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Report.2020
Foundations for Source-to-Sea Management: Lessons from the field
This report shares practical learnings gained during the Foundations for Source-to-Sea Management project, to support implementation of source-to-sea projects in other contexts.

The report draws on experience from two pilot project: Lake Hawassa Sub-Basin in Ethiopia and Vu Gia-Thu Bon River Basin in Vietnam, each of which are also described in detail in separate reports and in films.
Outlining the source-to-sea approach and its benefits, the report targets practitioners and others that wish to better understand how to effectively implement a source-to-sea project. It describes the six steps of the approach and its guiding practices, with hands-on experiences from the field.
Read the pilot projects
Case Study.
2020
Foundations for Source-to-Sea Management: Vu Gia-Thu Bon river basin
Source-to-Sea
Water pollution
Case Study.
2020
Foundations for Source-to-Sea Management: Lake Hawassa sub basin
Freshwater and ecosystems/biodiversity
Source-to-Sea
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Water pollution
Video.
2020
Piloting the source-to-sea approach in Vu Gia-Thu Bon River Basin
Source-to-Sea
Transboundary Water Cooperation
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Water pollution
Video.
2020
Piloting the source-to-lake approach in Lake Hawassa
Source-to-Sea
Disaster risks and water
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Freshwater and ecosystems/biodiversity
Water pollution
Toolkit.
2020
Foundations for Source-to-Sea Management
Source-to-Sea
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