چکیده:
The EU SWIM-SM aims at supporting institutional strengthening and contributes towards ensuring that national water strategies and plans properly address issues of sustainable water resource management, water considerations are promoted and mainstreamed in other relevant sectoral policies and strategies (for example agriculture, tourism and industry), as well as in national development plans. The anticipated outcomes are that: (a) Water considerations are promoted using a participative approach, also at local level; (b) Water concerns are mainstreamed in other relevant sectoral policies and in national development plans; (c) Economic valuation is carried out to assess the costs and benefits of mitigation actions on water degradation; and (d) Climate change considerations are mainstreamed in national strategies, plans and policies, with primary emphasis on no-regret actions. In this regards, SWIM-SM has designed and implemented a pillar on the cost assessment of water resources degradation (CAWRD) at the basin level because it is at this level that water governance can be strengthened and water can be mainstreamed in other sectors.