Water for All
Shared risk and opportunity:
PPPP Governance of
water
Bart Geenen – WWF
Adopted by Joris van Oppenraaij (NWP) for Rain meeting 11 December 2013
Consumers Choices
Business Risks
‘A survey of 350 companies found that 92% agree that a water crisis is looming and 70% believe that the risks of water scarcity are equal to those of carbon emissions.’
WSP Environment & Energy, September 2009
What are companies saying?
What are companies doing?
Context
• 2nd largest freshwater lake Kenya
• Economic hub in Kenya– Floriculture heart (70% Kenyan export)– 2-3% Kenyan GDP– Leading foreign exchange earner (9%)– 40% of EU retail market (50% NL)– Geothermal existing and expanding– Regional market
• Rich Biodiversity
• Employment (20.000 direct, 350,000 indirect)
• 80% water quantity problems due to irrigation
• 80% water quality problems due to poor practices upstream
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Shared problem, risk &
vision
Sense of urgency
Quantifiable problem
Convening power
Joint planning, joint action
Business case
Collective/good governance, communication and transparency
Mainstreaming good practice, to economic
interdependency
Celebrating success & communication
Measurable results within reach
How did we get there?
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Shared problem, risk &
vision
Sense of urgency
Quantifiable problem
Convening power
Joint planning, joint action
Business case
Collective/good governance, communication and transparency
Mainstreaming good practice, to economic
interdependency
Celebrating success & communication
Measurable results within reach
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13 April 2023 - 10
Shared problem, risk &
vision
Sense of urgency
Quantifiable problem
Convening power
Joint planning, joint action
Business case
Collective/good governance, communication and transparency
Mainstreaming good practice, to economic
interdependency
Celebrating success & communication
Measurable results within reach
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13 April 2023 - 12
Shared problem, risk &
vision
Sense of urgency
Quantifiable problem
Convening power
Joint planning, joint action
Business case
Collective/good governance, communication and transparency
Mainstreaming good practice, to economic
interdependency
Celebrating success & communication
Measurable results within reach
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13 April 2023 - 14
Shared problem, risk &
vision
Sense of urgency
Quantifiable problem
Convening power
Joint planning, joint action
Business case
Collective/good governance, communication and transparency
Mainstreaming good practice, to economic
interdependency
Celebrating success & communication
Measurable results within reach
Results
• Groundwater abstraction permits survey
• Freeze abstraction licensing
• Groundwater protection zone
• WRUAs got water management and fee collection mandate (empowerment)
• (Simple) Water Allocation Plan adopted
• Payment for Environmental Services (PES)
• ...
• More than considered realistic before 2009!
• ... and it is the stakeholders collectively steering the process
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Shared problem, risk &
vision
Sense of urgency
Quantifiable the problem
Convening power
Joint planning, joint action
Business case
Collective/good governance, communication and transparency
Mainstreaming good practice, to economic
interdependency
Celebrating success & communication
Measurable results within reach
13 April 2023 - 17
Shared problem, risk &
vision
Sense of urgency
Quantifiable the problem
Convening power
Joint planning, joint action
Business case
Collective/good governance, communication and transparency
Mainstreaming good practice, to economic
interdependency
Celebrating success & communication
Measurable results within reach
- PPPP body mandated by Government
- representatives of local and national government, civil society/ community
groups, land/ resource managers, private sector and business community
- Sustainable Development Action Plan
- Coordinate the activities of various players
- Transparency and data sharing
- Monitor compliance with the laws and regulations governing LN
- Develop and enforce codes of conduct
- Develop, adapt and execute a Trust (€ in/outside Kenya)
PPPP Governance Structure: Imarisha
Certification international trade(eg flowers)
Value chain Place based interventions
Catchment –wide governance of water for sustainability
Beyond certificationBeyond IWRM
IWRAP
1. Improved governance WRMA and WRUAs: NL RWA, WGC
2. Improved quantitative water resource management and monitoring: NL RWA, ITC, Deltares
3. Headwater protection (CFM): WWF
4. Prepare scaling PES in riparian farmland: WWF
5. Good stewardship in LNB floriculture through adoption of national standards and certification: KFC, IDH
6. Strengthened Imarisha Naivasha for execution of the SDAP: Imarisha
7. LN PPP Sustainable Development Fund (LNB-3P-SDF): WWF (NL), ITC, Imarisha, NL & UK retail, IDH, GIZ
- PPPP on basis of added value: chain of barriers becomes chain of
opportunities
- Paradigm change: no pre-fixed projects
- Demand-driven, Sensing, Probing & Scaling, Open ended
- Changing partners: transition (private sector ~ business plan)
- Funding & finance
- Adaptive, Changing, Risk capital, Enabling
- Become engaged
- Long-term commitment / Collective action
- FIETS sustainability and thus multi stakeholder
Project Partnership Governance?