1. IWRM in Asia
a balance sheet
Colombo, 25 Feb 2011
Wouter Lincklaen Arriens

2. Outline
1. Knowledge – models to co-create local solutions
2. Progress – cases of encouraging practice
3. Partnerships – building coalitions for change

3. What is IWRM?
• IWRM is a process
• that brings stakeholders together
• to increase water security in river basins
• through win-win solutions
• that are locally appropriate
• and generate a triple bottom line of
economic, social and environmental outcomes.
• IWRM is not a plan.

4. IWRM Process in Basins
Finding Keys for Success
Roadmap for Investment Program
in adaptive management
Changing Conditions
Project
Activity
Source: Lincklaen Arriens 2009
Adapted from UNESCO-NARBO Guidelines

5. IWRM is a Process in Basins
IWRM Process Approach:
Increase a triple bottom line
• Economic benefits $
• Social benefits $
• Environmental benefits $
Optimize stakeholder satisfaction
• Adopt inclusive approach
• Find win-win solutions
• Generate buy-in for IWRM
Source: Lincklaen Arriens 2009

6. Increasing Water Security
Natural - Social - Economic
Natural
Capital
Sustainable:
Healthy river and
watershed
Credit
At Risk:
Zero Will deteriorate if
NOT taking
action
Debit
Unsustainable:
Needs significant
investments to
recover

7. Increasing Basin Capital
From stake-holders to
stock-holders?

8. Water Security
Guiding Vision
“Societies can enjoy water security when they successfully
manage their water resources and services to:
1. Satisfy household water and sanitation needs in all communities
2. Support productive economies in agriculture and industry
3. Develop vibrant, livable cities and towns
4. Restore healthy rivers and ecosystems
5. Build resilient communities that can adapt to change.”
Released in February 2009

9. Water Security
Guiding Vision… Basin Capital…
1. All households 1. Economic capital
2. Productive economies 2. Natural capital
3. Livable cities 3. Social capital
4. Healthy rivers
5. Resilient communities

10. Long Term Goal Short Term Goal Mid Term Goal
12 2025 10 2015 11 2020
Benchmarked RBO Benchmarked RBO Benchmarked RBO
Asia Pacific Indonesia South East Asia
IWRM Process 9 4th Strategic
in the Plan 2011
(2009-2013) 8 3rd Strategic
Management Era
Plan
Brantas (2004-2008)
river basin 7 2nd Strategic
Plan
(Indonesia) (1999-2003) 6 4th Master Plan
(Conservation and
Effective WRM)
(1998)
5 1rd Strategic
Plan
(1994-1998)
4 PJT I
Establishment
Public (1990) 1990
Corporation 3 3rd Master Plan
(Urban Water)
Development Era
(ISO certified) (1985)
2 2nd Master Plan
(Irrigation)
(1973)
1 1st Master Plan
(Flood Prevention)
(1961)
1961

11. Why We Need to Share Models?
If you want to teach
people a new way of
thinking, don’t bother to
teach them.
Instead, give them a tool,
the use of which will lead
to new ways of thinking.
- Buckminster Fuller
From: Peter Senge. 2010. The Necessary Revolution – Working Together to Create a
Sustainable World. Broadway Books.

12. New Thinking
We are leaving
Industrial Age
thinking behind
us…
From: Peter Senge. 2010. The Necessary Revolution – Working Together to Create a
Sustainable World. Broadway Books.

13. Encouraging Progress
 IWRM reflected in policies and laws
 Oversight taken out of irrigation agencies to
ministries of natural resources and environment
 IWRM reflected in mandate of RBOs
 New RBOs created in several forms
 Longer-term investment roadmaps in basins
 NARBO - Network of Asian River Basin
Organizations created, now > 75 organizations
 ADB supports IWRM process in 25 basins in
Central, South, Southeast and East Asia

14. Promising Results
 Performance benchmarking with peer reviews
introduced for RBOs and for basins (Sri Lanka,
Indonesia, Viet Nam, Philippines)
 Basin councils formed (Indonesia)
 IWRM investment roadmaps peer-reviewed
(Indonesia, Cambodia, Viet Nam, India)
 ISO certification for public corporation type
RBOs (Indonesia)
 RBOs start twinning partnerships (Sri Lanka,
Indonesia, Japan, Korea)
 Sustainable Hydropower Assessment Tool

15. Leadership Examples
 Restoring flow by allocation (Yellow River)
 Investing in wetland restoration (Sanjiang)
 Building own capacity (Mahaweli Authority)
 IWRM roadmap and investments (Citarum)
 IWRM roadmap for state (Orissa, Karnataka)
 Govt-CS Basin council (Solo River)
 RBO police for enforcement (Laguna Lake)
 RBOs led by monk and entrepreneur (Thailand)
 Gender in area water partnerships (Pakistan)
 High-powered RBO for civilization (Bagmati)

16. Partnering: Coalitions for Change
• IWRM = adaptive management
for locally appropriate action
• Generate and share usable knowledge
to co-create solutions
• Engage all perspectives
from toad to satellite
• Cultivate boundary-spanning leadership
for vision, inspiration, and momentum

17. How Can We Promote Leadership?
New thinking:
 Seeing systems
 Collaborating
across
boundaries
 Creating From: Peter Senge. 2010. The Necessary Revolution – Working Together to Create a
desired futures Sustainable World. Broadway Books.
No problem can be solved from the same
level of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein

18. We Need to Work Across Boundaries
 Transforming
people and
organizations
 Driving
Innovation
 Solving
Problems
Win-win means agreements or solutions
are mutually beneficial and satisfying.
- Stephen R. Covey
From Ernst & Chrobot-Mason. Boundary
Spanning Leadership. McGraw-Hill. 2011

19. Boundary Spanning Leadership
Enable Reinvention
Advance Interdependence
Develop Community
Build Trust
Foster Respect
Create Safety
From Ernst & Chrobot-Mason. 2011. Boundary Spanning
Leadership. McGraw-Hill.

20. Knowledge Networking through KnowledgeHubs
APWF’s network
of regional water
knowledge hubs
supported by
UNESCO-IHE, ADB
and PUB Singapore