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Manejo Integrado de Recursoms Ambientales (MIRA) in Honduras

The MIRA Project works in watersheds such as this one found in northern Honduras.

MIRA is a $23 million program being implemented in Honduras over a four-year period aimed at strengthening the local capacity to create and administer watershed management plans. The program will also stimulate policy reform related to the integrated management of natural resources.

To accomplish this, MIRA promotes the creation of stakeholder dialogues that involve local authorities, private businesses, other donors, NGOs, and the beneficiary communities, with the objective of building consensus on future vision and priority actions that are needed to achieve that vision. The policy component is one of MIRA’s cornerstone activities, as it promotes the technical and institutional integration of better natural resources management within a watershed management framework. This component strengthens the application of laws and regulations, while building local capacity for sound governance of natural resources.

Through its efforts to promote policy development, the project team focuses on the development and strengthening of environmental policies at the national level, especially in the sectors of water, forests and Honduras’ environmental policy agreement with the U.S.A. under the free trade agreement.

USAID/MIRA is working in 12 out of the 21 watersheds of Honduras. Four of these watersheds (Choluteca, Cangrejal, Patuca and the Bay Islands) had been previously designated by USAID as priority watersheds. An additional eight watersheds were selected based upon bio-physical, socio-economic and institutional criteria.

The policy component is one of USAID/MIRA’s cornerstone activities as it allows for the thematic and institutional integration of better natural resources management in the country's watersheds. This component highlights the importance of laws and regulations, while strengthening their application, thus improving both the ability to govern, and the responsibility associated with natural resources management.

For more information, visit www.mirahonduras.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MiraHonduras.woa.

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