Monthly Report Global Water Partnership

October 2014

Table of contents NewsFlow June 2014.............................................................................................................................................. 2

GWP Global .......................................................................................................................................................... 17 GWP Regions ........................................................................................................................................................ 20 CARIBBEAN .............................................................................................................................................................. 18

CENTRAL AFRICA ....................................................................................................................................................... 33

CENTRAL AMERICA .................................................................................................................................................... 36 CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE .................................................................................................................................. 41 CENTRAL ASIA AND CAUCASUS .................................................................................................................................... 54 CHINA ..................................................................................................................................................................... 69

EASTERN AFRICA ....................................................................................................................................................... 73

MEDITERRANEAN ...................................................................................................................................................... 76 SOUTHERN AFRICA .................................................................................................................................................... 85 SOUTH AMERICA ..................................................................................................................................................... 102

SOUTH ASIA ........................................................................................................................................................... 105

SOUTHEAST ASIA .................................................................................................................................................... 132 WEST AFRICA ......................................................................................................................................................... 136

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NewsFlow November 2014

Crafting a gender and water common vision

Up to 300 participants from more than 30 countries gathered for the Gender, Water and

Development Conference, 7-11 November 2024, in East London, South Africa. This is a

step in an on-going journey to change equality, equity , and development in the water

sector.

Read more. (article already published)

The conference was organised by the Water Research Commission of South Africa (WRC), in

partnership with the Department of Water and Sanitation of South Africa, African Ministers’

Council on Water (AMCOW), the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and

the Women for Water Partnership (WfWP).

Several partner organisations, including Global Water Partnership (GWP), the International

Water and Sanitation Partnership (WSP), the International Water Management Institute (IWMI),

the Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Pretoria, and the Stockholm

International Water Institute (SIWI) supported the conference in aligning with global and

continental initiatives in bridging the gap towards gender and water development .

Speaking during the inaugural speech, the Minister of Water Affairs and Sanitation of South

Africa, Ms. Nomvula Mokonyane, noted that: “In the spirit of the conference theme, which is

“The Untapped Connection” we would aspire to help to connect women, especially those from

the rural areas who had been denied the right to clean water and have been forced to share

water with animals.”

She further noted that water must be appreciated, not only as an end in itself, but as a

springboard to development and it should be considered throughout the Sustainable

Development Goal framework, both inside and outside of the "water box." As such, she called

upon participants representing various institutions and countries to work in partnership with

the countries and organisations involved in other goals of food security, risk management,

energy, sustainable cities, health, and ecosystems, to be sure that targets relative to water will

be linked to these goals.

GWP Chair: Equality is a Global Priority

In her opening remarks and welcoming delegates, GWP Chair Dr. Ursula Schaefer-Preuss

highlighted the necessity to treat gender equality as a global priority and to take a

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comprehensive approach which addresses the structural drivers as well as the complexity of

gender inequalities, if water security is to be achieved.

Speaking on behalf of AMCOW, Executive Secretary Bai Mass Tal and the Minister of

Environment, Water and Climate of Zimbabwe, Mr. Saviour Kasukuwere, reiterated that the

management of water has consequences on development. In that context, delegates were

informed that the AMCOW Policy and Strategy for Mainstreaming Gender in Africa’s Water

Sector was developed in the African Union’s efforts to support gender mainstreaming, within

development sectors including the water sector. The AMCOW strategy on gender and water,

with seven key themes, is one of the issues to be addressed at the conference.

GWP Implementing Gender Strategy

GWP’s Executive Secretary, Dr. Ania Grobicki gave a presentation on how GWP was

implementing gender mainstreaming through its recently developed gender strategy. In her

presentation, she reaffirmed GWPs support to mainstreaming water and gender in 30 countries.

The Ministerial presence at the conference gives an indication of the seriousness with which the

advancement of Gender Equality, Equity and Development in the Water Sector is being taken on

the continent. A Ministerial conference declaration will drive the implementation of the

conference outcomes beyond the conference and ensure the roll out of such implementation.

The support to gender and water development was also demonstrated by a Ministerial

excursion to some women water projects identified in East London, South Africa. Dr. Ania

Grobicki noted that the water projects demonstrate that a lot is happening and is po ssible on

the ground if women’s talents can be tapped. She expressed that “women are managing water”,

a statement showing a common vision shared by the many conference delegates deliberating

on how women and men can both play a crucial role in shaping development.

By the end of the conference, this platform should therefore provide an opportunity for all

participating countries to craft a new vision, common solutions and partnerships to overcome

water-related challenges still faced by women in the African continent.

Also on gender and water:

Undertaking Gender Mainstreaming in Transboundary Water Management in the SADC region

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Water on legislative agenda in Central America

GWP Central America, with the support of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador, organised the VIII

Legislators Conference on Water Resources, which took place on October 28, 2014, in San Salvador.

Read more. (article to be published and hyperlinked)

Since 2002, GWP Central America has organized a series of conferences for legislators, as key actors

involved in the adoption of water laws and other regulations. A result of this effort has been the

inclusion of the concept of integrated water resources management (IWRM) – for example

institutional reform, multi-stakeholder participation, water financing, basin management, among

other issues - in the various policies of the region, including the National Water Laws of Nicaragua

(2007) and Honduras (2009), and the policies that are under discussion in Costa Rica and El Salvador.

More than 20 legislators and legislative advisors from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras,

Nicaragua and Panama participated in this event. In addition, regional experts including

representatives from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

(ECLAC), the Central American Agricultural Council (CAC), the Latin American Energy Organization

(OLADE), and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).

The event began with a presentation about the National IWRM Plan and Climate Change Policy of El

Salvador, by Hernan Romero, from the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of El Salvador

(MARN).

“93% of the rain in El Salvador falls in 6 months and the remaining 7% in the rest of the year.

Only 4.6% of sewage receives any treatment. The entire coast of El Salvador is contaminated

with fecal coliforms, Phosphorous and Nitrogen.”

There was also a presentation of the effects of climate change on water resources and development

of the region by Julie Lennox, from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and

the Caribbean (ECLAC).

“Central America has had an accumulated economic loss of 23 billion because of 22 major

events, assessed in the past 35 years.”

Three themed panels were organized to present the different experiences in regards to water,

climate and development. The first panel included four presentations on issues intrinsically related to

the above mentioned topic: food security, risk management and energy.

1500 liters of water are needed to produce 1 kg of wheat, and 10 times more water is needed

to produce 1 kg of beef.

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Central America is considered a multi-hazard area; 95% of the population of El Salvador is

exposed to 2 or more risks.0.5% of the GDP of the countries of the region is affected because

of disasters.

6 million of people in Central America do not have access to electricity. Latin America and the

Caribbean have 25% of the world's hydroelectric potential and it only use 22%.

The second group of speakers spoke of institutional reform for IWRM; presenters included

representatives of the National Water Authorities of Nicaragua and Peru, as well as the Director of

Water of Costa Rica. The six countries of the region presented where they were in the process for the

adoption of their water law or in implementation of their water law, in the last panel of the

conference.

Declaration of San Salvador

At the end of the event, participants signed a declaration in which they pledged:

1. The integrated water management provides the appropriate framework for action to

promote sustainable use of water resources at the national and regional levels, so that

progress towards water security and reduction of vulnerability to the impacts of climate

change in the region, can be achieved.

2. An ongoing commitment to make every effort to approve the Water Law, where none exist,

or legal policies, to strengthen the integrated management of water as a mechanism to

promote sustainable water use.

3. Make an effort in congress to raise awareness with other legislators on the leading role of

water for the development of countries and the contribution that the improvement in the

management of water resources and infrastructure, can bring to various sectors, as well as in

the reduction of the impacts of extreme events such as floods and droughts.

4. Promote that the concept of Integrated Water Resources Management and Climate Change

Adaptation are included in policies that are approved.

5. An ongoing commitment to make every effort to legislate so as to ensure access to safe

drinking water and declare water as a public good.

6. That effective basin management represents an element of regional peace and constitutes

one of the main elements of Central American integration.

Related links:

GWP Central America report on the event (in Spanish)

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New technologies for wastewater treatment in Armenia

GWP Armenia organised a workshop to identify alternative technologies for urban wastewater

treatment in Armenia. The workshop, held in Aghveran on 16-17 October 2014, also looked at the

legal, institutional and financial obstacles.

Read more. (article to be published and hyperlinked)

In all urban areas of Armenia, domestic and industrial wastewaters are currently discharged into

rivers, ponds, irrigation canals and land areas without treatment. This leads to water resources

pollution, land resources degradation and can cause generations of serious environmental, health

and socio-economic problems.

In Soviet times, 22 wastewater treatment plants were operating in Armenia, out of which only

Yerevan’s wastewater treatment plant is still operating, with only partial mechanical treatment

implemented. The remaining plants are no longer in use.

In recent years, the Armenian government has begun to pay attention to the rehabilitation of the

wastewater treatment process. In 2013-2014 five wastewater treatment plants were built and

commissioned. However, due to a lack of funds, only mechanical treatment structures were built in

those plants.

Experts and professional organisations of the sector are now looking for ways to develop and

implement alternative technologies for domestic wastewater treatment, which would demand small

financial, energy and technical resources.

The workshop was attended by representatives of all stakeholder ministries; the Ministry of Nature

Protection, the Ministry of Urban Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Territorial

Administration, Ministry of Economy, as well as agencies, regional councils of all 10 marzes, the

Yerevan Municipality, water companies, village administrations, and international organisations.

A report of the event is available on the GWP Central Asia and Caucasus website (pdf).

Med stakeholders share best practice on governance and financing

The 1st Regional Conference of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) on governance

and financing for the water sector was organised on 28-30 October 2014, in Athens,

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Greece, in order to share experiences and address the main bottlenecks in the water

governance-financing nexus.

Read more. (GWP Mediterranean has published the article)

The event was organised by the Global Water Partnership-Mediterranean (GWP-Med), in

close collaboration with the EU funded Sustainable Water Integrated Management -

Support Mechanism (SWIM-SM) project. It convened more than 110 decision makers;

representatives of government; civil society; the private sector; international

organisations; donors and financing institutions.

In continuation of the Regional Policy Dialogue set off during the launching of the UfM project

in May 2013, the Conference set the ground for the sharing of experiences and best practices

on governance and sustainable financing for the water sector. It addressed the main

bottlenecks and cross-cutting issues in the water governance-financing nexus. Moreover, the

event reflected on a platform for regional dialogue on the governance and financing nexus

among public, private and civil society actors calling for further north-south and south-south

cooperation.

During the high level opening at the Acropolis Museum, chaired by Prof. Michael Scoullos,

Chairman of the Global Water Partnership-Mediterranean (GWP-Med), H.E. Naser Tahboub, the

UfM Deputy Secretary General for Environment and Water highlighted the need “to strengthen

regional cooperation to improve capacity and institutional response to water scarcity and

respond to the clear need for financial stability”. Mr. Gaetano Leone, Coordinator of the United

Nations Environment Programme/Mediterranean Action Plan and Mr. Julien Serre, Policy and

Strategy Advisor at the European Investment Bank (EIB), after welcoming the participants, took

stock of the contribution of their organisations to the theme.

“We are smart enough to share best practices” asserted the Deputy Minister of Environment of

the Republic of Albania, H.E. Djana Bejko, while stressing the value of experience sharing and

the opportunity that this Conference provides to multiple stakeholders for raising their voices.

The Former Minister of Water and Irrigation of Jordan, H.E. Mohammed Najjar, contributed

with his reflections on financing water infrastructure in the Mediterranean and shared his

country experiences, while H.E. Koussai Quteishat, former Secretary General of the Jordanian

Ministry of Water and Irrigation, delivered the keynote on the status of water PPP in the

Mediterranean highlighting that “projects struggle between bankability and government

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structure” as frequently projects are not implemented due to either the fact that they are not

bankable while there are available financial resources or due to governance bottlenecks that

need to be tackled first.

During the second day, the core findings of the Water Policy Dialogues conducted by GWP -Med

and the OECD in Jordan and Tunisia were presented by the OECD project team and were

complemented by targeted interventions by core Dialogue partners in the two countries. The

subsequent session, chaired by Ms. Dionysia Avgerinopoulou, President of the Circle of

Mediterranean Parliamentarians for Sustainable Development (COMPSUD), included targeted

reflections by representatives of other South Mediterranean countries and explored ways of

taking the findings from Jordan and Tunisia forward into the wider Mediterranean region and

beyond.

During the event, discussions revolved particularly around mainstreaming cross-cutting issues

and ways on how to best integrate them in the water governance and financing nexus; in this

context interventions from Civil Society and other international organisations’ repre sentatives

focusing on gender, rights, water integrity and stakeholder engagement offered tangible

experience-sharing and fruitful insights on how to operationalize the mainstreaming process.

Debate and discussions during the Conference focused also on the role of the private sector

when it comes to sustainable financing; with the private companies including banks and

insurance companies presenting their perspective and giving successful examples when working

in financing water and sanitation projects.

The event also discussed the way forward for the second year of the Governance & Financing

for the Mediterranean Water Sector project and reviewed existing synergies, such as the one

with the EU-funded project SWIM-SM aiming to strengthen the engagement between water and

financing stakeholders and to contribute to the facilitation of the platform for regional dialogue

on the governance and financing nexus. It also explored further synergies with other regional

actors, initiatives and projects working towards advancing sustainable financing for water and

sanitation services, such as the UNECE’s initiative to establish a Centre of Excellence on Public -

Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Water and Sanitation, the CEO Platform for Green Growth in

MENA and the UNDP ‘Global Water Solidarity’ institutional platform for local level water

management.

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In their closing remarks, both the Head of International Relations and EU Affairs at the Hellenic

Ministry of Environment, Ms. Maria Peppa and the UfM Deputy Secretary General for

Environment and Water, H.E. Naser Tahboub stressed the need for the continuation of the

regional dialogue at Mediterranean level and expressed their anticipation for the outcomes of

the UfM labelled project’s national and regional work.

The next Regional Conference within the Governance & Financing for the Mediterranean Water

Sector project will take place in mid-2015 following up on the conclusions of the first

Conference and on sharing the findings of the national Policy Dialogues and work of the proje ct.

The Conference formed an integral part of the activities of the Governance & Financing for the

Mediterranean Water Sector project, officially labelled under the UfM and jointly implemented

by GWP-Med and the OECD. It was organised in close cooperation with the EU funded

‘Sustainable Water Integrated Management-Support Mechanism (SWIM-SM)’ project and was

supported by the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and the European

Commission and was conducted in strategic partnership with the European Investment Bank

(EIB), the GEF UNEP/MAP MedPartnership programme and the Mediterranean Component of

the EU Water Initiative (MED EUWI).

Please find below all relevant documents:

Agenda (EN)

Agenda (FR)

Background Note (EN)

Background Note (FR)

List of participants

Presentations:

Governance & Financing for the Mediterranean Water Sector: Overview & Current Status of the project, Anthi Brouma

SWIM-SM, Stavros Damianidis

Governance & Financing for the Mediterranean Water Sector: Policy dialogues on water governance in Jordan and Tunisia, Céline Kauffmann & Aziza Akhmouch

Dialogue OCDE-GWP-Med : Perspective de la Banque Européenne d’Investissement, Edouard Perard

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Integrating aspects of poverty, equity, gender, human rights and CSR, Niclas Ihrén

Mainstreaming gender in water: GWP Gender Strategy, Natalia Alexeeva

Water Integrity Capacity Building Programme for MENA, Maria Jacobson

Proposal for an International Centre on water and sanitation PPPs, Katia Adamo

CEO Platform for Green Growth in MENA, Stefania Romano

Global Water Solidarity:Promoting local action and territorial approachto improve water supplies and sanitation, Ivan Draganic

SWIM-SM work on financing water services, Charbel Rizk

Lessons learnt of operational pollution reduction projects – MeHSIP-PPIF’s Validation Exercise, Vassilis Nikitas

More from GWP Mediterranean:

North Western Sahara Aquifer System Consultation Mechanism Study Tour

Regional Consultation Workshop: Strengthening Institutions For Transboundary Water Management

In North Africa

Using cartoons to share water knowledge

GWP Myanmar is using cartoons to explain the concept of Integrated Water Resources Management

(IWRM). A new cartoon book in a Myanmar language sets out key messages for an easy

understanding of the integrated approach.

Read more. (article to be published and hyperlinked)

90 percent of the world’s water is sea water and only 0.4 percent of the water in the world can be

used as a clean water. Water demand is increasing as the result of population growth in particular

and other causes such as urbanisation, expansion of agriculture and industries.

The natural water resources are limited in quantity and if the usage is not managed properly, water

shortage has to be faced in the very near future. The availability of water in both quantity and quality

is being severely affected by climate variability and climate change and these are caused by both

natural and man-made events. As a result flood and drought occurs that increase vulnerability of

people and stress on the water resources.

IWRM means that all the different uses of water resources are managed together and the

management functions of IWRM are water allocation, pollution control, monitoring, financial

management, flood and drought management, information management and basin planning. These

are some of the key messages in the book, which will be distributed from grass root level up to

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various stakeholders, in a bid to raise awareness about water management and water security under

the scope of IWRM.

GWP CEE on participatory processes at ERRC

Apart from the practical aspects of river restoration and management, the 6th European River

Restoration Conference (ERRC) examined the overall approach to integrated river basin

management. One theme – building stakeholder dialogue and ensuring bottom-up and top-down

approaches – was explored in the GWP Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) session.

Read more. (GWP CEE to publish article)

The session was chaired by GWP Senior Knowledge Management Officer Danka Thalmeinerova. She

highlighted the importance of public participation in upcoming consultations on the second river

basin management plans in 2015.

The session also included an official launch of the new GWP CEE video “Citizen Engagement for

Water”. The video emphasises that water is a resource that needs to be used wisely, and that

problems need to be solved together, through Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM).

Experiences from national consultation dialogues on Water Sustainable Development Goals from

Slovenia and Poland were presented by GWP CEE Chair Mrs. Martina Zupan, and GWP Poland Chair

Mr. Tomasz Okruszko. Ms. Sabina Bokal, who is CEE Programme Manager for the Integrated Drought

Management Programme (IDMP), shared lessons learned from Drought management national

consultation dialogues which were run in 10 CEE countries.

GWP Senior Advisor Alan Hall highlighted the necessity of involvement of policy makers in the water

dialogue. He presented a summary of the post 2015-development agenda and emphasized that

water needs targets that are more comprehensive, however, at the same time it has been difficult to

set up and measure targets.

UN Water provided technical advice to the Open Working Group, proposing a dedicated goal for

water – securing sustainable water for all. Countries agreed that the proposed goal is fundamental

within the post-2015 development agenda.

Great Interest

More than 200 people participated in the National Consultations on Water in the Post-2015

Development Agenda–phase II in Bulgaria, Poland, Romania and Slovenia in the first half of 2014.

Benedict Mandl, ICPDR’s Technical Expert on Public Participation and Communication, introduced the

Danube River Basin, which is very diverse in terms of economic and social development and

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ecosystems. “Public participation saves time and resources and it is legally binding” said Mr. Mandl,

who has vast experience in public participation and stakeholders’ involvement in ICPDR.

In the very lively discussion at the GWP CEE session some important questions were raised, like how

to manage stakeholders’ expectations, especially in trans-boundary projects; how to sustain the

participatory process in the future; how to manage participation processes in countries of such

diversity as in the Danube River Bain, developing and ensuring the bottom up and top down

approaches and their combinations, and others. The EEA report “Public participation: contributing to

better water management” was discussed, as well as details who needs to talk to whom and the

transparency of the process.

In an attempt to challenge and encourage the audience to participate, GWP CEE created and

presented a one-act Play entitled 'On stakeholder involvement and participation - going beyond

stereotypes'. It was an interactive play aiming to discuss the challenges related to communication

and stakeholder involvement, and provide an insight into how these can be overcome. The play

focused on stereotypes as the main obstacle in communication and cooperation.

In order to provide a balanced view on the issue of stereotypes, five participants from different

sectors were asked to be actors and discuss the main stereotypes they face. With a great mix of

actors representing the private sector, donor agencies, policymakers, the youth and scientists, the

play provided a lively variety of views, with some stereotypes shown to indeed be oversimplified and

judgmental views, while others were accepted as true problems that need to be addressed.

The opinions of the actors also triggered participation from the audience, discussing issues such as

the form of communication - written, spoken or pictorial - and the wording and decoding of

messages. This atypical and intriguing performance helped the audience and the participants to

consider the problem of stereotypes, both those they face and those they assign to others, and the

session encouraged them to deal with issues openly.

Related link:

GWP blog: Winners for European Waters: Reflections from ERRC 2014

New videos from GWP CEE:

Small water retention measures

Citizen engagement for water

New GWP China Website Launched

GWP China has launched a new bilingual website, offering the latest GWP news from the region.

Now all 13 GWP Regional Water Partnership websites share the same platform and branding.

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Read more. (article to be published and hyperlinked)

The website contains background information on the history and governance of GWP China, as well

as the latest research, publications, events and reference material on water management in China.

The website also has up-to-date information on the GWP China secretariat in Beijing, with contact

details.

GWP China is a lead player in convening high-level roundtables bringing together stakeholders across

sectors and ministries. GWP China facilitates these roundtables of governmental agencies at national,

river basin, and provincial levels. In particular, the four Provincial Water Partnerships in Fujian, Hebei,

Hunan and Shaanxi, and the Yellow River Water Partnership add value through ‘neutral advocacy’.

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GWP in the news

Conference Addresses Development Cooperation to Mitigate Environmental Disaster in Aral Sea

(IISD Reporting Services)

World Bank, GWP CACENA Plan for Aral Sea Capacity Building Programme (IISD Reporting

Services)

IWRM policies in Africa fail to consider local needs – Report (Daily Trust)

UN official urges bracing for ramifications of climate change (Kuwait News Agency)

Cocoa farmers to receive education on weather patterns (SpyGhana.com)

IWRM Policies in Africa Fail to Consider Local Needs, Politics: Report (OOSKAnews)

Experts warn Pakistan of acute water shortages (Samaa)

Flooding could worsen Pakistan's water shortage, experts warn (Reuters)

Flooding could worsen Pakistan's water shortage, experts warn (Thomson Reuters Foundation)

Flows and Practices : the Politics of IWRM in Africa (ICP Collaboration Portal)

Global water reforms must address issues of inequality and needs of poorest (Institute of

Development Studies)

Thinking beyond integration: Tracing patterns of water governance (Global Water Forum)

2014 China GWP Toolbox Workshop for University Water Education Held at Hohai University

(Hohai University)

Changsha University of Science & Technology reports on GWP IWRM ToolBox Workshop (in

Chinese)

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Coming events

18 Nov 2014, Webinar over 3 weeks: Water Quality Monitoring Using Remote Sensing

MeasurementsAM (NASA)

and same course, different times of the day:

18 Nov 2014, Webinar over 3 weeks: Water Quality Monitoring Using Remote Sensing

MeasurementsAM (NASA)

19 Nov 2014, World Toilet Day, UN-Water

26-28 Nov 2014, First International Environment Forum for Basin Organizations, Nairobi, Kenya

27-28 Nov 2014, Global Forum on Environment: New Perspectives on the Water-Energy-Food-

Nexus, Paris, France

1-12 Dec 2014, UNFCCC COP20, Lima, Peru

3-5 Dec 2014, Water Dialogue Forum: "Water for Regional Cooperation", Nairobi, Kenya

New Resources Understanding the energy-water nexus (pdf, ECN)

New website: www.worldwetlandsday.org, World Wetlands Day 2015 (Ramsar)

New website: High-level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters (HELP)

On Target for People and Planet: Setting and Achieving Water-Related Sustainable Development

Goals (pdf, IWMI)

Beyond Downscaling: A Bottom-Up Approach to Climate Adaptation for Water Resources

Management (AGWA)

Downstream Voices – Wetland solutions to Reducing Disaster Risk (pdf, Wetlands International)

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Realising the human rights to water and sanitation: A handbook (OHCHR)

Global Water Demand Projections: Past, Present and Future (IWMI)

Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management: Ecosystem-based management approaches

for water-related infrastructure projects (pdf, UNEP-DHI Partnership)

Global Water Contract, Part 1 (World Ocean Observatory)

Global Water Contract, Part 2 (World Ocean Observatory)

Calls Call for applications: Partnership with R4D on scaling WASH innovations. Deadline 24 November. Call for participation: Measure What Matters dialogue (Green Economy Coalition) Call for applications: Young Scientists Summer Program. Deadline 12 January 2015

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GLOBAL

Narrative Report

October 2014

IDMP and APFM

Compiled by Frederik

1. APFM Support to GWP China “Roundtable on Flood Control Strategies of Floodplain Economic

Development in the Downstream of Yellow River"

Should be reported on by GWP China. APFM facilitated the participation of two flood management

experts from among the APFM Support Based Partners and WMO. GWP covered their travel in the

region to participate.

Their mission report has been promised for the next days.

2. APFM Support to Bangladesh Water Partnership for workshop and project development on

Integrated Coastal Flood management

Text below from my BTOR. Photos are available here

The Bangladesh Water Partnership requested through the Integrated Flood Management (IFM)

HelpDesk the support of the WMO/ GWP Associated Programme on Flood Management (APFM). The

support had the following objectives:

- To introduce IFM concepts and tools to the top management of relevant agencies and

stakeholders.

- To analyse the current flood management practices in the coastal zone (actors, stakeholders,

managers, decision-makers, institutions involved, existing management plans, lessons

learned from the most recent flood disasters), and develop consensus by the top

management on the need to implement a more integrated Flood Management approach in

the coastal zone.

- To get feedback from stakeholders on the current coastal flood management policy and

practices.

- To develop a first draft of an Integrated Flood Management framework for the coastal areas

in Bangladesh.

The 2-day workshop, which was held on the weekend, was attended by over 100 participants,

including the Minister of Water Resources, Directors from the government agencies dealing with

water, national and international civil society organizations, academia and , albeit to a lesser extent,

representatives from potential financial partners (the Netherlands, World Bank).

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The presentations and discussion in the workshop elucidated the main flood related issues in the

coastal areas, namely:

- Flood management decisions taken frequently independently from land and water

management, ecosystems and infrastructure.

- Women excluded from decision-making processes at the local level.

- Embankment height not adequate for rising sea level and storm surges, particularly urgent

considering siltation of river bed.

- Technical solutions with narrow scope implemented without considering maintenance of

infrastructure

- Foreshore afforestation to reduce impact of storm surges limited

- Limited stakeholder involvement in the design and implementation of revamping

infrastructure

- Limited forecasting of coastal flooding (tidal flood and storm surge) only cyclone forecast and

tidal height, no combined flood height forecast in the coastal zone – a consequence of

limited coordination between metrological and hydrological services.

- Drainage of polders often problematic, causing water logging, leading to breaking of

embankments by communities.

To get to the pilot project site a plane needed to be taken in the evening, due to a nation-wide strike

during the day. Two poldered areas in the coastal zone were visited by the project team to get a

better impression of the issues faced in the coastal area, they are:

- Operation and maintenance of the embankment (erosion) and sluice gates (siltation)

- Access to adequate quality drinking water (arsene in groundwater, pollution of ponds,

salinization)

- Drainage of polders when storm surge surpasses embankment often problematic.

- Conflict between rice farmers (dependent on freshwater) and shrimp farmers (needing

saltwater)/ creditors for shrimp farming equipment.

- Cyclone shelter available for people, but assets remain unprotected

- Inheritance arrangements of land lead to unsustainable plot sizes.

Outputs/Outcomes/Follow-up:

- Bangladesh Water Partnership proved to be very effective in bringing together the key actors

to discuss flood management challenges in the country.

- Workshop Report to be finalized as per the WMO/GWP agreement with Bangladesh Water

Partnership and its lead partner for this activity, IWM.

- First draft of the pilot project will be developed by Coordinating Committee in Bangladesh.

WMO/GWP APFM will be requested to comment and provide intellectual backstopping.

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- Bangladesh Water Partnership will continue discussion with financial partners in the country

and present proposal to Minster of Water Resources, who indicated in his opening remarks

and informal discussions an interest in the activity and the availability of funds.

- Pilot project proposal to link to the GWP/Delta Alliance ‘Enabling Delta Life’ initiative in

Bangladesh.

Monthly Narrative report Global WACDEP and Deltas

October 2014

Susanne Skyllerstedt

WACDEP Global

1. NWP Synthesis Report GWP’s work on water and climate change adaptation is mentioned in a synthesis report of the

Nairobi Work Programme under the UNFCCC based on information contained in submissions from

Parties and Nairobi Work Programme partner organisations. The submission, made in August 2014

included information on GWP’ work on water as one of the key areas identified by the NWP, and

more specifically on: (a) available and implemented tools and methods for adaptation planning

processes addressing the four issues of ecosystems, human settlements, water resources and health;

(b) good practices and lessons learned in relation to adaptation planning processes, including on

monitoring and evaluation, addressing the four issues mentioned above; and (c) good practices and

lessons learned related to processes and structures for linking national and local adaptation planning.

The report concludes with a brief summary of the main elements common to the submissions.

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Deltas

2. Extended Deltas Vulnerability Assessment Delta Alliance have developed an extended version of a “Comparative Assessment of the

Vulnerability and Resilience of Deltas” including now assessments of 14 deltas. GWP have been

acknowledged in the report for the financial support provided.

Synthesis report - Delta Alliance report number 7 (2014). Tom Bucx (Deltares), Wim van Driel

(Alterra-Wageningen UR), Hans de Boer (TU-Delft), Susan Graas (UNESCO-IHE), Victor Langenberg

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(Deltares), Marcel Marchand (Deltares), Cees van de Guchte (Deltares). Delta Alliance Secretary,

Sunday 31 August 2014

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CARIBBEAN

Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C)

Report for October 2014 Activities

10th High Level Forum Sees Largest Attendance of Caribbean Water Ministers The 10th Annual High Level Forum (HLF) hosted by the Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA) and the Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) in collaboration with the Global Environment Facility’s Caribbean Regional Fund for Wastewater Management (GEF-CReW) on October 9th and 10th, 2014 in The Bahamas, saw the largest showing of Caribbean Water Ministers in the Forum’s history.

Caribbean Water Ministers are seen here at the 10th Annual High Level Forum (HLF) hosted by the CWWA and the GWP-C in collaboration with the GEF-CReW on October 9th and 10th, 2104 in The Bahamas.

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Eleven (11) Caribbean Ministers with responsibility for water resources management attended the 10th HLF. They included the host Minister, The Honourable Philip E. Brave Davis, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Works and Urban Development of The Bahamas; The Honourable Evan Gumbs, Minister of Infrastructure, Communications, Utilities and Housing of Anguilla; The Honourable Sharon Ramclam, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Agriculture of Belize; The Honourable Reginald Austrie; Minister of Lands, Housing, Settlements and Water Resource Management of the Commonwealth of Dominica; Senator The Honourable Simon Stiell, Minister of Agriculture of Grenada; The Honourable Robert Pickersgill, Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change of Jamaica; The Honourable Paul Lewis, Minister of Communications, Works, Energy and Labour of Montserrat; The Honourable Troy Liburd; Minister of Works and Communications of Nevis; Senator The Honourable Dr. James L. Fletcher, Minister of Public Service, Information, Broadcasting, Sustainable Development, Energy, Science and Technology of St. Lucia; Senator the Honourable Ganga Singh, Minister of Environment and Water Resources of Trinidad and Tobago; and The Honourable George Lightbourne, Minister of Government Support Services of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Senior government officials were also present representing the Cayman Islands, St. Kitts and Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago. In looking back at the past High Level Forums, the CWWA and the GWP-C were keen on improving the format of the 10th Forum to ensure greater engagement of Ministers in discussions and more importantly, critically exploring a practical mechanism for follow-up after the Forum. The theme of the 10th HLF was “Caribbean Water Security – Risks and Opportunities.” Some of the main topics and discussion sessions at the Meeting were:

Opportunities and Risks in Securing Water Security in the Caribbean

Feedback on the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States held in Samoa (The Way Forward for SIDS in terms of water management)

Financing Challenges in the Water Sector

Regional Initiatives on Water, Wastewater and Climate Change Following a brief opening ceremony, discussions at the Forum began with a feature presentation on “Leadership for Water Security” by Mr. Wouter T. Lincklaen Arriëns, a Technical Committee Member of the Global Water Partnership (GWP). His presentation looked at methodologies for assessing water security and strategies to increase water security drawing on his work with the Asian Development Bank, as well as, his participation in the Global Technical Committee of the GWP. His presentation sparked a lot of dialogue amongst the Ministers as it encouraged them to think about the role leadership plays in driving and supporting change. Critical to the Forum was a fruitful round-table discussion led by the Caribbean Water Ministers on “Policy Challenges” focusing specifically on innovative solutions and the policy environment needed to support innovation in the water sector. The session allowed for Ministers to actively engage with each other and learn from each other as they were able to share their experiences in their respective

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countries. The session was very beneficial as it gave both the CWWA and the GWP-C a better understanding of some the policy challenges being faced in the region so that both organisations and its strategic partners could better respond to these regional needs. Also key to the 10th HLF was a session looking back at the ten (10) years of the Forum. This session provided an opportunity to reflect and critically analyse the goals and objectives of the HLF; look at its main achievements and outcomes and more importantly chart a way forward. Professor Jacob Opadeyi, a Former Chair of the GWP and Dr. Hugh Sealy, a Past President of the CWWA each provided inputs on the history of the HLF and the rationale behind the Forum’s establishment to lead the discussions. According to some of the Ministers present, the session was extremely helpful to them because they had a clearer picture of the genesis of the Forum. The 10th High Level Forum was deemed a success and was made possible through financial contributions by the CWWA, GEF-CReW and the GWP-C which was shared between its core funds and funds under its Water, Climate and Development Programme (WACDEP). Immediate Outcome: After their discussions and deliberations, the Caribbean Ministers present at the 10th HLF signed a declaration agreeing to:

1. Commit themselves to make all the necessary efforts to convey to their Cabinets the recommendations made at the High Level Forum (HLF).

2. The GWP-C, CWWA and the Caribbean Regional Coordinating Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP-RCU) convening a Closed Ministerial Session within the HLF for Caribbean Water Ministers for the purpose of collaboration on matters related to water.

3. The GWP-C, CWWA and UNEP-RCU preparing an Information Note including but not limited to joint investment, research and development and procurement for the guidance of Ministers making presentations to their Cabinet.

4. The GWP-C, CWWA and UNEP-RCU providing human resources to support the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat in the implementation of decisions of the 10th HLF as appropriate.

5. The GWP-C, CWWA and UNEP-RCU conveying the recommendations of the 10th HLF to CARICOM for the purpose of presenting them to the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) and ensuring that water is represented as a critical portfolio.

6. The GWP-C, CWWA and UNEP-RCU initiating a process to establish a CARICOM Ministers of Water with the COTED with the necessary linkages to the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) that will provide political leadership, policy direction and advocacy

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in the provision, use and management of water resources for sustainable social and economic development of CARICOM member states.

Follow-up Actions: The GWP-C is committed to working with the CWWA and the UNEP-RCU to ensure that these recommendations are followed-up on.

GWP-C Shares Knowledge on IWRM and Climate Resilience at Premier Caribbean Water and Wastewater Conference

The Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) participated in the 2014 Caribbean Water and

Wastewater Association (CWWA) Conference and Exhibition held in The Bahamas from

October 6th - 10th, 2014.

The event which is regarded as the premier Water and Wastewater Conference in the

Caribbean saw the participation of more than 500 regional and international participants. At

the Conference, GWP-C was among over fifty (50) regional and international exhibitors at the

Conference.

GWP-C’s exhibition booth was funded

under its Water, Climate and

Development Programme (WACDEP)

and comprised of various knowledge

products developed under its WACDEP

to increase awareness and capacity on

Integrated Water Resources

Management (IWRM) and Building

Climate Resilience in the Caribbean

Water Sector.

Ms. Gabrielle Lee Look, GWP-C’s Communications Officer, is seen here sharing information on GWP-C and new knowledge products under its Water, Climate and Development Programme (WACDEP) at the 2014 CWWA Conference and Exhibition.

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Participants visiting the booth were

provided with a wealth of information

on the work of the GWP-C by Ms.

Gabrielle Lee Look, GWP-C’s

Communication Officer and

Ms. Candi Hosein, Programme Assistant

of the GWP-C WACDEP. Both Ms. Lee

Look and Ms. Hosein also introduced

visitors to new GWP-C publications

which ranged from Rainwater

Harvesting (RWH) briefs, and new

WACDEP knowledge products such as a Sourcebook for the Caribbean Water Sector entitled

“Achieving Development Resilient to Climate Change” and four (4) associated

information briefs.

The booth also included general information on GWP-C and the new Technical Focus Paper on

IWRM in the Caribbean published by the GWP. Visitors to the GWP-C booth also had the

opportunity to learn more about the organisation and the work taking place under its Water,

Climate and Development Programme (WACDEP) through videos and presentations that were

shown on a projector in the exhibition booth. Visitors also received branded flash-drives with

soft-copies of the new GWP-C and WACDEP knowledge products.

GWP-C also participated in the Conference with Ms. Gabrielle Lee Look (GWP-C

Communications Officer) and Ms. Candi Hosein (Programme Assistant of the GWP-C WACDEP)

each delivering presentations during technical sessions which took place throughout the week-

long event.

Ms. Candi Hosein, Programme Assistant of the GWP-C WACDEP is seen here at the GWP-C Exhibition at the 2014 CWWA Conference and Exhibition.

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Ms. Hosein a recent Master of

Science Graduate from the Centre

for Resources Management and

Environment Studies (CERMES) of

The University of the West Indies,

Cave Hill Campus presented her

thesis study on “Calculating the

Water Poverty Index in Carriacou” at

the Conference.

Her study is the first-of-its-kind in the region and its main aim was to explore the water

situation in Carriacou, Grenada using the Water Poverty Index Approach for assessing the

various facets of water vulnerability including: water availability, people’s ability to manage

water and environmental health. Though the study is a first for the Caribbean, it allowed for an

improved understanding of the factors shaping water security at both the household and

community level within the Small Island Developing State.

Ms. Lee Look’s presentation focused on “Tools, Resources and Knowledge Sharing to Build Climate Resilience in the Caribbean Water Sector.” The presentation introduced persons to GWP-C and its WACDEP and looked at some of the key initiatives being spearheaded by GWP-C under its WACDEP to be innovative in sharing information on the link between IWRM and building climate resilience in the Caribbean.

Ms. Candi Hosein, Programme Assistant of the GWP-C

WACDEP is seen here delivering her presentation at the 2014

CWWA Conference and Exhibition.

Ms. Gabrielle Lee Look, GWP-C Communications Officer is

seen here delivering her presentation at the 2014 CWWA

Conference and Exhibition.

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GWP-C Holds Its 28th Steering Committee Meeting in The Bahamas During the week of the 2014 Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA) Conference and Exhibition, the Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) held its 28th Steering Committee (SC) Meeting on October 8th, 2014 in The Bahamas. The Meeting enabled the GWP-C SC to review the work and achievements of the Partnership thus far in 2014 and to hold in-depth discussions on activities and strategies to be implemented for the rest of the year and in the future. The SC looked closely at a broad range of areas and issues in their discussions. Key to discussions was evaluating the GWP-C 3-Year Strategic Work Programme and deciding on some of the main priority areas of the organisation. The SC also provided valuable contributions were given by SC members in supporting the Partnership and moving the GWP-C work plan forward.

GWP-C and Partners Host Regional Rainwater Harvesting Knowledge Exchange Forum

A Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) Knowledge Exchange Forum which took place on October 21 st -

23rd, 2014 in St. Lucia was hosted by the GWP-C under its Water, Climate and Development

Programme (WACDEP) in collaboration with the Environmental Health and Sustainable

Development Department of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), the Global

Environment Facility (GEF) Amazon Project, the GEF International Waters Learning Exchange and Resource Network (IW: LEARN) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) through the Caribbean Aqua-Terrestrial Solutions Programme (CATS).

Participants at the Regional Rainwater Harvesting Knowledge Exchange Forum held in St. Lucia

on October 21st – 23rd, 2014.

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The main objectives of this unique Knowledge Exchange Forum were to:

Present practical experience and best appropriate technology in RWH to decision-makers from public and private sector.

Support targeted learning through structured discussions at expert level and discuss the requirements for a wide up-scaling improvement of RWH technologies in the Caribbean and Amazon region.

Exchange technical, scientific and socioeconomic experience between the Amazonian and Caribbean partners.

Create interaction mechanisms that allow the expansion of knowledge concerning techniques and research on RWH systems in partner countries, in order to provide decision-makers with adequate practices and models of RWH systems that promote access to safe water supply in Amazonian and Caribbean rural areas.

The three-day event kicked-off with a short opening ceremony which included remarks by representatives of the collaborating agencies hosting the event and a feature address by Mr. Sylvester Clauzel, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Energy, Science and Technology of St. Lucia.

Mr. Clauzel commended the organsing agencies for their initiative in putting on the unique event and congratulated them on being successful in bringing together so many stakeholders from various countries to discuss Rainwater Harvesting. Mr. Clauzel indicated that RWH was an issue that the Government of St. Lucia took very seriously and saw the benefits of safe RWH especially in the case of natural disasters. He added that St. Lucia has made great strides in incorporating provisions for RWH in its National Water Policy. Critical to the workshop was the sharing of knowledge and experiences on RWH from the more than fifty (50) participants from the Caribbean region, Central America, the Amazon basin and as far as the Mediterranean. The participation of a wide-cross section of countries brought a meaningful balance

Mr. Sylvester Clauzel, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Energy, Science and Technology of St. Lucia is seen here giving the feature address at the Forum.

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and pool of knowledge to the activity. The Forum also provided a platform for cross-regional sharing within the GWP Network as representatives from GWP-Central America and GWP-Mediterranean attended and delivered presentations. Participants ranged from representatives from water utilities, non-governmental organisations, academia (universities), the public health sector, the agriculture sector, private organisations (hotels, engineering firms), government ministries, among others. The first two (2) days of the Forum comprised of key presentations to set the context of the workshop followed by question and answer sessions which enabled participants at all times to share their thoughts and opinions. Some of the main presentations focused on:

An overview of regional Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) efforts in the Caribbean both past and current initiatives.

The climate outlook for the Caribbean and strategic directions for enhancing water security and how RWH may contribute to policy and fiscal challenges.

The GWP-C Water, Climate and Development Programme (WACDEP).

Commercial-scale RWH applications (current practices and success stories).

RWH applications in agriculture (Overview of support initiatives and success stories).

RWH experiences from the private sector.

Water safety and RWH.

A Caribbean Regional RWH Programme - An Action Plan for a wide up-scaling implementation of RWH systems

Presentations spurred a lot of discussions amongst participants who raised several issues such as:

Dr. Christopher Cox (left), Programme Manager at the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) based in St. Lucia and Dr. Natalie Boodram (right), Programme Manager of the GWP-C WACDEP are seen here delivering presentations on day one of the Forum.

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How do you regulate individual use of RWH? The need for greater political will in support of RWH. The need for widespread public education and sensitisation on RWH. Should the water utilities subsidise the cost of RWH? The need for a policy framework on RWH in terms of regulation, storage, treatment. RWH should be a tool in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). Should RWH be centralised? Innovative RWH systems which take into account health concerns with RWH.

Representatives from Grenada, the United States Virgin Islands, the Amazon Basin, Central America and the Mediterranean were able to deliver presentations giving regional experiences on RWH looking specifically at driving issues for investments, achievements and challenges. Another very important aspect of the Forum was capturing participants’ ideas and discussions on actions to make the existing Caribbean Regional Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) Programme more effective in the areas of:

Some of the Forum’s participants are seen here in working groups discussing actions to improve the Caribbean Rainwater Harvesting Programme.

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1. Awareness Raising 2. Capacity Building 3. Legislative and Policy Formulation 4. Infrastructural Development A wealth of information was received from participants which has been collated by the GWP-C and will be used to contribute to the strengthening of the existing RWH Programme for the Caribbean. Knowledge sharing was the driving force of the Forum which also explored the possible formulation of a RWH Partnership or Network or a Community of Practice. Stakeholders at the Forum agreed that it would be ideal for one organisation to take the lead on this and share information with other organisations. Dr. Natalie Boodram, Programme Manager of the GWP-C Water, Climate and Development Programme (WACDEP) shared with participants that GWP-C under its WACDEP has developed a Caribbean Water and Climate Knowledge Platform which would be a good tool/resource to share knowledge and continue the dialogue on Rainwater Harvesting and related topics. She explained to participants that a “Rainwater Harvesting” page had been created especially for the Forum as a space for discussions to continue. On the third and final day of the workshop, participants were taken on a guided field trip where they were able to see real-life examples of small-scale and commercial-scale RWH installations in households, a school, a health centre and a hotel. It was a fruitful experience for the diverse group who were able to share differences and similarities in the systems when compared to installations in their respective countries and how the systems are used.

Some scenes from the field trip where participants were able to see real-life small-scale and commercial-scale Rainwater Harvesting installations.

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Follow-up Actions:

The inputs from participants at the Forum will be used to help improve the existing Caribbean Regional Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) Programme. Additionally, many of the issues and discussions initiated by participants will be incorporated on the “Rainwater Harvesting” Information Exchange Page on the GWP-C online Caribbean Water and Climate Change Knowledge Platform. GWP-C intends for its Knowledge Platform to be a space where persons at all levels can join the water and climate dialogue and share knowledge and experiences and topics such as RWH.

GWP-C also plans to create a knowledge product from the Forum in the form of a 15-minutes video capturing key discussions and aspects of the Forum.

In the Media: News of the Regional Rainwater Harvesting Knowledge Exchange Forum was carried by the Daher Broadcasting Service (DBS) one of the leading television stations in St. Lucia, as well as, the Government Information Services (GIS) of St. Lucia and a few local radio stations. The news carried by these media houses featured interviews with Dr. Natalie Boodram, Programme Manager of the GWP-C WACDEP and Dr. Christopher Cox, Programme Manager of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) based in St. Lucia who provided details on Forum and its importance.

GWP-C Gains New Partner in Barbados In October, the Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) gained a new partner, Ecohesion Inc. based in Barbados. The private environmental services company provides solutions on a residential and commercial scale for drinking water, wastewater, energy efficiency and waste management. The organisation through its work in Barbados and throughout the region has acquired a wealth of knowledge on the water sector. As a partner of the GWP-C, the organisation is interested in learning more about the water sector in the Caribbean and would like to contribute to the knowledge pool.

GWP-C Supports Partner NIHERST in Promoting Rainwater Harvesting in Communities Over the past three (3) years, the National Institute of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (NIHERST) has been promoting environmental solutions in rural communities in Trinidad and Tobago focusing mainly on the use of best practices in Rainwater Harvesting (RWH). Since NIHERST’s “Environmental Solutions” Project kicked-off in 2011, the Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) has been a part of the activity, contributing technical expertise and knowledge on RWH.

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Through the Project, NIHERST to date has installed more than ten (10) RWH systems in primary and secondary schools in three (3) rural communities in Trinidad; Barrackpore, Toco and Moruga. The RWH systems installed in these communities were fashioned against a model RWH system developed by the GWP-C based on RWH best practices in the Caribbean. Apart from the installation of the systems, public education programmes have been a key component of the Project with more than three thousand (3000) students being exposed to the importance of water conservation and the benefits of RWH and the systems installed in their schools. This RWH initiative being spearheaded by NIHERST has also contributed to skills development and entrepreneurship among members of the three (3) pilot communities. This is because groups of persons from all three (3) communities were trained in installation and costing of the RWH systems. These trainees also had the opportunity to attend entrepreneurship workshops. This is because a key vision of NIHERST under this Project was to empower the communities involved to be self-sufficient and the trained community members to train others and use their newly acquired skills to create viable business opportunities for themselves. On October 14th, 2014, NIHERST held an event at the Rochard Douglas Presbyterian school; the first school under its “Environmental Solutions” Project to be outfitted with a RWH system in July 2012. The event held in the Barrackpore community, brought together members of the Barrackpore and Moruga communities that were trained in how to install RWH systems, as well as other key persons involved in the Project. One of the primary objectives of the event was to highlight to members of the communities the work NIHERST had done in training their fellow community members in being able to install, maintain and cost a RWH system and that their expertise were available to residents. The event also sought to highlight the benefits of the installed RWH system to the school and to explain why NIHERST decided to embark on such a Project.

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GWP-C had the opportunity to support the event as Dr. Natalie Boodram, Programme Manager of its Water, Climate and Development Programme (WACDEP) spoke to participants on the benefits of the system that NIHERST has been promoting. Dr. Boodram touched on safe methods of rainwater collection and the importance of maintaining water quality using devices such as first-flush diverters. She also pointed out the need to utilise meshing and to tightly secure the storage tank covers to reduce the chance of mosquito breeding and the spread of various mosquito-borne diseases. She also provided attendees with overall benefits of safe rainwater harvesting solutions in light of climate related disasters and the critical role a safe rainwater harvesting system can play in light of natural disasters.

This year, NIHERST has selected three (3) new communities to install RWH systems and execute its RWH public awareness activities and training of residents. GWP-C remains committed to support, its partner NIHERST in this venture in sharing knowledge and providing technical expertise where necessary to support the promotion of Rainwater Harvesting best practices in rural communities.

CENTRAL AFRICA

Dr. Natalie Boodram, Programme Manager of the GWP-C Water, Climate and Development Programme (WACDEP) is seen here at the NIHERST event in Barrackpore on October 14th, 2014.

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A joint GWP Cameroon, African Indigenous Women’s Organization – Central African Network

(AIWO-CAN) and Ministry of Environment, Nature Protection, and Sustainable Development

(MINEPDED) mission was organized in September 2013 to evaluate rainwater harvesting

projects realized by AIWO-CAN within the context of the Africa Adaptation Program in the Far

North Region of Cameroon. In their field report, the evaluation team recommended the

construction of boreholes equipped with solar powered pumps to lift water into an elevated

storage reservoir for water supply as a pilot adaptation to climate change initiative within the

context of the implementation of WACDEP in Cameroon and Central Africa.

In the January 2014, GWP Cameroon thus sub-contracted the realization of a pilot project

within the context of the implementation of the WACDEP Program in Cameroon to the

MBOSCUDA WOMENS SOCIAL and WELFARE COMMITTEE (MWSWC), member of network of

one of GWP partners in Central Africa, the African Indigenous Women’s Organization – Central

African Network (AIWO-CAN). The aim of the project was to construct solar energy powered

boreholes for water supply in three vulnerable communities in the Lake Chad Basin portion of

Cameroon, precisely in Bogo Division.

The choice of Bogo was first because it is located in the Lake Chad Basin (which is one of target transboundary river basins of WACDEP), and second to integrate a potable water supply component within the existing Japanese government funded (Japanese Biodiversity fund) Community Development and Knowledge management for the Satoyama Initiative (COMDEKS) program. The COMDEKS program is implemented by UNDP Cameroon through the GEF-SGP mechanism and has as objective to “Develop livelihood and sustainable management of biodiversity activities in local communities to rebuild and revitalize the landscape for socio -ecological production through collaborative and adaptive management". This collaboration was made possible by the fact that MWSWC had already been selected as a beneficiary of GEF-SGP/COMDEKS funding.

In-line with the project monitoring and evaluation plan, a combined GEF-SGP/COMDEKS/GWP

Cameroon/MINEPDED team conducted a field evaluation of the project implementation by

MWSWC from the 12th – 17th of October 2014. The objectives of this evaluation mission were

assess the progress in implementation of the pilot project on solar powered boreholes,

conduct rapid vulnerability analysis within the communities and carry of water quality

analysis.

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Collaboration with GEF-SGP/COMDEKS

The GWP and GEF-SGP Team conducted a community based evaluation in Sedek and Mesere

that covered both the water supply and agricultural productivity and capacity development

components. By working with the GEF-SGP team, the WACDEP program is able to capitalize

the multiplier effect of the COMDEKS activities in the community to improve the resilience of

the populations to climate change.

The major challenge for local farmer groups was the lack of land (had to rent land),

unpredictable weather and lack of climate information.

Difficulties / challenges

The collection of water samples from the taps was impossible because the pumping units of

the borehole systems are still not functional.

The poor state or absence of roads and access to sampling sites compelled team to go across

rivers on foot.

Conclusions and recommendation

Operationalisation of solar pumping system for the borehole is urgent and needs to

addressed by promoter as soon as possible;

Local NGOs and CBOs need to be trained on conducting rapid vulnerability and risk

analysis studies for climate change adaptation projects;

Coordination of project interventions have a positive multiplier effect on the livelihoods

of the communities and enhance the chances of project success;

Based on the field parameter (EC), groundwater in Mboso, Sedek, and Djiddel may not

be suitable for drinking

The student (MUYANG Bi) and Young professional, who are on internship and training

with GWP were successfully trained to do water sampling for water chemistry assessment

and community based project management.

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It is also important to note that the Director in charge of the NAP elaboration process, Dr. Wassouni,

intends to work with GWP Cameroon in finalizing the Cameroon NAP before the end of 2014. Measures

need to be taken to ensure the GWP Cameroon team is ready when MINEPDED sends in their request

for support.

CENTRAL AMERICA

GWP Central America

Activities report October 2014

VIII Legislators Conference on Water

Resources

GWP Central America, with the support of the Legislative

Assembly of El Salvador, organized the VIII Legislators

Conference on Water Resources, which took place on

October 28 in San Salvador.

Since 2002, GWP Central America has organized a series of

conferences for legislators, as key actors involved in the adoption of water laws and other regulations.

A result of this effort has been the inclusion of the concept of integrated water resources management

(IWRM) – for example institutional reform, multi-stakeholder participation, water financing, basin

management, among other issues - in the various policies of the region, including the National Water

Laws of Nicaragua (2007) and Honduras (2009), and the policies that are under discussion in Costa Rica

and El Salvador.

The government plans to consider pilot activities for duplication and up-scaling within the

National Adaptation Planning (NAP) process;

GWP Cameroon should consider capitalizing Dr. Wassouni as one of its champions in the

future.

WACDEP Perspective:

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More than 20 legislators and legislative advisors from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras,

Nicaragua and Panama participated in this event. In addition, regional experts including

representatives from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

(ECLAC), the Central American Agricultural Council (CAC), the Latin American Energy Organization

(OLADE), and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).

Key Presentations

The event began with a presentation about the National IWRM Plan and Climate Change Policy of El

Salvador, by Hernan Romero, from the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of El Salvador

(MARN).

“93% of the rain in El Salvador falls in 6 months and the remaining 7% in the rest of the year.

Only 4.6% of sewage receives any treatment. The entire coast of El Salvador is contaminated

with fecal coliforms, Phosphorous and Nitrogen.”

Then there was a presentation of the effects of climate change on water resources and development

of the region by Julie Lennox, from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and

the Caribbean (ECLAC).

“Central America has had an accumulated economic loss of 23 billion because of 22 major

events, assessed in the past 35 years.”

Discussion Panels

Three themed panels were organized to present the different experiences in regards to water, climate

and development. The first panel included four presentations on issues intrinsically related to the

above mentioned topic: food security, risk management and energy.

1500 liters of water are needed to produce 1 kg of wheat, and 10 times more water is needed

to produce 1 kg of beef.

Central America is considered a multi-hazard area; 95% of the population of El Salvador is

exposed to 2 or more risks.0.5% of the GDP of the countries of the region is affected because of

disasters.

6 million of people in Central America do not have access to electricity. Latin America and the

Caribbean have 25% of the world's hydroelectric potential and it only use 22%.

The second group of speakers spoke of institutional reform for IWRM; presenters included

representatives of the National Water Authorities of Nicaragua and Peru, as well as the Director of

Water of Costa Rica. The six countries of the region presented where they were in the process for the

adoption of their water law or in implementation of their water law, in the last panel of the conference.

Declaration of San Salvador

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At the end of the event, participants signed a declaration in which they pledged:

1. The integrated water management provides the appropriate framework for action to promote

sustainable use of water resources at the national and regional

levels, so that progress towards water security and reduction of

vulnerability to the impacts of climate change in the region, can

be achieved.

2. An ongoing commitment to make every effort to approve

the Water Law, where none exist, or legal policies, to strengthen

the integrated management of water as a mechanism to

promote sustainable water use.

3. Make an effort in congress to raise awareness with other legislators on the leading role of

water for the development of countries and the contribution that the improvement in the

management of water resources and infrastructure, can bring to various sectors, as well as in

the reduction of the impacts of extreme events such as floods and droughts.

4. Promote that the concept of Integrated Water Resources Management and Climate Change

Adaptation are included in policies that are approved.

5. An ongoing commitment to make every effort to legislate so as to ensure access to safe

drinking water and declare water as a public good.

6. That effective basin management represents an element of regional peace and constitutes one

of the main elements of Central American integration.

Knowledge management and IWRM ToolBox

GWP Central America, with the support of the Technological University of Panama (UTP) and the

Central American University Council (CSUCA), coordinated the "Workshop on Knowledge Management

of IWRM and the use of ToolBox". The event was held on October 14 and 15 in Panama City.

Thirty five professors from 14 universities of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica,

Panama, Colombia and Venezuela attended the workshop, which was facilitated by Danka

Thalmeinerova, Knowledge Management Officer and Kenge Gunya from GWP.

The opening remarks were given by Gabriela Grau, Senior Network Officer of GWP; Gilberto Chang,

Vice-rector for Investigation of the Technological University of Panama (UTP) and Juan Alfonso Fuentes

Soria, Secretary General of the University Higher Council (CSUCA).

Human resource development is the training of citizens that are committed to the relevance of

new knowledge. There are more than 700,000 students in public universities in Central

America… what is the problem we have when water is scarce or when we have floods? The

solution is to train people who are committed to our communities. It makes no sense to develop

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curricula that can´t be applied to human development. - Juan Alfonso Fuentes, Secretary

General of CSUCA

The aim of the event was to showcase the ToolBox to the

professors as a tool that can be used in higher education and

research institutions, to illustrate how the tools in ToolBox

can be used in IWRM training programs.

GWP is a knowledge-based organization; the network

is not about one part, but about the interaction of the

parts. I want to share the experience of how other

networks use the ToolBox in their daily work in education. There are other ways to share

knowledge and that is what we will show in this workshop. - Danka Thalmeinerova, Knowledge

Management Officer, GWP.

Socializing the ToolBox in Nicaragua

Elba Maria Castillo, one of the academics who participated in the Panama workshop, organized a

ToolBox workshop at her university: the Catholic University of Dry Tropics located in Esteli, Nicaragua.

With the participation of twelve professors of the rural development program, who teach the subjects

of irrigation, drainage and the management and conservation of soil and water, Prof. Castillo led a

discussion on the possibilities of using the ToolBox in classrooms in disseminating case studies, as well

as the dissemination of research results.

Symposium of the Inter-American Network of Academies

The City of Panama hosted between 15th and 18th October the symposium "Linking Science and Policy

to improve water security in Africa and the Americas," organized by the Inter-American Network of

Academies of Sciences (IANAS) and the Network of African Science Academies. As part of the agenda,

IANAS presented a publication on urban water in the Americas, which included chapters on El Salvador

and Honduras, which were coordinated by GWP Central America.

The event aimed to strengthen the scientific communities and to provide an independent source of

policy advice to governments on major science, technology and health challenges. There were more

than sixty experts from the Universities of Nairobi, California, Colombia, Nicaragua, Peru. Also

representatives of the Nicaraguan Center for Research in Water Resources, International Institute of

Ecology of San Carlos (Brazil), the Latin American Institute of Social Sciences (Mexico) Center for Water

Research (Argentina), UNESCO, through hydrology section for Latin America, among other prestigious

organizations related to water issues.

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New publication on drought in Central America

Drought patterns in Central America

Its impact in the production of corn and beans, and the use of Standard Precipitation Index for Early Warning Systems

GWP Central America, together with the Swiss Agency for Cooperation (SDC) and the Regional

Committee for Water Resources (CRRH) published a report on the characterization of drought in

Central America. The objective of the publication is to contribute to the knowledge of drought in the

region, its patterns and impacts, and food security of the population related to consumption and

dependence on corn and beans as the main sources of food and livelihood.

"The underlying problem of drought in addition to its effect on the economy and the production

itself, and the impact on health and other sectors, is the loss of staple crops for food security

and the impact on water resources systems.”

This document is part of an ongoing effort to highlight the issue of drought in the region, because

although Central America is a region known for its abundance of water resources, the periods of

drought manifest in peaks of acute malnutrition in the population already suffering from chronic

malnutrition. Other activities in this topic include workshops with meteorological institutions on the

use of the Standard Precipitation and Index, as well as the dissemination of the National Drought

Management Policy Guidelines in Spanish (unofficial translation).

This activity is part of the Water, Climate and Development Programme.

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CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

Monthly report September - October 2014

COUNTRY WATER PARTNERSHIPS activities GWP Estonia

On 19 September Estonian Water Association (EstWA) together with Tarvastu rural municipality organized a seminar entitled “How to reconstruct the historical dams and watermill Linnaveski”. During the seminar 4 presentations were presented, including presentations about the integrated water management on the Tarvastu river basin and heritage values of old watermills. Seminar participants were from local municipalities, Estonian Ministry of Environment, Estonian Environmental Board and local peoples, who are interested about the activity of different institutions on the protection of historical water-buildings. Information about seminar has been announced in speaking and writing media, also in newspaper of local municipality. All written comments about the new Water Law were sent to the Ministry of the Environment on 30 September.

On 9 and 10 October EstWA together with Estonian Environmental Board organized a seminar on “How to use the historical mills and millponds” in Lahemaa national park (North-Estonia). During the seminar 6 presentations were presented. Participants were from local municipalities, Estonian Environmental Board, mill owners and other local peoples, who are interested in the better management of historical valuable buildings. Information about the seminar was announced in the media. On 10 October the seminar participants had a field trip to visit different mills in Lääne-Viru county, including the mills in Lahemaa national park. The main goal of these activities was on raising awareness of people and state environmental institutions towards the environment, culture and history values, as well as the care of water resources management.

On 17 October a letter from EstWa to the state environmental institutions of Estonia was sent. We are interested in developing strong relations with the institutions and stakeholders who should be manage a better joint activity for water management in the Tarvastu River basin.

On 30 October there was organized a meeting of EstWA representatives and the Executive chairmen of Union of Estonian waterworks and Society of water and wastewater engineers. The aim of the meeting was to discuss current status of water management situation in Estonia and prepare an activity program for the next year. The cooperated activity was agreed to be continued in 2015. A similar meeting took place on 20 September with the working team from Estonian Mill Society.

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On October 31 at a staff meeting of the board of EstWA discussed organizational activities for the preparation of seminars and Water Day conference in 2015. Also a better public participation in the process of water management planning has been discussed. GWP Hungary

GWP Hungary in the National Water Management Council. As of 1 January 2014 the ministry responsible for water management in Hungary is the Ministry of Interior. (Formerly the Ministry of Rural Development was in charge.) This change triggered several administrative changes including the re-establishment of the National Water Management Council. The council has the mandate to supervise the implementation of the Water Framework Directive with special focus on river basin management planning (RBMP). It is responsible also for the monitoring of the realization of the Programme of Measures of the national RBMP. As the highest level body involved in the public participation process of RBMP the council also supervise the activity of the four regional (sub-basin level) water management councils of the country. GWP Hungary as a recognized actor in water has been invited by the Ministry of Interior to delegate a member for the council. The board of trustees of GWP Hungary selected Professor Emeritus Ferenc Ligetvári (chair of the advisory board of GWP Hungary) for the post. The first meeting of the new National Water Management Council was held 28 October 2014, where Prof. Ligetvári was elected vice chair of the Council.

The winner team of the SJWP-Hungary competition: Claudia Li, Lívia Mayer and Nikolett

Sebestyén (Eötvös József Grammar School, Tata) attended the World Water Week in Stockholm 31 August-5 September representing Hungary in the international final, with their project “Our Water is Our Future”. The project dealt with a topical issue: the people’s habits of drinking water and raising international awareness of proper water consumption. The team was accompanied by József Gayer national organizer of the competition and teacher Mrs. Zsuzsa Zubor assisting the students. There they actively took part in the global conference through a variety of activities. Inside the conference venue, a poster exhibition of all student projects gave the finalists an opportunity to discuss their projects with the wide range of conference attendees including researchers, politicians and the media. This year representatives from 29 countries were competing for the SJWP: Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Canada, Chile, China, Cyprus, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States. Each of the finalists was interviewed by a jury of international experts, who decided on the winner. The 2014 Stockholm Junior Water Prize was awarded to Hayley Todesco from Canada for inventing a method that uses sand filters to treat oil contaminated water. H.R.H. Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden presented the prize at the award ceremony on 3 September. The Hungarian team received compliments from numerous participants of the World Water Week for the selection of the topic and for the poster used for the demonstration of the project. The Hungarian Ambassador to Stockholm Mrs Lilla Makkay, the Vice-president of the Hungarian Energy and Public Utility Regulatory Authority Mrs Szilvia Szalóki and Secretary General of the Hungarian Water Utility Association Mrs Edit Nagy congratulated the team at the ceremony. The report of the SJWP – 2014 competition including the highlights of the national as well as the international finals has been completed (see attached).

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9 September the Business Council for Sustainable Development in Hungary invited GWP Hungary to contribute to the development of the publication the Council is preparing in the framework of Action 2020 programme. Following an email exchange an editorial meeting was held to further develop the publication.

11 September the “Kvassay Jenő memorial committee” was established in order to maintain the memory of this famous 19th century civil engineer, the champion of Tisza River regulation. GWP Hungary is represented in the committee and involved in its activity.

18-19 September Hungarian Hydrological Society organized Youth Days in Mosonmagyaróvár where the winners of the national SJWP contest and the national organizer were invited to deliver presentations on the SJWP and the experiences gained during the international final.

2-4 October Budapest. GWPCEE IDMP workshop and training was attended by János Tamás, János Fehér Péter Molnár and József Gayer and Sándor Szalai PRG member as well.

5-6 October GWPCEE Regional Council meeting was attended by József Gayer CWP chair and János Fehér DRS TF leader.

16 October 2nd IDMP national consultation. The meeting was convened by GWP Hungary in collaboration with the General Directorate of Water Management with the objective of presentation and discussion about the draft of the Guidelines for Drought Management Plans with the aim to contribute to its completion – elaboration of comments to the Guidelines and provide national experience according to the templates in Annexes I – VI. Venue: General Directorate of Water Management. Participants: 35 people.

30 October launch of the 2015 SJWP-Hungary competition through website www.ifivizdij.hu.

Preparation of an online GWP water glossary is ongoing (at both technical and financial levels).

The GWP Hungary homepage has been maintained and regularly updated.

GWP Romania

1) GWP-Romania participated to the second set of meetings organized by GWP CEE

Secretariat, the 3rd IDMP workshop 2-4 October and 2nd Regional Council meeting 5/6 October

2014. In the same time, the whole budget time of the respective month was dedicated mostly to

internal works on the issues that continued in accordance with the CWP work-plan and project

timelines, namely the reports preparation/ extension, completion of the committed IDMP activities,

by our CWP and involved partners. Within the 3rd IDMP workshop held in 2nd and 4th October and

training with DMCSSE on 3 October, we discussed / analyzed and agreed on the next steps to be

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followed on the whole package of activities, reports to be upgraded and completed and also the next

steps to be followed until next year 2015, when the IDMP project will end according with its schedule.

In concrete terms the works in accordance with the Integrated Drought Management Program

project planning, continued together with the National Administration for Meteorology as main

partner and their Associated Partners from our country. The works done were within activity 5.4, then

also most important for this year we worked out and finalized the new agreements tasks , for the

activity 1.3, for task 2.2 -NCD as a 2nd phase to be done in 2014, and being part of the last requests

from Activity Leaders in which CWP- Romania was contracted. Under this package of activities we

have presented the main contributions and comments when was requested for activity 2 - the drafted

Guidelines, developed under the activity 2.1, and looked after the next step process to be in the frame

of 2nd NCD, with the aim to get the information from the interested stakeholders on what was done

until now in the country on these issues, and the last known feedbacks regarding these that can be

obtained in the same time. The collection of some new recommendations and/or alternate solutions,

were also discussed with our co-organizer partners, all of this for the purpose to organize the

mentioned dialogue content planning, also the ways to conduct the discussions and identify the active

partners able to contribute to subjects during the NCD meeting.

The 2nd NCD was planned to be held on 20 November and with the finals reports on obtained

results delivered by 15 December 2014.

The most important deliverable of the IDMP project, the Guidelines for IDM on the basses of

Policies, Strategies and National Drought Management Plans that the countries will have to prepare

according with the EU/ WFD implementation 2nd step, will have to be harmonized for its use in CEE

countries within the 2nd round of National Consultations Dialogues that will be organized in the

following months by all 10 partner countries involved in the project. The results of all this complex

process will allow the finalization of the respective Guidelines and then by means of WMO be available

for their extended use by the countries from other Regions of the world.

2) Within the 2nd annual RC meeting of 2014 the present and by the end of the year 2014

achievements were reported by the CWPs and also the discussion within the 2015 Planning

process were made on most feasible and responding to the GWP vision and mission, & goals

activities. From GWP CEE side the participation was ensured by Eng. L.N. Popescu the GWP-

Romania President and as it is the rule, the CWP report that was prepared was delivered to

GWPCEE - RC meeting.

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3) Between 23-24 October GWP- Romania represented by L.N. Popescu and Liliana Mara

participated to the workshop for presentation and training of the project “Regional Cooperation for

the environment protection in the Black Sea basin through the Agriculture Pollution Reduction –

REPAIR“, financed by Common Operational Programme for Black Sea. The project workshop was

organized by the Center for Ecological Consultancy from Galati, one of the open and active

collaborative partner of GWP- Romania. The main aims of the project presented during the workshop

referred to: 1.) Main problems created by the human activities within the Prut-Barlad Hydrographic

Basin (P/BHBasin); 2) Pollution reduction measures of the pollution

caused by the agricultural activities; 3) The impact created by the

aquaculture activities in the P/B H.Basin; 4) Identification of measures

for effects reductions created by floods, drought, and bank erosions.

During the presentation of project steps made for achieving

the proposed results the partners from Bulgaria, Moldova etc., have

introduced the means used for monitoring and impacts assessment of

the agriculture activities on the 2 rivers water system and also the

proposed measures for the minimizations/ reductions and/ or

elimination of the identified sources. The respective activity was

in support of the Prut River Basin Water Administration and the

cooperation was recognized by both parts during the meeting. To

this activities were also involved two faculties from Iasi and Galati

and which had the possibilities to do the field and laboratory

works and also the assessment and measures preparations aimed

to the improvement of water status in the studied basin. The final

report will be delivered in the next years and all types of learning

elements will be described and assessed.

Within the workshop the GWP-Romania team has presented some of our CEE Region activities

connected with the identified issues within the respective project works and the solutions described

in the GWP CEE technical solutions for sustainable sanitation in the small settlements, the Natural

Retention Measures solutions in the REC projects and also the proposed solutions within the IDMP

pilot projects

Next steps and Potential outcomes: The solutions introduced as result of REC and GWP-

projects will be more in deep searched by the project teams during the rest of project duration and in

relations with the problems identified will be recommended to the project results users, and for that

purpose the future requests for the other solutions will be asked to the GWPCEE or REC depending by

their needs.

4) The agreed, cooperation and co-participation to the elaboration of new volume from the

Children Encyclopedia educational books cycle, was done once more with the National Institute for

Marine Research and Development ”Grigore Antipa” (NIMR&D-GA), from Constanta. The new volume,

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the 5th one from the series dedicated to the theme “Life in The Black Sea”, is named “Viaţa în Marea

Neagră - Siturile de Importanţă Comunitară de la litoralul românesc al Mării Negre” (Life in The Black

Sea - Protected area sites with EU importance from the Romanian Black Sea coast) was planned and

was finalized/printed through this partnership, and is dedicated to the marine

living creatures in all types of protected areas from the Black Sea coast and being

also included in the EU/ NATURA 2000 network. In comparison with the 4th book

finalized in 2013, the new book of 2014 covers all types of protected areas from–

Romanian part of Eastern Black Sea coast, and is dedicated to a larger groups of

readers including also students and new qualified/graduated experts and based

on these aims, having a greater set of information about the rules, management

of such areas and obligations for trainers and visitors. There are 12 chapters

included in this book, 8 of them dedicated to the groups of living creatures of the

respective ecosystem and the other 4 out of 12 being dedicated to the rules needs

and meaning of establishing such protected areas, plus the rules that have to be respected by the

visitors in such areas and an extra sub-chapter dedicated to the bibliography that stayed at the bases

of this book content. The book size in comparison with the previous volumes it is nearly double in

terms of number of pages (108) and because of its importance and extended planed use will have also

the ISBN number.

Next steps and Potential outcomes. After its final editing, the book was printed during last

months and will be used as examples for younger and children’s during a number of events, and this

time they will be also used and delivered for student’s education from the faculties of Environmental

Engineering that are part of the Institute for Petrol and Gas from Ploiesti, Institutes for Water and

Environment Management plus other high grade institutes. There will be gatherings were the book

will be used for the purpose mentioned above and also some that will be mentioned in the next parts

of the report. The intention for the book was to be launched during the International Black Sea Day in

31 October 2014 in Constanta with the help of our partners NIMR&D-GA, and after that to be used

also in Sibiu University Scientific Conference in November, and possible also for the 12th INBO- RIOB

Conference planned to take place during 12-15 November 2014 in Bucharest, and some will be also

used for the next events in 2015 like the World Water Day, the Danube Day celebrations and other

events that will follow and GWP- Romania will attend, until the end of stock. The book from these

series, will be used also for the next Danube Art Master competition organized annually under the

Danube Day events, and which will take place in Galati and some neighborhood towns from Danubian

lower part and where the invited children, professors and other participants, from local administration,

from the co-organizers side like the River Basin Administrations, may get exemplars of the book. A

number of books will be used also during the scholar and university year events, or other scientifically

sessions where we usually make their introduction and presentation and then the books donation. For

this purpose we have prepared a Power Point presentation using the summaries of book pages in the

respective slides, for better and extended presentation. There is also the works undergone to have the

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book translated in English, version which the NIMR&D- GA institute has agreed to make and so having

more extended possibilities for use within the activities of Black Sea commission and countries.

When we will successfully finalize and print the book, these will be transferred also in the pdf.,

and then will be placed on the GWP-Romania website, next to the others that were produced, and

possible on the Ministry of ENV & Climate Changes, NIMR&D-GA institute and ANAR sites.

5) The translation of “GWP Strategy – Towards 2020 – A Water Secure World“ was finished,

plus its editorial formatting, the language checking, and proof-reading being under way, and so now

when the book is ready, it will be included in the www.gwp-romania.ro site.

Next Steps and Outcome: Warm relations and first level interest with the units where the new

generation of young specialists in Water Management and Engineering are educated and trained, is of

the main interest to get them acquainted and constant supporters for IWRM training/ implementation

and this is one, of the first priorities of our association. In this regard the posting – dissemination - and

awareness about the best GWP /GWPCEE and GWP-Romanian publications, represents a high interest

and we will follow this rule doing periodical supply with GWP/and other partners related publications

on the IWRM implementation, learning in our CWP site etc.

GWP Slovenia and activities of the Regional Chair

30 September 2014, University of Ljubljana, “Risks and opportunities of climate

change”. The emphasis of the consultation was dedicated to the issues related to climate change in

different sectors. The measures to adapt to climate changes was proposed for different sectors.

3rd Workshop IDMP Workshop, 2-4 October Budapest

GWP CEE Council meeting, 5/6 October Budapest

ISRBC meeting on 14 October 2014 Zagreb/ Croatia. Martina Zupan participated in the meeting and proposed possible co-operation between ISRBC and GWP CEE. In later communication it was decided that the consultation on the new RBMP for Slovenian rivers and the whole Sava river basin, which includes Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia will be organized on 5 December 2014 by the ISRBC secretariat.

Conference of municipal management, 25-26 September, Slovenian Chamber of Commerce Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia. Martina Zupan had a presentation “Sustainable development goals in the water sector” at the conference.

Water Days 2014, 25-26 October, Portorož Water professionals Association. Participation was important because it provides the opportunity to agree with the participants for the lectures at the 2nd national consultation in frame of the IDMP.

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ERRC2014, 27-30 October, Vienna. The partnership between ECRR and GWP brought many new and useful connections among the experts. Both organizations have many common interests, this fact was also reflecting in the content of this year ERRC 2014. The opening presentation given by Ania Grobicki "From local to global: realizing water security for Sustainable Development" was an incentive for participants to focus on how to manage water in the future. Very successful was also the GWP Session 10 "Experiences from participatory water management in Central and Eastern Europe". At the session we stressed the importance of starting the project at local level to obtain information on the actual problems and needs and to transfer them through the development of the project to the executive level. Very successful was the presentation of "Down the Mask" of stereotypes and communication. The session was captured on camera and as we managed to gather very well-chosen character holders, it could be used in the form of a video for later communication with the stakeholders.

GWP Ukraine

October 10, Poltava: GWP –Ukraine with a support of local partners NGO “MAMA-86-

Poltava” and Poltava State Agrarian Academy held the seminar “Drought Management — Practical

Aspects for Farm Enterprisers”. The seminar was held at the Poltava Organic Centre for Organic

Agriculture, Poltava State Agrarian Academy, and gathered 30 participants - representatives of the

Poltava region leading farms, MAMA-86 NGO, scientists of the Poltava State Agrarian Academy,

experts of the Ukrainian Hydromeorological Centre and the Poltava Hydromeorological Centre, the

Regional Agricultural Advisory Service. The seminar was aimed on raising awareness among farmers

about the practical aspects of drought management. The participants got familiar with the IDMP and

its results of implementation in CEE and Ukraine, with results of the pilot on improving of monitoring

and upgrading of forecast modeling of drought’s impacts in the agrosector, in particular with new agro-

climatic zoning of Ukraine under climate change.

Anna Tsvietkova made a welcoming speech on behalf of GWP-Ukraine and presented

the tasks of the GWP-WMO IDMP global content and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Component,

as well as its goals and objectives, implementation plans in 10 countries across the CEE region, the

interrelation with the region’s water problems, and outlined the prospects of the Programme

implementation in Ukraine. Tatiana Adamenko, Head of Agrometeorology Department, Ukrainian

Hydrometeorological Centre presented “Drought: Main Agro-Climatic Trends and Prognoses for

Ukraine”, including analysis of climatic trends over the past 50 years in Ukraine, and a new map of the

drought probability, considering climate change trends. Article on Mama 86’s website.

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On 22-24 October in Kyiv, Ukraine and on 28-29 October in Chișinău, Moldova two

meetings on Dniester River Reservoir Simulation Modeling took place. The meetings goals were to

demonstrate climate change adaptation through reservoir operations and transboundary water

management; to introduce capabilities of the multi-reservoir operating model for planning and real-

time forecasting; to provide demonstration of model so participants are able to use as their own

resource; to discuss future model applications and development. The co-organizers of the meetings in

Ukraine and Moldova were US Army Corps of Engineers, OSCE, GWP,AGWA, ICIWaRM. Representative

of GWP – member of GWP Ukraine – Andriy Demydenko was a co-organizer and facilitator of the

discussion at the meetings. About 40 Ukrainian experts and stakeholders and about 30 representatives

of different stakeholders from Republic of Moldavian and Transdniestria took part in these meetings.

23 October Kyiv, Round Table «Acquis Communautaire principles as preconditions to

improve water legal framework in Ukraine» was held by International charitable organization

“Environment-People-Law” (EPL) and gathered about 30 stakeholders to discuss the harmonization of

Ukrainian water legislation with EU Water framework. Andriy Demydenko, member of GWP–Ukraine

in the role of a key expert presented the main principles of EU WFD and Anna Tsvietkova, GWP–

Ukraine presented «ensuring right to water and sanitation: Ukrainian realities and European

requirements”. Article in Ukrainian on EPL’s website.

New publication “Agro-climatic zoning of Ukraine territory under climate change”. The

brochure on new agro-climatic zoning of Ukraine was published (500 copies) and is also available for

free on Mama 86’s website.

OUTCOMES. 2.1 Stakeholders training meetings on modeling organized in Kyiv and

Chisinau in October with GWP support will be good basis for organization, together with our partners

- USACE and ICIWaRM, of seminars on use of reservoir simulation and flood modeling in river basin

management planning, with further training of local authorities in modern methods of flood and

drought management.

COMING EVENTS In November - GWP–Ukraine is going to support and participate in the

workshop on “practical steps on implementation of WFD in Ukraine” in the framework of the

Conference “Water and Environment” to the AQUA-Ukraine -2014 Forum on 4-7 November in Kyiv

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IDMP CEE activities

ACTIVITIES:

The first draft of the Guidelines for preparation of the Drought Management Plans was prepared. Together with the template for providing national experiences into the Guidelines and instructions for the 2nd National Consultation Dialogues was sent to all CWPs in mid-September.

All the reports from the 1st cycle of the NCDs can be found on our web site under “national planning” and Summary report here. CWPs will organize second NCDs in October, November and December (see the dates below, under “upcoming events”). The main objective of the 2nd cycle is to contribute to the completion of the draft of the Guidelines by providing national experiences for 7 steps defined in the Guidelines.

We have changed the name of the activity 1.3 from “Drought information exchange platform” to “Drought data exchange platform” not to overlap with the Global IDMP platform. This activity is more a promotion of already established platform for exchanging of data - JRS’s European Drought Observatory. Currently, metadata of 10 products from 4 countries (CZ, LT, SK, SLO) are available in Drought Metadata Catalogue. With the help of Activity Leader the rest of the countries will try to finalize this task till mid-November.

The rest of the activities are implemented according to the plan. More information on each of them you can read in IDMP CEE Q3 Progress Report.

EVENTS:

Third IDMP CEE workshop took place on 2nd and 4th October in Budapest, Hungary. Detailed report will be available in November but presentations and photos are already available. The workshop started on 2 October in a joint group with the participants from the Drought Management Centre for South-eastern Europe and participants from international organizations - WMO, UNCCD, JRC, etc. There were present over 60 participants, from 17 countries of the Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. Brief presentations of the main activities and their current focus from both organizations at the beginning of the session give the participants a quick overview of the drought management status in the Central and South Eastern Europe. Afternoon session was then continued separately.

IDMP CEE workshop started with a brief overview what has been done in the last 6 months and

what are the plans for the last period (October 2014 – March 2015). Focus was first on all 6

demonstration projects. During the presentations and discussion participants tried to find links

between the activities and where in the overall context do their outputs belong - which of the seven

steps described in the Guidelines they address and in which part of the drought management they

belong (monitoring, early-warning, forecasting/prediction, impacts, incl. threshold, vulnerability,

measures, management, risk management). On 4 October the workshop continued with the regional

activities with a special focus on the Guidelines and the 2 cycle of

the National Consultation Dialogues.

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On 3rd October both groups worked together in a joint capacity building training “From monitoring to end users” with focused on following topics: drought monitoring and platforms, new ways of drought detection by remote sensing and drought management from national, regional and global perspectives with emphasize on good practices (United Kingdom, Romania and Greece). Presentations can be found here.

The Programme Manager and Activity Leader of the act. 5.5 participated at the Fourth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Carpathians (COP4) which was held in Mikulov, Czech Republic from 23-26 September. More information on the event on COP4 web site and in BTOR.

GWP Ukraine together with the Poltava State Agrarian Academy organized a seminar “Drought Management — Practical Aspects for Farm Enterprisers” which was held on 10 October in Poltava, Ukraine. Ukrainian experts are involved into two demonstration projects (drought management in agriculture (act. 5.6) and in forestry (act. 5.2)). The main objectives of the workshop were: to discuss the approaches and tools of drought management in Ukraine and to get familiar with EU practice; to consider the characteristics and priorities for drought management in Ukraine as well as identify ways to reduce the negative effects of drought for the agrosector. You can read more about this event here.

On 16 October GWP Hungary organized their 2nd National Consultation Dialogue.

The activity leader of small water retention, Tomasz Okruszko presented the results of the demonstration project at European River Restoration Conference (ERRC) 2014 in Vienna on 27 October. Sabina Bokal presented experiences from the first round of national consultation dialogues during GWP CEE session on public participation at ERRC 2014 on 29 October.

COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES

In September a video on Small Water Retention Measures was produced. The purpose of the video is to explain what Small Retention is, why it is important and show some of the demonstration projects - water reservoirs, ponds, etc. It is available online and will be officially released during INBO 2014, 12-15 November, Bucharest, Romania.

A general video about the IDMP CEE was prepared in September and will be finalized and available online at the beginning of November.

Experiences from the 1st round of the NCDs was presented as part of a special GWP session on public participation at the 6th European River Restoration Conference, integrated with the Final event of the SEE River project which was held on 27 - 29 October in Vienna.

Special poster with basic information about the programme and the main points of the Guidelines was prepared especially for national consultation dialogues. Poster was (will be) translated into all 10 languages.

UPCOMING EVENTS

3rd Pan-EU Drought Dialogue Forum, 4 November 2014, Brussels, Belgium

Final workshop of experts from act. 1.4, 4-7 November 2014, Ryn, Poland

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EUROPE-INBO 2014 - 12th European conference on the implementation of the Water Framework Directive, 12-15 November, Bucharest, Romania

National consultation dialogue in Kosovo (joint event with GWP Mediterranean) ; 12 November 2014, Pristina, Kosovo

Presentation of the IDMP CEE at GWP Steering Committee Meeting, 24 November 2014, Budapest, Hungary

2nd National Consultation Dialogues: o 20 November, Romania o 26 November, Bulgaria o 3 December, Slovenia o 12 December, Ukraine o 12 December, Moldova

Participation in the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River Ordinary Meeting on 9-10 December 2014 in Vienna, Austria

GWP CEE Secretariat activities

In the period September-October GWP CEE Secretariat was dealing mainly with:

Financial Officer Alena Pozgayova participated in training at GWPO Finance in Stockholm on

10-11 September 2014.

Preparations for the Third IDMP CEE workshop that was held in in Budapest on 2-4 October.

Preparations for the Council Meeting that was held in Budapest on 5-6 October.

Preparations for the European River Restoration Conference in Vienna, 27-29 October.

Richard Muller attended the Information Day LIFE Operating Grants for NGOs in Brussels at

Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises on 11 September.

Sabina Bokal attended Fourth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Carpathian

Convention in Mikulov on 23-25 September.

Richard Muller participated in a lecture "The Green Economy: Matching long-term ambitions

with short-term actions" by prof. Bans Bruyninckx, Executive Director of the European Environmental

Agency on 23 October at Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava

Ania Grobicki, Martina Zupan, Tomasz Okruszko, Alan Hall, Richard Muller, Sabina Bokal and

Gergana Majercakova participated in European River Restoration Conference in Vienna, 27-29

October. Photos from the conference are available on GWP CEE’s Flickr gallery and an article about the

GWP CEE session and video of the one-act play will be available soon.

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Richard Muller participated in a meeting of European River Restoration Center with Asian

River Restoration Network on 29 October

Video on public participation was prepared, uploaded on YouTube and released during the

European River Restoration Conference in Vienna.

Videos on IDMP CEE and Small Water Retention Measures were finalized.

A meeting with GWP MED was held in Bratislava on 9 October and a National Consultation

Dialogue in Kosovo within IDMP was discussed.

Preparations for the National Consultation Dialogue in Kosovo that will take place on 12

November 2014 in Pristina.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

ICPDR PP EG Meeting, 4-5 November, Vienna, Austria

INBO conference, 12-15 November, Bucharest, Romania

National consultation dialogue in Kosovo (joint event with GWP Mediterranean) ; 12 November 2014, Pristina, Kosovo

GWP Steering Committee Meeting, 24-26 November, Budapest, Hungary

Communications Officers training, 1-5 December, Pretoria, South Africa

ICPDR Ordinary Meeting, 9-10 December, Vienna, Austria

GWP Lithuania 2-4 October Chair of GWP-Lithuania Bernardas Paukstys and national drought expert Gintautas Stankunavicius took part in the 3rd IDMP workshop in Budapest. Bernardas Paukstys made a presentation on activity 1.4 „Development of GIS Based Communication Technology Platform for the Sustainable Management of Transboundary Water Resources in Lithuania, Poland and Kaliningrad Region (Russia)”. On 30-31 October two members of GWP-Lithuania participated in the meeting of Lithuanian Ministry of Environment, Lithuanian Environmental Protection Agency, Belarus Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and UNECE on “Enhancing cooperation in the Neman / Nemunas river basin”. Bernardas Paukstys, Chair of GWP-Lithuania presented joint GIS maps of transboundary rivers between Belarus-Lithuania-Poland and Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia). Draft Technical protocol for cooperation on management of transboundary water resources between the Ministries of Environment of Lithuania and Belarus was discussed and signed by the responsible water officers. It is planned that in the first half of 2015 the Protocol will be signed by the ministers of Environment of Lithuania and Belarus.

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CENTRAL ASIA AND CAUCASUS 1. National Workshop “Alternative Approaches for Urban Wastewater Treatment”

The National seminar "Alternative technologies for municipal wastewater treatment" organized by CWP-

Armenia jointly with the Engineering-Consulting Company JINJ was held on 16-17 October 2014 in the Best

Western Hotel in Aghveran, Armenia under financial support of GWP Secretariat, CJSC “Yerevan Djur” and CJSC

“Armenian Water and Sewerage”.

The purpose of the workshop is to identify the conditions for promoting alternative approaches for urban

wastewater treatment in Armenia, as well as the legislative, institutional and financial framework, and to develop

ways to create environment enabling implementation and spreading of these approaches in Armenia.

http://www.gwp.org/Global/GWP-CACENA_Files/en/National%20Workshop_Aghveran-2014-eng.pdf

2. Second Regional Climate Forum East Conference

2nd Regional Climate Forum East Conference organized by the Austrian Red Cross and the Red Cross of

Armenia was held on 8-9 October 2014, in Minsk, Belarus.

CWP-Armenia representative took part in this conference. More than 70 representatives from civil society

organizations, Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies, scientific institutions, governments, regional and

international organizations from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova were invited and

participated in this regional event.

During the meeting responses to climate change at global and regional levels with a special focus on adaptation

was discussed, and an overview of civil society efforts on adaptation to climate change in Armenia, Azerbaijan,

Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine was presented.

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The main purpose of the conference was to bring together representatives from six civil society networks on

Climate Change Adaptation and representatives from other regional and international networks to present and

jointly discuss and exchange project results, experiences in promotion of adaptation measures, with advocacy

actions developed in the course of the project, as well as to find ways and to establish future regional

cooperation.

Armenian delegation in Minsk Participants

3. Workshop "Clima East - project package assisting the Eastern Neighbourhood Partnership

Countries and Russia in approaches to climate change mitigation and adaptation"

On 14-15 October 2014, CWP-Armenia representatives participated in the workshop organized within the

European Union funded project package assisting the Eastern Neighbourhood Partnership Countries and Russia

in approaches to climate change mitigation and adaptation.

The package consists of two components: the first implemented by UNDP, consists of a number of Pilot

Projects that support the development of ecosystems-based approaches to climate change; the second is a

Policy component that seeks to foster improved climate change policies, strategies and market mechanisms in

the partner countries by supporting regional cooperation and improving information access to EU climate

change policies, laws and expertise.

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Participants Focal Point of Armenia on the UN

Framework Convention on Climate

Change

4. WACDEP CACENA in Armenia

The sludge-collection mechanism for horizontal tank was built in the Parakar village (Agreement with LLC

"Djrakhamus"). Adjusting of treatment facilities were also implemented.

Horizontal tank Sludge-collection mechanism

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5. 75th session of the Committee on Housing and Land Management

On 8-9 October 2014, the 75th session of the UNECE Committee on Housing and Land Management was held in Geneva and was concluded by the agreement on the UN Charter on Sustainable Housing. The meeting was very successful and it counted on the participation of 132 delegates, representing the governments of ECE member states as well as some international organizations and NGOs. The Charter will now have to be officially adopted at a meeting in April next year.

CWP-Georgia is very much interested in the Geneva Charter on Sustainable Housing. The Charter on Sustainable Housing supports policies and actions and encourages international cooperation at all levels. Just as importantly, it also represents a commitment by UNECE member States to address these issues and provides clear guidelines and benchmarks for assessing progress. The backbone of the Charter is its four principles: environmental protection; economic security; social inclusion and participation; and cultural identity. These four principles are intended to support a housing sector in the UNECE region that is focused on: promoting environmental sustainability; being the foundation of a vibrant economy; increasing access to decent, adequate, affordable and healthy housing; and better meeting the needs of all citizens, including the

vulnerable.

The fifth item of the Charter states the following: "Some groups, such as immigrants, refugees, Roma communities, face discrimination and social exclusion. Those living in informal settlements lack water, sanitation and other public services. A 2013 UNECE survey demonstrated that member States are concerned over growing economic disparities in the region and the need to promote social cohesion by making housing more affordable both for young people and for vulnerable groups of the population". These problems discussed at the session are priority for Georgia and of course for CWP-Georgia especially after signing agreement with EC.

6. EC Global Assessment Group Meeting On 23 October 2014, a meeting of the Global Assessment Group of the European Union with the stakeholders

involved in international water projects was held in the conference hall of the Radisson Blue Hotel in Tbilisi.

The aim was to assess effectiveness of water projects funded by EC.

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CWP-Georgia participated as a coordinator of water policy dialogues in the Framework of EC Water Initiative.

CWP-Georgia Chairman George Dzamukashvili presented results of CWP-Georgia activity on national dialogues.

35 people attended the meeting.

7. Seventh meeting of the Task Force on Water and Climate The 7th Task Force on Water and Climate took place in the Palais des Nations in Geneva on 13 October 2014. The Task Force on Water and Climate reviewed the progress and discussed the implementation of future activities to be undertaken under the programme of work for 2013-2015 of the Water Convention. Mr. Abdybai Dzhailoobaev (WACDEP CACENA project manager) took part in this meeting.

8. Fifth Workshop on Adaptation to Climate Change in Transboundary Basins

The fifth workshop on water and adaptation to climate change in transboundary basins took place in the Palais

des Nations in Geneva on 14-15 October 2014 under the leadership of the Governments of the Netherlands

and Switzerland, with the support of the UNECE secretariat.

The workshop focused on developing and implementing climate change adaptation strategies and measures,

considering expected outcomes at the transboundary level. It brought together professionals from all over the

world working on adaptation to climate variability and change, with a special but non-exclusive focus on

transboundary basins.

Mr. Abdybai Dzhailoobaev (WACDEP CACENA project manager) participated in the Round Table n4 "Water and

climate change adaptation projects in Central Asia". He presented pilot projects implemented in CACENA under

WACDEP.

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9. Mongolian Water Partnership Steering Committee meeting

Early October/2014.10.02/ held Steering Committee

meeting of MWP. The aim was to provide discussions,

meetings and TV interviews for 2014-2015 on the

following subjects:

1. Water and Education

2. Water and policy

3. Water and law

4. Water and private sector

5. Water and Media

6. Water and Civil society/NGO/

7. Water and Economy

8. Water and Mining

9. Water and Industry

10. Water and Energy

11. Water and Agriculture

12. Water and religion

13. Water and tradition

14. Water and Ecology

15. Water and Management

16. Water and demand

17. Water and sanitation

18. Water and Pollution

19. Water and supply

20. Water and human right

21. Water and Technology

22. Water and value

23. Water and woman

24. Water and urbanization

Among those 24 subjects about 10 ones will be discussed on the Mongolian Central National Television. It was

decided to sign contract between MWP and Mongolian National TV as soon as possible. Total number of

participants: 15.

10. National seminar “Water & Private sector”

On 9 October 2014, CWP-Mongolia jointly with the Mongolian National Chamber of Trade and Industry

organized the National seminar "Water and Private Sector" aiming to involve private sector into water

development. Representatives (total: 42) from water related ministries and agencies, as well from more than

30 company and various mass media (TV, radio, newspapers) were invited to participate.

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Mr.Badrakh (National Water Committee under Prime Minister Office) presented legal ways of transfer of

Government functions to private sector, as well development of partnership between Public and Private sector.

Prof.Basandorj (CWP-Mongolia) made presentation on how to involve private sector to water business and

water management.

Mr.Ganzorig (Prestige company) has shared own experience about its work with government for water

development.

Main results:

Understanding role of Mongolian Water Partnership and how can apply to GWP member;

Clear understanding the role of government and private company in water sector;

Recommendation how to involve private sector for water sector development at the national level;

Parties agreed and supported organizing such kind of discussion on water delivery service for public.

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11. Water problems will be discussed on the Mongolian National TV

On 14 October 2014, CWP-Mongolia and Mongolian National TV signed the Agreement on 10 television talk-

shows on water problems in Mongolia for six months (2014.10.20-2015.04.20).

Mr.Battsogt (Chair of CWP-Mongolia, Member of Parliament) and Prof.Basandorj (CWP-Mongolia) and Mr.

Enkhtuya (Director of Mongolian National TV) gave interview on the signed agreement and cooperation for

water sector development.

12. Meeting with Japanese delegation

On 27-29 October 2014, CWP-Mongolia organized the meeting with Japanese delegation to discuss

implementation of simple technology for domestic waste water treatment. They visited 4 wastewater

treatment plants for testing KANKAI aerator for domestic wastewater treatment in Ulaanbaatar periurban

area.

13. Water safety plan is developed for 3 provinces of Mongolia

On 30 October 2014, CWP-Mongolia took part in the Meeting on Water Safety Plan organized by WHO and the

Ministry of Health of Mongolia and held in the conference hall of the State Inspection Agency in Ulaanbaator.

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Around 35 people attended discussion. The water safety plans for 3 provinces in Mongolia were presented. Dr.

John Dennis, WHO consultant, did a presentation "Needs for water quality improvement in Mongolia". The

Ministry of Health introduced establishment of Sanitation Commission at a national level and CWP-Mongolia as

a member of Sanitation Commission.

Main results of the meeting are as follows:

1. WSP as a tool for developing at the national level;

2. Water quality should take more attention, and the water quality monitoring in water sources and water

distribution network for water users are important for WSP development;

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3. Water disinfection unit or chlorine machine can be modernized and a residual chlorine should not exceed

0.2-0.5mg/l;

4. All participants agreed that monitoring of water quality should be both in the centralized water supply

network and decentralized water sources; it is needed to increase rate of improved water supply.

14. Training-methodological workshop on Integrated Water Resources Management

On October 3-4, 2014, CWP-Tajikistan organized the training-methodological workshop (2nd round) on

Integrated Water Resources Management (theme: "The rational use of water resources and environmental

aspects of IWRM") in the Sughd base station of "TajikNIIGiM" (Gafurov town, Tajikistan).

The main goal - training of trainers for conducting and organization of seminars and round tables in the Sughd

region on the following issues: implementation of the principles of integrated water resources management,

rational water use and conservation, theoretical and practical fundamentals of water management, as well as

water metering, operation of pumping stations and economic mechanisms of water use in Gafurov district of

Sughd region. Intended trainers visited the Khodjabakirganskaya floating pumping station. Water specialists,

researchers and teachers participated (Total: 12).

Participants

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Khodjabakirganskaya floating pumping station

15. CWP-Tajikistan encourages students and young professionals

On 15 October 2014, CWP-Tajikistan organized a roundtable for young professionals from the Institute of

Water Problems, Hydropower and Environment of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan aiming to bring

the scientific-methodological and practical assistance in solving of water resources problems and other

water related tasks. The roundtable participants were informed about GWP publications, "Toolbox",

"CapNet" as well as publications on IWRM. Given the priority of IWRM, the participants expressed the

hope that such meetings will be on a continuous basis.

16. Meeting on Regulations for Surface- and Groundwater Protection in Tajikistan

On 15 October 2014, CWP-Tajikistan took part in the Meeting on Regulations for Surface- and Groundwater

Protection in Tajikistan organized by the Committee on Environment Protect ion at the Government of the

Republic of Tajikistan. These regulations aiming to improve water resources management and protection

contribute to IWRM principles implementation in the river basins in Tajikistan.

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17. WACDEP CACENA in Tajikistan

According to the work plan on the demonstration project within WACDEP CACENA in 2014 there were 2

harvests on each plots obtained by means of water saving technologies and environment protection

methods: 2 grain harvests (wheat+corn); 2 fodder crops (corn+sunflower). Cultivation technology for

"wheat+cotton" and "wheat+ winter crops (rape, rye, pea, chickpea)" was demonstrated. Regular meetings

with farmers, agricultural specialists are being organized.

Sunflower after the wheat harvest on 16 October 2014 Sunflower after the grain maize harvest on 16

October

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Grain maize after the wheat harvest on 16 October 2014 Corn (silos) after the grain maize harvest on 16

October

Cotton after the wheat harvest on 16 October 2014 Pea after the grain maize harvest on 16 October

18. Turkmenistan studies benefits of joining UNECE environmental agreements on water and

health and industrial accidents

CWP-Turkmenistan participated in the four days of trainings organized by UNECE in Ashgabat on 7-10 October 2014. Trainings were organized for Turkmen government representatives to familiarize them with two UNECE environmental treaties: the Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents (Industrial Accidents Convention) and the Protocol on Water and Health to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention).

Separate seminars on each instrument were organized as part of the National Policy Dialogue on water, a platform supported by UNECE for assisting Turkmenistan in developing its water resource management policies.

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http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=37001

19. Consultative Workshop "IWRM and water metering in the WUA and farms"

The Consultative Workshop "IWRM and water metering in the WUA and farms" organized by CWP-Uzbekistan,

the Irrigation Systems Office "Dargom", WUA and Association of farms of Pastdargomsky province, was held on

20 October 2014 in Samarkand region.

Goal - to provide equitable distribution, joint management and use of water resources.

Administration of irrigation systems, WUA, Association of farms, farmers (total: 26) took part in the workshop.

Participants noted that currently there is imbalance between water supply and demand. Water resources

shortage is increasing in the province but there are inadequate measures taken for the rational use of water

resources.

Farmers do not comply with the water use limit. Water metering does not meet requirements, and in some

farms it is missed. The seminar discussed the further development of mutual social support between WUAs. In

order to implement water-saving technologies WUA has agreed to assist in the construction of gauging stations

for farmers, and farmers promised to implement water-saving technologies at field sites (PVC pipes application

in furrow irrigation, and other methods that reduce water consumption).

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20. Ecojournalism Competition in Uzbekistan

The Ecological Movement of Uzbekistan jointly with GWP CACENA announced the Special Nomination 'Water is

Life» within 13th Republican Ecojournalism Competition.

Purpose: promoting reasonable use of water.

There are 5 nominations: "Television", "Radio", "Press", "INTERNET" and special nomination "Water is Life.

The submitted publications will be assessed by the Jury consisting of leading media specialists and

representatives of public organizations. Information support of the national ecojournalism competition is

provided by National Broadcasting Company of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan National News Agency

(UzA), newspaper "Jamiyat», «Eko-Hayot», websites: www.parliament.gov.uz, www.fundngo.uz,

www.eco.uz, www.uznature.uz, www.ngo.uz, www.ecoforum.uz, www.gwp.org/en/CACENA/

Authors of best publications on special nomination "Water is Life" will be awarded to prizes of GWP CACENA,

and their photos and biographies as well as publications will be placed on the GWP CACENA website.

http://www.gwp.org/en/CACENA/

21. International Conference “Development of Cooperation in the Aral Sea Basin to Mitigate

Consequences of the Environmental Catastrophe”

http://www.gwp.org/CACENA/News/International-Conference-Development-of-Cooperation-in-the-Aral-Sea-Basin-to-Mitigate-Consequences-of-the-Environmental-Catastrophe/

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22. GWP CACENA and World Bank joint Model Capacity Training Program

http://www.gwp.org/en/CACENA/News/GWP-CACENAWorld-Bank-Planning-meeting-on-Model-Capacity-Training-Program/

23. All-Russian scientific-practical conference "Water Management in Russia: Achievements, Problems and Prospects"

http://www.gwp.org/en/CACENA/News/All-Russian-scientific-practical-conference-Water-Management-in-Russia-Achievements-Problems-and-Prospects/

CHINA

October Highlights of GWP China

1. Participated in Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum

The Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) is organizing its flagship Forum on 1-3 October 2014 in

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, under the theme New Partnerships for Resilient Development: Government,

Business and Society. Over 500 climate change adaptation practitioners from public and private

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sectors jointed this year’s Forum. The Forum aimed at helping participants from all levels of

government, business and society to address development challenges in a changing climate more

effectively. This year’s Forum focused on adaptation actors and how they collaborate to form

partnerships and networks for resilient development.

As one of co-organizers, GWP SAS invited GWP China and GWP SEA to attend the event. GWP China

sent Prof. Xiaotao Cheng, Deputy Coordinator of GWP China to participate in the forum and deliver a

presentation under theme “Implications of hydropower for food security in a changing climate” in the

side event organized by GWP SAS. In his presentation, he stressed that it is necessary to make a more

objective and comprehensive evaluation on the hydropower development to meet the increasing

demands of a stable and fast economic growth and to food and energy security. As a clean energy,

the hydropower is an effective measure to reduce greenhouse gas emission and to remit global

warming through substituting for the increase of coal-firing power. Meanwhile, during the interim of

hydropower development, the top priority should be given to its influence on ecological environment

and the contradictions occurred among relevant regions. The establishment of necessary mechanisms

for coordination and compensation may really contribute to the sustainable development for the

overall situation. He also introduced the application of related theories and principles in the Yellow

River Basin.

After the side event, GWP SAS and GWP China also exchanged information on their present working

progress. According to the discussion, two regions planned to organize a session early 2015 resulting

with a cooperation proposal after discussion about strategies, annual work plan, working priorities of

each other.

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2. Meeting with the International Water Association (IWA) China Regional Office

On October 15, 2014, Dr. Li Tao, the Director, and Ms Wang Dan of the China Regional Office of IWA

visited GWP China Secretariat and had discussion about cooperation between the two organizations

on the Symposium on Water, Energy and Food Nexus scheduled on Nov. 11-13, 2014 in Beijing China.

At the meeting, Mr. Zheng Rugang, Coordinator of GWP China introduced the new strategies 2014-

2019 of GWP and GWP China. Dr. Li Tao introduced the overall picture of IUCN&IWA organized

Symposium on Water, Energy and Food Nexus. He then invited GWP China to cooperate in this event.

Mr. Zheng expressed the agreement of GWP China’s involvement and wished to cooperate with IUCN

and IWA in this activity.

At the discussion, it was suggested to re-schedule the event on November 13 to 15 rather than on

November 11 to 13, 2014 in Beijing to avoid the possible influence by the holidays during the APEC

Meeting in Beijing from November 6 to 12, 2014. It was agreed that GWP China was responsible to

send two experts from its TEC to give presentations on hydropower development and food security

and invite the representatives from the Ministry of Water Resources to address at the opening

ceremony and make a presentation on water resources management.

The two sides also exchanged the ideas on the opportunities of further cooperation in the future such

as in the 7th World Water Forum in South Korea in 2015.

3. Roundtable on Flood Control and Adapting Measures for Economic Development in Flood Plain for

Lower Reaches of Yellow River

The Roundtable on Flood Control and Adapting Measures for Economic Development in Flood Plain

for Lower Reaches of Yellow River was held on October 23, 2014, in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. The

event was organized by GWP China Yellow River and Yellow River Research Association with the

support by GWP China. Over 50 participants from Yellow River Conservancy Commission (YRCC),

research institutions, Henan and Ningxia Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Offices,

universities attended the roundtable. Mr. Zheng Rugang, Secretary General and Coordinator of GWP

China Region, gave a welome speech.

At the roundtable, Prof. Philippe Gourbesville, Director of Engineering School of University Nice-

Sophia Antipolis, France and Expert of WMO and GWP Associated Programme on Flood Management

(APFM) and Dr. Zhiyu LIU, Vice-president of WMO Commission for Hydrology and Expert of GWP

Associated Programme on Flood Management (APFM), the specially invited guests and experts by

GWPO, gave keynote presentations on the APFM and some international case studies. Other

presentations were given by Mr. Zhang Zhancang, Vice President of Henan Provincial Academy of

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Sciences; Ms. Jiang Enhui, Deputy Director of Yellow River Water Resources Research Institute; and

Mr. Wang Jue, General Manager of Maccaferri China on development and management of Yellow

River flood plains, utilization of sediment of Yellow River and new technology on water-eco protection

for river banks, respectively. The presentations were followed by questions and answers and

discussions.

The participants also paid a visit to the Kaifeng Section of the Yellow River about the flood control

technology and the engineering measures taken on flood control. In the evening of October 23, the

experts’ group discussion was conducted to exchange and share international experiences on flood

control and explore opportunities for international in the future.

4. Dialogue on Water Resources Demand and Energy Development

The Dialogue on Water Resources Demand and Energy Development in the middle reaches of Yellow

River organized by GWP China Yellow River, China Shenghua Group Company Ltd. and Yellow River

Research Association with the support by GWP China was held on October 25, 2014, in Erduos, Inner

Mongolia. Over 20 experts and participants were invited to the Dialogue, Mr. Zheng Rugang,

Coordinator of GWP China, participated and made a speech in the Dialogue.

The experts from Water and Soil Conservation Institute of China Academy of Sciences, Yellow River

water Resources Research Institute, Hydrology Bureau of Yellow River Conservancy Commission,

Shaanxi Provincial Water Resources Department, Supervision Bureau for Shanxi, Shaanxi and Inner

Mongolia Regions, Zhengzhou University and Maccaferri China joined the discussions in the Dialogue.

After the discussions, the common understanding was reached that the energy development and the

increasing water demand should be balanced, the effective measures should be taken for water

conservation for energy development and water and soil conservation should be carried out in the

exploited coal mines areas for ecological and environmental protection and restoration.

The participants also visited the pilot Water and Soil Conservation projects in the coal mined area for

Daliuta Coal Mine.

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EASTERN AFRICA 19th Regional Steering Committee Meeting of GWP

Eastern Africa.

From 1-2 October, GWP Eastern Africa organized the 19th

Ordinary meeting of the Steering Committee. The meeting

was held in Cairo, Egypt and aimed at discussing the

activity progress reports and budget execution (Jan-Sept

2014) and annual work plan and budget for 2015.

The meeting took note of the good progress made in the implementation of planned activities and commended the good work done by the Regional Secretariat. After deliberations on the work plan 2015, the RSC noticed the declining trend of WACDEP Budget and resolved that more efforts should be put on financial resources mobilization for Regional and CWP’s. With the aim of ensuring the visibility and trust of Regional and CWP’s, also for leveraging local resources, tactical guidance has been discussed and the RSC recommended the following steps. 1. Identify priority areas / interventions susceptible of attracting funding for GWPEA

2. Develop and submit project proposals to potential donors especially the African Water Security (AWF)

3. Expedite the process for legal ratification of GWPEA regional office in Uganda; with the support of Uganda Country Water Partnership, the Regional Secretariat will pursue the process towards legal ratification and progress will be reported to the RSC,

4. Supporting the establishment of Djibouti and South Sudan CWP’s, the Regional Secretariat will facilitate the process to bring the two CWP’s on board,

5. Mainstreaming cross-cutting issues such as gender and youth issues in the GWP Programs, 6. Attempt fundraising and attracting financial resources from governments as contributions to

activate CWPs; 7. Allocate seed funding to CWPs to prepare proposals. The available funds for this item in 2015 is

Euros 6,000-Use the seed funding to develop project proposals and fundraising meetings; 8. Approaching and synergizing with REC’S (IGAD, LVBC, NBI, ANBO, and other Lakes / River to make

joint proposals and get high level support , etc…)

9. Seeking the host of CWP’s and pursuing the legal registration for CWP’s; 10. CWPs to follow the planning and reporting template provided by GWPEA Sec. to align with GWP

Strategy towards 2020; 11. GWPEA to consider arranging some field visits during the future RSC meetings In conclusion, the meeting approved the 2014 progress report and 2015 workplan and budget for 2015 subject to amendments provided by the RSC members and further guidance from GWPO;

Figure 1: RSC members hold discussions

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ANBO-SITWA Project Stakeholders reviewed ten years’ Strategy (2015-2025) Strategy & Five Year

Work Plan (2015-2019)

From 28-29 October, GWPEA has joined other partners invited to review and discus the 10-year

strategy and 5-year action plan for ANBO. The strategy and workplan were enriched with

recommendations made during the ANBO Coordination Bureau Meeting in Abuja on 16 April and a

SITWA Steering Committee Meeting in Dakar on 29 May 2014. They also integrate the main inputs

provided by regional consultations conducted in August-September 2014.

The "African Network of Basin Organizations (ANBO)", was established on the occasion of its inaugural

General Assembly held in Dakar on 10 and 11 July 2002 as an International Non-Profit Organization for

an unlimited period of time. From its inception, ANBO has been conceived as a voluntary network of

river basin, lake and aquifer organizations set up with the assistance of the International Network of

Basin Organizations (INBO). ANBO was established to answer the need for coordination and

strengthening of cooperation among African BOs. ANBO therefore groups these entities as a single

representative umbrella organization under the African Ministerial Council on Water (AMCOW), which

coordinates water policy within the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) of the Union

African.

The interregional consultations conducted during 2013, which resulted in the Inception Report for

the SITWA Project, recommended the preparation of a strategy for ANBO. As the SITWA Project

moves into its three year Implementation Phase (2014-2016), one of the main tasks is to prepare this

strategy, which should allow ANBO play its role as a Pan-African body in charge of Transboundary

Water Resources Management in Africa under AMCOW.

The strategy reflects a clear vision of what ANBO is aiming for followed by a formulation of a mission

statement, a 10-year strategy and a detailed five-year action plan that coincides with the Africa Water

Vision 2025. The strategy is expected to allow and facilitate the various stakeholders including RBOs,

RECs and government agencies in charge of

transboundary water resources management to

improve cooperation and exchange of best practices

and lessons learnt. This is expected to contribute

directly to the overall development of water

resources in the African continent for economic

growth and poverty alleviation. The strategy should

also promote, as an essential tool for sustainable

development, the Integrated Water Resources

Management (IWRM) in river basins, lakes and

aquifers.

Figure 2: Participants in SITWA/ANBO workshop

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GWPEA Organized a Regional Meeting on Drought Resilience in the Horn of Africa

From 25-26 September, the GWPEA program known as “ Integrated Drought Management Program

in the Horn of Africa (IDMP HOA) “organized a stakeholders’ meeting in Nairobi, Kenya following a

scooping exercise to assess the drought resilience status in 8 countries in the Horn of Africa. The

countries include Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, south Sudan, Sudan, and Uganda.

The main purpose of the workshop was to discuss the IDMP programme document and

implementation arrangements expected to start in January 2015. Specifically, the workshop was

intended to provide inputs into the exisiting programme document on drought resilience in the Horn

of Africa and to design implementation arrangements in the period from 2015-2017. The outcome of

the workshop is expected to help enrich the IDMP HOA program document to make it comprehensive

in order to address the needs and priorities of the countries in the region

The meeting was very successful and formulated a number of crucial recommendations:

Countries need to prioritize the hot spots where program interventions will be done.

Country Water Partnerships (CWPs) need to critically look at the consultant reports as well as the Country Programing Paper (CPP) to establish the linkage and ensure that the IDMP HOA program activities contribute to the CPP.

The regional secretariat needs to expedite the country drought assessments for Somalia and South Sudan to generate information that will be the basis of implementing activities in those countries as well as completing the project document.

The program document, which is the basis of implementing the various interventions in the region, has to be cascaded into the regional annual work plan to be approved by Regional Steering Committees.

The regional secretariat needs to engage IGAD, which is a key-strategic partner in the region- GWPEA must expedite to formalize collaborations between GWP and IGAD.

The Country Water Partnership together with the regional secretariat has to work towards leveraging funds once the program document is completed.

Two key points emerged very clearly from the meeting that can

take the program forward. These are mainstreaming water

security in drought management work and strengthening

partnerships within the region. This will enable make much

progress and add value as well as leverage more funds.

Ownership of the project and its interventions is critical to

create the desired drought resilience.

Figure 3: Group photo of participants

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MEDITERRANEAN

1. REGIONAL CONSULTATION WORKSHOP:

Strengthening institutions for transboundary water management in North Africa

A regional consultation workshop took place in Tunis, on September 11th 2014, aimed at supporting

the development of the ten-year strategy (2015-2025) and the detailed five-year action plan (2015-

2020) for the African Network for Basin Organisations (ANBO) to become an effective tool in

strengthening and promoting institutional management mechanisms for shared water resources in

Africa. The workshop was held in the framework of the SITWA project (“Strengthening Institutions for

Transboundary Water Management in Africa”), launched by the EU in 2012 to reinforce cooperation

on transboundary water basins and the development of a holistic approach for water management.

The first draft of the strategic framework was discussed during ANBO’s Coordination Bureau meeting

in Abuja on 16 April 2014. The second draft was discussed at SITWA’s Steering Committee meeting in

Dakar on 29 May 2014. A participatory process was launched to support elaboration of the strategy

and its related action plan via regional consultations in the five African regions. The strategy and the

action plan will be ultimately presented to ANBO’s General Assembly before November 2014.

The draft strategy is structured around four strategic areas: i) strengthening ANBO’s institutional,

technical, knowledge-sharing and resources mobilisation capacity; ii) strengthening the institutional

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framework of basin organisations’ resources, iii) strengthening basin organisations’ planning capacity,

resources mobilisation and implementation capacity, iv) strengthening the capacity of basin

organisations to manage data, information and knowledge.

The workshop of 11 September 2014 in Tunis was organised as the regional consultation for North

Africa, to take into consideration the specific regional characteristics, and then identify and

recommend priority actions for ANBO with regards to a) strengthening the institutional, planning,

resources mobilisation, implementation, technical, knowledge-sharing, as well as data and information

managing capacity of basin organisations with existing cooperation mechanisms, and b) promoting the

establishment of such mechanisms in the case of basin organisations that currently lack them. A further

workshop objective was the harmonisation of national policies on Integrated Water Resources

Management.

The workshop was attended by 15 participants, among which representatives of river basin

organisations, as well as of the ministries competent for water resources management and protection

in North Africa, members of the Technical Advisory Committee of the African Ministers’ Council on

Water, representatives of the regional economic commission for North Africa, the Arab Maghreb

Union, representatives of regional and international organisations, as well as experts involved in the

management and protection of transboundary freshwater resources in North Africa. The draft strategy

and a questionnaire were shared with all participants prior to the workshop. The participants’

preliminary feedback to the questionnaire provided the basis for the plenary discussions that were

divided into an introductory session, a session focusing on ANBO’s strategy with regards to

strengthening already existing mechanisms, and one focusing on ANBO’s approaching of organisations

with complete lack of relevant mechanisms. The workshop was organised by the Global Water

Partnership - Mediterranean (GWP-Med) in collaboration with WaterLex and the Platform for

International Water Law at the University of Geneva’s Faculty of Law.

Due to North Africa’s arid and semi-arid climate and the deriving natural instability caused by the

insufficient rainfall, warm temperatures, the year-to-year irregularities of rainy periods and the more

or less lengthy drought cycles, the region’s nations are facing severe natural constraints affecting their

access to shared water resources. The water scarcity is aggravated by human-induced phenomena

such as climate change, population growth, urbanisation, increased use of water resources to meet

food demands and changes in territorial management.

In this context, the collaborative management and protection of shared water resources is a significant

issue in the relationships between the region’s States. It is believed to be advancing the socio-

economic development of African populations by taking into account local knowledge. North African

States have demonstrated their willingness to establish joint mechanisms on some water basins,

focusing primarily on exchanging and sharing information . Several other transboundary watercourses,

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however, lack mechanisms for institutional cooperation, such as the Medjerda River shared by Algeria

and Tunisia.

The completed regional consultation in Tunis is considered as successful, having reached its objectives.

The active interest of the participants highlighted the importance attributed to cooperation, as an

instrument of efficient water resources management in North Africa. The participants stressed their

hope that the ANBO can contribute to the strengthening of regional cooperation, taking into account

the identified needs and implementing the recommended actions. It was judged that the successful

integration of this workshop’s recommendations into the strategy and the action planning of the ANBO

will help it position itself as a key actor of the cooperation on shared water resources in North Africa.

The need to tighten relations between different actors, such as government authorities, private sector,

non-governmental organisations, research institutes etc., in order to reach a common vision on shared

water resources was finally pointed out.

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2. North Western Sahara Aquifer System Consultation Mechanism Study Tour

A field trip to the Secretariat of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube

River (ICPDR) as well as to water management national institutions in selected Danube

Riparian countries - Austria, Slovakia and Hungary – that are active in the framework of the

ICPDR, was organized on 8-10 October 2014.

Members of the North West Sahara Aquifer System Consultation Mechanism (NWSAS CM),

the regional Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS) organizations, as well as representatives from

the countries sharing the NWSAS – Algeria, Libya and Tunisia - were presented with best

practices on bilateral and multilateral cooperation for sustainable Transboundary Water

Resources Management (TWRM). The eight participants had the opportunity to have a close

look into the benefits and challenges of this cooperation framework. The study visit was

organized by GWP-Med, in the framework of the Water, Climate and Development

Programme (WACDEP), in collaboration with the Global Environment Facility's IW:LEARN

Project (International Waters Learning Exchange & Resource Network) and the NWSAS CM.

The visit to the Secretariat of the ICPDR in Vienna, a transnational body of 14 cooperating

states plus the EU, established to ensure the sustainable and equitable use of waters and

freshwater resources in the Danube River Basin, included presentations and discussion on the

following issues: legal basis of cooperation; the institutional structure of ICPDR and its

Secretariat; organizational and technical arrangements to facilitate cooperation among

countries; types and levels of cooperation on water and groundwater governance; public

participation. A representative of the Environment Agency Austria (Umweltbundesamt)

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explained key aspects of surface and ground water management in the country and presented

main elements of cooperation of Austria with neighboring countries, including in the

framework of ICPDR.

The Study Tour also included a visit to the Slovak Water Research Institute (WRI) in Bratislava.

Presentations and discussion focused on the WRI main activities and cooperation with the

ICPDR, while the new simulation model of the water reservoir Kolarovo at the River Vah was

presented during a visit to the Institute’s Hydraulic Laboratories. Finally, the visit to the

General Directorate of Water Management of the Hungarian Ministry of Interior, in Budapest,

included presentations focusing on water management in Hungary, aspects of cooperation for

the management of groundwater at national and bilateral levels, technical issues such as

methodologies for the delineation of transboundary groundwater bodies and transboundary

geo-scientific models.

Aiming to communicate a diverse range of experiences and models of initiating and organizing

cooperation schemes, additionally to the Danube Basin cooperation model, the Drin Basin case

and the approach used to initiate cooperation in the basin was presented to the participants,

involving the establishment of the Drin Core Group by Albania, FYR Macedonia, Greece,

Kosovo and Montenegro; GWP-Med is acting as the Secretariat of the Drin Core Group.

The Study Tour was organized following the approval of the WACDEP planned activities in the

NWSAS by the NWSAS Steering Committee on 20-21 November 2013 in Algeria. WACDEP aims

to integrate water security in development planning processes and build climate resilience at

national and transboundary levels. Specifically for NWSAS, WACDEP aims among other, to

support the development of a shared vision for water resources management and the

institutional reinforcement of the NWSAS CM. Best practice exchange, experience sharing and

capacity building are used as means to facilitate Algeria, Libya and Tunisia in identifying the

appropriate means for enhancing cooperation for the NWSAS management, understanding

the margin for coordination development, as well as the difficulties that might arise during the

process. Given the participants’ interest in the presentations and discussions GWP-Med

succeeded in meeting the objective, in a proof of its maturing capacity to assist countries in

enhancing cooperation in the field of shared water resources management.You can find here

the Program of the Study Tour.

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GWP-Med proves capacity in assisting countries to enhance cooperation in Transboundary

Water Resources Management

The interlinkages between the various parts of the GWP-Med work are growing. Programs with

a clear TWRM component, such as WACDEP, or focusing entirely on TWRM, as the GEF

IW:LEARN, and support to countries and institutions for the management of shared water

resources such as the Drin Coordinated Action, and the NWSAS CM, run parallel yet,

interlinked paths proving the increasingly sophisticated work, as well as the GWP-Med’s

capacity to position itself as a leader in the TWRM field offering distinct comparative

advantages in this regard. The spearhead of the GWP-Med interventions in the field of TWRM

in South East Europe is the Global Environmental Facility (GEF)/UNDP Project “Enabling

Transboundary Cooperation and Integrated Water Resources Management in the Extended

Drin River Basin” that will facilitate sustainable management of the Drin Basin water resources

on the basis of the Drin Memorandum of Understanding that established the Drin Core Group.

Additional engagements pointing out GWP-Med’s deep dive into TWRM has been the close-

to-its-end DIKTAS Project (Protection & Sustainable Use of the Dinaric Karst Aquifer System)

financed by the GEF, implemented by UNDP and executed by UNESCO, and the preparation of

the Stakeholders Analysis and the Public Participation Plan for the International Sava River

Basin Commission.

For further GWP-Med activities on Transboundary Water Resources Management, please visit

previous relevant articles:

“Karst Without Boundaries” for sustainable karst groundwater resources management

(http://goo.gl/rMed1z)

Workshop on Legal frameworks for cooperation on transboundary waters,Tunis, June

2014 (http://goo.gl/ZKkiKo)

Regional Consultation Workshop on Strengthening institutions for transboundary

water management in North Africa (http://goo.gl/uCXHfn)

For further information on the GEF/UNDP Project “Enabling Transboundary Cooperation and

Integrated Water Resources Management in the Extended Drin River Basin”, please visit:

http://drincorda.org/gef-project

For more information on the Drin Coordinated Action, the Drin Memorandum of

Understanding and the Drin Core Group, please visit: http://drincorda.org/

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For further information on the DIKTAS Project, please visit the Project’s website:

http://diktas.iwlearn.org/

For more information with regards to WACDEP, please visit: www.gwp.org/wacdep

For more information with regards to GEF IW:LEARN, please visit: http://iwlearn.net/

For more information about the North Western Sahara Aquifer System, please visit:

http://www.oss-online.org/en/phase-iii-sass-project-north-western-sahara-aquifer-system

For more information about the International Sava River Basin Commission, please visit:

http://www.savacommission.org/

3. 1st Regional Conference of the Governance & Financing for the Mediterranean Water Sector

project: More than 110 stakeholders reflecting on the governance & financing nexus

The 1st Regional Conference of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) labelled project

Governance & Financing for the Mediterranean Water Sector was organised on 28-30 October

2014, in Athens, Greece, by the Global Water Partnership- Mediterranean (GWP-Med), in close

collaboration with the EU funded Sustainable Water Integrated Management-Support

Mechanism (SWIM-SM) project. It convened more than 110 decision makers; representatives

of government; civil society; the private sector; international organisations; donors and

financing institutions.

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In continuation of the Regional Policy Dialogue set off during the launching of the UfM project

in May 2013, the Conference set the ground for the sharing of experiences and best practices

on governance and sustainable financing for the water sector. It addressed the main

bottlenecks and cross-cutting issues in the water governance-financing nexus. Moreover, the

event reflected on a platform for regional dialogue on the governance and financing nexus

among public, private and civil society actors calling for further north-south and south-south

cooperation.

During the high level opening at the Acropolis Museum, chaired by Prof. Michael Scoullos,

Chairman of the Global Water Partnership-Mediterranean (GWP-Med), H.E. Naser Tahboub,

the UfM Deputy Secretary General for Environment and Water highlighted the need “to

strengthen regional cooperation to improve capacity and institutional response to water

scarcity and respond to the clear need for financial stability”. Mr. Gaetano Leone, Coordinator

of the United Nations Environment Programme/Mediterranean Action Plan and Mr. Julien

Serre, Policy and Strategy Advisor at the European Investment Bank (EIB), after welcoming the

participants, took stock of the contribution of their organisations to the theme.

“We are smart enough to share best practices” asserted the Deputy Minister of Environment

of the Republic of Albania, H.E. Djana Bejko, while stressing the value of experience sharing

and the opportunity that this Conference provides to multiple stakeholders for raising their

voices. The Former Minister of Water and Irrigation of Jordan, H.E. Mohammed Najjar,

contributed with his reflections on financing water infrastructure in the Mediterranean and

shared his country experiences, while H.E. Koussai Quteishat, former Secretary General of the

Jordanian Ministry of Water and Irrigation, delivered the keynote on the status of water PPP

in the Mediterranean highlighting that “projects struggle between bankability and government

structure” as frequently projects are not implemented due to either the fact that they are not

bankable while there are available financial resources or due to governance bottlenecks that

need to be tackled first.

During the second day, the core findings of the Water Policy Dialogues conducted by GWP-

Med and the OECD in Jordan and Tunisia were presented by the OECD project team and were

complemented by targeted interventions by core Dialogue partners in the two countries. The

subsequent session, chaired by Ms. Dionysia Avgerinopoulou, President of the Circle of

Mediterranean Parliamentarians for Sustainable Development (COMPSUD), included targeted

reflections by representatives of other South Mediterranean countries and explored ways of

taking the findings from Jordan and Tunisia forward into the wider Mediterranean region and

beyond.

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During the event, discussions revolved particularly around mainstreaming cross-cutting issues

and ways on how to best integrate them in the water governance and financing nexus; in this

context interventions from Civil Society and other international organisations’ representatives

focusing on gender, rights, water integrity and stakeholder engagement offered tangible

experience-sharing and fruitful insights on how to operationalize the mainstreaming process.

Debate and discussions during the Conference focused also on the role of the private sector

when it comes to sustainable financing; with the private companies including banks and

insurance companies presenting their perspective and giving successful examples when

working in financing water and sanitation projects.

The event also discussed the way forward for the second year of the Governance & Financing

for the Mediterranean Water Sector project and reviewed existing synergies, such as the one

with the EU-funded project SWIM-SM aiming to strengthen the engagement between water

and financing stakeholders and to contribute to the facilitation of the platform for regional

dialogue on the governance and financing nexus. It also explored further synergies with other

regional actors, initiatives and projects working towards advancing sustainable financing for

water and sanitation services, such as the UNECE’s initiative to establish a Centre of Excellence

on Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Water and Sanitation, the CEO Platform for Green

Growth in MENA and the UNDP ‘Global Water Solidarity’ institutional platform for local level

water management.

In their closing remarks, both the Head of International Relations and EU Affairs at the Hellenic

Ministry of Environment, Ms. Maria Peppa and the UfM Deputy Secretary General for

Environment and Water, H.E. Naser Tahboub stressed the need for the continuation of the

regional dialogue at Mediterranean level and expressed their anticipation for the outcomes of

the UfM labelled project’s national and regional work.

The next Regional Conference within the Governance & Financing for the Mediterranean

Water Sector project will take place in mid-2015 following up on the conclusions of the first

Conference and on sharing the findings of the national Policy Dialogues and work of the

project.

The Conference formed an integral part of the activities of the Governance & Financing for the

Mediterranean Water Sector project, officially labelled under the UfM and jointly

implemented by GWP-Med and the OECD. It was organised in close cooperation with the EU

funded ‘Sustainable Water Integrated Management-Support Mechanism (SWIM-SM)’ project

and was supported by the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and the European

Commission and was conducted in strategic partnership with the European Investment Bank

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(EIB), the GEF UNEP/MAP MedPartnership programme and the Mediterranean Component of

the EU Water Initiative (MED EUWI).

SOUTHERN AFRICA

1.0 Introduction

Global Water Partnership Southern Africa (GWP SA) was engaged in a number of activities

during the month of October. Key among them was the 6th River Basin Organisation workshop,

held from 15-17th October 2014 under the theme “Strengthening Regional Cooperation and

Resilience in Water Related Disasters”. At the workshop a presentation on “Undertaking

Gender mainstreaming in Transboundary Water Management in the SADC Region” was made.

Thus highlighting an important milestone that the region is encompassing towards gender

mainstreaming. GWPSA continued to support key gender activities through its involvement

in the Local Organising Committee of the upcoming “gender, Water and Development

Conference: The untapped Connection”. The GWD Conference is scheduled to be held from

3-7 November 2014 in East London, South Africa.

In 2013, Global Water Partnership Southern Afr ica (GWPSA) was contracted to

undertake three (3) country based studies in 14 SADC countries on behalf of SADC

and GiZ. Three regional collated studies were undertaken on water financing and

investment, regional water policy and local indigenous knowledge systems on water security

and climate change.

The completion of these studies has come with the need for repacking the studies into various

knowledge products (activities near completion) and to share the results of the studies to

various stakeholders in various forums that will see to the implementation of the 3

components of the SADC-GIZ-GWPSA project focused on harnessing knowledge to build

climate resilience and achieve water security, sharing that knowledge and developing

stakeholder capacity and involving decision makers to ensuring increased water investments

– through integrated approaches that aim to invest in information, institutions and

infrastructure. During the 6th RBO Workshop, the results of two regional synthesis reports on

water financing and investment, and local indigenous knowledge systems on water security

and climate change were shared with delegates.

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GWP SA also participated in the 15th WaterNet/WARFSA symposium which was held in

Lilongwe, Malawi from the 29th to the 31st of October 2014 under the theme: “IWRM for

harnessing socio economic development in Eastern and Southern Africa” . GWP SA

conducted a special session on ‘Conversion and Conveyance of Limpopo Basin

Development Challenge (LBDC) Research results’ in Lilongwe, Malawi.

A number of activities were held during the month of October, in an effort to enhance

institutional strengthening of the GWPSA network. Key was the GWPSA Board meeting

held on 21st October 2014. At country level, a brainstorming session was held among

partners in Zimbabwe to find ways of coming up with a proposal for the Africa Water

Facility (AWF). Additionally, following the adoption of the Zimbabwe National Climate

Change Response Strategy in July 2014, a planning meeting on implementation of the

National Climate Policy in Zimbabwe was held during the month of October 2014.

Furthermore, in-country consultations on the development of the Disaster Risk Reduction

Action Plan in the Limpopo Basin.

2 October 2014 Activities

2.1 Strengthening Regional Cooperation and Resilience in Water Related Disasters – 6th RBO Workshop

A landmark conference took place on 15-17 October 2014 at Birchwood Hotel in

Johannesburg, South Africa to enhance discussions between SADC and SADC

regional partners such as River Basin Organisations, International Cooperating

partners and developmental partners, such as RESILIM, CRIDF and GWPSA on

“Strengthening Regional Cooperation and Resilience in Water Related Disasters”.

The dialogue was organised by SADC in cooperation with GWPSA and was part of the

SADC RBO series of dialogues, which is funded by GiZ Transboundary Water

Management (TWM) Programme. In total, about 200 people from 15 countries attended

the conference.

The jointly organised event aimed to lay the foundation for strengthening regional and

local voices, enhancing cooperation and articulating priorities to shape the climate

agenda in the SADC region as well as establish linkages between SADC climate change

programmes, RBOs, and local programmes.

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The conference was inaugurated by dignitaries from the Department of Water Affairs -

Ministry of Water & Sanitation, South Africa – Deputy Director General Ms Lindiwe

Lusenga; The Lead ICP – Water, Mr. Joakim Schimdt, AMCOM Secretariat representative,

Mr. Charles Nganguoe, and Eng. Remigious Makumbe (SADC Secretariat). The opening

remarks all applauded the role SADC is playing in addressing environmental problems

including climate change adaptation and mitigation.

In her opening remarks, Ms Lindiwe Lusenga recognised the importance of RBOs in the

region as being key to the management of shared water courses in the region. She

urged participants on the need to accelerate progress in the implementation of various

strategies that SADC has in place in promoting resilience.

Eng. Remigious Makumbe (SADC) underlined that crucial achievements have been made

in the field of climate change and resilience in water related disasters in the region,

however several key challenges remain. For instance leveraging of financial resources

and further work on the roles RBOs can play in DRR in view of the SADC Programmes

and existing DRR initiatives.

Mr. Charles Nganguoe (AMCOW) in his opening remarks agreed to supporting the SADC

Climate Change Programme, which he lamented so far has made great strides in

implementation. In support of this, Joakim Schumdt, speaking on behalf of the ICPs,

mentioned that “Climate change has been an issue at the forefront of cooperation for

many years and the ICPs have made an unconditional commitment to supporting the

SADC agenda on resilience”.

The programme comprised four sessions: namely – The opening session; the second

session which included an overview from SADC on how they are supporting RBOs. Also

included in this session were reports where LIMCOM, OKAKOM, ORASECOM and

ZAMCOM shared updates on their current activities, challenges and way forward; and

the third session which comprised presentation on the TWM gender programme, and

findings from the TWM Climate Change Mainstreaming/ water financing studies

undertaken in the SADC states. The fourth session comprised presentations on flood risk

management and river basin organisations. Presentations included a general overview

of water related disasters in the region; local indigenous knowledge for coping with

water related disasters, and current SADC programmes addressing water related

disasters and risk reduction mechanisms (DRRU, WD, Met-CSC). During the dialogue,

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SADC also launched four videos under the “Bridging Water Series” that have been

completed.

Particular challenges and recommendations highlighted at the dialogue included the

need for RBOs to further promote active climate change and water related disaster by

fostering collaboration awareness, education, and capacity-building, standardising data

and facilitating access to disaster related information for member states, in line with

SADC DRR vision that supports the implementation of actions that mitigate and adapt to

climate change and disaster risk management. Discussions also pointed to the need for

improvements in gender mainstreaming, and adapting the use of Local Indigenous

Knowledge Systems and Practices.

The key outcome of the conference was the call for greater co-operation in the region.

Through the dialogue, the stakeholders specifically acquired a better understanding of

the situation and the failure aspects to be addressed in regional cooperation and

resilience in water related disasters, proposed SADC regional best practices on

resilience, provided recommendations on appropriate support to the RBOs where

needed, and made proposals on the key elements of the 4 th Phase of the SADC Water

Programme (RSAP IV).

This workshop was the 6th in a series of RBO workshops held in various countries within

the SADC region. The last workshop was held in June 2012 in Harare Zimbabwe under

the theme “Monitoring the Implementation of the Protocol on Shared Watercourses”. In

the recent years, RBOs have been much involved in documenting the river basins and

providing the public with a better understanding of each basin as a whole. However, in

an environment where climate changes cut across national boundaries and river basins

are being overwhelmed by the various impacts of climate change e.g. floods and

droughts, there is a real need for all RBOs to share experiences with regards to their

abilities to plan effectively and be better prepared for those calamities. This is aligned

with the disaster risk reduction and management which entails planning, preparation

and effective response. It therefore became imperative to update the information and

assess the work since then through a regional dialogue. The ultimate aim of the dialogue

was therefore to enhance coordination amongst the various institutions towards the

same goal which is to optimize the resilience of countries and river basins to natural

disasters related to climate variability.

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2.2 RBOs called to adapt Local Indigenous knowledge for coping with Water Related Disasters

Based on country studies on Local Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices

(LIKSP) and how they contribute to enhancing climate resilience in each of the 14

countries in the SADC region, Qandelihle Simelane (regional consultant of LIKSP studies)

gave a regional summation from country studies undertaken in the region during the

6th SADC River Basin Organisations (RBOs) Workshop held from the 15 th to the 17th of

October 2014 at Birchwood Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa under the theme

“Strengthening Regional Cooperation and Resilience in Water Related Disasters.”

He noted that indigenous knowledge is developed and adapted continuously to gradually

changing environments and passed down from generation to generation and is closely

interwoven with people’s cultural values. Indigenous knowledge belongs to peoples from

specific places with common cultural and social ties. Such form of knowledge addresses

local problems and solutions that are context specific. He further added that indigenous

knowledge is evolved through a nexus and adopts the nexus approach in its application.

There was a general consensus that weather was increasingly becoming more and more

difficult to predict and seasons were now predominantly characterized by late onset of

rains, poor rainfall distribution, frequent storms, hail and drought within the same season

and uncharacteristically long dry spells.

In his presentation, Qandelihle also noted that rural communities have over decades,

relied on indigenous methods for forecasting the seasons and coping with numerous

weather-related stressors. For example, one of the short term weather predictions is that

when the wind blows from the land it is believed it is the husband going to the sea to

meet the wife and the result is the rain.

A call to the RBOs was made to promote a multi sectoral approach to climate change

adaptation, to sensitize RBOs on indigenous community leadership, knowledge and

practices, to document and disseminate local indigenous knowledge and practices for

forecasting, to introduce indigenous knowledge and practices into the school curriculum,

institutionalise, promote and commercialise Indigenous Knowledge & Practices, protect

ecologically sensitive sites. He further noted that there is a need to develop and

strengthen functional linkages with the agriculture sector as well as indigenous

community leadership and also to consider combining LIKSP with conventional scientific

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forecasts so as to contribute to the building of more robust mitigation and adaptation

measures.

In 2013, Global Water Partnership Southern Africa (GWPSA) was contracted to

undertake three (3) country based studies in 14 SADC countries on behalf of SADC

and GiZ. Three regional collated studies were undertaken on water financing and

investment, regional water policy and local indigenous knowledge systems on water security

and climate change.

The completion of these studies has come with the need for repacking the studies into various

knowledge products and to share the results of the studies to various stakeholders in various

forums that will see to the implementation of the 3 components of the SADC-GIZ-GWPSA

project focused on harnessing knowledge to build climate resilience and achieve water

security, sharing that knowledge and developing stakeholder capacity and involving decision

makers to ensuring increased water investments – through integrated approaches that aim to

invest in information, institutions and infrastructure.

2.3 Financing water resources management and development for River Basin Organisations

A presentation on “Financing water resources management and development for River Basin

Organisations” was made during the 6th RBO Workshop held 15th to the 17th of October

2014 at Birchwood Hotel, Johannesburg. The presentation is based on 13 country studies on

“Financing Water Resource Management in SADC” which was commissioned by the SADC/GIZ

Transboundary Water Resources Management Programme, to deepen the understanding of

investments in water resources management and development and to create arguments to

increase these investments in SADC countries. In 2013, Global Water Partnership

Southern Africa (GWPSA) was contracted to undertake three (3) country based

studies in 14 SADC countries on behalf of SADC and GiZ. Three regional collated studies

were undertaken on water financing and investment, regional water policy and local

indigenous knowledge systems on water security and climate change.

According to the Barbara Schreiner, who made the presentation on behalf of the consultants, the workshop delegates were informed that the studies on Financing water resources management and development were undertaken to assess how finances related to water

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resources management and infrastructure (not water supply and sanitation) were undertaken at country level. An assessment of these studies were synthesized to examine the expenditure and income associated with:

Managing surface and ground water (including rivers, wetlands, aquifers, lakes and estuaries)

in terms of planning & allocating water, protecting& rehabilitating ecosystems, authorising

and controlling use and waste discharge, monitoring & information, and strengthening

institutions/governance platforms that enabling stakeholders to participate in catchment

management; and

Developing and operating water resources infrastructure (including dams, abstraction weirs,

inter-basin transfer pump-stations and pipelines, and groundwater abstraction well-fields)

in terms of the design, construction, commissioning, operation, maintenance and

refurbishment of this infrastructure.

The synthesis report draws attention to the fact that SADC is not a uniform region. Countries

are at different stages of development (economically and socially). Countries also have

different endowment of water, land and minerals, which may significantly alter the potential

for particular economies. Depending on the development context as well as resource

endowment of a country, the water resource management and infrastructure requirements

may differ. With regards to endowment, countries which are water stressed and have already

invested in infrastructure may be considering water resources management more strongly

than investing in additional infrastructure. With regards to development context, countries

which are less developed may have difficulty financing new infrastructure capital through

water user charges alone. This may impact their financing options for additional

infrastructure.

In addition a review of the reports indicates that the economy, institutions within each of the

SADC countries may differ. There are a range of institutional arrangements across the SADC

countries. In some cases a ministry or department is the regulator of water resources

management as well as the infrastructure operator. In other cases these functions are split.

Institutions may be centralised nationally, or there may be a continuum of institutions from

national, catchment, system and local level. Depending on the arrangement of the institutions,

potential financing of water resource management and infrastructure may differ.

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One of the major observations from this research is the range of development levels countries

may be in. These development levels also help to inform the importance of increasing water

resources infrastructure or governance. Financing of additional infrastructure is also

dependent on the level of development, as increasingly developed countries begin to depend

on water use tariffs and charges instead of development or fiscal assistance. Therefore, the

report argues that the not so developed countries in term of infrastructure development have

to ensure that infrastructure is developed to cope with climate change. Additionally, countries

that are developed in infrastructure need to invest to ensure continued climate resilience.

The report evaluates these ranges among the countries and in addition to recommendations

made key insights for the primary audiences of the report, namely water managers,

government planners and development institutions, which are broadly mandated around

water user charges, fiscal allocations and development assistance (the three sources of water

resources funding which are linked), respectively.

2.4 Undertaking Gender Mainstreaming in Transboundary Water Management in the SADC Region

A presentation on Gender Mainstreaming in the SADC Water Sector was made

during the 6th RBO workshop held on 15-17 October, 2014 at Birchwood Hotel in

Johannesburg, South Africa. GWP SA has facilitated the organization of the RBO

workshops, which are aimed at enhancing and building the ability of the RBOs to

prepare, respond and recover from water related impacts (flood and droughts)

and build resilience to climate change within the RBOs through all aspects,

including gender mainstreaming.

The gender-based presentation shared lessons drawn from the Gender Mainstreaming

in Transboundary Water Management (TWM) in SADC programme. The objective of the

programme is to mainstream gender in the ongoing programme on TWM, which is quite

a challenge, considering that TWM deals mainly with policies and decisions at the

highest government levels, and that such decisions have to be linked to the water users

at grassroots level, whose daily life is influenced by transboundary water issues.

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The programme specifically is designed to provide advisory services to the River basin

Organisation secretariats and seconded officials of the SADC member states; identify

strategic entry points for gender mainstreaming in TWM at RBO-level, and advice on

inclusive implementation of pilot projects in the basin areas. This programme will last

just over 2 years, and a project team is based in Botswana: Mercy Dikiti-Wachtmeister

as Team-Leader and Muchimba Sikumba-Dils as Gender Expert.

As GWP SA is a key partner in the TWM Programme and have been implementing the

Climate Change Mainstreaming project on behalf of SADC, the presentation and

discussions relating to TWM gender mainstreaming will discuss ways in which the

relevance of gender and social inclusion in TWM is demonstrated and can be further

integrated into the policy and programming by decision makers and water specialists at

different levels in the region. Within this context, GWPSA is embarking on an exercise

whereby both the SADC wide gender policy and the GWP gender policy shall be

mainstreamed in a way that it’s applicability in the TWP programme is tested and

results in lessons learned can be disseminated at a later stage.

This 6th RBO workshop under the theme “Strengthening Regional Cooperation and

Resilience in Water Related Disasters”, is in a series of workshops that have been

successfully held in various member states within the SADC region. The last workshop

was held in June 2012 in Harare Zimbabwe under the theme “Monitoring the

Implementation of the Protocol on Shared Watercourses". About 140 participants are

attending the meeting. The programme comprises four sessions: namely – The opening

session; the second session which will include an overview from SADC on how they are

supporting RBO. Included in this session have been reports where LIMCOM, OKAKOM,

ORASECOM, and ZAMCOM shared updates on their current activities, challenges and

way forward; and the third session which will present the TWM gender programme,

including the TWM Climate Change Mainstreaming Project that GWPSA is implementing

on behalf of SADC.

A number of outcomes are expected to be realized from this workshop, among which

include: building a deeper understanding and awareness on the situation faced by

various RBO’s with regards to water related disasters; Proposing SADC regional best

practices on addressing water related disasters; Developing recommendations that will

be implemented by the RBOs in order for the institutions to be better prepared; and

Identifying the capacity gaps, needs and aspirations of RBO’s in order for SADC and

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other relevant institutions to provide appropriate support to the RBOs with regard to

addressing disaster issues.

2.5 Conversion and Conveyance of Limpopo Basin Development Challenge (LBDC) Research Results

Infographic depicting the need to understand the causes of failure of Small-Scale Water

Infrastructure in order to manage them

The Global Water Partnership Southern Africa (GWP SA) conducted a special session on

‘Conversion and Conveyance of Limpopo Basin Development Challenge (LBDC) Research

results’. The session was held on the 29th October, 2014 during the 16th

WaterNet/WARSFA/GWPSA Symposium, in Lilongwe, Malawi.

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The aim of the session was to share key research results from the Challenge Programme for

Water and Food (LBDC) which ended in 2013. The session achieved the following objectives

through the presentations and discussions:

By presenting the key messages taken from the research evidence, the session

demonstrated pathways and the linkages to increasing productivity and improving

livelihoods for smallholder farmers in the Basin.

The session set the context by providing an overview of the research outputs from the

five components of the LBDC.

The session further demonstrated how translating research results into knowledge

products, such as infographics could be used in communicating to a broader audience.

The presentations were followed by discussions that centred on ways of best promoting

Research for Development (R4D) in the region. The key issues agreed on were the following:

Involvement of a number of stakeholders in a process of defining the research agenda

and delivering research that is relevant to the decisions facing decision makers today.

The group discussed opportunities to contribute to this process, and was then

informed that WaterNet was taking responsibility for working on this in the coming

year.

In order to justify investment in research, outputs should lead to outcomes and

eventual impact—far outliving the project life cycle. Engaging a wide range of

stakeholders early (and often) in the process is necessary.

LBDC research showed that failure to acknowledge and respond to the expressed

needs of farmers and rural populations often leads to poor design and

implementation—and is a common cause of technological failure. Discovering

incentive structures for rural decision making is critical to designing and implementing

more successful initiatives.

LBDC research showed that institutional inadequacies are a major contributing factor

to underperforming technologies, schemes, programmes and initiatives. This includes

issues of unclear roles and responsibilities, overlapping or gaps in mandates, and

unreasonable assumptions about capacity.

The session resolved on the need to further discuss integrated R4D for the region, in order to

set a SADC research agenda. Key to the attendees at the session included Mr. Phera Ramoeli

(SADC) and Mr. Nico Elema, (AU/NEP AD Water Centres of Excellence), thus ensuring policy

input in the discussion on integrating and planning for R4D for the SADC region.

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Drawing 228 delegates chiefly from the SADC region, East Africa, and Europe, the 15th

WaterNet/WARFSA/GWP-SA symposium was held under the theme “IWRM for harnessing

socio economic development in Eastern and Southern Africa”. The University of Malawi was

the key host. The Symposia have been held annually in the Eastern and Southern African

region for the past 15 years to promote interaction among policymakers, academics,

practitioners from water and related sectors, and cooperating partners. Together, they

identify regional issues, gaps and priorities that require further research and support. The

official opening remarks by the guest of honour, Minister of Agriculture Irrigation and Water

Development, Hon, Dr. Allan Chiembekeza (MP) placed great emphasis was placed on the

lack of an integrated approach in water management and the role IWRM can play in

economic development. Additionally the key note address delivered by Prof Zachary M.

Kasomekera (Chairman of Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources and

Programme Manager, Greenbelt Initiative ) provided possible remedies to IWRM, such as

the need for national governments to facilitate water infrastructure through funding, more

involvement of rural mass through community mobilization to promote IWRM and creating

champions of IWRM. The remedies were given in light of his opinion of IWRM complex

undertaking with competing demands at catchment level.

2.6 GWP SA engaged in developing a DRR Action Plan for the Limpopo Basin- Zimbabwe in country consultations

Following the in-country consultations

with the key stakeholders and

institutions to review and update into

an Action plan ‘the Limpopo Basin

Strategic Plan for reducing

vulnerability to floods and droughts’,

GWP SA conducted in country

consultations in Zimbabwe. This

review is part of the assistance being

given to the LIMCOM in order for it to

develop a Disaster Risk Reduction

Action Plan. In light of this,

consultations were conducted with key personnel from key stakeholders from the Ministry

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of Local Government, Public Works and Urban Development, Ministry of Environment,

Water and Climate – Department of Water - Department of Civil Protection, Meteorological

Services Department, ZINWA and the Catholic Relief Services.

The stakeholders were selected so that all aspects of DRR i.e. Preparedness, Response and

Recovery were captured. Funds permitting, it was going to be more beneficial if views from

at least one Rural District Council operating within the basin were captured.

From the consultations undertaken, the following were the common expectations that

emerged with regards to the role of LIMCOM:

i. Establish proper institutional structures – LIMCOM needs to establish proper

institutional structures at basin level that are anchored within the districts and

provincial structures.

ii. Establish a communication strategy –LIMCOM should designate local people in the

basin as the focal persons for LIMCOM e.g. district administrators. The contact details

of the focal persons should be circulated among the countries for ease of

communication and also to promote early warning.

iii. Harmonise communication structures – LIMCOM needs to harmonize communication

structure between riparian countries and within the basin.

iv. Establish an information sharing platform – LIMCOM should create a platform that

brings together all disaster management personnel from the riparian countries. After

these meetings information should then be cascaded down to relevant sectors within

respective countries.

v. Promote resilience – LIMCOM needs to be more involved in promoting community

resilience. For drought disasters some communities seem to be having copying

mechanism in place such as cross –border trading in Beitbridge, a similar kind of

resilience need to be built for flooding disasters.

vi. Promote capacity development –LIMCOM needs to assist in mapping of disaster hot

spots within the basin and also promote the gathering of baseline data for the basin

e.g. demography.

vii. Establish a DRR liaison person – LIMCOM needs to have a DRR liaison person who will

liaise with the four countries and ensure that activities and operations are moving on

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as planned. The person should be responsible for follow-up and checking the progress

of activities.

viii. Establish real time monitoring stations – LIMCOM should assist in the establishment of

real time stations in the basin for early warning

ix. Promote more collaboration of met departments – Currently at regional level countries

meet at SACOF for seasonal forecasting. LIMCOM should provide a platform for them

to meet more frequently even in-between seasons to monitor the applicability and

relevance of the forecast as well as to share information and experiences. Other

countries have clear procedures in place in terms of information dissemination.

LIMCOM needs to promote the emulation of such procedures by other countries.

x. Technical support (Equipment) – LIMCOM can assist in establishing dense station

networks especially automatic mini stations and models that can zoom in to local

levels. These will address both the data issue and the manpower challenge and also

promote local level forecasting.

xi. Promote community awareness – LIMCOM needs to promote community awareness

to avoid vandalism of the stations as well as to give the community a sense of

ownership for the sustainability of the station.

xii. Encourage the use of indigenous knowledge in early warning and forecasting –

indigenous knowledge and what is forecasted usually tallies.

xiii. Enhance transboundary cooperation – LIMCOM should explore new ways and

mechanisms of encouraging transboundary cooperation

In country consultations will also be carried out in South Africa and Mozambique.

2.7 Planning meeting on execution of the National Climate Policy in Zimbabwe

The Climate Change Management Department in the Ministry of Environment, Water and

Climate (Zimbabwe), held a Planning Meeting on the Development of the National Climate

Policy (NCP) with partners including GWP SA on the 9th of October 2014. The objectives of the

meeting were to:

Present the National Climate Policy Development Process roadmap to the Partners;

Present the NCP Development budget;

Identify areas of cooperation, both technical and financial by partners;

Map a way forward for future engagements with partners.

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The Climate Change Management Department presented a proposed 9-month roadmap

looking at ways to urgently and coherently implement the NCCRS, the demand for policy to

guide the cross cutting nature of climate and the objective to take the Policy to COP 21 in

Paris, France next year. The roadmap was also informed by the stakeholders’ submissions and

expectations made during the policy inaugural meeting which included the proposals that

Sustainable Development was supposed to be one of the key concepts that had to be

respected and promoted by the Policy, the proposed Vision, Mission, Timelines,

Themes/chapters and Strategic pillars.

Developmental partners were particularly invited to share their expertise in developing

policies elsewhere or in other sectors. The Policy development process will engage a lead

consultant and thematic/chapter consultants. The Ministry will be responsible for putting up

a selection team to engage the lead and thematic consultants.

In conclusion, the development partners called upon Ministry leadership (both financially and

technical) and coordination throughout the National Climate Policy Development Process. A

recommendation was also made, to commission parallel studies in areas where there are

information gaps such as Climate Change and Health, Malaria as well as migration.

2.8 Board meeting

Institutional Strengthening - GWPSA held its Board Meeting on 21st October 2014 (Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa)

The Board approved the 2014 GWPSA report as well as the GWPSA 2015 work plan and budget.

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2.9 2nd Workshop on broadening Stakeholder Engagement in the Orange – Senqu basin

On behalf of the Orange –Senqu Commission (Orasecom), The Namibia Water Partnership will

be facilitating a workshop aimed at broadening stakeholder engagement in the Orange –

Senqu basin. The training will take place from 7-10 October 2014, in Keetmanshoop, Namibia.

This is a follow-up workshop from an earlier one held between 5-8 August 2014 in

Keetmanshoop, Namibia, which had a strong emphasis on Water Resources Management

functions at the River Basin scale.

The training specifically focused on:

The current situation in the Orange Senqu River Basin- in terms of threats to the basin’s water stability.

Planned strategies to ease this stress (improved water governance, infrastructure development, and water management measures) and how these measures intend to put in place the necessary political, economic, administrative, and infrastructure systems necessary for the basin to deal with the uncertainty caused by climate change.

SADC revised protocol on Shared Water Courses Governance in Transboundary Basins – the Role of Stakeholders, Concepts

and Approaches in International River Basins. Case studies of TWM Initiatives in the Orange Senqu Basin

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3 Upcoming Events – November

3.1 Gender, Water and Development Conference

The Gender, Water and Development Conference will be held from the 4th to the 7th of November 2014, East London, South Africa. The conference is being organised by the Water Research Commission of South Africa (WRC), in partnership with the Department of Water and Sanitation of South Africa, African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW), the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Women for Water Partnership (WfWP). Several partner organisations, including the Global Water Partnership (GWP), the International Water and Sanitation Partnership (WSP), the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), the Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Pretoria, and the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) are supporting the conference in aligning with global and continental initiatives in bridging the gap towards gender and water development.

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SOUTH AMERICA

GWP SAM INPUT FOR NOVEMBER NEWSFLOW

1- XVI International Workshop on Environmental Law

GWP South America financially supported the XVI International Workshop on Environmental Law,

organized by the Universidad Externado from Colombia, GWP partner. The workshop took place on 1-

3 October in Bogotá and gathered more than 1400 people, mainly from the private sector, government

and academia, the latter at regional (Latin America) and national level.

This year the workshop focused on Environmental Procedural Law, with the aim of strengthening the

appropriate interpretation of environmental laws by the judges and achieving true efficacy in the

judgments of environmental content. New views and alternatives of inclusion of environmental issues

in various legal proceedings were put forward.

GWP South America facilitated the participation of three key speakers, two from Chile (Michael Hantke

and Francisco Pinilla) and one from Peru (Hugo Ramiro Gómez). Respectively, they shared

characteristics of the Specialized Justice in Chile, addressed the topic “Environmental Courts and

liability for damage to the environment” and showed how technical evidence is handled in

environmental enforcement processes in Peru.

In an effort to support knowledge exchange, GWP South America also sponsored the book

“Environmental Procedural Law”, which was launched during the event. 500 hard copies of this book

were printed.

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2. III Peruvian Legislators Conference on Water Resources

The conference took place on October 10 at the facilities of the Congress of the Republic in Lima. It

was organised by GWP Peru and the Agrarian Commission of the Congress of the Republic.

It aimed to strengthen the National System of Water Resources Management by involving key players

such as the Ministry of Economy and Finance, considering the relevance of economic and financial

instruments for IWRM Education; the Ministry of Education, obeying the need to establish a culture

for water; and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, considering the existence of 32 transboundary river

basins and the upcoming Conference of the Parties (COP) to be held in Lima.

The conference was successful. About 130 people participated, mainly from the academic sector, NGOs

and the political sphere.

It is worth mentioning that in 2007 GWP Peru organized the first conference, which facilitated the

process of creation of the National Water Authority (ANA) and highlighted the importance of a solid

institutionalization for good water governance.

Two years later, GWP Peru held the second conference for legislators and the first workshop

"Integrated Water Resources Management with regional governments", which strengthened ANA’s

position within the national, regional and local sphere, as well as the role of the Administrative Water

Authorities (AAAs) and the Local Water Administrations (ALAs).

http://www.ana.gob.pe/sala-de-prensa/noticias/noticias-2014/la-ana-y-gwp-per%C3%BA-en-iii-

conferencia-de-legisladores-sobre-recursos-h%C3%ADdricos.aspx

3. Latin American Workshop on GWP Toolbox (Panama, October 14 and 15)

GWP South America contributed financially with the participation of two participants from Colombia

and two from Venezuela, and also supported with the logistics.

GWP South America participated in the interregional preparatory meeting of the workshop with GWPO

Knowledge Management staff in Trinidad and Tobago in June.

(For more information on this workshop, see GWP Central America Activities Report for October 2014)

4. VIII Legislators Conference on Water Resources (San Salvador, October 28)

GWP South America financially facilitated the participation of the Head of the Office of Legal Counsel

from the National Water Authority of Peru (ANA Peru), and contributed with the logistic arrangements

for his trip.

The Secretary-General of ANA Peru was speaker at the conference. He presented on the institutional

reform of Peru to implement IWRM.

(For more information on this conference, see GWP Central America Activities Report for October 2014)

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SOUTH ASIA

Part 1: GWP SAS Regional Office

1.1 Global Water Partnership South Asia (GWP SAS) took part in the 4th Asia-Pacific Climate Change

Adaptation Forum 2014 as the APAN Thematic Node on Water with GWP China at Kuala Lumpur,

Malaysia, from 1 to 3 October 2014.

Ms Angela Klauschen; Senior Network Officer GWPO, Ms Priyanka Dissanayake; Regional

Coordinator, Mr Lal Induruwage; Programme Manage WACREP, Mr Chimmi Dorji; Chief of Snow and

Glaciers Division of Department of Hydro-Met Services of Bhutan, Mr Amit Gupta; Senior Project

Manager of Punatsangchhu-1 Hydroelectric Project, Mr Naseer Ahmad Gillani, Country Chair,

Pakistan Water Partnership and Planning Commission of Government of Pakistan represented GWP

SAS while Prof Xiatao Cheng; Deputy Regional Coordinator GWP China represented GWP China for

the forum.

GWP SAS Organised the session P.2.2 “Implications of hydropower for food security in a changing

climate” at the adaptation forum. Ms Dissanayake and Angela moderated the session while, Mr Dorji,

Mr Gupta, Mr Gillani and Prof Cheng participated the sessions as speakers. GWP SAS has organsied a

booth at the Adaptation Forum market place which has given an opportunity to showcase its

dynamic products, services, information and knowledge specifically on climate change adaptation.

1.2 20th Regional Council Meeting and 6th General Assembly of Global Water Partnership South

Asia (GWP SAS) 10 to 12 October 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka

The 20th Regional Council (RC) Meeting of Global Water Partnership South Asia (GWP SAS) was held

on 10 and 11 October while the General Assembly (GA) was on 12 October 2014 in Colombo, Sri

Lanka.

Photo 1: 20th RC meeting participants of GWP SAS

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At the RC meeting, current issues related to GWP SAS and planned programme for 2015 were

discussed. RC members and Country Chairs representing Country Water Partnerships of Bangladesh,

Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka were attend the meeting with Regional Chair, Regional

Coordinator and the Regional Network Officer from Global Water Partnership Organization (GWPO),

Stockholm. The Regional Office staff, Country Coordinators and Mr Surya Nath Upadhyay

representing the GWPO Steering Committee attend the meeting as observers (Photo 1).

The 6th GA was held with the representation of partners of GWP SAS representing each Country

Water Partnerships (CWPs). In addition Regional Chair, Regional Coordinator and the Regional

Network Officer, RC members, Country Chairs, GWP SAS Regional Office staff, the Country

Coordinators and GWPO Steering Committee member Mr Surya Nath Upadhyay attended the

meeting (Photo 2).

Following the GA a Sub Regional Consultative Group Meeting for 7th World Water Forum (WWF) 2015 Korea was held Chaired by Ms Klauschen. Ms Mangalika Lokuliyanage, Ministry of Water Supply and Drainage Sri Lanka attended as a Special Invitee for the panel discussion. The Country Coordinators meeting was held on the same day with the presence of Country Corrdinators, Regional Coordinator, Regional Network Officer and WACREP Programme Manager.

Part 2: Bangladesh Water Partnership (BWP)

Core activity report

1. 20th Regional Council (RC):

The 20th RC Meeting was held from 10 to 11 October at the Yellow River Auditorium of International

Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The following members from Bangladesh Water Partnership participated in the meetings:

Photo 2: 6th GA participants

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Dr. Nilufa Islam, RC member

Mr. Giasuddin Ahmed Chowdhury, RC member

Dr. K. Azharul Haq, Vice President

Ms. Mukta Akter, Country Coordinator (observer)

2. 6th General Assembly (GA):

The 6th General Assembly was held in during the morning session on 12 October. GA started with

welcome address by Iswar Raj Onta, Chair, GWP-SAS. Two partners from BWP Begum Samsun Nahar

and Mr. Emaduddin Ahmed were invited to participate in the GA.

1.2 Activities outside the work plan of BWP

Activity- 01: Associated Program on Flood Management (APFM) with World Meteorological

Organization (WMO)

Bangladesh Water Partnership is association with Institute of Water Modelling (IWM) has organized

two day national workshop on “Integrated flood management with focus on coastal zones of

Bangladesh: development of a pilot project on coastal flood management in selected areas of

Bangladesh” as per schedule on 24-25 October 2014 in BRAC Centre Inn, Dhaka (Photo 3).

More than 100 professionals from Government, Semi-Government, Autonomous bodies, NGOs, CBOs

etc working in the coastal flood management participated. The workshop was followed by a 2 day

field trip in the coastal area of Dacope Upazila. The honorable minister of Water Resources Barrister

Anisul Islam Mahmud was the chief guest in the workshop. Mr. Shahidul Hassan, President, BWP

presided over the meeting, The honorable State Minister of Water Resources Mr. Md. Nazrul Islam,

Bir Protik and Dr. Zafar Ahmed Khan, Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources were special guests. Mr.

Bal Krisna Prasai the Former Secretary, Government of Nepal and Mr. Paul Pilon, Chief of

Hydrological Forecasting and Water Resources Division, World Meteorological Organization were

present as special guests.

Dr. K. Azharul Haq delivered the welcome speech. The honorable Minister, in his speech thanked the

organizers for organizing a workshop on such a vital subject. He indicated the coastal areas were

most vulnerable to different types of floods like storm surge, tidal flood etc. which expected to be

ever more destructive due climate change. He therefore, asked the organizers to prepare and

implement the pilot project. Most of the speakers including the chairs of the workshop dealt with

different aspects of coastal flood management and its importance in Bangladesh.

Two keynote papers were presented in the 1st technical session, one by Professor Ainun Nishat and

another by Mr. Paul Pilon of WMO.

There were 5 technical sessions in which a total number of 16 technical papers were presented. In

the 5th and final session discussion was held about the development of the pilot project. It was

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agreed that the proposal for the pilot project will be submitted to the WMO by 31st December 2014

as per agreement.

As a part of the workshop a team consisting of 9 members, including two members from APFM, went

on a 2 days field trip in the coastal area of Dacope Upazila on 27-28 October 2014. The purpose of

the visit was to observe the present coastal flooding due to the effect of climate change and

corresponding mitigation measures to be implemented under Coastal Embankment Improvement

Project, Phase-1 (CEIP-1).

A detailed report of the workshop will be submitted in December 2014.

Photo 3: Participants of the workshop

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Part 3: Bhutan Water Partnership (BhWP)

Core Activity Report

Attended 20th RC and 6th GA at Colombo, Sri Lanka from 9 to 13 October.

WACREP Activity Report

2.1 Following up on the technical and finical report on Wangduphodrang irrigation project.

2.2 Attended workshop organised by International Rivers in Thimphu with other relevant

stakeholders.

Part 4: India Water Partnership (IWP)

Core activity report

1.1 Study for Reviewing and Examining the State Level Regulatory and Institutional Framework of State Water Policy of Maharashtra, Meghalaya and Karnataka to Operationalize the National Water Policy- 2012

The State Water Policy of Karnataka was taken-up for the study and is in its third month of review.

The policy is being reviewed under the 16 thematic issues, which have been shared in the previous

reports. Following analysis is from the review done in the month of October, 2014 on the identified

thematic issues.

1. Adaptation to climate change:

a. In addition to State plans, the district level climate change action plans are to be formulated.

b. There is an increased propagation of drip and sprinkle irrigation in the state.

2. Augmenting water supply and sanitation

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Water supply and sanitation forms the most basic development challenges in the present situation.

In this context, the Government of Karnataka have undertaken following steps for augmenting and

supplying water to rural areas as per the State Water Policy:

Bore wells with Hand Pumps: Bore wells fitted with hand pumps are the major source of potable

drinking water in rural areas. Since inception 213725 bore wells have been drilled in the State up to

the end of March 2010.

Mini Water Supply Scheme: In this scheme water is pumped to a small tank (Cistern) fitted with 3 - 4

taps, from where water can be collected by households. Since inception of the programme to the

end of March 2010, 34,073 Mini water supply schemes have been completed and commissioned.

Piped Water Supply Scheme: There are as of March, 2010, 24182 PW schemes have been completed

and commissioned.

Desert Development Programme (DDP): In drought prone districts of Bagalkot, Bellary, Bijapur,

Davanagere, Raichur and Koppal additional rural water supply schemes are being implemented

under the Centrally Sponsored Desert Development Programme (DDP).

3. Demand Management and Water use efficiency a. Existing Schemes

Micro Irrigation Scheme is implemented by the Department of Horticulture with the objective of

better utilization of available water. It will be a Centrally Sponsored Scheme under which out of the

total cost of the MI System, 40 percent will be borne by the Central Government, 35 percent by the

State Government and the remaining 25 percent will be borne by the beneficiary either through

his/her own resources or soft loan from financial institutions (the subsidy for Drip Irrigation in Bijapur

and Kolar districts is 100 percent) During 2011-12, an amount of Indian Rs. 124.43 Crores subsidy has

been given to the beneficiaries for the installation of Drip Irrigation in area of 43,783 hectares. 75

percent subsidy is given to encourage installation of drip irrigation in horticulture crops in all the

districts of the State.

Micro Irrigation Monitoring System has been developed for submitting the online applications.

This enables to maintain transparency in seniority list and quick clearance of drip applications.

Subsidy is being directly given to the farmers through the Electronic Clearance System (ECS).

Government is promoting sprinkler irrigation method for crops under centrally sponsored

scheme.

b. Existing Mechanism to conduct water audits

The State Water Policy 2002 mentions about making water accounting and audit mandatory.

Water Auditing is the most important factor in water management. The time gap between excess

flows in canals and control over these flows is very high. Therefore, to achieve concurrent water

audit, real time measurement and flow of water, telemetry with electronic flow meters was piloted

successfully in the Ghataprabha irrigation system (GLBC)

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4. Water Pricing

a. Water Regulatory Authority: The state has not established Water Regulatory

Authority

1.2 Reviewing the State Water Polices of Bihar and Gujarat in line with National Water Policy -2012 in the context of climate change

Activities related to the review of Gujarat State Water Policy continued in the month of October. The data collected from the field visits has been analyzed and a brief write up has been prepared which will be shared with the state officials during the workshop in Ahemdabad. Earlier it was decided to hold the workshop in the month of October, 2014 at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad. Since the Secretary, Water Resources Department, Govt. of Gujarat is on a long leave and the issues to be discussed in the workshop have relevance at the policy level, it was realized that his presence is crucial. So

this workshop will now be held in the month of November, 2014.

1.3 Development of participatory decision support tool for water resources assessment in 15 quality affected villages of Warangal District, Andhra Pradesh The Safe Water Network India (SWNI) with the support of India Water Partnership is

undertaking the above activity in water quality affected villages of Warangal District of

Andhra Pradesh. This activity has two broad objectives (i) Map the water resources through

application of GIS by adopting micro-watershed approach and estimating water balance in

the 15 selected project villages of Warangal District, Andhra Pradesh; (ii) Develop simplified

IEC (Information Education & Communication) tools for raising awareness among users on

water scarcity.

In the month of October 2014, following key activities were conducted for developing water

resource assessment tool and IEC material:

Continued data analysis for water resource mapping forming part of water balance

study;

Collection/verification of data based on the gaps identified during the analysis; and,

Review of reference material to develop IEC material on Systems of Rice Intensification

The components given below form a part of the water balance study which have eventually

been used to develop IEC material for dissemination of information to the farmers:

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1. Participatory Water Budgeting

Participatory water budgeting has been carried out in the project villages. It included the

following activities:

To assess the quantity of water received in the village, rainfall data was accessed from

the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) available in public domain. This data has been

collected from observatories, which are normally found at district level.

The data to estimate the existing water utilization practices in the area by the total

human population, total cattle population and for cultivation has been sourced from

Ministry of Drinking Water Supply & Sanitation (MDWS), Government of India and through

focus group discussions (FGDs). During the FGDs data related to water consumed by human

and livestock were also collected. Based on the total population and average consumption

standards and the total water requirement is estimated.

Based on the above steps, the water requirement in the project villages has been estimated

and presented to the community for triangulation to get their inputs on utilization of water

in the project villages.

2. Water Balance Study

Based on the inputs from water balance study, education materials have been developed for

creating the awareness in the villages that are having annual water deficit. Considering that

the paddy requires more quantity of water in comparison to other crops cultivated in the

area, it is planned to improve the water use efficiency of paddy by informing farmers about

the water management practices that are widely accepted and recognized. Safe Water

Network has developed a flip chart that presents step by step visuals of systems of rice

intensification. The flip charts will be available in each project village for creating awareness

among the farmers. The field executives and village youths will be involved for disseminating

the information among farmers.

1.4. Awareness generation and water quality testing by rural women for using safe drinking water in Kommaragiri Village, Kakinada District, Andhra Pradesh

IWP with the support of All India Women’s Conference (AIWC) is undertaking awareness

generation activities and water quality testing by rural women of Kommaragiri village of

Kakinda District, Andhra Pradesh. In continuation to the various awareness programs

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organized in the previous months, the AIWC team with support of IWP undertook the

following activities in the month of October:

a) Follow up Meeting

A follow up interaction was held with the students of the Zilla Parishad School on 12

October. It was found that students generally get the water from their houses tested by the

kits that were given to the school in the previous meetings. Students informed that the

training given to them earlier on using testing kits was very useful (Photos 4,5,6,7 and 8).

b) Interaction with Self-help Groups

Prof G. V. S. Muralikrishan of Jawahar Lal Technical University (JNTU), Kakinada interacted

with the women Self-Help Group (SHG) members which were earlier presented with a water

testing kit on 26 October. He talked about the benefits of having access to safe drinking

water. He also narrated as to how women can propagate the minimum usage of water for

their daily needs. He highlighted that conserving water in the light of constantly increasing

population. The women who attended the meeting found it very useful as they have already

started using the water testing kits in their area.

c) Discussions with the National Institute of Hydrology

Another meeting was organized with members of the Shanthi Mahila Mandal in Kakinada on

29 October. The women were told about various rain water harvesting methods.

Photo 4: Sarpanch explaining the usage of water kits Photo 5: Women’s group explaining the kits

usage

Photo 6: Audience listening the speech Photo 7: Meeting in the Kommarari school

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Activities set for November 2014

Compilation of all data and photographs,

Completion of detailed report along with findings and recommendations.

1.5 Clean India Campaign Celebration on 2 October by IWP and WAPCOS Ltd. Gurgaon

A country wide campaign has been launched by the Honourable Prime Minister of India, Mr

Narendra Modi to clean India by the year 2019. In line with this campaign, IWP in

collaboration with WAPCOS Ltd, a partner of GWP took the opportunity to celebrate

Swachta Diwas on 2 October all across offices of WAPCOS Ltd. in India and abroad.

Mr. R K Gupta, President, IWP and Chairman-cum-Managing Director, WAPCOS Ltd.

spearheaded the campaign by taking up the pledge to clean the surroundings, offices and

streets. He also emphasized that we all should follow up this good habit regularly.

On this day all the employees actively participated in cleaning the office premise and also

took the pledge to maintain the cleanliness of their work stations and surroundings.

On this occasion, a special event was also organized at IWP Secretariat, WAPCOS Ltd.,

Gurgaon where all the employees of IWP and WAPCOS Ltd. joined the campaign (Photo 9).

Photo 8: Water being filled from the taps

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1.6 Twenty Fifth Board of Governors Meeting on 27 October at WAPCOS Ltd. Kailash

Building, 26 K G Marg, New Delhi

The 25th Board of Governors meeting was held on 27 October under the Chairmanship of Mr

R. K. Gupta, President, IWP and CMD, WAPCOS, Ltd (Photo 10). The meeting was attended

by the Board Members as well as Regional Council Members. Dr Veena Khanduri, Executive

Secretary, IWP, presented the progress made under Core Program and WACREP in the

previous quarter and briefed about organizing a Regional Conference for all the SAARC

countries during India Water Week-2015. The Board was also informed that IWP Secretariat

has sent a letter to Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganges

Rejuvenation or nominating one senior official from the Ministry as Board of Governor of

IWP. Besides the above, governance issues were also discussed.

Photo 9: Dr Khanduri, Executive Secretary IWP, sharing her insights

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1.7. Participation in Meetings/Seminars/Workshops, etc.

a) Asia- Pacific Climate Change Adaption Forum 2014 from 1st to 3rd October, 2014 at Kuala

Lamupur, Malaysia

Mr Amit Gupta, Senior Project Manager, WAPCOS Ltd. represented IWP in a three day Asia

Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum 2014, which was organized by the Asia Pacific

Adaptation Network (APAN) from 1 to 3 October in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Mr Amit Gupta presented the paper on “Hydropower - Paving way forward for food security

in a changing climate through an assured success mantra "7M" - An Innovative model for

accelerated development” under the theme Implications of Hydropower for Food Security in

a Changing Climate (Photo 11). The paper was well appreciated and the forum provided a

platform for exchanging of views and ideas for mitigating the climate change. Negative

perceptions prevailing across the people about the hydropower were answered and the

importance of mitigating, enhancement measures responding to the flipside issues of the

hydropower were very well received by the people across region.

Photo 11: Mr. Amit Gupta, Sr Project Manager, WAPCOS Limited, presenting his paper

Photo 10: The 25th Board of Governors meeting

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b) Regional Council Meeting of GWP South Asia from 10 to 11 October at Colombo, Sri Lanka

The 20th Regional Council (RC) Meeting of GWP-South Asia was held on 10th & 11th October,

2014 at International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Mr D. K. Manavalan,

I.A.S (Retd.), Vice-President, IWP participated on behalf of President, IWP. Mr S. C. Jain and Dr

K. Vijaya Lakshmi participated in the meeting in the capacity of Regional Council members. Dr

Veena Khanduri, Executive Secretary-cum-Country Coordinator, IWP attended the RC meeting

as observer.

c) General Assembly of GWP SAS on 12 October at Colombo, Sri Lanka

Mr D. K. Manavalan, I.A.S (Retd.); Mr S. C. Jain; Dr K. Vijaya Lakshmi; Mr M. M. Verma; Mr

Avinash Chand Tyagi and Dr Veena Khanduri attended the 6th General Assembly. A special

panel discussion was followed after the GA. The panel discussion was for sub-regional

consultative group meeting for 7th World Water Forum (WWF), 2015 to be organized at Korea.

c) Representation of IWP in 5th Technical Committee Meeting of India Water Week-2015

Dr Khanduri, Executive Secretary, IWP as a member of Technical Committee and Organizing

Committee of India Water Week-2015 participated in the 5th Technical Committee Meeting

of India Water Week-2015 held on 14 October at Central Water Commission, Ministry of

Water Resources, Government of India. The meeting was convened under the Chairmanship

of Mr A. B. Pandya, Chairman Central Water Commission and Organizing Secretary, India

Water Week-2015.

Main agenda of the meeting was to (i) finalize the event plan ; (ii) finalize names of lead

authors/organizations for various topics of sub-themes; (iii) take decision on a session to be

organized by partner country; Australia; (iv) decision on the side event to be organized by

IWP and GWP SAS.

Mr A. B. Pandya informed that Australian participation as partner country during India Water

Week-2015 is confirmed. Mr Pandya also informed that now Australian representative Mr

Ryan Thew, First Secretary – Development, DFAT would represent as a member of Technical

Committee of India Water Week-2015.

Dr Khanduri informed about organizing a IWP-GWP SAS regional conference in collaboration

with SAARC Disaster Management Centre and WAPCOS Ltd. as a side event on ““From Risk to

Resilience: South Asia Regional Framework for Sustainable Water Management” during India

Water Week-2015 and asked for a suitable date for this event. The Organizing Secretariat

requested IWP to submit a brief note on this event as well as for another event “The Role of

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Youth in Sustainable Water Management” for uploading on IWW-2015 website. Accordingly,

both the notes were submitted to the Organising Secretariat by IWP. The Organising

Secretariat has confirmed a date for the regional conference, 15 January, 2015.

WACREP activity report

2.1. Augmenting water security and food security of small farmers in the Gundar Basin by rehabilitating or constructing water harvesting tanks In October, the following activities were undertaken by IWP with the support of Dhan Foundation. (i) Tank Catchment Zone development for Drinking Water Use

Tirupullani block in Ramanathapuram district in Tamil Nadu falls in the tail region of non-

perennial Gundar River basin, one among 17 basins in the State. Being Coastal district,

Salinity level in the ground water is exacerbated to rise again by the climate change events.

People residing in the district, though provided with drinking water access from Cauvery

River and Naripaiyur Sea water conversion plant for drinking water purpose, the regularity

and adequacy issues of drinking water access make them largely depending on surface water

bodies such as minor irrigation tanks and drinking water ponds namely Oorani. DHAN

Foundation has completed all three Ooranis under WACREP. Activities carried out in the

month of October are as below:

Out of five tanks under the project, work on two tanks has been completed and work on

third tank is under implementation.

For fourth tank, the project coordination team has received a technical estimate worth

of Rs 2.24 lakhs from Alwarkootam village. Field appraisal of the work was done in

September 2014 and the technical estimate scrutiny was completed in October 2014.

The village level Vayalagam (farmers’ Association) promoted by DHAN Foundation has

opened a bank account jointly operated by the office bearers of the association. In the

account, the association has deposited its 15 percent contribution in cash and resolved to

take up 10 percent labour work in addition to the investment made in purchase of the land.

Physical work has already commenced.

(ii) Field appraisal of physical works for construction of new farm ponds

Under this, following activities were carried out in the month of October:

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The technical staff of Chittoor project team visited all five farm ponds site in respective

farmer’s field and interacted with the concerned farmers about the site for construction of

farm ponds.

The approximate size of farm pond is having dimension of 15m length, 15 m width and 2

m depth

Technical estimate scrutiny of following farm ponds were completed:

Sl.No. Name of the farmer Extent of farm

holding (acres)

Total cost of

estimate (Indian

Rs.)

Farmers Share

(Indian Rs.)

1. Ms.K.Gangulamma W/o Srinivasulu,

Ramasamuthram Mandal

1.75 20,000 10,000

2. Ms.P.Sarasamma W/o Nagaraju 2.43 20,000 10,000

3. Mr.G.Venkatareddy S/o Gangulappa 1.75 20,000 10,000

4. Mr.B.Venkatareddy S/O Budda reddy 2.40 20,000 10,000

5. D.Gangulappa 3.30 20,000 10,000

(iii) Water Walk in Vaigai Channels for Public to create Awareness

Centre for Urban Resources (CURE), South Zone-IWP and Madurai Urban Kalanjiam Self Help

Groups region had organized an awareness water walk for general public, academician and

students mainly to highlight the plights of degraded channels network, high level of pollution

with untreated sewer and dumping of solid wastes by the residents living on the banks. A

water walk was organized on the banks of Pandhalkudi Channel on 25 October. The surplus

of Sellur Tank in Madurai city drains its surplus water through this channel to River Vaigai.

Poor maintenance, lead to water logging, mosquito breeding, incidence of Dengue Fever and

bad odour. The water walk is one of the mechanism proved to be effective in changing the

mindset of people in abusing river network. DHAN Foundation’s effort to bring general

public awareness in Madurai city was widely covered in newspapers and local TV channels.

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(iv) Project Monitoring Meeting

The Chief Executive and Chief Operating officer of Dhan vayalagam (Tank) Foundation

conducted monthly review to assess the overall progress of various projects including

WACREP on 14 October. A common sign board template was designed to display at the

project sites on completion of work incorporating the logo of IWP and GWP SAS. This was

done as a part of transparency and social audit.

Activities planned for November, 2014

Field Appraisal of Drinking Water Ponds and its impact due to North East Monsoon.

Funds for the five farm ponds construction in Chittoor district will be released.

Field Appraisal of tank to understand the impact of North East monsoon in Gundar basin.

2.2 Climate Adaptive Planning, Capacity building and training programmes in Bundelkhand

Region of Madhya Pradesh In the month of October IWP with the support of Development Alternatives (DA) undertook the following activities: (i) National Workshop on Mainstreaming Climate Change Concerns in Planning Processes

for knowledge sharing and wider dissemination

DA organized a national roundtable on, “Mainstreaming Climate Change Concerns in

Development Planning Processes” on 15 October. The objective of the workshop was to

discuss integrating climate change in development planning with various stakeholders and to

share the outcomes of WACREP initiative at national level.

2.3. Assessment of vulnerability to climate change on water resources, commons,

agriculture system and animal husbandry in Sinhar watershed in Bhinder Block in Udaipur district of Rajasthan In October IWP with the support of Action for Food Production (AFPRO) took-up the following activities:

(i) Village level monthly meeting with Core group members

Five village level meetings were organised in Dhawadiya, Kheda Fala, Rayla, veripura and

Gajpura villages on different dates with core group members including cluster core group

and village elders. Total 125 participants were present.

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Till date, 53 village level meetings have been conducted under the project.

(ii) Meeting of Cluster level Committee Members

A ‘cluster level meeting’ with 20 participants from all respective project villages was held at

Bhavyadhara Training Centre, Rayla on 30 October. Project progress was reviewed and

planning for the next month was done in the meeting. Altogther ative eight cluster level

meetings have been conducted till October.

(iii) Physical work on selected Private Pasture:

Stone fencing work at village Kamliya and Chuna ka wela is ongoing.

Physical work under Soil and Water Conservation activity on common pasture land of

26.2 ha were done in three villages namely Chuna ka wela, Raila and Kamliya.

Grasses and fodder tree production on pasture land has been reported well.

(iv) Farmers Field School (FFS)

FFS works with a selected group of farmers was facilitated by extension workers and skilled farmers who meet once in every week for an entire crop growing season. Following activities were carried during the month: 11 farmers who cultivated maize and urad as mixed cropping, got yield of 1,420 kg of

maize which is slightly less when compared to previous year of 1,480 kg of maize

production. On the other hand, urad yield was good and farmers got 630 kg additional

production of urad.

Preparation for Rabi crops was done with 24 farmers. Farmers involved in the planning

were given 25 kg of wheat and 5 kg of gram.

Under livestock, planning for purchasing and rearing of bucks was done in the group

meeting at village Veripura. Dr. Mane, an expert on livestock, recommended for the

Sirohi breed. The group decided to start with five bucks in rotational manner.

(v) Climatic Vulnerability Assessment and preparation of Climate Vulnerability Matrix:

Approximately 300 farmers participated from ten villages in awareness programme on

climate change organized by Rajasthan Collage of Agriculture (RCA) at village Raila under

IWP programme. Dr Solanki, Dr Mundra, Dr Dhadhich, Dr Mane, Mr C. P. Chubisa from APNA

Sansthan organized and managed the programme.

Activities planned for November

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Monitoring of ongoing physical work (Stone fencing) will be continued on private pasture land at Dhawdiya and Khera fala.

Consolidation of physical work and distribution of the payments.

Village level and cluster level meetings on FFS for adaptation with three groups on agriculture, water and livestock (goats) for the review and planning.

Preparing climatic vulnerability assessment report.

Regular Village level and cluster level meetings with core group members for review and planning of the project activities.

Data compilation and analysis of household survey and reporting.

Data Compilation of survey formats of water resources and climate change vulnerability.

Planning for fruit plantation as Wadi concept under FFS with 20 farmers.

Initiate renovation of wells by procuring material by the community under FFS water.

Follow-up of intercultural operation with farmers for Rabi cultivation under FFS agriculture.

Initiation of homestead cultivation with selected farmers under FFS.

Planning for the buck purchasing and rearing under FFS livestock.

2.4. Capturing lessons and reflecting for learning - A study on coping mechanisms adopted

by rural communities on their traditional wisdom and their relevance for adaptation to

climate change, examining how science can add value to traditional/indigenous wisdom

and vice versa in the States of Meghalaya & Mizoram

Institute of Development Initiatives started a study on “Coping mechanisms adopted by

rural communities on their traditional wisdom and their relevance for adaptation to climate

change, examining how science can add value to traditional/indigenous wisdom and vice

versa” in the States of Meghalaya and Mizoram from June, 2014.

The following activities were undertaken in the month of October:

A total of six to seven local knowledge systems that are relevant for climate change

adaptation were studied and documented during the course of the assignment. These

includes

1. Sustainable fish harvesting as well as rearing practices of War Khasi Tribe,

2. Indigenous potato storage systems,

3. Traditional herbal medicine system,

4. Bamboo drip irrigation and drinking water supply systems,

5. Live bridge systems using trees on the banks of rivers and streams,

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6. Nature conservation through sacred groves

7. Traditional weather prediction systems using local knowledge

Field work commenced in the last week of October was halted due to heavy rains and

flood. Discussions have been completed with the identified resource institutions.

Case study of the Mawphlang sacred grove in East Khasi hills, which is a repository of

threatened species of flora and fauna, and is an excellent example of nature conservation by

local communities, is in progress.

Discussions and meetings with organizations like NEHU, agriculture department and

forest department have been completed.

Activities planned for November, 2014

Documentation of four case studies, along with filming will be completed in the month of

November.

Case study of Mawphlag sacred grove has begun and will be completed in the month of

November.

2.5. Enhancing the knowledge and capacity of GWP-South Asia Country Water Partnerships and the Regional Water Partnership to promote climate resilient development in the water sector

Identification of inadequacies in existing Reservoir Operation Schedules (ROS) in Sanjay

Sarovar Dam and Ghosikhurd Dam and working out a strategy for bringing changes in the

ROS is one of the major tasks under the above activity and the another task amongst the

others is preparation of community led aquifer management plan. In this regard, IWP with

the support of Gomukh Environmental Trust for Sustainable Development (Gomukh Trust),

carried out following activities in the month of October:

Meetings were held in three villages for sand bed agriculture and sand bed mining, which and was attended Mr Dilip Pandhare of Gomukh Trust.

A case study based on sand bed agriculture and sand bed mining has been prepared.

A “Group Gramsabha” was held by the gramsabhas of five villages namely Kondurli, Jumna, Pauni, Walni and Junna. The objective of the Gramsabha was to demarcate the area to be allocated to crops for the sand bed agriculture season, and to discuss problems and issues about the sand bed mining that is operating at a short distance from the villages.

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Activities planned for November, 2014

Reservoir Operation Schedules (ROS) deliverables will be finalized in the month of

November.

Work done in the month of July, August and September on conjunctive use of

groundwater will be reviewed and followed up.

2.6 Participation in meetings/seminars/conference etc.

a) Planning Meeting with SAARC Disaster Management Centre (SDMC) New Delhi for

organizing the Regional Conference for SAARC Countries under WACREP Phase-I

A planning meeting was held at SDMC on 8 October for the preparations of the above conference to be jointly organized by IWP, SDMC and WAPCOS Ltd. as a side event during the India Water Week, 2015.

Ms Anjali Verma and Ms Swati Raghuvanshi from IWP attended this meeting with Prof Santosh Kumar, Director, SDMC. During the meeting a draft position paper prepared by IWP was shared with the Prof Kumar for his critical inputs. Based on the discussion the title of the conference “From Risk to Resilience: South Asia Framework for water Management” was finalized and approved by Director, SDMC. Director, SDMC shared a tentative number of participants for the event and said that SDMC would invite two participants from each of the SAARC nations and IWP would invite one participant from the all the six Country Water Partnerships of GWP South Asia. It was also decided that SDMC will bear the cost of local hospitality (local travel and stay arrangements) and IWP will take care of the airfare. A tentative budget was also worked out based on the

funds available with SDMC and IWP. It was realized that more resources are needed to be generated in order to meet the additional cost of the event, which has been worked out to around INR 8-10 lacs. Therefore, it was decided that both IWP and SDMC will look for more partners to share this cost. The meeting ended with a note that one more meeting will held at SDMC on 27 October for further planning and preparation.

b) Monitoring and Evaluation Meeting by Prof M. S. Rathore and Anjali Verma for WACREP

Project

On 14 and 15 October, a visit was undertaken to review the status of work under the project

entitled “ Identifying Strategies for Building Resilience to the Impact of Climate change in the

Wainganga River Basin, Central India” being executed by the Gomukh Trust, Pune.

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Prof Vijay Paranjpye, Chairman, Gomukh Trust shared a number of issues and concerns

being faced at the community level and also the seasonal flooding in the project areas due to

which the planned activities have been delayed. Overall the meeting was very fruitful as

most of the issues listed were clarified by Prof Paranjpye and he agreed to deliver the

outputs by end of October or first week of November.

On 15 October the team undertook the field visits in the study area to contextualize the

discussion done on the previous day and to have a first-hand understanding of the ground

realities. It was observed that agriculture sector is changing fast because of the impact of

overall changes taking place in the Indian economy and development in the Maharashtra

State and in the region hence, it would be good if some of the aspects of agrarian change are

captured in the reports to be submitted by Gomukh.

Part 5: GWP Nepal/ JVS

Core activity report

1.1 Study on Integrity in Hydro Projects in Nepal

A consultation on "Assessment of Integrity in Hydropower Development Processes in Nepal" was

held at the Union House, Anamnagar, Kathmandu on 21 October (Photo 12). Water experts of Nepal

were attended the consultation. There were representation from Department of Electricity

Development (DoED), Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), Kulekhani Hydropower Project III, Water and

Energy Commission Secretariat (WECS), Independent Power Producers Association of Nepal (IPPAN)

and Office of Prime Minister and Council of Ministers (OPMCM).

The participants thanked GWP Nepal/JVS for venturing the study especially focusing on integrity. The

initial report will be refined with the comments and suggestions of the experts.

Photo 12: Participants of the workshop

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1.2 Stocktaking Report on Climate Vulnerability on Water Resources sector for NAP Process

The final draft report which is under peer review with the documentation of climate vulnerability on

water resources sector and assessment of gaps and needs is being prepared. This documents will be

was utilized for the formulation of NAP.

1.3 Participation in Regional Council (RC) Meeting , General Assembly (GA) and Country

Coordinators (CC) Meeting

Mr Iswer Raj Onta, Regional Chair of GWP SAS; Dr Vijaya Shrestha, President; Mr Surya Nath Upadhyay,

Secretary General; Dr Upendra Gautam, RC Member; Ms Sabitri Tripathi, RC Member and Mr Tejendra

Bahadur GC, Country Coordinator of GWP Nepal/JVS participated the 20th RC, 6th GA and CC Meeting

held from 10 to 12 October at GWP South Asia Regional office, International Water Management

Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka. Similarly, Mr Sushil Subedee from Farmer Managed Irrigation

System Promotion Trust (FMIST) and Mr Prakash Gaudel from Nepal Electyricity Authority (NEA) also

participated for the GA representing the partners of GWP Nepal/JVS.

WACREP Activity Report

1.1 Preparation of a new Local Adaptation Plan for Action (LAPA) and investigating the investment

requirements at the Village Development Committee (VDC) level to implement LAPA

A dissemination workshop of the LAPA-Lamatar VDC was held on 31 October at Hotel Himalaya,

Lalitpur (photo 13). The programme was chaired by Mr Iswer Raj Onta, Regional Chair, GWP-SAS. Mr

Pashupati Pokhrel, Local Development Officer (LDO) of Lalitpur district also present at the programme.

The villagers of Lamatar VDC, representatives from Government of Nepal including the Ministry of

Federal Affairs and Local Development, Department of Irrigation, Nepal Academy of Science and

Technology, donor agencies and I/NGOs participated the programme.

Mr Dipak Rijal, the Team Leader made a presentation on LAPA-Lamatar VDC and highlighted the

immediate actions which needs to be taken for the communities of Lamatar, especially for women and

marginalised groups.

Mr Matrika Bhattarai, Secretary of Lamatar VDC focused on the need of implementing the prioritized

adaptation activities. He urged the donors and other relevant agencies to consider those plans, as the

“Block Grant”, the annual receivable for VDC from District Development Committee is not sufficient in

order to implement those activities.

GWP Nepal/JVS is planning to disseminate the LAPA among the government, NGOs as well as the

donors for soliciting funding.

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Part 6: Pakistan Water Partnership (PWP)

Core Activity Report

1.1 Participating at the Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Mr Naseer Ahmad Gillani, Chairman and Mr Karamat Ali, Country Coordinator, PWP also participated

APAN Forum representing GWP SAS. Mr Gillani presented a paper on hydropower for water, food and

energy security nexus in the Panel Session 2.2 “Implication of Hydropower for food security in a

changing climate” on day one of the Forum. Mr Gillani also gave Pakistan Perspective in the Panel

Session 4.4 “Adaptation in the mountains: addressing challenges and harnessing opportunities”

moderated by the ICIMOD. Mr Ali, apart from participating in side meetings with GWPO, ICIMOD,

UNDP, APAN and KEI experts, also helped in managing the GWP SAS exhibition booth.

Sessions attended by both the delegates include opening plenary; Panel 1.2 Climate sensitivities and

Interactions of the water, food and energy systems; Panel 2.2 Implication of Hydropower for food

security in a changing climate; Plenary 2: Reflection on the IPCC AR5; Officiating Ceremony; Plenary 3:

Interactions between public and private sector actors in adaptation; Panel 3.2 Reducing vulnerability

to droughts and floods; Panel 4.4 Adaptation in the mountains: addressing challenges and harnessing

opportunities; Plenary 4: Adaptation as a multi-stakeholder process; plenary 5: Mainstreaming Climate

Change Adaptation in ASEAN – Multiple Actors and Roles; Panel 5.4 Biodiversity conservation,

ecosystem resilience and adaptation; Panel 6.1 Climate Extremes and Disaster Risk Reduction;

Concluding Plenary and the Closing Ceremony.

Photo 13: The dissemination workshop at Lalitpur

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WACREP Activity Report

2.1 WACREP Work Package 1: Regional and Transboundary cooperation

Preparations for the third and the last Regional Meeting on Strengthening Regional

Cooperation among Afghanistan, India and Pakistan are ongoing. The meeting is proposed

to be held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on 24 and 25 November 2014 to ensure participation

of delegates from all participating countries. This final meeting of the Programme will

review overall progress of the Work Package and establish a mechanism for achieving

the way forward devised in the last meeting.

Mr Karamat Ali had two meetings with the Embassy of Uzbekistan on 27 and 28 October and submitted

a permission letter to the Embassy for holding the meeting in Tashkent and searching for a possible

location in Tashkent for holding the meeting. At present, most of the invitees have confirmed their

participation for the meeting while the agenda will be shared with the participants by the first week of

November. The meeting would also include a technical tour to Aral Sea in Uzbekistan to observe the

impacts of climate change imposed on this water body. Meetings with Uzbekistan Water Partnership

also will be held simultaneously.

The final report of the project will be prepared and published by the end of December 2014.

WACREP Work Package 3: Development of Area Specific Investments

Installation of demonstrative bio-sand water filters in Tharparkar in Sindh by PWP team continued till

October. Five residents of Basti Barach and Basti Subaro Shah were contacted to get latest status

update on use and efficiency of bio-sand water filters’. The two units have providing quality drinking

water and motivated the neighbouring settlements to adopt the same for getting safe drinking water.

Therefore many of the residents in other areas approached PWP requesting for replication of bio-sand

water filters. PWP is looking for some financial support to replicate ten more units.

PWP also continue in manufacturing more homemade toilet and washing soaps which will be

distributed among other nearby communities to improve their hygiene conditions and will also

educate the local communities in the preparation of soaps.

PWP is preparing a detailed proposal for resource mobilisation for this purpose.

1. WACREP Work Package 5: Demonstration Project

Installation of two bio-gas plants in Rehan Colony and Wara Buland Khan in Khewra Town of Potohar

area completed by end of October 2014, in collaboration with Eco-Conservation Initiatives (ECI); a GWP

partner working in the area. Installation of two water pumping units to provide irrigation water to

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cropping fields as per the crop requirements is in progress. Local communities and ECI are jointly

undertaking the operation and maintenance of the system. PWP will visit to assess the progress

shortly.

Outcomes

WACREP training has impacted farmers positively and they have adopted roof water harvesting in their

houses for agricultural and domestic uses, as reported by Nara Canal AWP, Loralai AWP, Gomal-

Damaan AWP and Indus Delta AWP. Bio-sand water filters gained high level of acceptability in water

scarce areas of Tharparkar and residents/ communities of other areas approached PWP to replicate

these filters in their areas as well. Outcomes of many other activities carried out by PWP are slowly

emerging and would be visible in coming days.

C. NEWS

PWP continue in uploading pictures of its activities on its website www.pwp.org.pk.

Sardar Muhammad Tariq, Executive Director/CEO, PWP and former Regional Chair GWP-SAS has been elected on 22 October 2014 as Chairman and Board Director of the Barqaab Consulting Services; a consultancy firm providing technical services in designing, developing and supervising hydropower and water resources potential of Pakistan.

Sardar Muhammad Tariq, Executive Director/CEO, PWP participated in the Board Meeting and Annual General Meeting of the Barqaab Consulting Services on 22 and 30 October 2014 at Lahore, Pakistan.

Sardar Muhammad Tariq, Executive Director/CEO, PWP also gave a lecture on water security in Pakistan to Defence Services of Pakistan participated by many foreign service and military officers at the Air Defence College Karachi and the National Defence University, Islamabad on 22 and 24 October.

COMING EVENTS

Inauguration of Bahawalpur AWP will be held in Bahawalpur on 14 November.

WACREP Package-1: Third and final meeting on Climate Change Data Sharing will be held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on 24 and 25 November.

Inauguration of the two bio-gas plants along with water pumps which are under completion will be held by mid-November 2014 in Potohar AWP.

Part 7: Sri Lanka Water Partnership (SLWP)

Core Programme Activities

1.1 Chair SLWP attended the Water Professionals’ Day on 1 October conducted by the Post Graduate

Institute of Agriculture with whom SLWP has many contacts for programmes including WACREP.

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1.2 The Chair was also invited to be present on 2 October at the launch of Cooperate Social

Responsibility (CSR) Lanka an activity which brings together the consortium of private sector

companies with a budget of LKR four billion supported by Embassy of the Netherlands and USAID.

1.3 Chair and Country Coordinator participated in GWP SAS RC meeting on 10 and 11 and General

Assembly on 12 October at IWMI Head Quarters. Farewell dinner for GWP South Asia General

Assembly delagates was held at Water’s Edge on 12 October.

1.4 The 10th Programme Committee meeting was held on 17 October at SLWP Office.

1.5 First meeting of the newly formed wetland protection societies for Bolgoda Wetland Complex was

held in collaboration with the CEA at the Kesbewa Divisional Secretariat on 21 October. Local Authority

and State agencies with other stakeholders have set up this institutional arrangement for

monitoring health of wetlands.

1.6 The Chair SLWP was invited to a meeting of leading environmentalists to meet His Excellency the

President at Temple trees by the CEA and the Presidential Secretariat. The purpose of the meeting

was to brainstorm on current status of the environmental and natural resources leading to policy

implementation and necessary changes. The Chair raised the issues related to Area Water

Partnershiops; water pollution and degradation of ecosystems due to catchment degradation,

river sand mining, ground water depletion and industrial effluents.

WACREP Activities

1.4 WACREP Training of Trainers (ToT) programme was held from 2 to 4 October in Gannoruwa In-

Service Training Institute of the Department of Agriculture. Participants were from Irrigation

Department (ID), Irrigation Management Division (IMD), National Water Supply and Drainage

Board (NWSDB), Department of Agrarian Development and Department of Agriculture (DoA). 54

participated the three day ToT residential porgramme. The participants were of executive level

and 35 engineers including 15 from ID. Eight resource persons from ID, Department of Metrology,

University of Peradeniya and DoA provided resource input. Director IMD attended as an Observer

and Director General DoA was the Chief Guest.

1.5 Officer training programme was held on Ginganga deterioration and RSM awareness for district

and field officers on 24 October in Kanneliya Forest Department Training Centre arranged by the

Director of Irrigation Galle in collaboration with Director CEA Southern Province. Total of 54

participants and three resource persons from University of Rhuhuna participated the programme

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1.6 Two major/medium irrigation scheme PMC staff awareness programmes were held on 27 and 28

in Hambantota and Weeraketiya back to back for the Southern Province organsied by IMD. Total

of 54 and 48 participated respectively for 27 and 28 programmes. Participants included those from

ID, IMD, CEA, CCB, DAD, LCD. Resource persons included from DoA Field Research Station

Angunukolapelless.

1.7 Five Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) school programme (three in the Central Province and two

in North Western Province) were held during in October in collaboration with Provincial Education,

Health and NWSDB regional offices.

Name of the School Date No. of Student

Partipants

No. of resource

persons

Udispaththuwa Maha Vidyalaya 10 October 255 3

Halambawatawana Maha Vidyalaya 17 October 250 3

Ududumbara Maha Vidyalaya 20 October 192 3

Hettipola Maha Vidyalaya. 30 October 269 3

Rasnayakepura Maha Vidyalaya 31 October 181 3

1.8 The final draft of the Proposal Development Guideline is ready to be printed in November. This to

be followed up by a workshop in December. These guideline are to be used in strategizing the fund

raising of SLWP.

1.9 Farmer Resilience Survey: Field survey in North Central Province and in Puttalam District (in North

Western Province) by Open University and University of Rajarata complete. The survey which is

being conducting in Kurunegala will be completed by first week of November by University of

Peradeniya. Data tabulation, entry and preparation of frequency tables are underway. Though the

due date of the survey is 10 November it is most likely to be extended till 20 November latest.

Writing the report will be commencing immediately after analysis and the final report is expected

in mid-December. Developing the Policy Brief based on the survey is programmed for first quarter

of 2015.

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SOUTHEAST ASIA

GWP-SEA October Report

GWP-SEA Workshop in Hanoi,

Vietnam

In Hanoi – Vietnam, GWP-SEA held a 4 day

Workshop ; Global Strategy Workshop on 30

October 2014, WACDEP (Water & Climate

Development Program) Workshop on 1

October 2014 and Steering Committee

Meeting on 2-3 October 2014. The workshop

ended with a field trip to visit a successful

Wastewater treatment using Onsite

Wastewater Treatment System (Jokaso

System) in housing and apartment.

Global Strategy Workshop

With the end of the 2009-2013 GWP-SEA Strategy, GWP-SEA started to plan its Strategy for the period

of 2014-2019. 37 participants from Steering Committee Member, WACDEP Contact Person,

Organization in Vietnam and UNESCO discuss together the needs to review activities and develop new

approaches to elevate GWP-SEA role in the region in promoting good practice in IWRM.

GWP-SEA goals for the next strategic is 1) Catalyze Change, 2) Sharing Water Knowledge, 3)

Strengthening Water Partnership which is in line with the GWP Global Strategy. The expected results

from the Strategic Catalyze Change is to improved water security in IWRM, Financing strategies

developed for water security, and stressing in Integrated Drought Management projects, Deltas, and

Mekong basins.

The main topics of this workshop is to discuss the GWP Southeast Asia 3 year program 2014-2016.

WACDEP (Water Climate and Development

Program) Workshop

The Water, Climate and Development

Programme (WACDEP) aims to integrate water

security and climate resilience in development

planning processes, build climate resilience

and support countries within Southeast Asian

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Region to adapt to a new climate regime through increased investments in water security.

In Southeast Asia, Water Climate and Development Program has just started in the middle of 2014.

On 1st October 2014, 8 WACDEP Contact Person from 8 Country Water Partnership in Southeast Asia

met in Hanoi, Vietnam to share their progress, challenges, and opportunities.

29th Steering Committee Meeting

16 Steering Committee and Alternate Steering

Committee member gathered in Hanoi,

Vietnam to share the implementation of their

activity.

In this meeting, Steering Committee Member

shared their accomplished activity and their

activity plan for 2015.

At the meeting, the main discussions are the

finalization of the 2015 Work plan, status of

collaboration and fund raising.

GWP Southeast Asia also discussed the

opportunity to join the World Water Forum 7

which will be held in Korea in 2015.

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Using Cartoons for Sharing Water Knowledge to Support Better Water

Management and Water Security

In the world 90 percent of water are sea water

and only 0.4 percent of total water in the

world can used as a clean water. Water

demand is increasing as the result of

population growth in particular and other

causes such as urbanization, expansion of

agriculture and industries.

The natural water resources is limited in

quantity and if the usage is not manage

properly then water shortage has to be faced

in very near future. The availability of water in

both quantity and quality is being severely

affected by climate variability and climate

change and these are caused by both natural

and man-made events. As a result flood and

drought occurs that increase vulnerability of

people and stress on the water resources.

Integrated water resources management means that all the different uses of water resources are

managed together and the management functions of IWRM are water allocation, pollution control,

monitoring, financial management, flood and drought management, information management, basin

planning, stakeholder participation that would like to give key messages to the readers.

Myanmar Water Partnership using cartoon to describe the means of IWRM. The cartoon book is

written in Myanmar language and put the key messages to understand IWRM easily for the readers

and will distribute the publication started from grass root level up to various stake holders to give

awareness rising about water management and water security under the scope of Integrated Water

Resources Management.

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WEST AFRICA

Monthly report

1. Strengthening partnerships with ECOWAS and IUCN

GWP West Africa took part in an operational planning workshop of a SIDA funded project for the

ECOWAS Water Resources Coordination Center (WRCC). This project that aims at enhancing IWRM in

West Africa and funded by SIDA for funding was developed jointly by WRCC, GWP WAf and

IUCN/PACO. The three organizations took part in the workshop on 5 to 8 November 2014 in Bobo

Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. The meeting came out with a much clearer logframe and allowed to define

the role each organization will play in the implementation of the project.

The discussions also raised issues related to budget distribution and project management related

topics. GWP was represented by the regional coordinator, Dam MOGBANTE and the regional gender

focal point and regional technical committee member, Dr. Karidia SANON.

2. Steering Committee second meeting held

GWP WAf organized the second meeting of its Steering Committee. According to statutory indications

two SC meetings should be organized each year. Because of high costs related to the organization of a

physical meeting and financial constraints, a virtual statutory meeting is planned. This virtual meeting

is organized exactly like physical meetings, the only difference is that members do not meet physical

but have exchanges on internet on documents prepared by the Secretariat and sent to them.

The main decisions that came out of the electronic consultation are that the Steering Committee

members have :

Given their Approval to the documents presented to them if proposed amendments are

integrated;

Recommended all CWP to develop their 2015 annual work plan according to GWP template

• Requested the Chair to convene in appropriate deadlines the Assembly of Partners in Bamako

during the year 2015.

• Given mandate to the Executive Secretariat to propose an appropriate date for the next SC

meeting (physical) after consulting with all members.

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3. Training Workshop for AWIS focal points

GWP took part in the training session organized for the focal points of the African Water Information

and Documentation System (AWIS).This is an initiative taken over by the African Network of Basin

Organizations (ANBO) presented managed by the SITWA secretariat in Dakar. GWP WAf is one of the

partners contributing to the feeding of the African water portal with news and documents.

The workshop took place on 29 and 30 October in Saly, about 80 kms from Dakar, Senegal. It was

meant to update contributing partners organizations’ focal points on the various features developed

on the CMS used for the portal.

The second meeting was attended by 10 organizations and allowed to exchange not only on technical

issues but also administrative aspects related to the partnership between SITWA (OMVS) and

contributing organizations.

4. IDMP to target Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger

The Integrated Drought Management Programme in West Africa (IDMP WAF) will be finally

implemented in three countries. From the results of the situation analysis, three Sahelian countries

which are Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are being targeted. The selection criteria of the countries were

based on the Drought situation in the country, the capacity of the CWP to support the project

implementation, the on-going regional initiatives and the interest of main technical α financial

partners.

However, the capacity building of the main actors will include some other countries according to the

results of the capacity need assessment which will be done in all West African countries. The

experience sharing will also involve all the region and other regions concerned by the global Drought

Programme.

The three years implementation of the project will start in January 2015 by the inception workshop

which will be done in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso).

5. The Mekrou Project in the move

Many Terms of References (TORs) were developed and announcements made to recruit consultants

to carry out studies in the framework of the implementation of the Project entitled “Water for growth

and the reduction of poverty in the Mekrou transboundary river basin” commonly called “The Mekrou

Project”.

In Burkina Faso, the provisional reports of two studies were submitted and amended by the CWP

technical team set up for the follow of the implementation of the Project. The first study was on the

participatory institutional diagnosis with consultation of main stakeholders and the second one is on

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the participatory assessment of the current capacities and capacity building needs for interested

organizations with knowledge management.

The regional workshop for the validation of the report on the inventory of the types of

scientific/technical data, the models and information systems to be developed by the Mekrou Project

was held in Cotonou during the first week of November 2014.