Integrated Water Resource Management

As defined by the Global Water Partnership, integrated water resource management 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. Resources available within this theme provide guidance on how to conserve and restore watersheds, reduce pollution, adapt to climate change and reduce risks from floods and droughts.

Integrated Water Resource Management Resources

Somalia - Complex Emergency: Situation Report #3, Fiscal Year (FY) 2008

Published: 
March 21, 2008
U.S. Agency for International Development
Large-scale fighting in Somalia has led to deterioration in humanitarian conditions. As a result refugees have fled the country and people have been displaced within Somalia. They are in need of humanitarian assistance. Combined effects of poor and failed rains, continuing conflict, massive...Read more
Regional focus: 
SomaliaSub-Saharan Africa

Somalia - Complex Emergency: Situation Report #2, Fiscal Year (FY) 2008

Published: 
February 21, 2008
U.S. Agency for International Development
Large-scale fighting in Somalia has led to deterioration in humanitarian conditions. As a result refugees have fled the country and people have been displaced within Somalia. They are in need of humanitarian assistance. Combined effects of poor and failed rains, continuing conflict, massive...Read more
Regional focus: 
SomaliaSub-Saharan Africa

Somalia - Complex Emergency: Situation Report #1, Fiscal Year (FY) 2008

Published: 
December 20, 2007
U.S. Agency for International Development
Large-scale fighting in Somalia has led to deterioration in humanitarian conditions. As a result refugees have fled the country and people have been displaced within Somalia. They are in need of humanitarian assistance. Combined effects of poor and failed rains, continuing conflict, massive...Read more
Regional focus: 
SomaliaSub-Saharan Africa

Strategic Plan 2000-2005: Improving Water and Land Resources Management for Food, Livelihoods and Nature

Published: 
January 1, 2001
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report details the guide for planned research by IWMI. The work has evolved from a focus on irrigation management, to a focus on the analysis of water resources demand and supply for food production in a river basin context. Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Southern Zone Water Management Project: Final Report

Published: 
January 1, 1996
U.S. Agency for International Development
The Southern Zone Water Management Project aims to increase cereals, mainly rice production through improved water control and management in the Ziguinchor and Kolda regions. The project grew out of the need to address the loss of cultivated rice lands to saline and acid conditions, due to the...Read more
Regional focus: 
SenegalSub-Saharan Africa

Annual Management Plan for the Fishery Sector in Guinea-Bissau

Published: 
April 1, 1995
U.S. Agency for International Development
As a strategy to prevent the depletion of the commercially valuable fishery stocks in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Guinea-Bissau and increase socioeconomic benefits to the country, the Minsitry of Fisheries proposes the introduction of the 1995 Fisheries Management Plan. The Plan is the...Read more
Regional focus: 
Guinea-BissauSub-Saharan Africa

New guidelines for the National Fishery Policy: Part II -- Promotion of the Private Sector and Development of a National Fishing Fleet

Published: 
November 1, 1994
U.S. Agency for International Development
The factor that most affects the fishery private sector in Guinea-Bissau is the continual intervention of the Government in the commercial activities of the sector. The problem is complicated by either the delay caused in the execution of the privatization plans by the Government or by, through new...Read more
Regional focus: 
Guinea-BissauSub-Saharan Africa

New Guidelines for the National Fishery Policy: Part I -- Assessment and Recomendations for the Foreign Fishery Policy of Guinea-Bissau

Published: 
October 1, 1994
U.S. Agency for International Development
The proposals presented in these New Guidelines for the National Fishery Policy for Guinea-Bissau are the result of a study commissioned by the Trade andInvestment Promotion Support, funded by USAID-Bissau. The preliminary document was discussed and enriched with contributions and suggestions from...Read more
Regional focus: 
Guinea-BissauSub-Saharan Africa

Mid-term Evaluation Report: Southern Zone Water Management Project (SZWMP) -- Senegal

Published: 
May 1, 1994
U.S. Agency for International Development
The Southern Zone Water Management Project (SZWMP) was authorized by USAID/Dakar on August 19, 1988. The purpose of the eight-year $18 million Project is to improve farmer utilization of water and recovery of fertile valley lands for agricultural purposes in the southern regions of Kolda and...Read more
Regional focus: 
SenegalSub-Saharan Africa

Redirection Plan for The Health, Water, and Sanitation Project, Mozambique

Published: 
April 1, 1994
U.S. Agency for International Development
In February 1993 WASH published a report entitled "Water Shortage and Related Public Health Problems: An Action Plan for the City of Beira, Mozambique" (WASH Field Report No. 389). in response to this plan, Africare wrote the grant proposal, "The Sofala Province Integrated Health,...Read more
Regional focus: 
MozambiqueSub-Saharan Africa

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