Tutorial & User Guide

The WEAP tutorial will introduce you to WEAP, the Water Evaluation and Adaptation Planning platform, and how it can be applied to integrated water resources management.

The exercises presented in this document can be used for self study, and are also the basis for the online training course.

They assume that you have some background in water resources issues and familiarity with Windows-based software, including spreadsheets (such as Microsoft Excel).

The training exercises are designed as a series of independent chapters. The English, French and Spanish versions of the tutorial are divided into two sections: "Learning to Use WEAP" and "Building a New Model." The first three chapters are designed to provide you with a basic understanding of how to navigate within WEAP, how to input data, how to set up scenarios, and how to access results. Therefore, we recommend that you begin exploring WEAP by following the exercises in the first three chapters in order, as they are intended to provide you with a basic orientation to the WEAP platform and its capabilities. After that, you may skip around, choosing whichever chapters are relevant to your modeling effort.

You will find links below to a separate Tutorial on use of the MABIA method to simulate agricultural demands, in English and French, and a separate "Gender and Social Equality" tutorial, available only in English.