Community-based integrated watershed management

The watershed is a natural ecosystem, defined by its critical resource– water. How soil, water, and plant resources are used in one affect– either positively or negatively– their availability and use in other parts of the watershed.

The course showcases community watershed management as a process of involving local communities and local governance structures in formulating and implementing a course of action that emphasize the linkages between its upstream and downstream parts and their respective human and biophysical endowments.

Watershed management offers a unique approach for integrating technologies, governance, and socio-economic strategies within the natural boundaries of a drainage area. It allows for the optimum development of land, water and plant resources to meet the basic needs of people and animals in a sustainable manner.

To create a good learning environment, organizers deem it necessary to have at least 8 participants to conduct the course. IIRR reserves the right to cancel the course, one month before its schedule. This will be immediately conveyed to the applicants. Course fees will be refunded in full.