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● projectActive · local · 2015
San José Chiltepec community water resources management committee
A participatory process in the Chinantec municipality of San José Chiltepec, Oaxaca, through which ejido and municipal authorities, local leaders and young people formed a community committee to address the contamination of surface water sources and the drinking water supply.
illustrative atlas image · Colin Rowley / UnsplashEDEcoLogic Development FundCCComité comunitario de San José Chiltepec (con Fondo Ambiental Regional de la Chinantla)MAMarco Aurelio Acevedo-OrtizYDYolanda Donají Ortiz-Hernández
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01 The context
The committee designed internal regulations for the sanitation of water sources, validated by the community assembly. Accompanied by EcoLogic Development Fund and the Fondo Ambiental Regional de la Chinantla.
02 How it works
03 What it stands on
Evidence level
Own experience
Grounded in published theory
Documented evidence elsewhere
Independently evaluated here
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The evidence 1 ›
EvidenceEl comité comunitario en el manejo de recursos hidrológicos en San José Chiltepec, Oaxaca, MéxicoIdesia (Universidad de Tarapacá), vol. 35 no. 4 · 2017
04 Lessons learned
The study warns that community participation alone is not enough: the committee requires capacity building and sustained institutional accompaniment to achieve continuity and scale to the regional level.