Instrumentos de Planificación y Apoyo a Decisiones Robustas (ADR) en la Gestión del Agua en Colombia

The document describes the complex network of national and regional institutions managing water in Colombia, highlighting the role of the IDEAM and the Corporaciones Autónomas Regionales (CARs). It identifies critical gaps in water resource knowledge—specifically regarding supply, demand, and quality—that hinder effective decision-making. To address these, the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) proposes the ADR (Robust Decision Making) process and the WEAP tool, which utilize the XLRM framework to model various climate and socio-economic scenarios, thereby supporting more robust adaptation strategies and reducing potential conflicts in water management.

• Water management in Colombia is structured across multiple levels, with the IDEAM serving as the national scientific authority for hydrology and meteorology, while the Corporaciones Autónomas Regionales (CARs) manage natural resources within their specific jurisdictions.
• The National Policy for Integrated Water Resource Management (PNGIRH) identifies primary obstacles to effective water management as a lack of sufficient knowledge regarding water supply, demand, quality, and risks, as well as limited information on governance and planning to support decision-making.
• The CARs utilize various planning instruments, with the Watershed Management and Ordering Plans (POMCA) serving as the central articulating axis for other operational plans such as the Regional Environmental Management Plan (PGAR) and the Institutional Action Plan (PAI).
• The Robust Decision Making (ADR) process, developed by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), consists of seven stages: actor mapping, problem formulation (using the XLRM framework), model construction (using WEAP), climate change scenario delineation, a series of 100 to 1,000 simulations, visualization, and the identification of robust decisions.
• The WEAP (Water Evaluation and Planning) tool allows authorities to represent current basin conditions and explore various supply, demand, and quality options across different scenarios, including climate change, by integrating surface and groundwater data.
• The application of the ADR process and WEAP tool is intended to reduce conflicts, increase the efficiency of planning instruments, and facilitate more coherent adaptation strategies for climate change at both national and local levels.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2014). Instrumentos de Planificación y Apoyo a Decisiones Robustas (ADR) en la Gestión del Agua en Colombia. https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/Water-sanitation/SEI-USAID-DB-2014-Instrumentos-planificacion-gestion-agua-Colombia.pdf

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Instrumentos de Planificación y Apoyo a Decisiones Robustas (ADR) en la Gestión del Agua en Colombia. 2014. https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/Water-sanitation/SEI-USAID-DB-2014-Instrumentos-planificacion-gestion-agua-Colombia.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2014instrumentos, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Instrumentos de Planificación y Apoyo a Decisiones Robustas (ADR) en la Gestión del Agua en Colombia}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2014}, url = {https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/Water-sanitation/SEI-USAID-DB-2014-Instrumentos-planificacion-gestion-agua-Colombia.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }