IUCN - Water & Nature Initiative

IUCN Water & Nature Initiative

IUCN Water & Nature Initiative, Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland / Switzerland

Tel +41.22.9990000 / Fax +41.22.9990002

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Worldwide

Water Reources management (through a nature conservation lens?)

http://www.waterandnature.org/

Link to IUCN - The World Conservation Unit

"A 5-year action plan of 80 partner organizations to improve water management for healthy rivers and healthy communities. Demonstration of good management in ten basins is supported by the development of tools for financing, governance, empowerment, and information."

Goal: The main goal of the IUCN Water and Nature Initiative is the mainstreaming of an ecosystem approach into catchment policies, planning and management; by developing "...a coherent set of activities that are innovative and targeted at guiding future investments and actions in water resources management and nature conservation."

The principles used are:

• participative: to empower all stakeholders to participate in water management
• strategic: to have the maximum possible effect
• transparent: to have transparency in decision-making and management
• catalytic: to influence, facilitate and initiate action
• innovative: to develop knowledge within projects and share it with the widest audience possible

The initietive has 2 main outcomes:

1. Improved management in 10 river basins (Increased livelihood security for water and wetland-dependent communities; Improved utilisation of natural resources; Increased conservation of natural resources; Reduced conflicts between users)
2. Tools for participation, governance, economics, and information management

Click for more information on the Components / concrete projects / a list of Partners / Publications ...

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Other water-related topics covered by IUCN:

• Wetlands & Water Resources