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Innovation and Science for the Operationalization of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus within the Framework of the Amazon Regional Observatory (Webinar 2)

This webinar is part of a project sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank’s Amazonia Forever 1 program. The project is entitled Innovation and Science for the Operationalization of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus within the Framework of the Amazon Regional Observatory. This project is focused on the development and application of modelling tools in an integrated multi-sectoral planning process based on the water-energy- food nexus approach.

The objective of this project is to operationalize an integrated water-energy-food nexus modeling tool(s) that allows the exploration of different physical and socioeconomic scenarios in the entire Amazon basin. This project leverages the experience acquired and efforts made by the Bank and client countries in areas such as water, agriculture and land use, energy and climate change.

The knowledge and tools developed through this project will support an integrated, multi- sectoral (nexus) approach to policy development and investment in the Amazon Basin. This will promote coherent, collaborative environmental governance to understand tradeoffs and maximize synergies and co-benefits while minimizing vulnerabilities, risks, and unintended consequences. This capacity is needed to address priority regional transboundary problems in the Amazon Basin such as the lack of integrated water resources management, water pollution, biodiversity loss, effects of extreme hydroclimatic events, and land use change, among other issues.

This webinar will illustrate and provide hands-on the operationalization of the water-energy-food nexus model developed for the Amazon River Basin through interactive visualization dashboards. The main objective of this webinar is to collect input from participants to improve these operational dashboards.

Specifically, the webinar will focus on capacity building of analytical capabilities to address the following challenges that were identified in consultation with ACTO Member Countries:

-Water balance across the Amazon watershed sub-basins.

-Ecological flow rates and their role in the water balance.

-Water quality dashboard.

-Impact of nexus intervention types: hydropower, irrigation, reforestation.

Learners receive this digital credential for their participation in the workshop.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the webinar, participants will:

-Apply knowledge of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus to define the scope of modeling activities in the basin, including the implementation of the HydroBID-WHATIF (nexus) model.

-Provide input to the process of improvement of the operational visualization dashboards of the nexus model.

-Promote the participation in the discussions and analyses that will be carried out in the tasks included in the Project’s Work Plan.

-Apply the operationalized nexus model through a participatory and inclusive process of discussion and analysis.