This Completion Report summarizes cumulative results and outcomes for the South Asia Water Initiative (SAWI) Phase 2 (from 2013-2021). SAWI's objective was to increase regional cooperation in the management of the major Himalayan river systems in South Asia to deliver sustainable, fair, and inclusive development and climate resilience. Four interlinked pathways supported the outcomes: (i) building confidence and trust among the countries - mainly by convening regional technical dialogues
(ii) generating new technical knowledge, including in partnership with others, for national programs to use and to help shift stakeholder perceptions
(iii) building capacity of key institutions and stakeholders by exposing them to regional collaboration efforts elsewhere and training them in the use of new tools and technologies to strengthen water resource management
and (iv) scoping and leveraging investments, most notably World Bank investments so that these new approaches could be embedded and taken to scale.