WHO WE ARE
The Cerrado Waters Consortium (CWC) is a multi-sectoral collaborative platform involving business, the government, and civil society. Our aim is to join forces in support of environmental preservation and conservation to combat climate change
Our Conscious Producer Investment Program (CPIP) provides specialist services to producers in a given watershed to promote the environmental development of their property focusing on three fronts: restoration, climate-smart agricultural practices, and efficient water resources management
Objective: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.
Target 2.4 | By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, help maintain ecosystems, strengthen adaptive capacity to climate change, extreme weather, droughts, floods and other disasters, and progressively improve land and soil quality.
CCA Indicator: Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture (properties that adhere to the PIPC).
Target 2.5 | By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants, farmed and domesticated animals and their respective wild species, including through diversified and well-managed seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and ensure access to, and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of, genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed.
CCA Indicator:
• Kilos of seeds
• Number of seedlings
• Number of species sown
• Kilos of seeds
• Number of collectors
• Sown area
Target 2.a | Increase investment, including through strengthening international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development, and plant and animal gene banks, to increase agricultural production capacity in developing countries, particularly in least developed countries.
CCA Indicator:
• Total value invested in PIPC properties (cost of strategies by CCA, cost of
subsidized irrigation project and city hall cost)
• Number of properties participating in the irrigation project
• Amount of water saved with the irrigation project
Objective: Ensure inclusive and equitable education and
quality, and promote learning opportunities throughout
throughout life for everyone.
Target 4.4 | By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship.
CCA Indicator:
• Number of producers participating in field days
• Number of properties visited among producers
• Number of scholarships awarded
• Number of interns
• Number of participating academic institutions
• Number of teachers involved in the projects
• Number of tractor drivers participating in the soil conservation course
• Number of Scouts trained in climate-friendly agriculture strategies
intelligent
• Number of people enrolled in the seed collectors and Cerrado restoration course.
Objective: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Target 5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere.
CCA Indicator:
• Number of women hired.
Objective: Ensure availability and sustainable management of
water and sanitation for all.
Target 6.4 | By 2030, substantially increase water use efficiency in all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity, and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity.
CCA Indicator:
• Number of people affected by the irrigation project in the basin
• Percentage of water savings from the irrigation project
Target 6.5 By 2030, implement integrated water resources management at all levels, including through transboundary cooperation, as appropriate.
CCA Indicator:
• Master's project implemented on integrated water resources management
Target 6.3 | By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes.
CCA Indicator:
• Number of APPs restored
• Quantity of APP fenced
Target 6.a | By 2030, expand international cooperation and capacity-building support for developing countries in activities and programs related to water and sanitation, including water harvesting, desalination, water-use efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling, and reuse technologies.
CCA Indicator:
• Number of international partnerships established for the energy use efficiency project
of the water.
Target 6.b | Support and strengthen the participation of local communities to improve water and sanitation management.
CCA Indicator:
• Number of producers involved in the irrigation project to save water
• Number of producers involved in the water resources management project.
Objective: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
Target 11.b | By 2020, substantially increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans for inclusiveness, resource efficiency, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and disaster resilience; and develop and implement, in accordance with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, holistic disaster risk management at all levels.
CCA Indicator:
• MIFs implemented
• Number of partners involved in MIFs
Objective: Ensure production and consumption standards
sustainable.
Target 12.2 | By 2030, achieve sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.
CCA Indicator:
Number of properties with developed PACs
Target 12.8 | By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature.
CCA Indicator:
• Number of releases published
• Number of people engaged in the social network
• Evolution of maturity level
Objective: Take urgent action to combat
climate change and its impacts (recognizing that
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Climate [UNFCCC] is the international intergovernmental forum
primary to negotiate the global response to climate change
climate).
Target 13.1 | Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related risks and natural disasters in all countries *
CCA Indicator:
• Number of strategies implemented
• Number of students involved in World Environment Day events
• Number of schools participating in the World Environment Day event
Objective: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use
of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage the
forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse
land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
Target 15.1 | By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements.
CCA Indicator:
• Area undergoing restoration
• Number of hydrographic basins worked Target
Target 15.2 | By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally.
CCA Indicator:
• Native vegetation area of the basins of action
• Area of implemented SAFs
Objective: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels.
Target 16.6 | Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels.
CCA Indicator:
• Account audit report
• Technical progress reports on activities
Target 16.7 | Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels.
CCA Indicator:
• CCA Statute
• Internal CCA policies
• CCA Organization Chart
Objective: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
Target 17.16 | Strengthen the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multistakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, particularly developing countries.
CCA Indicator:
• Graph of the number of partnerships joined the project