In 2022, under the Government of Nepal with the support of a team of water experts and a Task Force Team, a number of consultation workshops were organised with the participation of stakeholders from the government, non-government, academia, private sector and multi-lateral development partners. As a result, the Action Plan was developed with the objective to optimise the utilization of its water resources for a socially equitable and inclusive, environmentally secure and economically prosperous Nepal and to implement concrete actions for advancing Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). The following action was defined as part of that process and identified as a priority action included in the action plan.
The purpose of this action is to create an IWRM implementation guideline that can be applied to different water projects in the country, as in the case of the Bheri-Babai Multipurpose Diversion Project, currently under-construction, under the lead of the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation (MoEWRI) and the Department of Water Resource and Irrigation (DoWRI) with the technical support of the Water and Energy Commission Secretariat (WECS). The successful operation of this project will pave the way to implement IWRM in other similar projects which have been planned, such as Sun Kosi-Marin Diversion Project.
