**7. Conclusions**

The CPWF program was a new approach to the CGIAR system to participatory and multidisciplinary research that was implemented in two phases and several selected basins in several global basins, including the KRB in Iran.

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Methodology and the achieved results are a proper roadmap for water management in KRB and under increasing water scarcity and climate change conditions that can be used to continue the research and development in this basin and other similar basins in Iran. It can also be applied to other parts of the worlds, such as the Amu Darya basin in Central Asia and the Tigris-Euphrates basin in the Middle East.

Based on the results of the various projects mentioned above as well as the opinions of basin stakeholders and implementers, policies, plans, and various measures were extracted and suggested as outcome of CPWF in KRB.

The CPWF projects in KRB has been an example for biophysical similarlity analysis used for similar areas mapping to out-scale the results of projects to other similar basins in the Asia WANA region, potential area mapping for supplimentory irrigation, systematic identification of innovations of local farmers, participatory technology development, formulation of future research needs and activities, and etc.
