The Ebro Resilience Strategy is in luck. The Botín Foundation recently announced the winners of its awards for Sustainable Management and the Strategy’s participation proposals have been recognized in this edition.
Specifically, it has been awarded in modality C of this call that seeks initiatives or projects aimed at promoting the involvement of citizens to move towards a joint vision or the resolution of conflicts and problems related to water and its management.
The prize, exequo with the project “El Salto tiene Porvenir”, has been awarded to the Strategy with its head of Participation, Alba Ballester Ciuró at the head.
Each year, the Water Observatory announces at least three awards for innovation and the dissemination of ideas, projects and technologies with proven results for sustainable water management.
The importance of participation
Public participation is one of the pillars of the Ebro Resilience Strategy and the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project that is integrated in it.
This participation allows:
- Inform the population affected by the flood risk about the lines of action and the specific measures proposed in the framework of the project.
- Improve and agree on the actions to be carried out within the framework of the project, according to the contributions of the inhabitants of the river territory.
- Capacity building of stakeholders and the general public to reduce their vulnerability to flood risk.
The LIFE Project has stable participation groups, the so-called co-creation groups and small thematic forums, such as the one on conflict transformation, which were formed at the beginning of the project and in which collaborate those who wanted to become more intensely involved, learn about new proposals and establish stable communication and exchange channels with partners and participating Administrations.
Ebro Resilience also includes specific actions with sectors of the population such as education, informants, professionals, the primary sector, etc.
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