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 establish a federal and provincial organizational container with the mandate to enforce IWRM. In particular, it points out to institute the Water and Energy Commission Secretariat (WECS) under the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation (MoEWRI) at the federal level, and the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure, Urban Development and Transport Management (Province Governments) (MoPIUT) at the provincial level as the organizational containers.
