Source-to-Sea Practitioners Guide

Preamble
By following this guide, project and programme teams can integrate the source-to-sea
approach in the design, planning and implementation of new or existing initiatives
supporting holistic management, investments and stakeholder engagement by
linking activities from source to sea.
The guide presents a general approach that can be used at all levels and can be
adapted to the local context. The guide is intended to be a companion to existing
project design, planning and implementation methods. It is expected that users of
this guide already have an understanding of the project cycle and have access to
adequate design, planning and implementation resources.
The conceptual framework used as the basis for the guide was first developed by the
Action Platform for Source-to-Sea Management and the Scientific and Technical
Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in 2016 and was
presented and explained in a peer reviewed paper, Granit et al. 2017b, and was
used for a STAP advisory document to the GEF, Granit et al. 2017a.
This practitioners’ guide builds upon the source-to-sea concept in order to provide
guidance for implementing the source-to-sea approach in projects and programmes
and fills a gap in how to move from theory to practice by presenting a sequence of
steps and guiding practices that will identify the changes needed to address the
impacts of alterations in key source-to-sea flows.
How to use this guide
This guide intends to walk the reader through the six steps of the source-to-sea
approach. Each step is clearly highlighted with its own colour and begins with a
series of questions to help ready the reader for the concepts to be covered. Where
possible, case studies have been introduced and a deliberate effort has been made
to highlight key texts that we believe the reader may want to refer back to time
and time again.
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