He climate change has caused the temperature at a global level there increased. The consequences range from prolonged droughts, hurricanes, melting glaciers, floods, etc. Drought can be a migration factor, and large displacements have effects on urban development, real estate markets and even on the projections of the international financial system, and the credit certainty of banks. It is not a minor matter. Within the intra-systemic priorities of the climate as a problem, the management and water care It is becoming, more and more, a central issue. According to INEGI data, in 2022, in 31 states of the Republic, drought was the main loss factor for the country's active agricultural production units; That same study indicates that of the climatic factors associated with water, drought was the fundamental damage factor in almost all states, except Tabasco, which had problems due to flooding.
In 2016, with data from the National Household Survey (ENH), 7% of the Mexican population did not receive water in pipe and had to get it by other means; On the other hand, 2021 data from the National Census of Municipal Governments and Territorial Demarcations of Mexico City indicated that 0.4% did not receive water of the public network. That same survey showed that 19.2% of the population did not have access to the health service. drainage and sewer. Within the UN Sustainable Development Goals, number 6 is clean water and sanitation. This means that governments must implement programs focused on achieving that objective.
In the 2016 Punta Cana Declaration, the Supreme Audit Institutions of OLACEFS adopted the principles and commitments for the implementation, development and strengthening of citizen participation, as a determining requirement of legitimacy in the monitoring and supervision of the Sustainable Development Goals ( SDG) that make up the United Nations 2030 Agenda, and among these, as I have said, is access to clean water and sanitation. The WHO/UNICEF Joint Program for Monitoring Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) 2020 noted that 25% of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean does not have access to drinking water and 66% do not have access to water sanitation .
The Infrastructure Audit Working Group of the Latin American and Caribbean Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (OLACEFS) has carried out coordinated infrastructure audits addressing water infrastructure projects. On the other hand, the Special Technical Commission on the Environment (COMTEMA) of OLACEFS itself has contributed to the training of personnel in the area of climate change; last year they organized a technical workshop to debate the contribution of the Supreme Audit Institutions ( SAI) to strengthen actions in response to the climate crisis.
In this same workshop, the ClimateScanner tool led by the Brazilian Court of Accounts was presented, and whose main objective is the development of a methodology that allows SAIs to promote rapid evaluations of the actions of national governments related to climate change. in three axes: governance, financing and public policies.
Applied to the topic we analyze today, water governance implies the participation of the Government, Civil Society and Academia in the search for better ways to manage this resource. Climate change urges us to accelerate efforts to comply with SDG 6. SAIs contribute to the timely supervision of infrastructure projects and the evaluation of programs related to the fight against climate change.
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He has held various professional and academic positions, including: Head of the Regional Coordination and Institutional Relations Unit of the Federal Authority for the Development of Special Economic Zones, Internal Comptroller, Federal Court of Fiscal and Administrative Justice, Auditor Special Federalized Expenditure, in the Superior Audit of the Federation, Head of the Coordination Unit with Federal Entities (of the SHCP Member of the Governing Board of the SAT General Coordinator of the work of the National Treasury Convention held in 2004 representing the Ministry of Finance Secretary of Finance of Oaxaca President of the National College of Economists Professor of Economic Policy, Public Sector Economics and State Finance at the UNAM Faculty of Economics, since 1978. Due to his outstanding experience as a public servant, as well as in In the academic field, the Senior Auditor has various publications, among which are: Equity and fiscal effort, the Mexican experience (2006) Citizen participation and social control (1994) Fiscal federalism in Mexico 1989-1994 (1994) Social factors and economics of corruption (1993).
Since 1979 he has collaborated for various local and national print media. Currently, he participates with opinion columns in important media such as El Financiero and the weekly Eje Central.
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