación de servicios identificados preliminarmente :
Discusión e interacción con participantes sobre temas importantes para Colombia en
aspectos relacionados con Agua, Cambio Climático, Agricultura, Seguridad
alimentaria, modelación y Formación de Capacidad Técnica
Sesión plenaria.
Hacer una lista de actores interesados en tener una reunión mas especifica con
el grupo de Agua y clima
Almuerzo
15:00 16:00
Ceni caña- federiego y CorBOYACA
9:40 - 10:00
10-00 - 10:20
10:20 - 10:45
10:45 -11:15.
11:15-12:00:
12:00-12:30
12:30-13.00
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ANNEX 3: Participants of the workshop (mission July 12 – 2012)
Instituto
Posición
Nombre del
contacto
Tel
email
Water Climate Services
Representative
Matchmaker &
strategies for Policies
Support
Hans van Leeuwen PhD
T: +31 622393844
www.waterandclimateservices.org
Skype:
E: [email protected] /
hans.van.leeuwen.ips [email protected]
c.jrc
www.linkedin.com/pub/hans-vanleeuwen/4/b67/348
W: www.geomaticspark.com
Cr 13 No 93 – 40 piso [email protected]
5 Bogotá - Colombia
http://www.mfa.nl/bog I
T (+57-1) 6384212 - http://co.linkedin.com/mauricevanbeers
M (+57 )
3208314608
Senior policy officer I
Economic Affairs
Topsector Water &
Climate Change
Maurice Valentijn van Beers
Colombia - Holanda
Water House
Representante
Fortunato Carvajal
Paola Pérez
57-1-.6218221
[email protected]
SarVision
Ingeniera de
proyectos
Marcela Quiñones
57-1-2743874
3118069718
[email protected]
www.sarvision.nl
Embajada de Holanda
Joel Brounen
Philip Bastiaenen
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Instituto
Gobierno
Posición
Nombre del
contacto
Tel
email
IDEAM/GOV
Director General
Ricardo Lozano
Asistente (Carolina)
Tel. 57-1-3527111,
PBX: 3527160 ext
2111-2112
[email protected]
Directora de
Ecosistemas
María Claudia García
57-13527160Ext
2115
[email protected]
Cooperación
Internacional
Paola Bernal
Carrera 10, no 2030, piso 7, Bogotá
[email protected]
Director de
Hidrología
Fabio Bernal
Omar Vargas
Proyecto REDD
Ederson Cabrera
57-1-3527160
ext 1835
[email protected]
Gustavo Galindo
3003798194
[email protected]
Subdirección de
desarrollo
Ambiental
sostenible
Directora cambio
Climático
Diego Francisco Rubio
310-2022137
51-1-3815000
ext 8032
[email protected]
Andrea García
[email protected]
Dirección de
Gestión Integral
Omar Franco
Edgar Olaya
Calle 37 # 8-40
57-1-3323400
ext
1245 o 1250
[email protected]
DNP Planeación/GOV
Min Ambiente/GOV
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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del recurso
Hídrico
Min agricultura/GOV
Directora de
Unidad de
planificaion de
tierras Rurales
Director de
Cadenas
Productivas
Política sectorial
Agenda
internacional/
Asistente de
viceministro
Unidad administrativa Plan de
especial para la
consolidación
consolidación
especial de la
territorialMacarena
Presidencia de la
Republica
CVC/GOV
CAR/GOV
Oficina de
cooperación
Internacional
Profesional
3174414004
[email protected]
[email protected]
57-1-3341199
[email protected]
[email protected]
Alvaro Portilla
3005590443
[email protected]
Juan Clavijo
3158266618
[email protected]
Diana Moreno
Claudia Rodríguez
Marta Fandino
Javier González
María Isabel Pinzón
Cesar Echeverry
3113210538
Juanita Arango
[email protected]
Carlos Avila
311-8086919
[email protected]
María Clemencia
Sandoval
Germán Camilo Ospina
315-44454854
[email protected]
Tel. 3209000
Ext. 1801 - 1822
Ext 1311/ 1822
Fax: 57-1-
[email protected]
Fernando Paez Mejia
[email protected]
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Especializado
Alcaldía
Montería/GOV
Alcaldía de
Bogotá/GOV
ASOCARS/GOV
Secretaria medio
ambiente
Alcalde
Secretaria medio
ambiente
Katia Polo (asistente
del alcalde)
Director Ejecutivo
ASOCARS
Ramón Leal
Diana Pabon
CORMAGDALENA/GOV
CORPOICA/GOV
2870361
www.car.gov.co
Investigador
Carlos Eduardo Correa" <
Margarita Flórez
despachoalcalde@[email protected]
316-4370322
ramó[email protected]
[email protected]
Telefax (+57) 1 3172711
[email protected]
Cesar Cardona
316/4730607
310-6601626
Cesar Garay
3115334443
Diana Vargas
3002691932
[email protected]
[email protected]
Jaime Bernal
3202727193
Avenida el
dorado #42-42
edificio Seiza
[email protected],
[email protected]
Teléfono: (+57) (+1)
221 5742.
Horario de atención:
[email protected]
Miguel Ayarza
Gilberto Murcia
Instituto de
Investigaciones
marinas
Calle 27 # 3-16
57-4-7820202
57-4-7822583
3003314980
Javier
Gómez
Léon
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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(INVEMAR)/GOV
Lunes a viernes de
7:00 a 11:30 a.m. y
de 1:00 a 5:00 p.m.
EAAB/Private
Unidad de Gestion de
Riesgos
Autoridad Nacional de
licencias
Francisco Canal
Jairo Barcenas
IGAC
[email protected]
[email protected]
Rodrigo Suarez
Cecilia Correa
FDA-46 - Fondo de
Adaptacion
National
Adaptation/GOV
Instituto Humboldt
/GOV
310-2018660
Pedro Luis Jiménez Poveda"
3153190053
3208317892
Juan Carlos Quintero
Directora
[email protected]
[email protected]
Puerta"
Juanita López
Brigitte L.G Baptiste
Carlos Sarmiento
Juan Carlos Bello
Ana Maria Hernanadez
Diana Ramírez
María Isabel Vieria
Nancy
[email protected]
[email protected]
57-1-3202767
3174348073
[email protected]
Alberto Boada
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Instituto/tipo
Posición
WWF/ONG
TNC/ONG
Director Científico
Nombre del
contacto
Tel
email
Sofía Rincón
[email protected]
Javier sabogal:
Cesar Suarez:
57-13132268/70/71
ext 103
3112142562
Thomas Walshburger
57-1-3214051
[email protected]
José Yunis
UNIANDES/Instituto
de conocimiento
UNI JAVERIANA/Inst
conocimiento
ProfesorInvestigador
ProfesorInvestigador
Asesor proyecto
Macrocuencas
Cauca y
Magdalena
Patrimonio
Natural/ONG
Coordinadora
proyectos
incentives a la
[email protected]
[email protected]
3148967727
3103836465
[email protected]
Jorge León
3175100880
Carlos Pedraza
3133485726
Germán Andrade
3394949 ext 2359
Andrés Etter
57-1-3208320 ext
4856/4828
[email protected]
Ext: 4821/4828
3112336384
[email protected]
Efraín Antonio
Domínguez Calle
María Claudia Fandino
Orozco
[email protected]
3124579629
[email protected]
57-12115545/2116308
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CIF/Instituto
conocimiento
Universidad Nacional
conservación
Directo
José García
Carlos Alberto Gonzalez
Murillo"
Yolanda Rubiano
[email protected]
4808991/3681517
[email protected]
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Entidad
Privada/mixta
Posición
Nombre del
contacto
Tel
email
ANDI/private
Director de
Transporte
Edgar Higuera
Gómez
57-1-3267642
[email protected]
Calle
73 No. 8 - 13
torre A piso 6.
57-1-3268500
Fax 57-1 3473198
Ext 2437
[email protected]
Gerente de
responsabilidad
Empresarial
Carlos Manuel Herrera
Santos
Nancy Ibarra Palacios
(assis)
Gerencia de
desarrollo
Victor Hugo Malagon
sostenible y
Medio Ambiente Bastos
[email protected]
[email protected]
Ext2436
[email protected]
Catalina Arciniegas
(assis)
FEDE
Presidente
Biocombustibles/private ejecutivo
FLOR VERDE/PRIVATE
Acción Verde/PRIVATE
Gerente
Jorge Bendeck
Tatiana Camacho
asistente
Fernanda Triana
Carlos Grateron
Santos
Cristi Daza
Ximena Franco
Villegas
Juan Manuel Soto
[email protected]
3421552/3422885 [email protected]
3107594225
[email protected]
57-1-2579311
ext 0110
3102117621
[email protected]
[email protected]
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CENICANA/PRIVATE
Javier Carbonell G.
[email protected]
Director
Programa de
Agronomía
Paulo murillo
[email protected]
Investigador
Programa de
Agronomía
Fernando Villegas T.
FEDEPALMA/PRIVATE
CENICAFE
Programa de
Investigación
Científica
Centro Nacional de
Investigaciones de
Café - Cenicafé
CENIPALMA/PRIVATE
Director de
Agronomía
ASOCANHAS/PRIVATE
CENIBANANO/AUGURA
Fernando Muñoz
Juan Carlos Espinosa
Camacho
Nelson Rodríguez
Valencia
[email protected]
Sede Planalto, km. 4
vía ChinchináManizales. Chinchiná
(Caldas) - Colombia
[email protected]
Tel.: PBX
+57(6)8506550
Fax +57(6)8504723
+57(6)8506630
+57(6)8507561
A.A. 2427 Manizales
José Ignacio Sanz
Scovino
Jorge Torres
57-1-2086300
Johan Martínez
311-7645172
Cesar Gutiérrez Herrera
Roberto Hoyos
[email protected]
- Sede Américas
(Unidad de Servicios
Compartidos)
Calle 20 A N° 43 A 50 Pisos 2 y 4
PBX: (1) 2086300 Fax: (1) 2444711
[email protected]
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EAAB/Private
Auditoria
Ambiental/PRIVATE
Director
UNIBAN
FEDECACAO
Francisco Canal
Gabriel Ramírez
Acevedo
Luis Felipe Arango
Gerente Técnico
Jacob Rojas
Alfonso Abondano
310-2018660
[email protected]
2562680/6211080
3173008633
Calle 52 No. 47-42
Ed. Coltejer
[email protected]
Medellín, Colombia
South América
Main: (574) 5115540
Fax: (574) 5118786
Carrera 17 No. [email protected]
39
PBX 3273000.
[email protected]
FAX 2884424 3401423. Bogotá,
D.C. Colombia
Florez de Funza
José Mauricio Barrera
Calle 72 No. 10 07 suite 601
Phones
(+571) 313 6900
(+571) 313 6922
(+571) 212 9295
[email protected]
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FEDEPALMA
Diana Parra
Juan Carlos Espinosa
Cr 10 #69ª-44
[email protected]
3138600
[email protected]
[email protected]
Biocombustibles
Sostenibles del Caribe
DAABON DAABON
Organic
Felipe Guerrero
Plan Estrategico Para
Macrocuencas del
Magdalena, Cauca y
Caribe
Arturo Infante
315-3728023
[email protected]
Efraín Domínguez
3112336384
[email protected]
3213433042
[email protected]
Cra. 13 No. 96-67,
Edificio Akori, of.
206.
[email protected]
.
Cel. 3153455964
[email protected]
Alberto Dávila
[email protected]
Harold Coronado
Eduardo Uribe
Juan Andrés López
Carolina Amador
4D Elements Consultant
Suzette Flantua
320-8909893
Milton Hernán Romero Ruiz
Diagonal 34 No. 5A-90
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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ANNEX 4: Bullet points summarizing meetrings with espoecific stakeholders July 9 - 13
2012.
NOTES FROM INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS
9-13 July -2012
Date/Time
Place
Dutch Embassy and Holland
Water House
Lunes 9
Julio
8.30
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List of people
present
Maurice Beers
Fortunato Carvajal
Philip Bastieanen
Joel Brouen
Position
Dutch Embassy Senior expert
Director of Holland Water House
Dutch embassy Agricultural sector
expert
Dutch embassy business expert
The Dutch embassy has two main work fronts
Water
Sustainability:
Sustainable production
Climate change adaptation and mitigation (Maurice)
Biofuels ( Philip)
Bussiness (Joel)
The Holland Water House is starting to work as a frame for the Water related business- projects between Colombia and the Netherlands
Date/Time
Place
List of people
Position
present
Ministry of Agriculture
Martha Fandino
Director of UPRA: Unidad de planificación
Lunes 9
de tierras y usos agropecuarios.
Julio
Javier Gonzales
Asistente
13.00
María Isabel Rincón
Search of International technology
 Name of minister of Agriculture: Juan Camilo Restrepo
 Actual issues at the Ministry of agriculture is the restitution of land to the victims of the political conflict
 There is the clear intention to modernize the agricultural sector
 Colombia has the intention to reduce the amount of ranching land in 50 % of the actual size and dedicate to agriculture
 Tools to modernize the agricultural sector are:
Small farming
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Date/Time
Implementation of innovation technology
Sustainability
Formalization of the register of land
Ministry is busy with the process of climate adaptation
They are busy implementing monitoring and land use modeling. They like to see models and examples. They are interested in capacity building.
For the agricultural sector is a big problem the fact that producers don’t have enough tools to control and maintain the prices of the products . Will
be ideal to have information how to achieve that by: 1) Improvement of storage technology and 2) improvement of processing technology in the
search of a more stable market.
Poisons of soils due to mining activities. Mercury and Cadmium pollution are threatening the markets of vegetables. Looking for soil purification
technology
Search for Water decontamination technology for metals like mercury.
ICA and CORPOICA area the research institutes of the ministry of Agriculture. They are MIXED institutes
They like to have some support in the structural and relational databases for cadastral Information. The actual situation is that the information from
cadastral do not match the information from register. There is an important need to geo-reference the ownership of the land. A demonstration project
on that will be ideal.
The ministry is having a new land law to restitute land to the farmers affected by violence. Ministry don’t know if they should rent the land or give
titles to the people. The ministry will like to explore the POLDER Model of Holland.
Is in the intention of highly populated countries to rent land from countries like Colombia to transfer part of their population.
Will be of great interest to give high level education to people. Will be interesting to have a capacity building program for specific subjects necessary
to the Ministry.
Place
Lunes 9
Julio
15.00
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List of people
Position
present
IDEAM
María Claudia García
Directora de Ecosistemas
Gustavo Galindo
Proyecto REDD
Ederson Cabrera
Proyecto REDD
Fabio Bernal
Coordinador de grupo de evaluación
Paola Bernal
Cooperación internacional
IDEAM will like to improve their precipitation prediction system within the office of Rain prognostic and alert.
They need to report in precipitation, temperature, radiation, landslides. They will like to improve the predictive models for all these issues.
They will like to improve the net of metrological stations and to modernize the net to automatic nets them. This project is already in course: in one
week they will make public the terms of reference for a competition to select a consultancy company to set the concept and another company to set
the infrastructure. This work is directly with the “Fondo de Adaptacion”.
They will like to improve in the generation of baseline information for Flooding and Land cover. And create data series for monitoring.
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They have credit form the World Bank to generate maps of Inundation. River overflows and Landslides. They will try to use the technology that
already exist (VISUAL Interpretation) but they will like to use more advanced technologies.
The SINA is the “Sistema the informacion Nacional Ambiental’is used as a frame for the integration of data like: geological data, vegetation data etc.
They will like to set a center for modeling and prevention of disasters. Create a baseline and to create scenarios using modeling approaches. They
will like to set a modeling center. Fist for Colombia and then to other countries in the region.
They will like to set capacity for remote sensing Image processing , interpretation and classification to create baselines integrated into a monitoring
office that could create consistent time series for monitoring and modeling.
Date/Time
Place
Mart es 10
Julio
TNC The Nature Conservacy
List of people
present
Thomas Walshburger
Carlos Pedraza
Position
Director científico
GIS expert.
8.30
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The Nature Conservancy is busy in Projects of climate adaptation and conservation of ecosystems
They need technology for climate adaptation in subjects of water managements in flooding and droughts
They see the creation of a monitoring and a modeling office as interesting developments.
They are/were busy with a project in the Magdalena river. Creating maps to define areas of interest for conservation. They together with a lot of other
entities created a database of maps with very important information for the management of the Magdalena watershed.
Place
List of people
present
Position
Instituto Humboldt
María Isabel Vieria
Ana María Hernandez
Diana Ramirez
Nancy
Asistente Brigitte
Cooperación International
Actualización de Paramos
Sistema de Información de Biodiversidad
Date/Time
Mart es 10
Julio
8.30
Other contact persons: Brigitte Baptiste : Director
Juan Carlos Bello: Coordinador del sistema de información de biodiversidad.
Carlos Sarmiento: Director de actualización cartográfica de Paramos
 The Humboldt Institute will like to have support in the characterization of the aquatic ecosystems and wetlands.
 They will like to have support in the definition and implementation of Enviromental services
 The subject of underground Water is also of interest and they will like to have support and additional technology to assess the resource.
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They see the need for unification of baselines and the application of modeling technologies.
They see it more as capacity building for modeling for ecosystem and climate change, landslides and their effect in the biodiversity.
They will like to establish a monitoring system for biodiversity
They use the model GLOB-BIO from ITC
Date/Time
Place
Mart es 10
Julio
CORPOICA
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Position
CORPOICA
U Nacional-Profesora
CORPOICA
CORPOICA
CORPOICA Works in collaboration with the Universidad Nacional in the generation of Knowledge over agriculture and soils
They will like to get technology to treat and purify water and soils. There are problems with Cadmium pollution that can affect the production and
marketing of Vegetables.
They will like to have technology to treat waters from the oil extraction points. This waters are usually polluted and full with salt that can pollute the
rivers or soils where it is deposited. They will like to treat this waters.
They are busy trying to reestablish the productive capacity of the soils affected by the Inundations. Many areas specially in the north of Colombia
have suffer from sedimentation of sand, affecting the fertility of the surface soils.
They will like to improve in their modeling capacities to assess potential risk in the agricultural sector especially related to climate change scenarios.
They will like to know how to monitor agricultural production in different agricultural sectors for instance in the Oil Palm plantations
For the Area of the eastern savanna they will like to know about the soil moisture regimes. For that they will like to implement a remote sensing
system but also a more complete meteorological network ( work with the IDEAM).
They will like to improve the models of Soils humidity of the whole country
They will like to have information about the use of water by different sectors
They think that the actual databases on soils are inefficient and not compatible nationally or internationally. They will like to have a database that is
standard for all the institutions and that can be compatible with international databases.
They will like to invite international experts to teach and increase local knowledge and capacity on irrigation issues, climate change and ICT issues.
They see the issue of climate change modeling as very important. They will like to have better modeling capacity to create scenarios.
Date/Time
Place
Mart es 10
Julio
FEDECACAO
15:00
List of people
present
Jaime Bernal
Yolanda Rubiano
Miguel Agarza
Gilberto Murcia
List of people
present
Jacob Rojas
Fernando Rojas
Ana Maria Camargo
Andres Felipe Rojas
Fernando Moreno Rios
Position
Director técnico
Enfoque ambiental
Supervisor técnico
Supervisor técnico
Supervisor técnico
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Oscar dario Ramirez
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Fedecacao is a National enterprise that groups the Cacao producer of Colombia and supports them with technology’.
Cacao is a shadow crop: it grows under the trees
They are interested in doing Risk assessment based on climate change scenarios
The main problem for the cacao producers is water scarcity in drought periods. They are not really affected by flooding because the cacao plantations
are in the lower slopes of the hills.
They will like to have technology to manage water and make water available in droughts.
Irrigation systems where the use of water is optimized is of great importance
Water quality assessment is also of great importance a lot of problems are expected with the development of mining projects where the
contamination with mercury is expected to have a strong effect in water quality.
Cacao producers are also affected by landslides and they will like to have more information available about that kind of risks. A central modeling
center where information could be available will be ideal.
Date/Time
Place
Miércoles
11 Julio
4D Elements Consultores
8.30
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Supervisor técnico
Supervisor técnico
List of people
present
Suzzette
Milton Romero
Adriana Sarmiento
Position
Owners
4D elements consultores are a group of GIS experts that are providing services in the use and implementation of GIS technology.
They are busy in different types of projects going from water contamination, deforestation, water management, assessment of flooding
They see some problems in the use of remote sensing technology. Most of the classifications and interpretation of RS images is done manually
making results not comparable .
Baselines and maps are not really available as they should be according to the law.
Date/Time
Place
Miércoles
11 Julio
CorMagdalena
List of people
present
Dianas Vargas
Cesar Cardona
Cesar Garay
Position
Asesor
Asesor
Asesor
10.00
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CORMAGDALENA is a mixed type corporation that depends directly from the presidential office.
The objective of CORMAGDALENA is to develop a management plan for the Magdalena watershed
At the moment they are busy formulating a Master Plant for Infrastructure and dam constructions with Hidrochina (Chinese engineer company).
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They will like to know about the actual state of the watershed, the degrees of human intervention and the Natural areas that are still well preserved.
They have at the moment a project with DELTARIS, for modeling to create scenarios and define critical zones. ( 3-5 year project)
There is at the moment a consortium ( Mesa estrategica) with Departamento Nacional de Planeacion, IDEAM, Presidencia y CORMAGDALENA. To
create scenarios.
CORMAGDALENA is at the moment supervising the project of the MacroCuencas. In wich they intend to compile and share information.
They are trying to find the way to share the information in hydrological resources within the Frame of the SINA (sistema nacional Ambiental)
There are three main aspects in wish CORMAGDALENA will like to get support.
1. Data acquisition:
High resolution DTM (52.000Km2) LIDAR Information
Study of high resolution images for study of Navigation channels
Study and definition of wetland ecosystems
2. Monitoring of the Navigation Channel with Ecosondas and GPS to improve the Navigation in the river.
3. Enviromental services of the watershed and river. They will like to know more about environmental services like water quality, water quantity,
Biodiversity, agriculture and food security, Land use.
Date/Time
Place
CAR
Miércoles
11 Julio
13.00
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List of people present
Position
Fernando Paez Mejia
Luz Villamarin
Magda Suarez
Camilo Zambrano
Hernando Nino
Adriana Chaparro Amaya
CAR is a Corporation for Regional enviromental issues. This CAR is specifically working in the area of Bogota and the Altiplano cundiboyacence.
They have special interest in the Modelling of river waterbeds and river hydraulics.
They also have interest in the understanding of the underwater systems
A big problem of sedimentation in the Laguna de Fuquene. They will like to know if there is technology that can help to solve the problem.
They will like to have model to manage the Bogota river
They will like to stablish a pilot project to monitor the rivers and create an integrated alarm system for flooding.
They will like to increase their campacity in monitoring and modeling. To identify risk zones.
Date/Time
Place
Miércoles
11 Julio
IDEADE
List of people
present
Andres Etter
Armando Sarmiento
Position
Teacher and Researcher
Director of the Ecology Department
16:00
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IDEADE is a knowledge Institute of the Javeriana University
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The institute is ecological mapping, biophysical spatial characterization and rural regional development
They could be interested in reestablish knowledge to knowledge relationships with different universities
Date/Time
Place
Jueves 12
Julio
Ceni caña CorpoBoyaca y
Federriego
14:00 16:00
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Place
Viernes 13
de Julio
ANDI
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Date/Time
List of people
present
Nancy Ibarra
Catalina Arciniegas
8.30
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Position
Cenicana
Federriego
CORBOYACA
CORBOYACA
Cenicana is a research institute for the sugar cane. They are busy searching for appropriate technology to increase productivity an efficiency in sugar
cane growth. Main research areas are: Water, mechanization, modeling of risks, productions and growth.
Cenicana has implemented an excellent system of climatological information automatized at national level. They are looking for a System of climate
prognostic.
They will like to implement monitoring systems a for the detection of plages or nutrients deficiencies.
CENICANA is interested in the subject of reforestation and the investment in recovery of watersheds.
FEDERIEGO is an association of experts in irrigation supporting the different irrigation districts in Colombia.
CORPOBOYACA has running project in the high Chicamocha river to create a baseline for the
Date/Time
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List of people
present
Fernando Villegas
Dagoberto Bonilla
Oscar Lizarazo
Amilkar Pina
Position
Assist. of Gerencia de responsabilidad
social y gestión de conocimiento
Assist. Enviromental issues.
ANDI is a business association that encloses several industries in Colombia ( Asociacion de Gremios). They have an overview of the companies, the
clients, the investors, the community and the environment
They provide services and defines lines of development in the different sectors
They follow lines of sustainability and information management.
They will like to have support in the development of proper ICT technology for application in different fields.
There is an specific project in the recovery of several areas affected by the flooding. They will like to define better the most important risk zones and
to have technology to adapt to the situation specially to help people living in the shores of the river.
They will also like to have information and technology over carbon footprint estimations and emissions.
They will like to have information over biomass management.
Place
List of people present
Position
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Viernes 13
Julio
11.00
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Proyecto Macrocuencas
Arturo Infante
Mildred Mendez
Maria Carolina Amador
Efrain Domienguez
Cesar Garay
Andrea Trivino
Martha Garcia
Mauricio Bayona
Diego Rubio
Director del proyecto
Unidad técnica
Unidad técnica
Unidad técnica- Universidad Javeriana
CorMagdalena
Presidencia
ASCARS
MADS-DGIRH
SDAS-DNP
The objective of the Project is to compile information and generate an strategic plan that integrates law and the biophysical information for the
management of the Magdalena and Cauca watersheds
They will like to structure the watershed based on the assessment of the water use.
They will like to know if Holland has a system for the inventory and systematization of the water use in a watershed in order to identify the main actors
in the agricultural sectors and the mining sector. Identification of areas of conflict is important.
They will like to establish model on water governance to define lines for water use at the macro-watershed level.
They will like to define strategies for decision making based on information
They have define 4 main lines of work: Economic; Political and territorial; Environmental and Social.
They will like to propose the establishment of a Pilot project where the water demand is the driver for the water management . a down to top
approach is suggested.
The project ends in December
Recommended Institutes that might be very interested in water and climate change technology, to
visit in the future: (this actors were invited to participate but were not directly involved in the mission)
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There is the “Unidad de Gestion de Riesgos” who will like to set a central crisis management center.
Fondo nacional de Adaptacion
Flower sector
Café
Banano
Patrimonio natural REDD projects
Fedecombustibles
Alcaldia de Monteria
Alcaldia de Bogota
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