Clients and Partners
The National Clients and Partners of WKHCCA SEA are national and local agencies and municipalities
that are responsible for
a) managing the water resources and water quality conditions in Malaysia,
b) managing land use and land cover in Malaysia.
National
Clients include the central agencies such as the Ministries
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE),
Ministry of Energy, Water and Communications (MEWC),
Ministry of Health (MOH), the implementing agencies
such as the Department of Irrigation and Drainage
(DID), Malaysian Meteorological Department (MMD),
Department of Agriculture (DOA), research organisations such as
research agencies and academia (eg Forest Research
Institute of Malaysia (FRIM), Malaysian Agricultural
Research Development Institute (MARDI), Universities
and Academy Science Malaysia (ASM)).
The Regional Clients and partners of WKHCCA
SEA are national and local
agencies and municipalities in various nations in
the Southeast Asia region (Myanmar, Laos, Thailand,
Cambodia, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia,
Philippines, Brunei) that are responsible for
a) managing the water resources and water quality conditions in their countries
b) managing land use and land cover in their countries
c) training and research institutions (Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), UN universities, etc)
d) other regional water knowledge hubs
The International Clients and partners WKHCCA SEA are international research agencies and training institutions, International Development Agencies and International Financing Agencies dealing with water resources development and environmental issues.
International Partners include California
Hydrologic Research Laboratory (CHRL) and Institute of
Water Modelling (IWM), Bangladesh.
The network for WKHCCA SEA will be developed incrementally and will be sustained through continued on-going programs.
Products and services development
The major products of this Hub would include:
i) Training modules and programs
ii) Development of expertise and technical advisory groups
iii) Development of consultancy expertise on related policy issues
Further to
this, upon completion of the proposed study on the
Impact of Climate Change and Regional Land Use
Change on the Water Resources of Southeast Asia
Region in 2011, a Comprehensive Future Hydroclimate
Database for each country at 12 km resolution (and
at 3 km resolution for selected river basins) in
Southeast Asia can be made available and accessible
through the WKHCCA SEA website, as agreed upon by member
countries/states, which can be used for
vulnerability assessment of various socioeconomic
sectors such as agriculture, forestry, biodiversity,
water resources, coastal and marine resources,
public health and energy.
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