Overall project value

Improving Environmental Flows (e-flows describes the quantity, timing, and quality of water flows required to sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems and the human livelihoods and well-being that depend on these ecosystems) for the Ramganga Basin in India.

Manage Stakeholder Consultation Processes to agree on climate sensitive improvement measures towards ensuring adequate E-flows in the basin.

Project description

As part of the India-EU Water partnership, we are assisting GIZ in the implementation of one of the components of the project “Support to Ganga Rejuvenation phase II” on Environmental flows (E-flows). M4eco is assisting the assessment team in building a data collection and assessment methodology, transferring the results into consultations processes with main Indian stakeholders to identify 3 climate sensitive improvement measures toward ensuring E-flows in the Ramganga basin.

Scope of work

• Exchange, cooperate and contribute to the joint E-Flows assessment in the Ramganga Basin in order to process and take up the results of the E-Flows assessments into E-Flows scenarios, which will be discussed and agreed within the consultation process along with their associated trade-offs.
• Plan and undertake a stakeholder consultation process to identify and to achieve agreement on three climate sensitive improvement measures to ensure adequate E-Flows in the Ramganga Basin

Results

Creation of a living document, serving as a basis for initiating the implementation process and made available to all stakeholders being updated with the results of the different consultations and assessment findings.

Development of a clear concise strategy for stakeholder consultation, including agreed roles and responsibilities, stepwise process, timelines, and milestones.

The main result is an agreement on 3 key climate-sensitive improvement measures towards ensuring adequate E-Flows in the Ramganga Basin.  The results of the analyses performed to arrive at final E-Flows scenarios and associated trade-offs are compiled in and presented along with improvement measures into a final report for strategic implementation.

Outstanding characteristics

• Stakeholder consultations
• Methodology design for data collection and assessment of E-flows in the Ramganga Basin.
• Collaboration with the assessment team.
• Consensus finding and elaboration of climate-sensitive improvement measures and implementation plan.