1. IWRM ToolBox:
evolution and resources
Danka J. Thalmeinerova

2. GWP IS A
KNOWLEDGE
BASED
ORGANIZATION

3. Four Strategic Goals
2009-2013
• Promote water as a key part of
sustainable national development
[operational]
• Address critical development
challenges [advocacy]
• Reinforce knowledge
sharing and communication
[knowledge]
• Build a more effective network
[partnering]

4. ...from Information
management to
Knowledge management

5. Providing some guidance
• The GWP handbook
– Purpose: To provide
countries with the tools and
knowledge they need to act
on the WSSD action target in
the way that is most useful
for them.

6. IWRM definition
IWRM is a process which promotes the
coordinated development and
management of water, land and related
resources, in order to maximize the
resultant economic and social welfare
in an equitable manner without
compromising the sustainability of vital
ecosystems.
GWP, TEC Background Paper No. 4:
Integrated Water Resources
Management

7. ....from that time, many IWRM knowledge produced by many.....
Lessons learnt - captured in GWP publications

8. Other types of GWP Knowledge
sharing products

9. Technical Focus Papers
•Water Demand Management - The Mediterranean Experience
•The role of Decision Support Systems and Models in Integrated River Basin Management
•Water and food security – the governance challenge: Experiences in India and China (in print)

10. Perspectives Papers
•Groundwater Resources and
Irrigated Agriculture
•Water in the Green Economy
•Increasing Water Security – A
Development Imperative

11. Proceedings from regional workshops
•Water and Food Security (CAM)
•Integrated Drought Management (CEE)
•Integrated Urban Water Management (SEA) – in
print

12. Why has IWRM been popular
• Achieving MDGs
 Addressing recurrent water-
related problem hampering
national development—such as
reducing vulnerability to droughts
and floods

13. Why has IWRM been popular
• Remedying unsustainable situations and mitigating environmental costs of
past policies.
 Sharing
transboundary
water resources

14. Progress (reported to Johannesburg, Rio Summits)
• Some countries have made good progress towards
meeting the target.
• But many more need to accelerate their efforts.
Good progress
Some progress
Just beginning.

15. Why has progress not been greater?
Uncertainty over:
– What IWRM means and how it contributes to
sustainable social and economic development
– What an IWRM strategy is and its role in water
reform
– How to go about developing a strategy
New challenge: Climate Change
Is IWRM a last year fashion?

16. Not just about physical resources
IWRM is not just about more efficient management of
physical resources (land, water, forests, fisheries,
livestock)…
…it is also about reforming human systems to enable
people—women as well as men—to reap sustainable and
equitable benefits from those resources.

17. The basics of integration
When putting IWRM into
practice it is important to think
about where and to what
degree coordination and new
management instruments are
necessary.

18. Link to other strategies and plans
• An IWRM strategy should link to relevant national and
regional plans and strategies.
Examples:
– National strategies to meet Millennium Development Goals
– Country poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSPs)
– National Five Year Plans or Sustainable Development Strategies
– National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans
– National Plans to Combat Desertification
– National Plans on women’s development and empowerment

19. Integrated Water Resources Management is
• an empirical concept which is built up from the on-the-ground
experience of practitioners,
• a flexible approach to water management that can adapt to diverse
national and local contexts,
• thus it is not a scientific theory that needs to be proved or disproved
by scholars.

20. Objective of the IWRM approach is not
water management as such but human
development.
IWRM approach can only work if it does
not focus exclusively on water.

21. • How to
convince
ministries that
Information and
Knowledge
bring benefits?

22. How can this all be translated
into education curricula?

23. Challenge in GWP
Picture from V.Pangare: Global Perspectives on IWRM, 2006

24. Three pillars IWRM: of Areas of Change

25. IWRM ToolBox launched
in 2000 (WWF Hague)
- online portal for IWRM

26. ToolBox products

27. •
Examples of Knowledge Products
These products assist to create Political Commitment (by
appearing at the desk of policy makers) and are used for
Capacity Building Programmes

28. Activities in SAF
• Project: Unpacking the IWRM
ToolBox using the Lower Manyame
IWRM Demonstration Project
– Lessons learned in developing
IWRM Plan
– Discussion how each tool is
applied in the IWRM plan
– Publication disseminated to
other basins
• ToolBox training for WaterNet
students
– Regular training for MSc IWRM
students

29. Application of GWP ToolBox in national
water planning
• ToolBox used in Eritrea, Malawi, Ethiopia and
Zambia (PAWD initiative)
– as a reference source to improve water
governance
– as a framework for analysis of the water
resources situation

30. Inter-regional cooperation of CEE and CACENA

31. • Training manual for Water
practitioners in Mekong
River Basin
– Using ToolBox
structure and materials

32. Example: Armenia training of University lectureres
• to encourage professors of universities to develop IWRM curricula

33. GWP ToolBox on-line IWRM library

34. 59 tools

35. Tools in ToolBox

36. Short description & external link
REFERENCES

37. CASE STUDY

38. How do cases fit in?
Full
case study
(8 pages)
One page
abstracts
Quality Assurance !
Tool
Supported
by Cases

39. Case studies in 2012: 26 case studies uploaded
Developed
by GWP
partners:10

40. Statistics

41. Statistics

42. Distribution of visits per country

43. Vision and goal
• Vision:
• ToolBox will be an internet based repository of all GWP knowledge
on IWRM and the first choice site for water practitioners, decision
makers and partners
• Goal:
• ToolBox will contribute to establishing a global communication
platform to share knowledge and develop capacity

44. www.gwptoolbox.org
www.gwp.org
Does the homepage of your website have a prominent link to the ToolBox?