This presentation is the part of 12-day (28 January–8 February 2019) training workshop on “Multi-scale Integrated River Basin Management (IRBM) from the Hindu Kush Himalayan Perspective” organized by the Strengthening Water Resources Management in Afghanistan (SWaRMA) Initiative of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), and targeted at participants from Afghanistan.

1. Strengthening Water Resources Management in Afghanistan (SWaRMA)
Group work on Conceptualizing the impact of biophysical and
socio-economic drivers in a river basin using DPSIR framework
Santosh Nepal, Climate and Hydrology Group Lead, ICIMOD

2. Driver Pressure State Impact Response (DPSIR) framework
The objective of the group work:
• To allow the participants to discuss the biophysical and socio-economic drivers
and their related impacts.
• To develop a conceptual framework of the impact at the river basin scale by
realizing the Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR)
Two groups:
Biophysical
Socio-
economic
Note taker
Volunteer

3. Group work
• First Part: Brainstorming the Drivers (20 mins)
• Second Part: Identifying the Impacts (30 mins)
• Third Part: Conceptualizing the Drivers, Impact and Response in an
imaginative river basin (30 mins)
Discuss and note down
• What could be the potential Response to reduce the impacts?
• What are the Upstream-Downstream perspective?
• Have you realized the Scale Issues in your imaginative river basin!
Group work reporting and discussions (30 mins, 10 mins each)

4. RIVER BASINS & CRYOSPHERE 4
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