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Chairs and co-chairs

Suyu Liu
Expert in drought
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Personal Interest in Drought
Sanjay Kumar Shukla
Inspector General of Forests
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Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change
Dechen Gyeltshen
Meteorologist
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National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology
Susantha Jayasinghe
Technical Specialist
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Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
Giriraj Amarnath
Principal Researcher - Disaster Risk Management and Climate Resilience
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International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Muhammad Afrasiyab
Assistant Inspector General Forests
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Ministry of Climate Change, Government of Pakistan
Hemu Kafle
Scientist
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Kathmandu Institute of Applied Sciences
Uli Fitri
Communication and Outreach Officer
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Global Water Partnership Southeast Asia (GWP-SEA)
  • Suyu Liu posted in Asia Community

    8 hours ago Visibility Public

    Full press see the website of IWMI: https://www.iwmi.org/news/iwmi-to-host-secretariat-of-the-global-commis…

    IWMI hosts Secretariat of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water

    The Global Commission on the Economics of Water announced today that the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) will serve as the host institution for its Secretariat. In this role, IWMI will support coordination, administration, communications, and outreach functions, as the Global Commission disseminates findings of its 2024 report and works with coalitions around the world to implement its recommendations.

    The Global Commission will maintain its independent status while leveraging IWMI’s research and international presence, partnerships and innovation capabilities. The Secretariat will be operational at IWMI’s global headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, effective February 24, 2025.

    “We commend and thank the Government of the Netherlands for convening the Global Commission on the Economics of Water in 2022 and continuing to support us well into 2025. We thank the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for providing secretariat support up to the launch of our groundbreaking report in October last year,” expressed Henk Ovink, Executive Director of the Global Commission. “Now that the Commission’s messages resonate across the globe, we have entered the stage where we seek to make our vision a reality. We’re convinced that with IWMI, the Commission’s legacy is in good hands. IWMI will enable the Global Commission to deepen the debate on our findings with relevant actors, strengthen an enabling environment to act, and forge partnerships to build an economy that delivers on the five critical missions the Commission identified, while re-stabilizing the global water cycle within safe boundaries.”

    “IWMI is honored to support the next stage of the Global Commission’s vital work and contribute to its five missions,” said Mark Smith, Director General of IWMI. “We are committed to supporting its efforts to address critical water challenges and transformation in food systems, ecosystems, urban systems, renewable energy and AI, and health and hygiene.”

    In its 2024 report, the Global Commission reminds the international community that we can fix the water crisis if we govern the hydrological cycle as a global common good, act collectively, and with greater urgency. Not doing so will come at staggering cost of inaction: by 2050, GDP could reduce by 10–15% per year in low-income countries and by 8% per year in high-income countries.

    Launched in 2022, the Global Commission on the Economics of Water is redefining the way we value and govern water for the common good. It presents the evidence and the pathways for changes in policy, business approaches and global collaboration to support rebalancing the water cycle for economic resilience, environmental sustainability, and social equity.

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    About the Global Commission on the Economics of Water:

    The Global Commission on the Economics of Water is an international initiative convened by the Government of the Netherlands in the lead-up to the UN 2023 Water Conference. Its report, The Economics of Water: Valuing the Hydrological Cycle as a Global Common Good, is inspired by, and builds on, the game-changing Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change and the Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity. The Global Commission is executed by an independent and diverse group of eminent policymakers and researchers in fields that bring novel perspectives to water economics, aligning the planetary economy with sustainable water-resource management. Its purpose is to make a significant and ambitious contribution to the global effort to spur change in the way societies govern, use, and value water.

    About IWMI:

    The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is an international, research-for-development organization that works with governments, civil society and the private sector to solve water problems in developing countries and scale up solutions. Through partnership, IWMI combines research on the sustainable use of water and land resources, knowledge services and products with capacity strengthening, dialogue and policy analysis to support implementation of water management solutions for agriculture, ecosystems, climate change and inclusive economic growth. Headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, IWMI is a CGIAR Research Center with offices in 15 countries and a global network of scientists operating in more than 55 countries.

    Note to editors

    For more information, please visit www.watercommission.org.

    To arrange interviews, please contact the media team of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water and Rodrigo Ordóñez, Head of Communications & Knowledge Management, IWMI.

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  • Hemu Kafle created a new resource in Asia Community.

    1 week ago
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    Drought Atlas of South Asia

  • Louise Desrainy Maryonoputri created a new resource in Asia Community.

    1 week ago
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    Jochen Luther: The impact of the CREWS initiative in Cambodia and Lao PDR

  • Uli Fitri created a new resource in Asia Community.

    2 weeks ago
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    Mr Bounteum Sysouphanthavong: Enhancing drought resilience in Lao PDR

  • Raunak Shrestha created a new resource in Asia Community.

    3 weeks ago
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    Water Resources Planning in Balochistan for Drought Mitigation

  • Suyu Liu posted in Asia Community

    1 month ago Visibility Public

    Historical drought and its trend in South Asia: Spatial and temporal analysis 2000-2020

    This is an open accessed article available via: https://www.apn-gcr.org/bulletin/article/historical-drought-and-its-tre… Some authors are also members of this Community.

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  • Raunak Shrestha created a new resource in Asia Community.

    2 months ago
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    Community-Led Watershed Management: Building Water Storage for Drought Resilience in South Asia

  • Suyu Liu posted in Asia Community

    2 months ago Visibility Public

    Agricultural drought conditions over mainland Southeast Asia: Spatiotemporal characteristics revealed from MODIS-based vegetation time-series

    By Tuyen V. Ha, Soner Uereyen, and Claudia Kuenzer

    Abstract
    Drought is a reoccurring slow-onset hazard event and has a tremendous impact on agricultural production and ecosystem health. Mainland Southeast Asia is a major rainfed crop-producing area of the world, and this region is increasingly vulnerable to drought hazards. However, the monitoring and characterization of agricultural and vegetative droughts in this region remains understudied. This paper presented the first comprehensive analysis of spatiotemporal characteristics and trends of agricultural and vegetative droughts across the region using the Vegetation Condition Index (VCI) based on the reconstructed MODIS-based vegetation time-series data between 2000 and 2021. This study also developed an approach for identifying severe drought years using annual extreme pixels. Results showed that vegetation-based drought characteristics and trends varied in space and time across the region. Central Myanmar suffered from the most frequent droughts (nearly 60%), but prolonged events were less common. By contrast, the Lower Mekong area suffered from frequent and prolonged drought conditions. Most of the recent severe droughts were observed in Cambodia, and this area is characterized by a drying trend. Regionally, the severe drought years were detected in 2000, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2016, 2019, and 2020, and they were commonly found in Central Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia. The analysis of drought years indicated that the temporal change pattern of drought has shifted from the northern regions (e.g., Central Myanmar) in 2010 to the Lower Mekong region in recent years. The findings of this study provide valuable information for drought early warning management and agricultural planning across mainland Southeast Asia.

    Full text here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2023.103378 This is an open-access article.

    A personal note: Southeast Asia is widely known for its humid weather and often hit by typhoons. But this article shows that drought is also a challenge in Southeast Asia.

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  • Raunak Shrestha created an event in Asia Community

    3 months ago
    Event

    How to get funding in Asia

    Event date 5 Mar '25 08:00 - 09:00 (CEST)
    The event will take place at the
    Zoom
    Read more about How to get funding in Asia
  • Suyu Liu posted in Asia Community

    3 months ago Visibility Public

    Rainmaking in Zhaoan County, Fujian Province, China.
    This is a good solution for other places if conditions are met. Could be helpful to reduce drought, lower the risk of wildfires, and boost agriculture.
    Below is the news link, in Chinese though.
    https://www.peopleapp.com/rmharticle/30048243217

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