Funding Agency: Green Climate Fund (through IUCN)
Client: National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC)
Date: August 2024 – March 2026
The Gandaki River Basin (GRB): The GRB is a large transboundary basin extending from Tibet in the north to India in the south and Nepal in the middle, occupying 72 percent of the total basin area (46.300 sq.km). The GRB has seven major tributaries: Kaligandaki, Setigandaki, Madi, Marsyangdi, Daraudi, Budhi Gandaki, and Trishuli. There are many smaller rivers and rivulets that drain into the Gandaki River. There is a wide variation in terms of elevation, topography, climate, and vegetation.
Objectives of the project:
- The Specific Objectives are to:
- Review the hydrological models developed so far for the entire GRB
- Project the future climate based on CMIP6 climate model outputs
- Project future land use/cover using appropriate techniques
- Assess baseline hydrology
- Generate model outputs in a form compatible with integrating with GRM
- Design and implement capacity-building activities
Overall Services provided:
The Project will have the following scope of work
- Review the hydrological models being used in the GRB studies
- Customize SWAT for hydrological modelling
- Project future climate
- Predict the future land use/cover
- Assess baseline hydrology
- Assess future hydrology
- Share the simulation results, the SWAT model, and the associated input data
- Prepare model outputs in a format compatible with the GRB information system being developed by the project
- Design and implement a capacity-building activity on the use/uptake of the reconciliation model outputs
