Nursery of the municipality of Las Flores for the production of fruit and timber trees.
GIZ/Fabiola Budde
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Producers receive trees to plant in the fields near the Güergüerense micro-watershed.
GIZ/Fabiola Budde
The Green Fund or Environmental Fund is part of the Compensation Mechanism for Ecosystem-Water Services (MCSEH) and is created with the financial contribution of water subscribers in the communities, who, in addition to paying the monthly fee for drinking water service, contribute a surplus earmarked exclusively for environmental management in the micro-watershed.
The municipality, commonwealths, private enterprise, and international cooperation also contribute to this fund. In the case of the Güergüerense Green Fund, its creation means economic resources for the purchase of land within the micro-watershed to be used for forest regeneration and reforestation.
- The full municipal corporation demonstrated its commitment to the population and the water resource by approving the creation of this fund, establishing a 50% contribution, while the communities earmarked the other 50% for the purchase of land.
- The Environmental Fund is also earmarked for fencing off water intake sites, water quality analysis and gauging.
- A strategy was implemented to raise awareness among the families that owned the land adjacent to the micro-watershed, which was intended for crops or livestock, and these lands were acquired for reforestation and forest regeneration.
- Natural regeneration contributes to guaranteeing the water supply in the municipality, which is why fencing off the land is necessary to guarantee the water supply.
- The areas surrounding the micro-watershed were reforested with timber and fruit trees.