Dialogues on Resilient Infrastructure Drought Resilience: Irrigation, water harvesting, drainage

This presentation discussed protective irrigation, water harvesting and watershed management, and efficient drainage for salinity control to enhance drought resilience. Jelle highlighted the importance of ensuring that drought resilience solutions are closely aligned with national development priorities. F

Targeting Investments in Medium to Large Scale Irrigation Schemes, IMWI

In this presentation, Dr. Simon Langan presented proper guidance to identify areas where investments are important. He showed how the organization and government functions contribute to water service delivery. He also discussed the issues of functions and the mechanisms to promote water services delivery, the officials in irrigation organization needs information about asset and performance of systems.

Simon Langan

Dr. Simon Langan is the director for digital innovation and IWMI’s country manager in Sri Lanka. He is an agricultural water management specialist with catchment/watershed management from field and modeling perspectives. Before joining IWMI, he was the director of the water program (water futures and solutions) at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria and the principal researcher and head of East Africa and Nile Basin office of IWMI in Ethiopia.

Niu Zhiming

Niu Zhiming is responsible for managing and implementing projects for the environment, natural resources, and agriculture sectors at ADB People’s Republic of China Resident Mission. He is also the resident mission’s focal for Global Environment Facility programs as well as biodiversity and climate change. He holds a PhD in watershed management and earned an executive MBA degree from CEIBS in Shanghai.

Carishma Gokhale-Welch

Carishma Gokhale-Welch is a Project Leader at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. With nearly two decades of work experience in the U.S. and abroad, her work focuses on providing technical assistance to developing country governments with clean energy planning and strategy. Carishma also supports microgrid feasibility and techno-economic analyses, power sector transformation activities in Asia, energy resilience planning, and assists communities with energy transitions.

Development of Feasible Indicators for Restoration of Watershed Services

Effective watershed management must critically recognize a variety of conditions and factors that influence or impair desired watershed services in order to devise and implement effective restoration plans. Impairments must be quantitatively defined in the context of the setting, impediments, desired improvements, and interventions to allow for identification of solutions, prioritization of cost-effective options, and implementation of well-defined and effective actions that lead to measurable outcomes.

Improving Water Security in Water Stressed Bagmati River Basin in Nepal

Facing a number of serious environmental and ecological challenges, the Bagmati River Basin is the most water stressed basin in Nepal. This paper addresses issues and interventions, including the institutional strengthening of High Powered Committee for Integrated Development of Bagmati Civilization, to improve water security in the river basin.

Improving Water Security in Water Stressed Bagmati River Basin in Nepal

Facing a number of serious environmental and ecological challenges, the Bagmati River Basin is the most water stressed basin in Nepal. This presentation addresses issues and interventions, including the institutional strengthening of High Powered Committee for Integrated Development of Bagmati Civilization, to improve water security in the river basin.