recalling that ird was abandoned after a few years due to severe problems in coordinating government planning bureaus and of ultimately fixating on discrete projects without much integration calling for crossborder integration of planning faces great challenges this is especially so if it is seen as usurping sovereign power and vested interests of national governments varis rahaman and stucki the potential contribution of such frameworks is to promote the reality that water issues need broad crosscutting policies with integrating visions to assemble policies at the water and development interface