Designed for practitioners
Recognising that practitioners need to efficiently develop national and basin-level plans, implement programmes and measure progress, the toolkit was designed to help users with broad mandates — across environmental, climate or water portfolios — identify the most useful resources as quickly as possible.
It does not cover the universe of conservation, ecosystem restoration or water management tools; instead, it focuses only on the tools that were designed to integrate freshwater ecosystem considerations into these broader processes.
Exploring the tools
Each included tool has a description along with a guide to how to get started in evaluating it further, through the tool's external site.
What the tools support
The tools within this toolkit can be used to support processes ranging from setting targets for inland waters conservation and restoration (e.g. Targets 2 and 3 of the Global Biodiversity Framework), integrating freshwater considerations into planning documents (e.g. National Adaptation Plans), and guiding monitoring and reporting (e.g. National Reports on Land Degradation Neutrality Target Setting).
The toolkit is intended to be widely used — wherever there are opportunities to accelerate the implementation of freshwater ecosystem conservation and restoration.
