Transcript HDR-Water Follow-up Strategy - United Nations Economic

UNDP’s work and role
promoting Water Governance
in Europe & CIS
Towards a new Regional Programme
“Applying a Human Rights-based Approach (HRBA)
to Water Governance”
Juerg Staudenmann
Water Governance Advisor
United Nations Development Programme
Bratislava Regional Centre – Europe & CIS
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Overview
UNDP’s mandate & Water Governance
strategy
Water as key driver for Human
Development
UNDP’s work in Europe & CIS region
Why a new programme?
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UNDP’s mandate
“The UN's global development network, advocating for
change and connecting countries to knowledge,
experience and resources to help people build a better
life”
MDGs as overarching framework / coordinator of UN
Development Group
– over 160 Country Offices (UN country team)
– National, regional and global projects (UNDP and joint)
UNDP Strategic Plan: 1 pillar on “Environment &
Sustainable Development”
– Mainstreaming ESD into development
– Facilitating financing and access to environmental services (at
local level  pro-poor)
– Promoting adaptation to climate change
 “Water and Sanitation” as priority area of intervention!
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Why Water Governance ?
Key HDR 2006 findings:
– Water & sanitation is essential for life and livelihoods
– Water & sanitation are key drivers to achieve majority of MDGs
– “Global Water Crisis” is a crisis for the poor and marginalized (large
disparities between rural and urban areas, but also between poor and
privileged parts of society)
– Even lower political commitment to sanitation and hygiene (2.6 billion
people lacking access; 1.8 million child deaths/year)
– Climate Change will add another dimension
– The growing “Water Crisis” is a problem of Water Governance, not so
much of lacking water resources or population growth
Key recommendations:
– Make water a human right – legislatively
– Support national strategies for IWRM, water and sanitation (incl.
empowerment of the poor, gender, climate change, …)
– Advocate for increase of international aid (+ USD 3-4 billion/year = ODA
x2)
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UNDP’s Water Governance strategy
Reduce poverty and vulnerability, enhance livelihoods,
and protect environmental resources through “adaptive
water governance”, by supporting countries to:
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achieve equitable allocation and efficient water resources
management
achieve or exceed the water supply and sanitation MDGs
enhance regional and global cooperation, peace, security and
socio-economic development.
… through:
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National strategies for equitable management of water
Local action on water and sanitation
Cooperation on Transboundary Waters
Adaptation to climate change
Global and regional advocacy
Across: Capacity development; Gender equality; Human rights based approach
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Water as key to achieve the MDGs
Almost all MDGs cannot be achieved if water fails!
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Child mortality & maternal health
Education-sanitation nexus (adequate facilities for girls; health)
Gender equality (reduced vulnerability)
Water – poverty nexus (enhanced livelihood security; pro-poor
economic growth; health – work force link)
Transboundary Interdependence
90% of population in countries with shared river basins
Competing demands for water means the poor will lose
out on all fronts unless we
– Change and improve “water governance”
– Be prepared to adapt to (climate) change
Successfully tackling the WSS crises could trigger next
leap forward in human development !
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% with access to water
% access to sanitation
WSS – Human Development link
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HDI
% access water (2004)
HDI
% access sanitation (2004)
HDI
% GDP Health (2003)
HDI
% GDP Education (2003)
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Hum an Developm ent Index
Hum an Developm ent Index
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R-squared
0.631406
0.73256
0.352122
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Electricity use per capita (2003)
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UNDP’s Water Governance portfolio
in the Europe & CIS region
Regional projects:
– GEF-implementing agency
– Transboundary Water Management (e.g.
Danube/Black Sea, Dnipro, Caspian Sea, Kura-Aras,
...)
National / local project:
– IWRM – National and participatory planning &
implementation (e.g. Kazakhstan, new CA-project)
– WSS (e.g. BiH, Tajikistan, Armenia)
– Mainstreaming “water-activities” in rural development
(e.g. Crimea, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan), Climate change
& energy-reform (e.g. Albania, Bulgaria), biodiversity
conservation (e.g. Macedonia, Russia, Serbia,
Slovakia, Hungary, …)
– Private sector involvement (e.g. UNDP-Coca Cola
Partnership “Every Drop Matters”
in Croatia,
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Kazakhstan,
…)
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Working in partnership
UNECE / WHO / bilateral partners: Protocol on
Water & Health / HRBA
EC / EUWI / UNECE / OECD: “Common
Framework for Addressing Water Issues in
Central Asia”
UNECE / OSCE / RECs: Environment &
Security Initiative
Cap-Net / GWP: Capacity building, networking,
stakeholder platforms
Stockholm Water Governance Facility / SIWI:
expertise & support (e.g. “water intelligent
reports”)
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Local
andCentre
bilateral partners:
Projects and
Knowledge Management &
UNDP Water Community of Practice (CoP)
Knowledge Management Platform:
WaterWiki (http://WaterWiki.net)
– A Wiki-platform (like Wikipedia) with projects,
Who is who, reports, articles, etc.
– Currently under revision (upgrade, new
features, new content, Russian translations,
expansion)
– Idea: Dynamic linking, e.g. with UNECE River
Basin Assessment, EC Guideline on Water,
etc.
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Why a new programme?  Situation in
RBEC
Countries PROJECTED
in business-as-usual scenario
NOT to achieve the water supply or sanitation MDGs (in
progress):
Projected %
WSS Plan / ..in UNICEF /
Status of IWRM
achieve. Water /
Sanitation MDG
PRSP / ..in
UNDAF
UNEP / MDG-S
country / Span
MDG-F
Planning /
planned UNDP
support
Armenia
OK / n.d.
Y / YN / NN
Y / .. / N / N
1 / GEF-IWRM
Azerbaijan
78.3 / n.d.
Y / ?? / na
Y / .. / N / N
3 / GEF-IWRM
Kazakhstan
OK / 83.1
Y / YY / YY
N / .. / N / N
1 / exist. proj
Kyrgyzstan
76.9 / 64.1
Y / YY / na
N / .. / N / N
2 / new reg proj
OK / n.d.
Y / YY / na
Y / .. / Y / N
2 / new reg proj
83.5 / 85.4
Y / YY / na
N / .. / N / Y
na (?) / N
OK / n.d.
Y / NN / YN
N / .. / N / N
2 / EUWI?
79.3 / 89.9
Y / YY / na
N / .. / N / N
2 / new nat proj
Tajikistan
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
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Why a new programme linking Water
Governance with Human Rights?
Taking the opportunity!
 Special (favorable) regional context with the Protocol
on Water & Health
Aim:
 Establish a regional umbrella, which
– is closely linked to emerging activities (foremost
under the Protocol on Water & Health)
– serves as basis to build strong partnerships
– supports the identification of “niches” to develop
concrete interventions to apply a HRBA
Ultimate objective:
 Develop and implement concrete projects at
national and local level
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Thank you!
For further information visit:
http://WaterWiki.net
United Nations Development Programme
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