The document provides an overview of the Global Water Partnership's (GWP) Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) ToolBox. The ToolBox is an online portal that contains knowledge products and tools to help practitioners and decision-makers implement IWRM. It includes 59 tools across various categories that cover topics like water demand management, decision support systems, and more. The ToolBox has been used to support IWRM planning in countries and basins around the world. Usage statistics show growing numbers of visitors over time from countries across all regions.

1. IWRM ToolBox:
Overview
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. IWRM needs a 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

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

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

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

18. Three pillars IWRM: of Areas of Change

19. IWRM ToolBox
launched in 2000
(WWF Hague)
On-line portal for
IWRM

20. ToolBox products

21. •
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

22. 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

23. 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

24. Inter-regional cooperation of CEE and CACENA

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

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

27. Example: Kyrgyzstan training of University lectureres

28. Example: Senegal workshop

29. GWP ToolBox on-line IWRM library

30. 59 tools

31. Tools in ToolBox

32. Short description & external link
REFERENCES

33. CASE STUDY

34. Statistics
ToolBox web site visits
0
5000
10000
15000
Oct-07 Feb-08 Jun-08 Oct-08 Feb-09 Jun-09 Oct-09 Feb-10 Jun-10 Oct-10 Feb-11 Jun-11
month/year
visits/month

35. Statistics

36. Distribution of visits per country

37. 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

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