WE STRIVE TO:

  • Facilitate multistakeholder dialogues as a tool for water governance from the local to the regional level.
  • Promote healthy river basins and wetlands because they contain ‘natural infrastructure’ for adapting to climate change
  • Develop robust River Basin Organizations across Asia.
  • Advocate the concept of Environment Flows

HOW WE WORK?
Influence policies and legal frameworks for Payment for Ecosystem Services, groundwater management, wetlands management, transboundary water governance and water security.

Push government, bilateral and multilateral agencies for greater investments in restoring, building and managing healthy watersheds, wetlands and river basins.

We work with local communities, facilitate multistakeholder processes, conduct research, and do policy advocacy on various issues related to water management and development in Asia. We are a knowledge and information hub providing technical and policy support to move from strategy to action.

WHERE WE WORK?
IUCN water and wetlands program is active in China, India, Bangladesh, Viet Nam, Thailand, Cambodia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Lao PDR, Indonesia and Nepal. We collaborate and build partnerships with various government departments, Asian Development Bank, research and academic institutions and civil society organizations. The program also collaborates on joint projects with other regional partners and institutions in West Asia, Africa, Meso-America and Oceania.

PLEASE CONTACT
Ganesh Pangare, Head Water Programme, Asia
IUCN Asia Regional Office, 63 Sukhumvit Soi 39 Wattana, Bangkok 10110 Thailand           Phone: + 66 2 662 4029 ext. 402 Fax: + 66 2 662 4387
E-mail: ganesh.pangare@iucn.org or ELGAsia@iucn.org     Website: www.iucn.org/asia