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May 29, 2010 20:06
13 yrs ago
Spanish term

enfoque de cuenta

Spanish to English Other International Org/Dev/Coop Proposal for project
I've never seen this term before and I'm unable to find it in Google. The section it's included in is as follows:

"Se elaborará un Taller de 3 días entre líderes comunitarios y autoridades municipales, para establecer los mecanismos de Monitoreo-Alerta-Alarma y Comunicación entre todos los niveles con especial ***enfoque de cuenta***, eso incluirá a las comunidades de la parte alta del Río."

Many thanks in advance for all help offered.
Proposed translations (English)
4 cuenca: focus on river basin
4 +1 drainage basin approach
3 focus on social and environmental accounting/ integrated environmental and economic accounting

Discussion

margaret caulfield (asker) May 31, 2010:
Many thanks to everyone for your comments and for taking the time to help me out. In the end, I decided it was a typo since the term "enfoque de cuenca" had come up repeatedly throughout the text, so I'll be going with Beatriz's suggestion. The text had over 10,000 words and I only had 1.5 days to get it done (my fault - I'd taken on too much work from other clients in between), so I suppose I was just overtired and couldn't see the forest for the tree! Thanks again! It's always great to know there's such great support out there! Regards to all!
Bubo Coroman (X) May 30, 2010:
Hello Margaret, if the term is indeed "cuenca" and there is a typo, it's perfectly understandable, because our fingers get used to typing in certain patterns of letters, especially with common words such as "cuenta"... in fact, the fingers are more used to typing "cuenta" than "cuenca", because the first word is more common in the language. This helps support the "typo" theory.
Jenni Lukac (X) May 30, 2010:
¡igualmente!
BeatrizDR May 30, 2010:
Thanks Jenni, your opinion is always appreciated! Have a nice weekend!
Jenni Lukac (X) May 30, 2010:
Beatriz - I don't think that the term "enfoque de cuenta" exists. I threw out my suggestion (with a low confidence rating) based on Margaret's concern that it might not be a typo and that the writer might have meant to say "cuenta", a concept that does exists. Recently, a similar case cropped up in this forum in which half a dozen people went to great lengths to decipher a strange term that later turned out to be nothing but a typo when the translator checked with the client. I would suggest that Margaret consult with the client if there is no other reference to social and environmental accounting in the text as a whole. In my mind, the only plausible connection between flooding and environmental accounting would be the possibility of flooding due to unsustainable practices that may have been carried out in the cuenca/river basin that has been mentioned repeatedly. One option before calling the client would be to Google the specific region with "social /economic / environmental accounting or accounts to see if any connection has been established in other texts. Good luck with the problem Margaret and a good weekend to everyone!
BeatrizDR May 30, 2010:
I've been translating for many many years for the Disaster Prevention Program of an international NGO (my number one client). They work with the concepts of risk management, community-based early warning systems, etc. and honestly I never heard or read in any of their documents something about an 'enfoque de cuenta', except for the notion of 'rendición de cuentas', which is different. I think this is a typo, but of course the context will give you the answer. Best regards!
margaret caulfield (asker) May 29, 2010:
Hola a ambas: Es un proyecto para capacitar a las comunidades en riesgo frente a desastres, ante todo las inundaciones. En todo el documento, ya habla de "enfoque de cuenca" que tengo claro, pero al ver "cuenta" y al mirar en Google", esta frase existe. De allí mi gran duda.
BeatrizDR May 29, 2010:
Hola Margaret: Creo que podría referirse a "cuenca". En mis traducciones para una ONG internacional frecuentemente mencionan este término en sus documentos: cuenca - manejo de cuenca - river basin management. Por eso te doy mi sugerencia.
Christine Walsh May 29, 2010:
What kind of project is it? Could they be talking about money/costs? Is it connected with flooding? Sorry, a lot of questions but no help! Saludos, 'Chriswa'

Proposed translations

21 mins
Selected

cuenca: focus on river basin

•Establecimiento y puesta en marcha de un sistema comunitario de alerta temprana con enfoque de cuenca para la preparación ante desastres por inundaciones articulado al Sistema de Alerta Temprana subnacional


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Note added at 24 minutos (2010-05-29 20:31:01 GMT)
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Hay muchas más referencias que tú misma puedes buscar, tanto en inglés como en español.

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Note added at 29 minutos (2010-05-29 20:35:13 GMT)
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River Basin Management
http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/about_freshwater/rivers...

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Note added at 33 minutos (2010-05-29 20:39:04 GMT)
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setting out the global policy framework behind the current focus on IWRM/IRBM integrated water resource and river basin management
http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/about_freshwater/freshw...
Reference:

http://www.ideas.org.pe/dipecho/objetivos.php

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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Many thanks, Beatriz. Pls see my comment in the discussion sector. I've also done many of these texts for the same client, so I should have known this was a typo!"
+1
24 mins

drainage basin approach

I believe it should be "cuenca", instead of "cuenta"

Cuenca may refer to:

In Ecuador:

Cuenca, Ecuador, a city named for its location in a drainage basin (cuenca)
Cuenca basin (hydrology), the drainage basin
Cuenca basin (geology), a geologic structural basin
In the Philippines:

Cuenca, Batangas
In Spain:

Cuenca, Spain, the original city to receive this name, which is the capital of the province of Cuenca
Cuenca (province)
Cuenca (Spanish Congress Electoral District) the Spanish electoral district covering the province
Cuenca de Campos, Valladolid
In the United States:

Cuenca, Spanish name for Joara, Native American settlement in modern-day North Carolina
Cuenca may also refer to:

Christina Cuenca, American beauty queen
Jake Cuenca (born 1987), American-born Filipino actor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuenca

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El enfoque de cuenca es un marco de referencia coordinado para el manejo ... embargo una excelente base para el desarrollo de un enfoque de cuenca. ...
www.consejosdecuenca.org.mx/modules.php?name...d_op... - Similar
Peer comment(s):
agree Muriel Vasconcellos : I think you're right. To control flooding, the entire basin needs to be taken into account. Could be a transcription error.
7 hrs
Many thanks Muriel! I think your observation is absolutely right.
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3 hrs

focus on social and environmental accounting/ integrated environmental and economic accounting

If, in fact, it is not a typo, it might be referring to the concept of environmental accounting, by which a country catalogues its natural resources in theoretical "satellite accounts" as assets that must be guaranteed for the future. (i.e. with a special focus on social and environmental accounts/ accounting or integrated environmental and economic accounts /accounting. It's impossible for me to know from just the phrase given. Examples: MEDIR LA SOSTENIBILIDAD: INDICADORES ECONÓMICOS, ECOLÓGICOS Y ...de GD Romero indicadores de sustentabilidad desde un enfoque integrado, es decir, ..... b) los indicadores económicos derivados de estas cuentas se han empleado, ..... y Lutz, E: Environmental accounting for sustainable development, The World Bank, ...
www.ucm.es/info/ec/jec7/pdf/com1-6.pdf - Similares; Un sistema de cuentas ambientales - Instituto Nacional de Ecología
de E Vega-López -27 Ago 2007 ... Los tres enfoques principales para elaborar tales cuentas ambientales son los .... Environmental Accounting for Sustainable Development, ...
www.ine.gob.mx/publicaciones/.../pma45.html - En caché - Similares; Focus on Environmental accounts - Each overview in the Focus on series combines data from various sources ... Environmental accounts are 'satellite accounts' to the main National Accounts. ...
www.statistics.gov.uk/focuson/environmental/ - En caché - Similares; Recent trends in environment accounting: how green are your accounts? -de F Bell - 1999 - indicates that countries should develop 5 distinct satellite accounts which focus on the interaction between social, economic activity and the environment. ...
www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120140255/articletext?DOI=10...; [PDF] "Institutional Adaptation" for Integrated Water Resources ... de DJ Bandaragoda - Citado por 7 - Artículos relacionados Applying IWMI's “water accounting” methodology3 described by Molden and Sakthivadivel ..... thorough look at economic, social and environmental aspects, ..... River Basins in Developing Countries”, Loksop dam, South Africa, ...
www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Working_Papers/working/WOR1...
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