1. Water Programme, Asia
Dr. Lalita Rammont
GWP-SEA: WRM Financing Workshop
Yangon, Myanmar
3 October 2013
INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE

2. Investing in natural infrastructure means
investing in people, their capacities and in good
governance, including participation
INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE
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3. Water Programme Themes
Poverty
reduction
Participatory governance
Natural
infrastructure
Integrated Water
Resources
Management
Ecosystem
services
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Climate
change
resilience

4. Ecosystems for Life: A Bangladesh-India Initiative
Dialogue for Sustainable Management of Trans-boundary Water Regimes
in South Asia
To promote a better
understanding of the water
regimes in Bangladesh and
India to address food, livelihood,
biodiversity and climate change
concerns.
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5. Ecosystems for Life: A Bangladesh-India Initiative
Food
security, water
productivity and
poverty
Biodiversity
conservation
Environmental
security
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Climate change
impacts
Inland
navigation

6. Building River Dialogue and Governance
(BRIDGE): 3Ss River Basin
• Enriching information and
knowledge sharing platforms
• Enhancing leadership and
governance capacities
• Creating cross-sectoral
dialogue on transboundary
water management
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7. BRIDGE:
3S River Basin
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8. Connecting People and Ecosystems in the Indian
Himalayas
• Enhancing community-driven
water resources
management
• Demonstration of improved
livelihoods
• Establishing a transHimalayan resource base for
climate change adaptation
strategies
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9. Mekong Water Dialogues II
To Improved awareness and
participation of stakeholders
in water-related decisionmaking processes for
sustainable livelihood
security, human and
ecosystem health
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10. Mekong Water Dialogues: Approach
Civil
Society
Business
Government
(10-14 people)
INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE
(National
issues, national
consultation
meetings, casestudies)

11. River Basin Management in Asia Pacific
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12. Future initiatives
• Geographic coverage:
– Trans-Himalayan region
– Tributaries of the Mekong
– East Asia
• Themes:
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Environmental flows
Trans-boundary water governance
Hydro-diplomacy
Benefit sharing

13. More info:
http://www.iucn.org/
about/work/progra
mmes/water/resour
ces/toolkits/
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