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Annex
detailed responsibilities, costs and implementation plans for each action identified.
Outcomes from present project can be used especially in the situation analysis,
where prioritized issues, management constraints etc. will provide valuable input.
Moreover, actions identified in the Roadmap can be part of the foreseen portfolio
of actions in the IWRM Plan.
The IWRM approach strives to ensure coordination of all sector uses so that the
impacts of one particular user are accounted for by all other affected users. This
implies that water sector plans for water supply and sanitation (Water for People),
for irrigation and fisheries (Water for Food) and for nature conservation (Water for
Nature), etc. are weighed against each other in their particular water allocations
and impacts. It is important to realize that IWRM is not a product to be achieved
overnight. Rather, it should be seen as a conceptual framework and a vision for
a long-term process of introduction of a number of national – and sometimes
regional and international – water management reforms.
This reform process contains six steps in a continuous circular flow to gradually
improve the actual IWRM status to reach a future ideal vision for IWRM in the
country.
• What is the current achievement compared to the vision for the full
implementation of IWRM?
• What is the present assessment of water issues? How well is the present
water management system coping with challenges?
• What are the basic water policy rules? Which strategy do we apply to
achieve full IWRM implementation?
• What is the next step to be taken (and in some cases the first) in the IWRM
implementation process, to be determined in the IWRM implementation
plan?
• How should we execute specific implementation programmes, projects
and actions?
• How are we monitoring progress towards the achievement of the national
IWRM vision?
The implementation of the IWRM approach will differ in nature from country to
country and its basins, depending on where a given country is in the IWRM
planning process, the issues and constraints faced, the presence of regional or
international reforms and issues that should be addressed, etc. Hence, no specific
blueprint exists on how to implement the IWRM approach. However, the approach
used in piloting IWRM in the Pamba River Basin and creating a IWRM roadmap
has been successfully applied in more than 20 countries in Africa, Central Asia,
South East Asia and Latin America, providing valuable support in accelerating the
process towards developing action plans and adapting IWRM principles (more
information can be found at: www.gwp.org and www.unepdhi.org).
Thus, the approach and experience gained from piloting IWRM in the Pamba
River Basin is considered adequate and could in the future be applied in other
states and basins of India in order to progress towards achieving the vision stated
in India’s National Water Policy.
Annex 1
Roadmap for Pamba River Basin
Annex 1 Roadmap for Pamba River Basin
No Scope of Work Objectives Milestones Responsible Executors Expected Source of
Financing
1. Form an operational
body for water resources
management in the Pamba
River Basin
To establish a de-centralised operational body for management
of the Water Resources in the Pamba Basin to assure fulfilment
of the objectives stated in the Pamba Basin Authority Act.
2. Capacity building in IWRM To strengthen the human capacity at all levels (central and decentral)
to assure adequate implementation of integrated water
resources management in the Pamba River Basin.
3. Development of a
communication strategy
4. Enforcement of existing
legal framework
5. Adjustment of existing
legal water framework for
Kerala state
6. Setting up a sustainable
monitoring and evaluation
system for water
resources management
Establishment of an
information system on
water resources
7. Full assessment of the
water resources situation
(quantity and quality) in
the Pamba Basin
8. Initiation of elaboration
and adoption of an IWRM
Action Plan for the Pamba
Basin
To establish and maintain clear and regular channels of
communication between stakeholders to support the objectives
of IWRM, thus providing a platform for stakeholder participation.
Enforcement of existing legal framework to mitigate to present
water resources issues in the Pamba Basin
Updating existing legal framework to assure compliance with
IWRM principles and the Water Policy from 2008.
Improvement of quality of measurements and reliability of
forecasts of water resources availability and quality
and develop an information and database system supported by
GIS
Elaborate a full assessment of the water quantity and quality
based on integration of available data from the numerous
departments involved in monitoring of the resource.
Development and adoption of an IWRM Action Plan based on
stakeholders participation
Started –
June 2011
Jan 2011 –
Dec 2011
Jan 2011 –
Sep 2011
Immediately
June 2011 –
Jan 2012
January
2011 – Jan
2013
March 2011
Jan 2011 –
Aug 2011
Government / Pamba
Basin Authority
Pamba Basin Authority,
CWRDM, regional/
international experts
Pamba Basin Authority
Government
Government, Ministry
of Law/Ministry of
Revenue/ Ministry of
Water Resources
Pamba Basin
Authority/
relevant government
institutions
(Water Resources
Department/KWA/
Groundwater
Department /SPCB/
Kerala State Remote
Sensing Agency),
consultant
Pamba Basin Authority
/ consultant
Government and
consultant
Government,
development partners
GOI MOEF/NRCD,
development partners
Government
Government
Government
Government,
development partners
Government,
development partners
Government,
development Partners
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