The Environmental Considerations for Sustainable Hydropower Development
(ECSHD) was an initiative established in 2006 to develop tools that will support planning and
decision making for sustainable hydropower development in the Mekong River Basin. The
ECSHD cooperation comprised the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Mekong River
Commission (MRC) and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
The Rapid Basin Wide Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Tool (RSAT) was
first developed as part of the ECSHD in order to assess hydropower sustainability within an
IWRM based framework. A period of piloting early drafts of the RSAT in the Mekong region
was conducted in 2010 and 2011 and version 4 was developed in 2012. The MRC’s Initiative for
Sustainable Hydropower continued a program of implementation of the RSAT from 2012-
2015 in the Mekong region. WWF carried out a parallel series of RSAT training and awareness
workshops for NGOs and CSOs in Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar between 2012 and 2015.
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