Uruguay-OSE Response to Climate Change

The proposed project is based on OSE's need for a holistic approach to respond to climate change, through looking at adaptation and mitigation measures along a spectrum of engagements. These engagements include investments in water supply and sanitation systems, monitoring and planning, and stakeholder involvement.

The project also focuses on institutional and public engagement, as well as knowledge-based activities to strengthen local capacities and enable sustainability. The investment loan would be centered on strengthening OSE's ability to adapt to climate change by reducing water supply and sanitation vulnerability while contributing to the nation's mitigation efforts to reduce green house gasses (GHGs).To that end, OSE will apply a disaster risk management approach combining climate change science with local conditions to assess existing systems and new infrastructure investments.

Considering the project's climate change optic, the new investment loan is more appropriate than to continue implementing the APL. However, the proposed project will draw from the AP institutional renewal and unaccounted for water programs, consolidating OSE's modernization objectives. The total cost of the proposed project has been estimated at US$100 million and the World Bank loan has been tentatively set at around US$60 million. A brief description of the
components follows:

Component one - Investing in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Measures

Component two - Institutionalizing Climate Change into OSE's service management and operations

Component three - Integrated Watershed Management in the Santa Lucia Watershed and the Sauce Lagoon

Component four - OSE as a Climate Change Observatory for South-South Knowledge Collaboration

Document Date: 2011/11/10.Document Type:Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet.Report Number: AC6112.Volume No: 1

Uruguay-OSE Response to Climate Change