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BRAHMATWINN- Twinning European and South Asian River basins to enhance capacity and implement adaptive integrated water resources management approaches

  • South Asia
  • South Asia

ENTRY DATE: 09.03.2012 | LAST UPDATE: 09.03.2012

SCALE:

  • Countrywide

TARGET AREA:

  • Rural and Urban

BEST PRACTICE IN:

  • Capacity Building

KEY SECTOR:

  • Water Resources Management

FUNDING AMOUNT:

  • USD 1,000,001 - USD 5,000,000

Problems to be Addressed

Improving integrated water resources management in mountain river system

Aims

Capacity building to harmonize integrated water resources management.

Objectives

The project aimed to enhance and improve capacity to carry out harmonized integrated water resources management (IWRM) in mountain river systems like the Brahmaputra and to transfer IWRM expertise, approaches and tools, based on studies carried out in the Upper Danube River Basin (UDRB) in Europe, and the Upper Brahmaputra River Basin (UBRB) in South Asia.

How it fits into the EbA concept

Since the project involves improving the water resources management.

Relevant Publications

Twinning European and South Asian River Basins to enhance capacity and implement adaptive management approaches (BRAHMATWINN) analysis documents : http://www.brahmatwinn.uni-jena.de/fileadmin/Geoinformatik/projekte/brahmatwinn/Berichte/Dl_5.pdf

Advances in Science & Research – Open Access Proceedings. BRAHMATWINN Results : http://www.adv-sci-res.net/7/1/2011/asr-7-1-2011.pdf