Community-based climate adaptation and water resilience in San Jacinto, Uruguay

This report presents the process “San Jacinto se prepara. Liderazgo local y resiliencia comunitaria ante un Impacto Global: la escasez de agua”, which addresses water scarcity affecting populations and contributing to poverty and inequalities.

It documents how vulnerability is linked to physical, economic, political, and social conditions, and how improving social organisation, participatory risk management, and social learning from past experiences strengthens community resilience and adaptive capacity.

It further presents how climate change, pollution, and overexploitation impact human rights and sustainable development, disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable populations. The process incorporates different perspectives, technical approaches, and educational strategies to minimise the effects of droughts, based on community knowledge, collective memory, and the development of local and community-level early warning systems.