Catchment Based Approach 2019 Conference...Partnerships for action Catchment Based Approach 2019 Conference The Living Planet Centre, Brewery Road, Woking, GU21 4LL Wednesday 19thJune

Partnerships for action

Catchment Based Approach2019 Conference

The Living Planet Centre, Brewery Road, Woking, GU21 4LL

Wednesday 19th June 2019


Session 3 – Enabling Delivery

Chair – Damian CrillyManager Strategic Catchment Partnerships

Environment Agency


Protecting our EnvironmentChris Gerrard

Natural Catchment and Biodiversity ManagerAnglian Water

Protecting our environment

Chris GerrardNatural Catchment and Biodiversity Manager

@chrisgerrard @AWCoastCountry

• A truly independent Office for Environmental Protection

• Ministers to act in accordance with the environmental principles

• OEP to have meaningful enforcement powers

• Statutory long-term goals

• A single spatial planning framework

“…‘system operator’ responsible for the strategic management of the natural capital in accordance with respective local plans.”


CaBA & Delivering The 25 Year Plan

Rob Collins, Michelle Walker, Anneka FranceCaBA National Support Group

CaBA - Delivering the 25 YEP

Rob Collins CaBA National Support Group

The Catchment Based Approach

• Direction of Travel +++• Key role in supporting delivery of the 25 YEP• UN Sustainability Goals

– Goal 6 ‘Clean water & Sanitation’– Goal 11 ‘Sustainable Cities & Communities’– Goal 13 ‘Climate Action’– Goal 15 ‘Life on Land’

The Catchment Based Approach – 2017/18

Catchment Based ApproachCelebrating the benefits of a collaborative approach for people and wildlife

27,846 primary stakeholders

engaged in 2017/18

0 20 40 60 80 100

Through information events

In planning/visioning

In walkovers

In citizen science

Number of partnerships using activity to engage stakeholders

All CPs

work with their local

water company and

63% have the water

company involved in funding and/or

delivery

498

Action and Activities in 2017/18

CaBA meetings across the country

452 projectstackling:

Engagement, education &

access to nature

Research

Water pollution

Floods, drought & resilience

River restoration, habitats & biodiversity

£1 : £6.50For every £1 directly invested by

the Government, CaBA partnerships have raised £6.50

from non-governmental funders

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£23 million of wider government funding invested via a collaborative

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Project outcomes in 2017/18:

14,105 volunteers & citizen scientists

actively involved

2,835 ha habitat created

94 barriers to fish migration mitigated

167 projects tackling diffuse

pollution & improving water quality

209 projects tackling ecological

quality of waterbodies

>50km riverbank controlled for

invasive species

6,100 farmers engaged, with on-farm

measures implemented

• 167 projects tackling diffuse rural and urban pollution

• 94 barriers to fish migration addressed

• >50km of riverbank cleared of invasive species

• 2,850 hectares of habitat created• 6,100 farmers engaged

• 136 flood risk management projects

• 64 projects addressing lows flows and water scarcity

• Partnerships leveraged more than 6 times the funding they received from Government

National CaBA Support Group

CaBA Working Groups

© Connect Right

© Environment Agency

Data Urban Agriculture Floods

Benefits Abstraction Biodiversity TraC Waters

Integrated Wetlands 3rd Cycle RBP

CaBA and the 25 YEP Goals

AbstractionWorking Group

Reform approach to water abstraction

Increase Resource Efficiency

Reduce risk of harm from…drought

Mitigating & Adapting to Climate Change

Helping people improve health and wellbeing by using

green spaces

Greening our towns and cities

Implementing SuDS

Urban Water Management

Building Social Capital14,000 volunteers and citizen scientists involved

Photo SERT

Broomfield Park Wetland, Enfield

Academia

• Freshwater Ecosystem Health• Bacterial resistance

Water Industry

Government

Pharmaceutical Companies

General Public

A Societal Challenge

Health Authorities CaBA


CaBA - an evidence-based approach

• Catchment Data User Group est. 2011– Multi-sectoral interest group– Co-chaired by The Rivers Trust and Environment Agency– Develop tools and support

for evidence-based collaborative catchment management

– Webinars and annual forum


CaBA - an evidence-based approach

• Collaborative action planning• Weight of evidence approach• CaBA Support Programme:

– Data availability & interpretation– Tools and templates for data

gathering– Capacity building & training


Data availability and interpretationCaBA GIS Data Package v5• Curated package of 150+ layers for

each CaBA catchment• Centrally-negotiated data licence• Structured to identify

opportunities, issues, causes & actions

• User guide shows how to interpret and use for catchment planning

• A series of webinars, first one available on CaBA website


Data availability and interpretationCaBA Data Package v5 Highlights:• Hard-to-access data (e.g. CLAD,

LCM2015, Water Abstractions)• Modelled outputs (e.g. SAGIS,

SEPARATE, WWNP)• Strategic planning (e.g. Natural

Capital Map, Climate Just)• Collaborative Actions (e.g.

WINEP, Highways England, Coal Authority, RiverWiki)


Data availability and interpretationNew CaBA Open Data Site• Open formats – all software• Updated – INSPIRE compliant• Story Maps to weave narrative

with data – tell the local story• Online GIS is also a powerful data

gathering and mobile mapping tool

data.catchmentbasedapproach.org

https://data.catchmentbasedapproach.org/


Tools and templates for data gathering• Citizen science & volunteer

monitoring guide– H&S guidance, monitoring kit,

apps and maps, case studies

• Monitoring planner• Water quality workshop• Outfall Safari Guide & Toolkit

bit.ly/outfallsafari

https://bit.ly/outfallsafari


Capacity building and trainingTechnical training and support:• Desktop GIS (ESRI ArcGIS Desktop,

QGIS and ArcGIS Pro in dev)• Online story maps and catchment

mapping portals• Mobile data collection• Refresher workshops and

‘surgeries’• Webinars, helpdesk and discussion

forum


Capacity building and training1:1 support and mentoring:• Governance and Compliance

(Health & Safety, CDM, Cybersecurity)• Interpreting and using data and

evidence (strategic catchment planning, NFM prioritization)

• Project design and engineering (NFM, by-pass channels)


Capacity building and trainingCaBA Technical Support• Two-way process (Keeps national

team in touch with detail and additional resource and capacity building for partnerships)

• Efficient way to pump knowledge & experience around CaBA network (share between partnerships)


CaBA Support and the 25 Year Plan

• CaBA is a collaborative, evidence-based and cost-beneficial framework for delivering environmental improvement

• The 25 year plan demands all of the above

• CaBA support is a great foundation


Find out more…

• Come and talk to us today• Join us at the Catchment Data &

Evidence Forum – Bristol Sept 2019• CaBA mailing list signup:

eepurl.com/KFOST

data.catchmentbasedapproach.org

http://eepurl.com/KFOST

https://data.catchmentbasedapproach.org/


Spatial Scale Delivery and The 25 Year PlanSarah Anderton

Policy Adviser | CIWEM

Spatial scale delivery and the 25 Year Plan

www.ciwem.org@CIWEMpolicy

CaBA conference, 19th June 2019


• 25 Year Environment Plan• CIWEM work• Fragmented delivery • Integrated frameworks• Opportunities for CaBA

Introduction


A Green Future: Our 25 Year Plan to Improve the Environment

• Published January 2018• Help meet manifesto pledge• Cross departmental• England focus, environment devolved• 10 aims, six chapters, 100s targets• Some require regulation, many don’t• Measuring progress report May 2019


What CIWEM’s been looking at

• Targets that need on the ground delivery• Delivery bodies and what they’re doing• Shared barriers to delivery• Possible frameworks for integrating delivery• Recommendations


It’s a fragmented management landscape

• Current delivery• Lots of organisations• Overlapping boundaries and

remits• Reliant on volunteers• Delivering against some 25 YEP

targets

• Current challenges• Objectives• Oversight and coordination• Funding • Administrative boundaries• Capacity

The organisations involved may vary by area according to need, but should include Local Enterprise Partnerships, leading businesses and utility

companies, Local Nature Partnerships, Catchment Partnerships, local authorities, National Park Authorities and water companies.


Integrating delivery

Continue?• There are good

examples• Overall delivery is

falling short• Working together

can achieve more

Refine?• Aim for

systematic collaboration

• Of existing bodies• Frameworks and

new roles• Success factors

Overhaul?• Overhaul

organisations and amalgamate

• Do we have the time and will?


Where does CaBA fit in?• Objectives

• Sustained water improvements• Collaboration, transparent decision

making• Structure• Delivery

• Reporting- national, local• Projects mainly local, collaboration• 25 Year Plan aims being covered

• Funding uncertainty


Opportunities for CaBA• Success measure- “different planning systems and plans are

brought together in a synergistic way, with common strategic and spatial points of reference”

• Consistent partnership working• CaBA report identified LA, LEP, health authorities for improvement

• Partner input in catchment plans• Expanding regional focus• Long term planning

• Funding barrier to overcome

Thanks for listening!Sarah Anderton

[email protected]


mailto:[email protected]


CaBA Global? An International Perspective

Conor LinsteadFreshwater Specialist | WWF-UK

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Conor LinsteadFreshwater SpecialistScience TeamWWF-UK

Corporate Water Stewardship

• Underlying driver of freshwater impacts is governance failing

• Private sector is also at water risk ð business case

• WWF & others can convene businesses to i) reduce impacts & risks, commit resourcesii) use influence to drive better water governance


• WEF Global Risk Report – water in top 5 risks for last 8 years

• 157 Corporations signed UN Global Compact’s CEO Water Mandate

• CDP Water report:

– increasing levels of corporate water risk

– US$38.5 billion in water-related financial losses from ca. 2000 companies


• Bi-lateral partnerships ð multi-organisation partnerships ðwhole-sector (e.g. Courtauld)

• Business operations ð supply chains

• Business as a funder ð Financial sector as funder, business as an influencer

Case study: South Africa

• >20% of UK citrus, grapes; leading non-EU source of apples, stone fruit

• UK is a major market for SA• WWF-UK M&S partnership: supplier water risk

analysis, supplier best practice, community engagement

• Whole retail sector via Courtauld Commitment

Case study: South Africa

Perspective from global experience of Water Stewardship

• CaBA network is probably unique!• What are the key issues and where is the business connection?• Supply chain mapping to identify potential businesses• Entry point at Corporate HQ level for national/global businesses?

– AWS, CEO Water Mandate, Courtauld Commitment

• Scaling up through financial sector engagement• What is the governance driver?

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