USAID Regional Environmental Program for Central America
(PROARCA)
 Improved
management of Mesoamerica’s fragile natural resources,
including its threatened cross-border watersheds, is essential
to the region’s growth, the health of its population,
and sustaining its competitiveness in world markets. Threats
to biodiversity, habitat and resources in Central America are
numerous. USAID’s Regional Environmental Program for Central
America, known by its Spanish acronym PROARCA, supported the
conservation and sustainable management of biologically important
and diverse areas in the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor (Central
America and Mexico). Working in all seven Central American countries,
from Belize to Panama, PROARCA had three main components:
- Coastal Resource Management at four bi- or tri-national trans-boundary pilot sites (PROARCA/Costas);
- Protected Area Management strengthening in seven countries (PROARCA/CAPAS); and
- Environmental Protection and Legislation activities (EPA and LEPPI) which included environmental sanitation projects in ten Central American municipalities.
In 2005 USAID’s Regional Environmental Program for
Central America moved from Guatemala to the USAID El Salvador
mission. USAID has designed a new Regional Environmental Program
which will focus on: (1) Improved End Use Management of Three
Critical Watersheds; (2) Increased Harmonization and Enforcement
of Environmental Laws and Regulations; and (3) Increased Use
of Clean Production Technologies.
To learn about PROARCA's programs, visit the PROARCA
website or view PROARCA Publications.
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