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Cases / Water use · Bolivia · 2025

GEF/UNDP project for the Titicaca-Desaguadero-Poopó-Salar de Coipasa system: USD 7.1 million grant, concept approved December 2025

Short record: the main facts, with sources. A full case file has not been prepared.

Nature's voice · report
7.11 million US dollars were budgeted in my name. No one has measured what reached me.
Did nature suffer? Not measured.
Not on record
  • The record does not name which of my species, waters, soils or forests were harmed.
Details not on record: 3 none on record · 1 not measured See the gaps

A Global Environment Facility project implemented by UNDP, "TDPS System 2 – SAP Implementation", aims to support Bolivia and Peru in implementing a Strategic Action Program for the transboundary system that includes Lake Poopó. The GEF page lists a grant of USD 7,105,936 and co-financing of USD 64,068,978; the project was at concept-approval stage on 19 December 2025.

USD 7,105,936GEF grant for the TDPS System 2 – SAP Implementation project (concept approved 19 December 2025)
GEF project page; co-financing listed at USD 64,068,978; agency UNDP.

Status As of 19 December 2025: concept approved; no results on record.

What?
A GEF project implemented by UNDP to support Bolivia and Peru in implementing a Strategic Action Program for the Titicaca-Desaguadero-Poopó-Salar de Coipasa system. Global Environment Facility
Where?
The transboundary Titicaca-Desaguadero-Poopó-Salar de Coipasa system, Bolivia and Peru. Global Environment Facility
When?
Received by the GEF on 28 August 2025; concept approved on 19 December 2025. Global Environment Facility
Who?
Gained
None on record
Lost
None on record
Harmed
None on record
Why?
Stated aims: improve governance, restore key ecosystems, reduce water pollution, build local capacity and climate resilience. Global Environment Facility
How?
A GEF grant with co-financing, implemented through UNDP; the work plan is not on the page reviewed. Global Environment Facility
5 of 6 questions (what, who, where, when, why, how) have an answer on record · open: who

What happened

The record, in order.

The Global Environment Facility's project page for "TDPS System 2 – SAP Implementation" lists the United Nations Development Programme as agency, a regional scope, a receipt date of 28 August 2025 and concept approval on 19 December 2025, a GEF grant of USD 7,105,936 and co-financing of USD 64,068,978. The objective is "To support Bolivia and Peru in their implementation of the Strategic Action Program"; the page also summarises aims of improving governance, restoring key ecosystems, reducing water pollution and building local capacity and climate resilience across the transboundary Titicaca-Desaguadero-Poopó-Salar de Coipasa system. The page does not give a Lake Poopó-specific budget, and no result is on record at concept stage.

    In nature's name

    What was promised in nature's name, the money that moved, and what was measured.

    Promised

    • “To support Bolivia and Peru in their implementation of the Strategic Action Program” — Global Environment Facility project page, objective (19 December 2025) Global Environment Facility

    Money moved in nature's name

    WhatKindAmountPeriod
    GEF grant (concept approved; whole transboundary system, not Lake Poopó alone)
    Global Environment Facility
    Global Environment Facility    		Budget$7.11m2025
    Co-financing (as listed on the GEF page; whole transboundary system)
    Co-financiers not named on the page reviewed
    Global Environment Facility    		Pledged$64m2025

    Benefit to nature: what was measured

    Not measured

    The project was at concept-approval stage on 19 December 2025; no measurement of any benefit for Lake Poopó or the transboundary system is on record.

    Operation Ongoing · Concept approved on 19 December 2025. Global Environment Facility

    In court and with insurers

    Every proceeding and every insurer decision on record.

    Lawsuits and rulings

    No court case on record. No court has ruled on this case.

    Insurers

    No insurer decision on record.

    What we don't know

    Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.

    Nature

    • Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.

    Record

    • None on record None on record: the share of the grant or co-financing for Lake Poopó.
    • None on record None on record: results; the project was at concept-approval stage on the page reviewed.
    • None on record None on record: the earlier phase of the Strategic Action Program and its measured outcomes; the page reviewed does not describe them.

    Did the harm stop?

    Not stated in the sources reviewed.

    Who paid?

    Not stated in the sources reviewed.

    Sources

    Voices on record: — Company or project— Government and regulators— Courts✓ Press and investigations— Communities and civil society— Researchers

    Press and investigations

    1. TDPS System 2 – SAP Implementation (GEF project 11999)
      Global Environment Facility · 2025-12-19

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    Trustees (natural resource)
    Government agencies that act on behalf of the public to recover and spend damages for harm to natural resources.
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