The River Restoration for Climate Change Adaptation (RÍOS, Spanish acronym) project aims to increase the adaptive capacity of people and ecosystems in basins vulnerable to climate change, through the restoration of rivers in Jalisco and Veracruz. In 2022, RÍOS began operating in the basins in which the project is implemented. After a call for proposals with wide local dissemination, 13 subprojects were selected and made progress on community monitoring that will provide the basis to incentivize their impact. In addition, the project team began to outline the scope of a national river restoration strategy that will strengthen adaptation to climate change.