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Conference Program

Agenda Overview

Day 1: 21st November 2017

Time Activity

9:00 – 10:20 High level opening ceremony

10:00 – 10:05 Wadi ElKu Water Management Story line (WEK Video)

10:20 – 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 – 11:30

Keynote: Managing water for inclusive growth and development under challenging conditions

11:30 – 11:45 Drama Performance

11:45 – 13:00 Ministerial panel

13:00 – 14.00 Lunch and pray

14:00 – 15:30 Session 1: Sharing of IWRM best practices for sustainable growth and development in Sudan

15:30 –16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30 Session 2: Sharing of IWRM best practices for sustainable growth and development in Sudan (cont.)

18:00 – 19:30 Formal conference dinner, sponsored by MWRIE

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Day 2: 22nd November 2017 Integrated Water Resources Management Technical Pillars

Time Activity

8:30 – 8:45 Welcome and Summary of Day 1

8:45 – 10:30 Session 3: IWRM and Good Governance

8:45 – 9:10 Keynote: Reforming Sudan’s Water Laws: Issues and Challenges from a Comparative Laws Perspective

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 Session 4: Water in the Sudan Economy

11:00 – 11:20 Keynote: Sudan agricultural expansion and virtual water debates

12:30 – 13.30 Lunch and pray

13:30 – 14:40 Session 5: Database for water knowledge supporting decision making

13:30 – 13:50 Keynote: On sharing data best practice of National Ersad

14:40 – 15:10 Coffee break

15:10 – 16:30 Session 6: Research and Capacity Building within IWRM

15:10 – 15:30 Keynote: UNESCO IHP role in fostering groundwater governance and achieve the

SDG6: promoting networking, sharing data and information, building capacity

16:30 – 17:30 Special Session on the Japan Fund-in-Trust Project on “Urgent Capacity Development for Managing Natural Disaster Risks of Flash Floods: Sudan Case Study”

18:00 – 19:30 Dinner

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Day 3: 23rd November 2017 IWRM-Net-SD and Stakeholder consultation on Review of the National Water

Resources Policy

Time Activity

8:30 – 08:45 Welcome and Summary of Day 2

8:45 – 10:00 Session 7: IWRM-NET Sudan

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 – 12:30 Session 8: Sudan water governance for the future

12:30 – 13:30 Group work around conference themes recommendations; good practice upscaling, planning for the future; water data alignment, water policies and institutions for the future.

12:30 – 13:00

Summary of sessions:

Introducing: HE Minister of Water Resources, Irrigation and Electricity

Introducing: H. E. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Higher Education and

Scientific Research

Media session endorsement of conference declarations and close.

Media statement by the Minister of Water Resources

13:30 – 15.30 Lunch on the Nile

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Detailed Program

Day 1: 21st November 2017 Rapporteur: Dr. Eltigani Bashir, Dean-water management and irrigation

Institute

Time Activity Presenter

9:00 – 13:00 Opening Ceremony

Master of Ceremony: Mammon Osman, Mahgoob Bakheit, OIU

8:00 – 9:00 Arrival and Registration

9:00 – 9:05 Holy Quran Skeikh/ Salah Eltahir- OIU

9:05 – 9:15 Water Resources of Sudan Dr. Salih Hamad, MWRIE

9:15 – 9:20 Conference Organising committee welcome Prof. Eltayeb Onsa, UNESCO-CWR

9:20 – 9:25 Conference Scientific Committee, welcome Dr. Atila Uras, UN Environment,

9:25 – 9:30 UNESCO - Khartoum office Dr. Pavel Kroupkin, Director

9:30 – 9:35 Practical Action Welcome Ms. Muna Eltahir, Executive Manager

9:35 – 9:40 UNICEF Welcome Mr. Abdullah Fadil, UNICEF Representative

9:40 – 9:45 UK Ambassador welcome HE Mr. Michael Aron

9:45 – 9:50 OIU Vice Chancellor Welcome Prof. Hassan Abbas, VC Omdurman Islamic University

9:50 – 9:55 Deputy Governor and Minister of Agriculture, Animal Resources and Forestry

HE Mr. M. Braima Hassab Al Nabi, North Darfur State

9:55 – 10:00 Wadi ElKu Water Management Story WEK Video

10:00 – 10:10 Minister of Water Resources Irrigation and Electricity

HE Mr. Mutaz Musa Abdalla Salim

10:10 – 10:15 Minster of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Deputy Prime Minster.

HE Dr. Sumaiya M. Abukashawa

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10:15 – 10:20 Declaration of Conference and Exhibition Opening

HE 1st lt. Gen. Bakri Hassan Salih, 1

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Vice President

10:20 – 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 – 11:00 EU Ambassador, Sudan HE Mr. Jean-Michel Dumond

11:00 – 11:30 Keynote: Managing water for inclusive

growth and development under challenging conditions

Prof.: Mike Muller, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

11:30 – 11:45 Drama Performance

11:45 – 13:00

Ministerial panel: 1. Minister of Water Resources, Irrigation and

Electricity, 2. Minister of Environment and Urban Planning, 3. Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, and 4. Minister of Animal Resources and Fisheries

Discussants:

1. Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research,

2. Minister of Finance, 3. Minister of Welfare and Social Security and 4. Minister of Federal Governance

Facilitator: Mr Mamoon Osman (Ashroog)

13:00 -14.00 Lunch and pray

14:00 – 16:00

Session 1: Sharing of IWRM best practices for sustainable growth and development in Sudan

Chair: Mr Phil Outram, UK Department of International Development, UK Aid

Rapporteur: Dr. Eshraga Sokrab (UNESCO-CWR)

14:00 – 14:10 Framing IWRM in Sudan (example; Gash and others)

Prof. Abu Obeida Babiker, HRC-MWRIE

14:10 – 14:20 Demonstration of best practices in natural resource management in Wadi El Ku, North Darfur

Mr. Abdallah Abdel Latif; Chair; Wadi Elku Technical Committee and Mr. Chado Tshering, UN Environment, AlFashir

14:20 – 14:30 Best practices in None Nile Water for fish Production

Dr. Nadia Dirdiri, Ministry of livestock, fisheries and Range land

14:30 – 14:40 JICA Best Practices for Enhancement of Integrated Water Resources Management (PEIWRM)

Dr. Ahmed Adam, MWRIE

14:40 – 14:50

Integrated Water Resource Management as a tool to enhance sustainable water access in Communities Government of Sudan and UNICEF Joint WASH

Eng. Kannan Nadar. Chief WASH Section, UNICEF SCO, Khartoum

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Program

14:50 – 15:00 Eco-Sudan for Drought & Desertification Control (EDDC) Good practice in water related management

Mr. Suhaib Hamid, Eco-Sudan

15:00 – 15:30 Open floor Discussion

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

Session 2: Sharing of IWRM best practices for sustainable growth and development in Sudan (cont.)

Chair: Prof. M. Salih Dafalla, Institute of Environnemental Studies, UoK Rapporteur: Eng. Abdelgadir Abdeen Salih, UNESCO Khartoum

16:00 – 16:10 Gender water management and the role of Civil Society Organisations; the Sudanese Environment Conservation society experiences

Dr. Sumia Elsaied, Alahfad University

16:10 – 16:20 Documentation of IWRM good/best practices in Sudan

Prof Bashar K.E., UN Environnent

16:20 – 16:30 IWRM Best Practices in Sudan: Case Study: Climate Change Adaptation Project

Dr. Tarig El Gamri, National Center for Research, Sudan

16:30 – 16:40 Good Practice, lessons learnt and experience to be shared from “Improvement of Motorized Open Dug Well Project”, (طي الرشاء)مشروع تحسين آبار الدلو

Prof. Salaheldien Yousif, Director Elsugya

16:40 – 16:50 Water Harvesting Techniques: Good Practices to increase Water Productivity

Dr. Elwaleed Mohamed Elamin, Agricultural Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture

16:50 – 17:00 Sustainability of Water Harvesting Projects (Case study of small dams)

Prof. Younis Gismalla, HRC, MWRIE

17:00 – 17:30 Open floor Discussion

18:00 – 19:30 Formal conference dinner, sponsored by MWRIE

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Day 2: 22nd November 2017 Integrated Water Resources Management Technical Pillars

Time Activity Presenter

08:30 – 08:45 Welcome and Summary of Day 1 Eng. Abdelgadir Abdeen Salih, UNESCO Khartoum

8:45 – 10:30 Session 3: IWRM and Good Governance

Chair: Prof. Seif Hamad, MWRIE Rapporteur: Dr. Hamid Omer, UN Environment

a. IWRM for Good Water Governance: bench marking

8:45 – 9:10

Keynote: Reforming Sudan’s Water Laws:

Issues and Challenges from a Comparative

Laws Perspective

Mr. Stefano Burchi; Chairman of the

International Association for Water Law

(AIDA)

9:10 – 9:30 Discussion

9:30 – 9:45 Integrated Water Resources Management

(IWRM): Governance Perspectives

Prof. Ahmed Khalid; Regional

Coordinator, Global Water Partnership-

East Africa

9:45 – 10:00 Ground Water governance in a federal system Ms. Marguerite de Chaisemartin,

UNESCO-IHP

10:00 – 10:30 Open floor Discussion

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30

Session 4: Water in the Sudan Economy

Chair: Prof. Amir Bakheit Saeed, Faculty of Agriculture, (UoK) Rapporteur: Eng. Hatim AlBadri, RCWH, MWRIE

b. Economic beneficiation from good water governance

11:00 – 11:20 Keynote: Sudan agricultural expansion and

virtual water debates

Dr. Mamoon Dawelbait;

Agricultural Technology Transfer

‘CTC Agrochemicals’

11:20 – 11:30 The Sudan water vision in support of Sudan

sustainable Growth and Development

Dr. Ali Mahmoud; Chairman of the

Parliamentary Committee on Economic

Affairs

11:30 – 11:50 The water risk in the gum Arabic belt due to

climate change

Mr. Hassan O. Abdel Nour, Ministry of

Agriculture and Forests (WFP/FNC)

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11:50 – 12:05 Towards a Sudan Water Strategic Framework

Mr. Jamal Yousif, National Council for

Strategic Planning1 and Eiman Karar,

UN Environment.

12:05 – 12:30 Panel Discussion Discussant: Prof Siddig Eisa (UNESCO-

CWR)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch And Pray

13:30 – 14:40

Session 5: Database for water knowledge supporting decision making

Chair: Dr. Atila Uras, UN Environment Rapporteur: Abdel Rahman Segeiron, MWRIE

c. Science informing good water management decisions

13:30 – 13:50 Keynote: On sharing data best practice of

National Ersad

Dr. Ahmed Abdel Karim, SMA

(tbc)

13:50 – 14:00 Research suitable for decision making; experience of

DDS

Prof. Gamal Abdo, WRC, University

of Khartoum

14:00 – 14:10 Best practice in water monitoring and data

interpretations Eng. Timmo Gaasbeek , ZOA

14:10 – 14:20 Water data governance in Sudan; the vision

Eng. Osman Mustafa Ahmed

Mohamed and Dr. Salah Mahgoub,

MWRIE/GWWD

14:20 – 14:40 Panel Discussion Discussant: Eng. Robert Delaney,

UNOPS

14:40 – 15:10 Coffee break

15:10 – 16:30

Session 6: Research and Capacity Building within IWRM

Chair: Prof. Abdin Salih Rapporteur: Prof. Siddig Eissa

d. Research informing policy for good water management

15:10 – 15:30

Keynote: UNESCO IHP role in fostering

groundwater governance and achieve the SDG 6:

promoting networking, sharing data and

information, building capacity

Dr. Alice Aurelli, UNESCO IHP,

Paris

15:30 – 15:45 The research, capacity building and Community of

Practice

Prof. Isam Abdel Magid, University

of Dammam (KSA)

15:45 – 16:00 Sudan research institutional mapping and research

needs in IWRM Prof. Ahmed Salih Hussein

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16:00 – 16:15

IWRM Good practices into formal Basic Education

Dr. Aiman El Badri/Eng.

Abdelgadir Abdeen Salih

(UNESCO Khartoum Office)

16:15 – 16:30 Interdisciplinary and Integrated Water Research in

Higher education for supporting policy making

Prof. Siddig Eisa and Dr. Muna

Musnad, UNESCO-Chair in Water

Resources

16:30 – 17:00 Discussion

17:00 – 18:00

Special Session on the Japan Fund-in-Trust Project on “Urgent Capacity

Development for Managing Natural Disaster Risks of Flash Floods: Sudan

Case Study”

17:00 – 17:10 Project Overview Dr. Bisher Imam

17:10 – 17:20 Overview of the Gash flash flood Prof. Gamal Abdo

17:20 – 17:30 Remedial measures Guidelines Prof. Kamaleldin Bashar

17:30 – 17:40 Community awareness in the Gash Ms. Maha Abdelrahem

17:40 – 18:00 Discussion

18:00 – 19:30 Dinner

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Day 3

IWRM-Net-SD and Stakeholder consultation on Review of the National Water Resources Policy

Time Activity Presenter

8:30 – 8:40 Welcome and Summary of Day 2 Prof. Siddig Eisa

Session 7: IWRM-NET Sudan

Chair: Prof Eltayeb Onsa Rapporteur: Azza Nabiel (SYPW)

8:40 – 8:55 Establishment of an Integrated Water Resources

Management Network in Sudan

Prof. Eltayeb Hassan Onsa and Dr.

Ahmed Musa Siyam , UNESCO-

CWR

8:55 – 9:35 Roundtable discussions on fostering IWRM-Net-SD

and way forward

Chaired by Prof. Ahmed Khalid,

GWP-EA

9:35– 10:00 Feedback (Way forward)

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break

Session 8: Sudan water governance for the future

Chair: HE Hamad Homeida, Minister of Water Resources, Mining and Energy, N Darfur State

Rapporteur: Dr Wifag Hassan Mahmoud, RCWH, MWRIE

10:30 – 10:45 Sudan Water Governance; laws, policies and

institutions Dr. Osman Eltom, MWRIE

10:45– 11:00 Water vertical mandates and alignment for

sustainable development

Mr. Mohammd Al Karory; Ministry

of Federal Governance

11:00 – 11:30 Panel discussion Discussant: Eng. M. Hassan

Eltayeb, MWRIE

11:30 – 12:30

Group work around conference themes recommendations;

1. good practice upscaling, 2. planning for the future; 3. water data alignment, 4. IWRM-Net-SD 5. water governance for the future.

Group work

12:30 – 13:00

Summary of sessions and presenting conference

declarations

HE Minister of Water Resources, Irrigation and

Prof. Seif Hamad

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Electricity

H. E. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of High

Education and Scientific Research

Media session endorsement of conference

declarations and close

Media statement by the Minister of Water Resources

13:00 – 15.00 Lunch on the Nile

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Acronyms

AIDA International Association for Water Law

CTC Agrochemicals’ Central Trading Company Limited Group

DDS Darfur Development Strategy

EDDC Eco-Sudan for Drought & Desertification Control

EU European Union

GWP-EA Global Water Partnership – East Africa

IWRM Integrated Water Resources Management

MWRIE Ministry of Water Resources , Electricity and Irrigation

OIU Omdurman Islamic University

PEIWRM Practices for Enhancement of Integrated Water Resources Management

SD Sudan

UNESCO-CWR UNESCO Chair in Water Resources

UN United Nations

UNESCO United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization

UNESCO- IHP UNESCO Hydrological Program

UNICEF United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund

UNOPS UN Office for Project Support

WASH Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

WEK Wadi El Ku

WFP/FNC World Food Program/ Food and Nutrition Council

ZOA ZOA International