Focus on WISH+ project - Component 2
WISH+ Component 2: Create opportunities for scaling up and sustaining funding for Integrated Watershed Management
The WISH+ project team will develop decision support tools** aimed at identifying priorities for investment in Nature-based Solutions (NbS), as well as financing mechanisms to support their long-term implementation in Melanesian countries.
The aim is to provide guidance to the governments and landowners on optimal locations to invest in #NbS and other watershed interventions, as well as what types of actions work best in different contexts to achieve outcomes for biodiversity, climate, health & well-being.
**Examples:
- Maps of watersheds that are high risk for downstream impact to human and environmental health.
- Easy-to-use interactive tools that will allow decision-makers to identify the most appropriate watershed actions given local conditions.
The following solutions will be implemented:
#1 Planning support
- Engage local end-users to contribute to the development of models to identify high risk watersheds.
- Provide training to national and provincial government staff on how to use risk maps and interactive tools to prioritize watershed management action.
#2 Sustainable financing vehicle development
- Build the business case for investing in integrated watershed management to avert future healthcare and environmental rehabilitation costs.
- Develop and expand sustainable financing vehicles, including the PNG national Biodiversity and Climate Fund, tailored to national and local contexts to enable long-term delivery of social, ecological, and climate co-benefits through investments in NbS and water, sanitation and hygiene within high risk watersheds.
