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‘Valuing water’ critical to transboundary flood management in Nepal-India shared basins.

Both Nepal and India are endowed with rich water resources, including transboundary rivers and streams that originate in Nepal and flow into India. However, many riverine communities dependent on these water resources in both countries face extreme poverty and vulnerability due to limited...

Valuing water and rivers

Today is World Water Day. This year’s theme Valuing Water aims to generate awareness about the different values of water and water resources in our lives to galvanize more actions for better protection and sustainable management.

Many...

Nodi Boithok in progress at Jakigonj, Bangladesh. Photo: Nuzhat Nueary, TROSA

Call for Applications: Regional Youth Dialogue (RYD) on Water, Climate and Human Rights by Youth Basin Ambassadors

To participate, please click the link and register: https://bit.ly/3ckB8Ow

Background:

Women and youth are crucial stakeholders in the fight against persisting inequalities...

Labourers lifting sands from Jadukatha river in Sunajgonj. Backdrop: Meghalaya hills upstream.

Minding the ‘water-woes’: empowering women means empowered communities. Reflections from Bangladesh and India

“Where there is a forest there is Khasi people [sic] (Pdeng), as our life (Jingim) depends on forest (Khlaw) and our livelihood on betel leaves (Pathi). Either in Bangladesh or India, where there is a forest there is a Khasi..” These enlightening words belong to Monika...

Myanmar

People Power - Communities lead the way in governing local wetlands. The Story of Daw Lar Lake, Karen State, Myanmar.

Daw Lar Lake - An ecologically important wetland.
Daw Lar Lake is situated on the western bank of the Salween River in the Karen State of Myanmar and is a seasonally river-fed wetland complex. Roughly 26 sq. km in size, it is the largest freshwater lake in Karen...

Tajikistan

A barefoot agronomist triggers a small revolution in orchards of the Kishtud river basin

Scanning the tall, snow-capped mountain peaks around him that alternately descend into a steep gorge cut by the River Kishtud and a rugged valley interspersed with picturesque pasturelands, Odinaev Hasanjon, 51, muses, ‘Guitan is such a small spot in this vast landscape. We look so disconnected...

Responsible investment key to better post-COVID-19 agriculture in ASEAN

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound economic impact in the region and disrupted the agricultural food systems across ASEAN, threatening production, increasing food security risks,and affecting small food producers livelihoods.

Agriculture accounts for only 10.3 percent of ASEAN...

Black Water and Life in the Contaminated Area in Karen State, Myanmar

By: KESAN (Karen Environmental and Social Network)

TROSA partner KESAN together with Karen Rivers Watch (KRW), MATA (Myanmar Alliances on Transparency and Accountability) and ALARM Myanmar (Advancing Life and Regenerating Motherland) organized a report launch via Zoom...

Dialogue series identifies Nature-based Solution to help address water management challenges in the GBM River Basin. Young professionals recognized.

TROSA partner IUCN Asia facilitated series of online dialogues on Nature-based Solutions with the support of the GBM CSO Network. The events participated by more than 150 participants from Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), academic institutions, private sector, including young water...

Carving a Path for Women in Fisheries

As a natural resource management professional, I often find people questioning the role of women in fisheries. I won’t blame them entirely for asking that question if I haven’t observed their contribution closely. If it’s not for my close interaction with them, it would have been difficult for...