1. Report to the Board:
CPWF-Mekong Research
Highlights
Kim Geheb
CPWF-Mekong Basin Leader
2. To reduce poverty and foster
development by optimizing the use of
water in reservoirs.
If we’re successful, WSI will be:
Managed in ways that are fairer and more equitable to all water users.
Managed and coordinated across cascades to optimize benefits for all.
Planned and managed to account for environmental and social needs.
Used for multiple purposes besides hydropower alone.
Better governed and the benefits better shared.
3. MK1
Optimizing
reservoir
MK3 management
Land & water for livelihoods
MK2
management
Water
in catchments
Valuation
with cascades
of dams
MK5
Coordination
and Change
MK6
MK7
Multi-
Fellowships
stakeholder
program
Platforms
MK4
Water
governance
4. MK1 • Has identified a variety of value-adding,
Optimizing
reservoir multiple-use activities for resettled
management
for livelihoods
communities.
• Both around reservoir area and
downstream of the dam.
• Has implications for the ways in which
dams are managed, designed and
operated.
• Later in 2012, will be implementing
pilot projects at all CPWF research sites.
5. • Not implementing these additional use
MK2
Water values serve to reduce the value of the
Valuation
dam.
• These added values do not greatly
increase the overall value of the dam,
their relative value to rural communities
is considerable.
6. MK3
Land & water • Hydrological models for both Sesan and
management
in catchments Nam Theun-Nam Kading catchments that
with cascades
of dams can be used to address focused questions
on multiple use, water and catchment
management.
• Exploring the use of agro-ecological and
land use suitability zoning using LUSET
models, to determine irrigation water
potential on the Sesan.
7. • Significant institutional weaknesses that
MK4
Water diminish the overall development
governance
potential of dams.
• Dam development is heavily sectoral.
• Dam development emerges as highly
fractured.
• Significant institutional weaknesses in
the ways regulations are implemented.
8. MK7
Fellowships • Inception workshop in March, 2012.
program
• 2nd call focused on water governance
in the Mekong Region.
• 23 new fellows selected.
• 2 more calls to be held, up to a total
of 63 Fellows.
9. The future
• Project on hydropower decision-making in the
Mekong.
• 5 commissioned projects.
• 5 open-call projects.