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 formulate local IWRM plans at watershed scale and implement them with the supervision of the Water and Energy Commission Secretariat (WECS), which needs to ensure that these plans do not contradict the river basin plans. It aims to achieve this goal with financial and technical support from bilateral and multilateral development partners.
