The international training and research program on groundwater governance in Asia: Theory and practice

CGIAR-CPWF Project “International Training and Research Program on

Groundwater Governance in Asia: Theory and Practice” was designed and

implemented by International Water Management Institute (IWMI) to address the

deficiencies in human capacity of managing groundwater in the two large basins of

the world- the Indus-Gangetic basin and the Yellow River basin. The basic premise of

the project was that proper groundwater management needs to be built on informed

knowledge of professionals from the region, with emphasis on inter-disciplinary

knowledge and understanding of the actual groundwater situation in the rural areas.

This objective was achieved through development of an international courseware on

the subject and actual enhancement of the capacity of existing institutions and about

80 professionals working at junior and senior levels and engaged in media

dissemination in the basin states involved in groundwater research and management

so that they could undertake more integrated, multi-disciplinary and sustainable

approaches to groundwater governance.