This project aims to integrate environmental sustainability into the actions of cooperation actors through the link between environmental sustainability and the full development of human rights.

This project aims to integrate environmental sustainability into the actions of cooperation actors through the link between environmental sustainability and the full development of human rights.

All United Nations human rights treaty bodies recognize the intrinsic link between the environment and the achievement of a range of human rights, including the human right to water. It is a challenge for international cooperation to promote investment in development that truly contemplates environmental conservation, as well as the effects of climate change (UNDP Report, 2006).

In this line, this project aims to deepen the analysis and dissemination of practical measures on how to work on environmental sustainability through concrete actions linked to water management in the countries of the South, and how these affect the human right to water, from two different spheres of action:

1. By deepening the discussion with experts in the field, through the celebration of an international conference and a publication, in coordination with the water group of the CONGDE (Coordinator of NGOs for Development-Spain).
2. Through the systematization of good practices on environmentally sustainable measures in rural water management in Nicaragua, as a practical example.