IAP Water Programme“The Status of the IAP Water Programme”

Improving Access to Safe Water:Perspectives from Africa and the Americas

São Carlos – BrazilSeptember 13-16, 2010

InterAcademy Panel on International Issues (IAP)

• The InterAcademy Panel, launched in 1993, is a global network of Science Academies.

• It currently has 104 members, representing virtually every merit-based Science Academy in the world.

• IAP is headquartered under the administrative umbrella of the secretariat of The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), located in Trieste, Italy.

• Funded by the Italian Government.

• Provides advice on scientific aspects of critical global issues.

Objectives of the Water Programme

• Develop local capacity building in water management.• Network water researchers and managers to enhance water management capacity in the developing world.• Address policy and decision makers on how to cope with the challenge of assuring global access to safe-drinking water.• Increase public awareness on emerging water crisis• Call to the table major regional and international water programmes to discuss complementary work and to avoid duplication of efforts and funds.

IAP Water Network

Africa (12 Academies)

Central Asia (7 Academies)

Europe (20 Academies)

Americas (15 Academies)

East Asia & Pacific Region (9 Academies)

Middle East & South Asia (10 Academies)

Regional Workshops:

East Asia & PacificBeijing, June 2006

AmericasGuarulhos, July 2006

AfricaPretoria, August 2006

EuropeLodz, September 2006

Middle East & South AsiaJordan, March 2007

Regional Workshops

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• June/06 (China): International East Asia & Pacific Region IAP Water Programme Workshop on “Water Security to Climate Change and Human Activity”.• July/06 (Brazil): IAP Water Programme Regional Workshop for the Americas on “Bridging Water Research and Management: Enhancing Water Management Capacity in the Hemisphere”.• Aug/06 (South Africa): IAP Water Programme Regional Workshop for Africa.• Sept/06 (Poland): IAP Water Programme Regional Workshop for Europe on “Coupling Surface and Groundwater Research and Management: a New Step Forward Towards Water Management”.• Mar/07 (Jordan): IAP Water Programme Regional Workshop for the Middle East & South Asia on “Integrated Water Resources Management”.• July/07 (Russia): IAP Water Programme Workshop on “Water Resources and Water Use Problems in Central Asia and the Caucasus”.• Nov/07 (Jordan): IAP Water Programme Regional Training Course on “Water Resources Research and Management”.• Mar/08 (China): IAP International Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop on “Water Security & Ground Water Sustainability”.• May/08 (Poland): European Regional Workshop of the IAP Water Programme.• June/08 (South Africa): IAP Regional Water Workshop on “Hydrology and Hydropower Collaboration in Africa”.• Aug/08 (Brazil): Regional Workshop and Capacity Building Training Course for the Americas on “Water, Environment and Society: an Integrated Approach”. • Mar/09 (South Africa): IAP Water Programme Regional Workshop for Africa.• Oct/09 (Russia): "Strengthening the Collaboration between the AASA Clean Water Programme and the IAP Water Programme"

East Asia & Pacific Region Americas

Publications

Africa

Europe Middle East & South Asia Central Asia

Publications

• Success of the Water Programme much depends on the ability to decentralize actions;

• Challenge to engage Science Academies and to stimulate Regional Networks of Science Academies to assume a leading role;

• IAP Water Programme can act as a platform to enhance the visibility of Science Academies, thus strengthening their capacity to advise government and society;

• Increasing global access to safe drinking water is most certainly a paramount challenge where Science has a role to play and where the Science Academies can transform into action their commitment of bridging Science to the pressing problems facing society.

Challenges

Regional Organization in Asia• Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences leads the AASA “Clean Water: a Step Forward” programme;

• Strong coordination effort with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Royal Scientific Society - Jordan

• Workshop on "Strengthening the Collaboration between the AASA Clean Water Programme and the IAP Water Programme” (Oct 2009);

• Discussed how to better integrate action in Asia, engaging AASA and FASAS more effectively in the coordination of the programme.

• “Promoting the Water  Programme in Asia as a Tool for the Strengthening of the Advisory Role of Science Academies” Workshop; Beijing, Sept 17-18, 2010.

Regional Organization in Europe• EASAC and ALLEA will be approached to discuss the engagement of these regional networks in the coordination of the Water Programme in Europe;

• Several Academies willing to participate more effectively;

• Strong Academies from developed countries in Europe can provide assistance and Academies from scientifically lagging countries can benefit from a regional water programme;

• Focus on developing countries in Eastern Europe.;

• “Towards Engineering Harmony Between Water, Ecosystem and Society. Strengthening the Collaboration between European Academies of Science in the IAP Water Programme” Workshop; Zakopane, Sept 10-11, 2010.

Regional Organization in Africa

• Leading role of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) in the effort to structure the IAP Water Programme in Africa;

• Aug 2006 - the first regional IAP Water Programme Workshop assembled experts from 7 African countries;

•Nov 2007- 3rd Annual Conference of the African Science Academy Development Initiative (ASADI) on the value of evidence-based advice to improve access to usable water;

• June 2008 - IAP Regional Water Workshop on “Hydrology and Hydropower Collaboration in Africa”, bringing together participants from 10 African countries;• Mar 2009 – IAP Regional Water Programme Regional Workshop for Africa

• Aug 2010 - Workshop in Kenya launched the NASAC Water Programme.

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Attendance to African IAP Water Workshops

Regional Organization in the Americas

• IANAS runs a water programme that works in close collaboration with the IAP Water Programme;

• Academies were challenged to establish multidisciplinary Water Committees to assist in the discussion of water related issues;

• White papers presenting a strategic view on national water resources;

• Water Programme as a mechanism for capacity building of water managers and Academies.

• 7th biennial meeting of the Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy (Nov 2010, Buenos Aires).

Water becomes part of the Agenda of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences

Mudanças Climáticas e Recursos Hídricos Carlos Nobre

Gestão de Recursos Hídricos no Brasil: problemas e perspectivas Benedito Braga

Agricultura e Recursos Hídricos Marcos Vinicius Folegatti

Urbanização e Recursos Hídricos Carlos Tucci

Biodiversidade AquáticaOdete Rocha

Takako Matsumura-Tundisi

Recursos Hídricos e Saúde Humana Ulisses Eugenio Cavalcanti Confalonieri

Serviços Ambientais e Recursos Hídricos Luiz Martinelli

Da Ciência à Inovação e Aplicação José Galizia Tundisi

Águas Subterrâneas: reserva estratégica ou emergercial? Ricardo Cesar Aoki Hirata

Disponibilidade, Poluição e Eutrofização de Águas

Donato Seiji Abe

José Galizia Tundisi

Água no Semi-Árido José Almir Cirilo

Reuso de Água na Indústria Ivanildo Hespanhol

Água e Economia Antonio Eduardo Leão Lanna

Amazônia, Recursos Hídricos e Sustentabilidade Adalberto Luis Val

A água e o funcionamento dos ecossistemas Wolfgang Johannes Junk

Água e Mineração Virgínia Ciminelli

Água e Indústria Luiz Alexandre Kulay

Educação para a Sustentabilidade dos Recursos Hídricos Myriam Krasilchik

O Plano Nacional de RH João Bosco e Julio Tadeu

National Water CommitteeBrazilian Academy of Sciences

Water Meetings Organized by the Academy

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