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LAUNCH EVENT
Elevating river basin management and cooperation in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region
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20 March 2024
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The Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra basins are among the most important river basins in South Asia, providing water resources to close to a billion people. The effective and inclusive governance of these transboundary basins is critical to ensure sustainable development, livelihoods, and regional collaboration.
With the Australian Water Partnership (AWP), we implemented the project, ‘Elevating river basin governance and cooperation in the HKH region’, with the aim to strengthen transboundary river basin management arrangements and enhance cooperation between the major river basins with headwaters originating in the HKH region.
Under ICIMOD’s technical guidance, a consortium of Australian project partners: eWater, the Institute for Study and Development Worldwide (IFSD), and Aither, has produced basin assessment reports for the Brahmaputra, Ganges, and Indus basins, describing emerging practices for overcoming barriers to effective and inclusive transboundary river basin management and climate challenges, and providing recommendations for strengthening river basin cooperation and resilience. These reports provide analyses of the socio-economic trends, environmental characteristics, climate change impacts, and the state of basin governance, including relevant treaties, policies, and agreements. They offer high-level recommendations for promoting basin-wide cooperation, regional water governance, data standardisation, catalysing cooperation through mutual goals, and adopting a GESI focused people-centered approach that engages all relevant stakeholders, including marginalised groups, indigenous people, and those with disabilities.
Government representatives, policymakers, researchers, development organisations, civil society organisations, and IRBM practitioners from the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra basins
Faisal Mueen Qamer Intervention Manager – IRBM Strategic Group 1, ICIMOD
Sarah Ransom, General Manager, AWP
Brahmaputra basin – Jeff Camkin, IfSD
Indus basin – Russell Rollason, eWater
Neera Shrestha Pradhan Action Area Coordinator Strategic Group 1, ICIMOD
National-scale priorities, policies, practices and opportunities and barriers for transboundary river basin management
Panellists share perspectives on recommendations of the reports followed by discussion on GESI considerations in river basin management
Discussant: Anamika Barua, IIT Guwahati
Rohan Kent, AWP
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