The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) developed the Geospatial portals for Watershed characterizations and Rangeland monitoring systems in Afghanistan with partnership of Natural Resources Management directorate (NRM - MAIL).

The primary goals of watershed characterizations study are to provide topographical, hydrological, geological, climatically, land cover, population and soil related spatial and statistical information for Basins and Macro level watersheds and the output of this study will provide to support natural resources management and its related monitoring activities (e.g. river flows, draining densities, climatic satiations, agriculture production) with a planning tool in the form of georeferenced maps and statistics.

Watershed Characteristics also has many other valuable uses to government agencies, agricultural units, water management units and environmental groups, about improving or preserving our water resources and natural resources.