Purpose & Audience

This Guidance Tool covers the applications of sediment modelling and management as they would be applied at a basin level. The Tool is designed to guide practitioners and teams working on watershed management projects and is also relevant to sectors of agriculture, hydropower, water supply, transport and disaster management who could benefit from incorporating nature based solutions and green infrastructure to address the environmental impacts of their interventions. Guidance is based on lessons and applications from actual projects which are covered as case studies in the note.

The tool explains how to prepare a sediment budget and provides options, based on data quality and budget consideration, for prioritizing locations and types of watershed management interventions. It highlights that analytical planning can be considered even in case of data and budgetary constraints.