This guidance tool was prepared by a team led by Urvashi Narain with a core team composed of Nagaraja Rao Harshadeep, Kavita Kapur Macleod, and Aditi Jha from the World Bank. The team also thanks Shaffiq Somani, Hrishi Patel and Csaba Boros from the World Bank, and Adrian L. Vogl and Rafael Schmitt from Stanford University’s Natural Capital Project.

The team would like to extend special thanks to the many experts and Bank staff who presented at and attended the landslide risk assessment workshop in December 2019 that informed this guidance note. The team thanks Julia Bucknall for hosting and moderating the workshop, and the presenters: Adrian L. Vogl and Rafael Schmitt (Stanford University’s Natural Capital Project); Masatsugu Takamatsu (World Bank); and Mattia Amadio and Stuart Alexander Fraser (World Bank), in addition to the many participants both at the Bank and virtually.

The team also many Bank and development partner colleagues for individual consultations and constructive comments on this guidance note. Specifically, the team thanks Stuart Alexander Fraser, Masatsugu Takamatsu, Brendan Jongman, Steven Alberto Carrion, Priyanka Dissanayake, James Newman, Erick Fernandes, Nicolas Pondard, Akiko Toya, and Satoshi Ogita from the World Bank, and Matthew Free and Peter Redshaw from Arup.

The team gratefully acknowledges the financial support provided for this guidance tool by the South Asia Water Initiative (SAWI). SAWI is a multi-donor trust fund supported by the United Kingdom, Australia, and Norway, and administered by the World Bank. SAWI supports a rich portfolio of activities to increase regional cooperation in managing major Himalayan river systems to deliver sustainable, fair, and inclusive development and climate resilience. SAWI works in three river basins (Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra) and one landscape (Sundarbans). Together, those focus areas span seven countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal and Pakistan. SAWI also is involved in regional cross-cutting work that supports non-basin specific activities such as groundwater management.

The team notes that this guidance note leverages earlier work on watershed management tools for sediment management and landslide risk reduction developed with the support of KGGTF in FY19 and in partnership with Stanford’s Natural Capital Project. Through the KGGTF activity, watershed management tools for sediment and landslide risk reduction were developed and applied to the Kali Gandaki watershed in Nepal (Valuing Green Infrastructure: Case Study of Kali Gandaki Watershed in Nepal) and the Mangla watershed in Pakistan.

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