NAHRIM’s Knowledge Partners

 NAHRIM facilitates regional networking with partners throughout the Asia-Pacific region to share knowledge, develop capacity, and coordinate services. NAHRIM’s current national and local partners include government agencies and municipalities in charge of managing water resources and water quality conditions and/or land use and land cover in Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam. NAHRIM’s international partners and clients consist of global research agencies and training institutions, development agencies, and financing agencies that address water resources development and environmental issues. Possible partners of the regional water knowledge hub for climate change adaptation in Southeast Asia include the following:

  • Local and national agencies and governments at risk of being affected by climate change

  • The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand

  • United Nations University (UNU)

  • California Hydrologic Research Laboratory (CHRL), the United States

  • Institute of Water Modelling (IWM), Bangladesh

  • UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP), University of Oxford, the United Kingdom

  • Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC)

  • Forest Research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM), Malaysia

  • Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI), Malaysia

  • Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM), Malaysia

  • Network of Asian River Basin Organizations (NARBO)

            FOCUS OF THE REGIONAL WATER KNOWLEDGE HUB FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
 

The priority focus of this Hub is capacity building in the related areas of water management as impacted by climate changes due to global warming. These include

i.    Developing and organising training program in related areas as required and specific to the region. These programs and courses should be relevant for the region and therefore must be self sustaining.

ii.   The assessment of the impacts of global climate change and land use change on the water balances and water quality in the Southeast Asia Region by means of various models including the regional interactive climate, hydrology and water quality models (regional environmental hydroclimate models (RegEHCM), of which NAHRIM has already part completed.

iii.      The training of interested agencies in the region, as and when requested, on the state-of-the-art knowledge and technology on regional environmental hydroclimate modeling, water resources systems modeling and related database management.

iv.     As requested by member WKHs, where possible and necessary, besides water resources and climate change projection, we will also incorporate water related issues in agriculture, coastal resources, biodiversity, forestry, public health, energy and socio-economic impacts. The resource persons can come from both within and outside the region.

iv.   Policy research, to help develop appropriate policies for the management of the water resources of the Region in mitigating potential impacts of climate changes.

The knowledge domain of this Hub comprises regional interactive atmospheric, hydrologic and water quality models for the assessment of the changes in water balances and water quality at the Southeast Asia Region that may result from the global climate change and local land use change in the next 100 years, data gathering and database management (in terms of Geographical Information Systems) technologies on climate, hydrology, water quality, land and oceans, and water resources system simulation models for water quantity and quality.

All local, national, regional, and international agencies and institutions interested in climate change adaptation in Southeast Asia are also invited to join.

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