IWRM in Asia

a balance sheet

Colombo, 25 Feb 2011

Wouter Lincklaen Arriens

Outline

1. Knowledge – models to co-create local solutions

2. Progress – cases of encouraging practice

3. Partnerships – building coalitions for change

What is IWRM?

• IWRM is a process

• that brings stakeholders together

• to increase water security in river basins

• through win-win solutions

• that are locally appropriate

• and generate a triple bottom line of

economic, social and environmental outcomes.

• IWRM is not a plan.

IWRM Process in Basins A

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Finding Keys for Success

in adaptive management

Source: Lincklaen Arriens 2009

Adapted from UNESCO-NARBO Guidelines

IWRM is a Process in Basins

IWRM Process Approach:

Increase a triple bottom line

• Economic benefits $

• Social benefits $

• Environmental benefits $

Optimize stakeholder satisfaction

• Adopt inclusive approach

• Find win-win solutions

• Generate buy-in for IWRM

Source: Lincklaen Arriens 2009

Increasing Water Security Natural - Social - Economic

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dit

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it

Unsustainable:

Needs significant

investments to

recover

At Risk:

Will deteriorate if

NOT taking

action

Sustainable:

Healthy river and

watershed

Zero

Natural Capital

Increasing Basin Capital

From stake-holders to

stock-holders?

Water Security

Guiding Vision

“Societies can enjoy water security when they successfully

manage their water resources and services to:

1. Satisfy household water and sanitation needs in all communities

2. Support productive economies in agriculture and industry

3. Develop vibrant, livable cities and towns

4. Restore healthy rivers and ecosystems

5. Build resilient communities that can adapt to change.”

Released in February 2009

Water Security Guiding Vision…

1. All households

2. Productive economies

3. Livable cities

4. Healthy rivers

5. Resilient communities

1. Economic capital

Basin Capital…

2. Natural capital

3. Social capital

1st Master Plan (Flood Prevention)

(1961)

2nd Master Plan (Irrigation)

(1973)

3rd Master Plan (Urban Water)

(1985)

4th Master Plan (Conservation and

Effective WRM) (1998)

PJT I Establishment

(1990)

1rd Strategic Plan

(1994-1998)

Long Term Goal 2025

Benchmarked RBO Asia Pacific

4th Strategic Plan

(2009-2013) 3rd Strategic Plan

(2004-2008)

2nd Strategic Plan

(1999-2003)

Mid Term Goal 2020

Benchmarked RBO South East Asia

Short Term Goal 2015

Benchmarked RBO Indonesia

IWRM Process

in the

Brantas

river basin

(Indonesia)

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Corporation

(ISO certified)

2011

1961

If you want to teach

people a new way of

thinking, don’t bother to

teach them.

Instead, give them a tool,

the use of which will lead

to new ways of thinking.

- Buckminster Fuller

From: Peter Senge. 2010. The Necessary Revolution – Working Together to Create a

Sustainable World. Broadway Books.

Why We Need to Share Models?

New Thinking

From: Peter Senge. 2010. The Necessary Revolution – Working Together to Create a

Sustainable World. Broadway Books.

We are leaving

Industrial Age

thinking behind

us…

Encouraging Progress

IWRM reflected in policies and laws

Oversight taken out of irrigation agencies to

ministries of natural resources and environment

IWRM reflected in mandate of RBOs

New RBOs created in several forms

Longer-term investment roadmaps in basins

NARBO - Network of Asian River Basin

Organizations created, now > 75 organizations

ADB supports IWRM process in 25 basins in

Central, South, Southeast and East Asia

Promising Results

Performance benchmarking with peer reviews

introduced for RBOs and for basins (Sri Lanka,

Indonesia, Viet Nam, Philippines)

Basin councils formed (Indonesia)

IWRM investment roadmaps peer-reviewed

(Indonesia, Cambodia, Viet Nam, India)

ISO certification for public corporation type

RBOs (Indonesia)

RBOs start twinning partnerships (Sri Lanka,

Indonesia, Japan, Korea)

Sustainable Hydropower Assessment Tool

Leadership Examples

Restoring flow by allocation (Yellow River)

Investing in wetland restoration (Sanjiang)

Building own capacity (Mahaweli Authority)

IWRM roadmap and investments (Citarum)

IWRM roadmap for state (Orissa, Karnataka)

Govt-CS Basin council (Solo River)

RBO police for enforcement (Laguna Lake)

RBOs led by monk and entrepreneur (Thailand)

Gender in area water partnerships (Pakistan)

High-powered RBO for civilization (Bagmati)

Partnering: Coalitions for Change

• IWRM = adaptive management

for locally appropriate action

• Generate and share usable knowledge

to co-create solutions

• Engage all perspectives

from toad to satellite

• Cultivate boundary-spanning leadership

for vision, inspiration, and momentum

How Can We Promote Leadership?

No problem can be solved from the same

level of consciousness that created it.

- Albert Einstein

From: Peter Senge. 2010. The Necessary Revolution – Working Together to Create a

Sustainable World. Broadway Books.

New thinking:

Seeing systems

Collaborating

across

boundaries

Creating

desired futures

We Need to Work Across Boundaries

Transforming

people and

organizations

Driving

Innovation

Solving

Problems

From Ernst & Chrobot-Mason. Boundary

Spanning Leadership. McGraw-Hill. 2011

Win-win means agreements or solutions

are mutually beneficial and satisfying.

- Stephen R. Covey

Boundary Spanning Leadership

Enable Reinvention

Advance Interdependence

Develop Community

Build Trust

Foster Respect

Create Safety

From Ernst & Chrobot-Mason. 2011. Boundary Spanning

Leadership. McGraw-Hill.

Knowledge Networking through KnowledgeHubs

APWF’s network

of regional water

knowledge hubs

supported by

UNESCO-IHE, ADB

and PUB Singapore