| Activities |
Rationale |
| Objective
1 |
Review
of integrated basin level processes
in India and outside |
- To enhance understanding of
this emerging discipline of Integrated
River Basin Management
- To enable incorporation of
the learning
- To prevent reinvention of wheel
|
Secondary
Basin Resource (natural, human and
derived) appraisal and management/
governance processes – Thematic
(4 themes) and Cross-thematic Appraisals |
- To discover critical/ marginal
resources, issues and situations
and to strategize/ prioritize
primary appraisal and planning
- To understand the impacts of
local level actions on natural
resources at the basin scale both
now and in future
|
Primary
intensive investigation of key basin
issues under themes and on cross-themes |
- To capture issues firsthand
at closest quarters
- To go into the depth of causes
and link the effects
- To get scope to interact with
direct stakeholders, understand
the perceptions and perspectives
and discuss alternatives
- To initiate stakeholder dialogue
process from the below, by passing
on to them basin information and
soliciting their opinions for
sustainable basin resource management
|
| Objective
2 |
To
initiate and support a basin dialogue
process involving key-stakeholders |
- To expand and further the basin
management discourse by ensuring
representation of all stakeholder
groups
- To provide knowledge-based
inputs for informed decision makings
at different level
|
To
facilitate processes, policies and
supporting strategies |
- To enable and empower stakeholders
and institutions to act effectively
- To provide the decision makers
an enhanced access to basin information
to enable for meaningful decision
makings
|
| Objective
3 |
To
develop approaches for basin management
plan |
- To help all stakeholders understand
their roles and responsibilities
in management of basin resources
and the need of their coming together
|
To
initiate processes towards creation
of robustand viable basin institutions
involving multi-stakeholders |
- To make basin stakeholder realize
the importance of their institution
to manage their resources
- To support basin institution
formation process
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