Projects

The Leyte province is one of the Philippines’ most flood and climate vulnerable areas. Projections under a high emission scenario show a 15-fold increase in extreme rainfall days by 2050, increasing the risk of flooding dramatically. Previous gaps between the national, regional, and local governance have prevented effective flood management and adaptation efforts. This project addresses the vulnerability of the Leyte province to typhoon-induced flooding and climate change. Additionally, this project seeks to restore degraded peatland and riparian ecosystems using nature-based solutions. Another important aspect of the project is to create integrated flood governance across all levels of government to enhance disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies. The proposed plan targets a population of approximately 1.1 million people over 2,129 square kilometers, including 31 square kilometers of native peatland.

Development of water resources in Indonesia led to their realization of rice-sufficiency after their era of independence in 1984. Over the course of their initial National Development Plan, Indonesian irrigation systems flourished. However, the extensive investments in irrigation were separated by project type, leading to separate sector master plans for flood, irrigation, and water supply that caused issues for decades. During the 1992 Cisarua Seminar, the idea of implementing an Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) policy was first introduced. It emphasized standardized river basin units, stakeholder participation, and sustainable water consumption. Rapid urbanization, increased industrial water use, and climate change-induced flooding has illuminated the urgent need for an IWRM system

We conducted an intricate Gender and Development (GAD) Assessment for the Lapu-Lapu City Coastal Road Project. Our assessment was aligned with the Philippine’s Magna Carta for Women and the national GAD guidelines. We integrated gender-disaggregated data collection during stakeholder consultations and social surveys. The project assessed the different project impacts on women, including risks relat

This comprehensive post-evaluation project oversaw six water related projects funded by KOICA. Out of the six, three were Civil Society Partnership Projects and the other half were Creative Technology Solution (CTS) Projects. Our project was aimed to assess the outcomes related to drinking water access, sanitation, climate adaptation, and hygiene in underdeveloped regions. We evaluated these projects using the OECD-DAC criteria:

The Nam Ngum River Basin (NNRB) is a major tributary of the Mekong River in northern Laos covering an area of about 10,200 sq km and has diverse topography and ecosystem containing vast natural resources and fertile soil. However there are many challenges in regard to water and dam management as multiple provinces utilize the NNRB’s resources. Difficulties from a water management perspective include pollution from mines, livestock farms, and other discharge facilities, management of water sources upstream and downstream of the NNRB, securing water for river flow, and conflict over water source regulation and water sources while difficulties of dam operation and management include lack of coordination of dam discharge and conflict among stakeholders related to dam operation in the case of floods which leads to damage to residents in areas around the dam. The project aimed to find solutions to improve water management in the basin and improve conflict management of the various stakeholders through the creation of the governance mechanism the Nam Ngum River Basin Coordination Committee (NNRBCC). The main goal of creating the NNRBCC is to lead dialogue by linking the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) planning at macro and micro levels in the NNRB to settle conflicts or disagreements between different agencies at federal and provincial level.

Tajikistan is a landlocked mountainous country in the south-eastern part of Central Asia and has a climate that is sharply continental with sharp fluctuations in daily and seasonal temperatures, high intensity of solar radiation, aridity, low cloudiness, uneven distribution of precipitation by seasons. Climate change poses big challenges for Tajikistan, as the country is highly exposed and has relatively low adaptive capacity. The World Bank lists Tajikistan as the most vulnerable country in Central Asia.

The Government of Ghana through its Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) had requested the Government of the Republic of Korea to build human resource capacity to effectively rework and manage irrigation schemes and further build capacity for irrigation water management. The Republic of Korea through the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and MoFA signed an agreement to rehabilitate three irrigation schemes, namely Aveyime, Ashiaman and Dawhenya Irrigation Schemes. The project spans 2023 to 2026 with an estimated cost of US$6,530,000 and specifically seeks to increase rice productivity in selected irrigation schemes and reduce dependence on grain imports by establishing an agricultural production base and nurturing agricultural manpower in the three scheme areas.