We design and implement whole catchment projects in collaboration with international experts and local communities and local implementation partners in different countries across the world.
What does a whole catchment design entail?
A project is not simply digging a pond where one likes and that’s it. A lot goes into the regeneration of a landscape, not least reviving the river that flows through it providing the water that is required for the region to be green, abundant and rich with life and biodiversity. The whole area which catches the water that makes the river in that landscape flow is called its entire catchment. This is the work of THE FLOW PARTNERSHIP. We design whole catchment regeneration AND IMPLEMENT THE DESIGN till the region is regenerated (example: Reforesting Baran).
What does working together with local partners mean?
Through a rigorous process of selection and relationship building (which can sometimes take months), we choose the right implementation partners to work with. These local partners are chosen because:
They work in bringing local community wisdom into the design with us.
They enjoy trust and credibility with their local communities because of their work with them
They are established and have the capacity to deliver a long term vision for their region
They are looking to work collaboratively with global partners
They have honesty and integrity built into the very fabric of their organisation and work
After all, nothing in nature works solo or creates a healthy landscape by itself alone. Only when multiple elements come together to work collaboratively does nature give us health and abundance. When the sun, the moon, the worms, the soil, the plants, the animals, gravity, the water etc ALL work together, then the landscape is healthy. So we say: no community alone, or no organisation alone or no country alone can regenerate the planet.
We have to work in partnership and mutual respect and trust to regenerate our planet.
What are the steps we undertake to deliver a project:
Choose the research as well as delivery partners
Identify and define the area
Create the project
Fundraise
Survey the area (these are comprehensive to include the scientific social, environmental and political factors influencing the state of the region identified)
Water Literacy and Education
Spreading the successful techniques through the global water schools
Monitor and keep track of the regeneration
Replicate successful and relevant techniques with communities globally
Starting from the first look at a degraded area, to it components, to community consultations, to a rigorous process of project staging and design to fundraising, to implementation, to replication and to global collaboration and spread.
We deliver whole catchment projects, designed holistically,
delivered in achievable and interconnected phases
to completion and then replicated globally.