Sustainable management of this critical resource requires an understanding of the nature and scope of the problems to be managed in general and to acquire useful information which enables the stakeholders to identify and assess existing and potential future water … Read More

The Astana City Akimat/Government (ACA) has been investing increasingly to its water infrastructure, including construction of flood dykes, wastewater treatment plants, and water supply networks. However, flood risks remain serious due to a bottle neck for flood flows in the … Read More

The Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program for the Aral Sea Basin (CAMP4ASB) aims to enhance regional access to improved climate change knowledge and climate services for project stakeholders. Under this program, the main objective of the project is to build … Read More

Tajikistan is a hydropower net exporter in Central Asia. 90 % of the nation’s electric power generation capacity is produced by the hydroelectric dams found along the Vakhsh River. This cascade of dams includes the world’s second tallest dam, Nurek … Read More

The entire wetland of Machar Marshes depends on the hydrology of the Baro Akobo Sobat (BAS) sub-basin. The sizes of the wetlands vary with floods and the rain seasons but they store lots of water which could run off before … Read More

The Rusumo Falls Hydroelectric Project (RFHP) is currently under construction. Upstream of the project site, shortly before the former confluence of the Nyabarongo and Akagera rivers, an avulsion has occurred and the Nyabarongo river is now flowing directly into Lake … Read More

Support of ICEM in development and preparation of proposed investment project for landslide risk management in line with ADB and government requirements, including of all necessary studies. The project will reduce the risk of landslide events. Interventions are both structural … Read More

Monitoring of weather patterns in Cambodia has, over the last decades, shown an increasing impact of climate change, leading to reducing water resources and respective impacts for the local population. Based on the conditions well described in the ToR, HYDROC … Read More

Rwanda’s road vulnerability to climate-change has increased steadily in the last decades. This includes vulnerability to land erosion and landslides as well as flooding, resulting in road damage and service interruptions. The Rwanda Transport Development Agency (RTDA) is the main … Read More

The BWCSRP is being executed with financial support of the World Bank with the main objective to strengthen the capacity of the Govt. of Bangladesh to deliver effective weather, water and climate information services to sector agencies and communities. The … Read More

The project enhances the institutional capacity of ministries and line agencies for coping with natural hazards, such as earthquakes, landslides, mud flows, avalanches, floods and droughts to minimize the loss to human, property, and social and economic infrastructure. The project … Read More

ADB and the Government of Nepal are supporting the Water Resources Project Preparatory Facility (WRPPF) to identify and prepare high-priority water resources management projects for potential funding by the Government with assistance from the ADB and/or other development partners. WRPPF … Read More

The project will strengthen integrated, risk-informed planning capacity of the seven project cities which are in the early stages of urbanization (Bac Lieu, Ben Tre, Long Xuyen, Soc Trang, Tan An, Vi Thanh and Vinh Long) to incorporate green infrastructure … Read More

The Nile and its main tributaries flow through several large wetlands of great relevance for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services. The aim of the project is to strengthen the capacity of the NBI and the riparian states for the management … Read More

Navigability of South Sudanese rivers is only roughly known and highly dependent on the river flow conditions. A more exact assessment is needed of where and when which ships (between 20t and 100t of cargo) can sail and provide river … Read More

Water Practice wished to explore intervention options for implementation in the south of Somalia. As such, sand dam and sub surface dam site selection is crucial and the World Bank has undertaken a pre-feasibility study for developing wadis in the … Read More

The project aims at supporting Struijk, the main contract holder, with advice, support and modelling checks during the assessment of sediment transport capacity and sediment load in the Chorokhi River. Actual services provided by our staff within the assignment: Support … Read More

In light of South Sudan’s ongoing civil conflicts, the Nile River is recognized as the last resort for transporting humanitarian supplies to the millions of IDPs and people at risk due to security and food related crises in the country. … Read More

The main objective of this consultancy is to improve the flood risk management in the Tsavkisiskhevi River basin. This will be accomplished through the implementation of a modelling framework, the inclusion of climate change impacts, the definition of flood maps … Read More

The project carries out a coarse environmental flow assessment in the entire Nile Basin based on existing data, applying the NBI environmental flow methodology that has been previously developed by HYDROC for the NBI under a GIZ funded project. The … Read More