Activities in WETwin are grouped under a specific number of thematic Work Packages, between which a logical sequence of information flows has been established. This logical sequence is indicated in the work package flow chart given below:

WP1 Project management
Info: VITUKI (István Zsuffa - mail: izsuffa66 - AT - gmail.com)

The objective of WP1 is an efficient and effective project implementation and reporting to the European Commission. It will also facilitate the integration of the contributions of the project partners as well as it facilitates the inter-relationships between the main stakeholders.

WP2 Stakeholder participation
Info: WI (Chris Baker- mail: Chris.Baker - AT - wetlands.org)

The objective of WP2 is to ensure constructive engagement with the entire spectrum of societal actors at the study sites. Accrued emphasis is placed on communicating the research process and its results to all societal actors to make the research policy relevant and enhance its impact.
This WP is designed to ensure that activities in each study site place the appropriate emphasis on stakeholder engagement in the research and development process. Project partners will be guided on how and when to engage stakeholders in research design, implementation and development of decision-support related deliverables and the best approach to sharing results and their implications.
Each partner responsible for a study area will perform the following tasks in their own study area:

• Stakeholder analysis
• Development of site specific strategies for stakeholder engagement
• Stakeholder participation in study area to enhance the impact of the research process
  

The WP leader will guide partners working in study areas acting to fulfilling a quality control function on the engagement with stakeholder participants.
Stakeholder participation will be supported by a Wetland Management Game that will also be developed within this WP.

WP3 Natural and socio-economic status
Info: ESPOL (Maria del Pilar Cornejo de Grunauer - mail: pcornejo - AT - espol.edu.ec)

The objective of WP3 is to characterize the study wetlands and their relationship with the hosting river basin such that a good understanding of the current natural and socio-economic status of the study sites will be obtained. Specific focus is given to characterize the drivers, pressures and functions of the study sites as well as the water uses and demands and production of waste water.

WP4 Management practices and institutional setting
Info: UNESCO-IHE (Wim Douven - mail: w.douven - AT - unesco-ihe.org)

The general objective of WP4 is to assess the institutional capacities on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) at the study basins and wetlands of WETwin. The general objective has been broken down to the following specific objectives:

• To better understand wetland management structures and how they relate to IWRM and IRBM (Integrated River Basin Management);
• To better understand management and institutional factors hampering a sustainable use of wetlands;
• To develop an adaptive and participatory framework to overcome these hampering factors;
• To reflect international wetland and river basin management guidelines (like IWRM and Ramsar) to local wetland cases and suggest improvements for local use
  

WP5 Vulnerability assessment and scenario design
Info: PIK (Fred Hattermann - mail: hattermann - AT - pik-potsdam.de)

Wetlands are under pressure by local human activities and more and more also by global climate variability and climate change, altering their ecological status and their water availability. A vulnerability assessment of the study sites will estimate the expected impact of future drivers and pressures. Results of the assessments will be delivered in the forms of scenarios.

WP6 Data integration and gap analysis
Info: UNESCO-IHE (Ann van Griensven - mail: a.vangriensven - AT - unesco-ihe.org)

The objectives of WP6 are:

• To integrate and harmonize the available data from all study areas
• To check the quality of the data (QA/QC) control
• To compare data across the study sites and do gap analysis
  

The main outcome of this WP is a functional database that will be used by the other WP-s for modelling and analyses purposes

WP7 Development of evaluation and decision support tools
Info: WKL (Thomas Hein - mail: thomas.hein - AT - boku.ac.at)

The objective of WP7 is to create an integrated, scientifically based modular approach for wetland and river basin managers to use in their specific areas, irrespective of the quantity of information available to them. A comprehensive system of modelling and decision support tools will be developed (the 'toolbox'), with a flexible and modular framework that enables the efficient customization of the system to site specific conditions. The task of the system is to facilitate the generation and evaluation of new management solutions for wetlands.

WP8 Management solutions for the study areas
Info: IWMI (Johnston, Robyn - mail:R.JOHNSTON - AT - CGIAR.ORG)

The objective of WP8 is to identify best compromise management solutions for the case study wetlands that improve key ecosystem services of the wetland (e.g. drinking water supply and sanitation for riparian and wetland communities), while also maintaining (and develop as much as possible) the ecosystem health and values.
Specifically this WP aims at:

• Identification of the set of feasible management solutions (the decision space)
• Application of model-based decision support tools (developed in WP7) for evaluating alternative management solutions and for identifying the best compromise solution at the case study wetlands. Vulnerability scenarios (WP5) will form boundary conditions for the evaluations.
• Enable better IWRM decision-making by promoting the integration of these results in river basin level decision-making process.
  

WP9 Guideline development
Info: VITUKI (István Zsuffa - mail: izsuffa66 - AT - gmail.com)

The objective of WP9 is to prepare a generic guideline on wetland management that provide guidance on technical and institutional solutions for:

• Improving the potential of the wetland in supporting drinking water supply and sanitation
• Integrating wetlands into IWRM based on the acquired insight on their impact on basin-wide hydrological processes, with the aim of enforcing their positive impacts at other locations of the basin
• Harmonizing drinking water and sanitation functions of wetlands with their ecological function
• Integrating wetlands into river basin management (also institutional integration)
• Adapting the management of wetlands in order to cope with changing environmental, economical and societal conditions
• Efficient stakeholder involvement in wetland management
  The guideline will be based on the data, knowledge and experiences gained from the side- and sector-specific research activities carried out within the frames of the other work packages.
  

WP10 Twinning, communication and dissemination
Info: Antea Group (Tom D'Haeyer - mail: Tom.dhaeyer - AT - Anteagroup.com)

The general objective of WP10 is (i) to enable, and obtain the benefits from, an enhanced state of partnership between Consortium members as well as between key stakeholders associated to the different case study sites & partner countries, through the twinning of European and third-country wetlands and river basins; (ii) to maximize the potential scope of the project by means of an adequate dissemination of its results.
Specific objectives:

• To contribute to breaking the paradigm lock between scientists and stakeholders
• To promote - whenever feasible and deemed beneficial - a methodological approximation between IWRM in Europe and the partner countries, in order to maximize possibilities for transfer and exchange of experiences & results from this, as well as from other, general, specific, previous, ongoing or future initiatives on wetlands- and water-related management & research (twinning).
• To realize this exchange of experiences, e.g. through the organization of twinning workshops
• To promote measures for extended partnerships that go beyond the actual timeline of the project.
• To promote measures for extending the scope of the project and its objectives well beyond the geographical limits of the case study sites & partner countries involved.
• To establish a link between the project and the Consortium, and the International Knowledge Base (communication, dissemination, networking)