Since 2009, the Carabobo State Governor's Office has worked to “manage watershed conservation in line with the principles of Integral Watershed Management (DMICH for its Spanish acronym). This is done through participatory public policies which focus on environmental education and sustainable development to ensure water availability for present and future generations.
The Department of Integrated Watershed Management was established together with other four Divisions: Environmental Sanitation, Land Use Planning, Mining and Legal Support.
For each project carried out by DMICH there is a technical file in which its relationship with development plans at global (Millennium Goals) level is related. It is important to highlight that the regional plan was developed together with communities, through 3.530 polls to community leaders and 18 communal forums in the 14 Carabobo State municipalities.
The technical information from monitoring is processed in two types of products: Technical files of each inspection and annual reports of the natural conditions of Carabobo State watersheds. The degraded areas identified during field inspections are reforested with active involvement of communities.
The DMICH has its own nursery plants, in the Fernando Peñalver Park at Valencia City, capital of Carabobo State. Seeds that are grown by communities and state schools also come from there and the species that are planted on each area are chosen based on the evaluation made during field monitoring.
Diverse organizations have participated in reforestations, including children and youth from education institutions (primary and secondary schools, universities), volunteers from civil society and some industries, as well as members of communal councils. Reforestations have been a very productive activity because it promotes collective involvement of diverse sectors in a concrete action.
In addition, 8 forums have been carried out on environmental topics such as climate change, biodiversity, water, forests and urban ecological corridors. More than 300 people have participated on each of these forums and majority of the people being teachers from Camoruco Project.
The personnel from Carabobo Governor's Office and diverse allies from academic institutions and nongovernmental organizations from Carabobo State and other regions have also participated.