Peru is vulnerable to hydrological and climatic extremes. Droughts, fires, floods, and landslides in recent years demonstrate the acute water crisis Peru faces, which is only intensifying with population growth and climate change. Natural infrastructure (like forests and wetlands) increase resilience of both upstream communities and downstream water users to these risks. USAID and Canada are working together to scale-up efforts to protect and restore natural infrastructure while addressing gender inequities that are incompatible with a water- and climate-secure future.
HOW DOES THE ACTIVITY WORK?
Canada and USAID are working to enable natural infrastructure (NI) investment and efforts to address gender inequities in water management, beginning with political and public awareness to support a common vision. We work closely with planners and policymakers to incorporate NI into planning instruments and address policy bottlenecks to scale effective natural infrastructure investments.
We work with universities, technical institutions, and decision-makers to identify knowledge and information gaps related to the benefits of NI in Peru; collect state-of-the art data to address those gaps; and develop guidelines and tools to improve NI interventions.
We help develop portfolios of NI investments and break through bottlenecks to mobilize investments, focusing these efforts on priority watersheds: Chira-Piura, Chillón-Rímac-Lurin-Alto Mantaro (Lima and Junin), Quilca-Chili (Arequipa), Tambo-Moquegua, Mayo (San Martin) and Vilcanota-Urubamba (Cusco).
