Transcript global public policy network on water management

gppn
global public policy network on
water management
Water as a Cross-cutting Issue for CSD17
GPPN Background
joint initiative of Stakeholder Forum and Stockholm International Water
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to consult and work with global stakeholders to identify on priorities for
the global water and sanitation agenda, and help communicate those
priorities to decision-makers
key focus in 2009 on building broad stakeholder participation on water
as a cross-cutting issue for CSD17
Multi-stakeholder Initiative
Consulted broad range of stakeholders on water and climate change across ‘Major
Groups’, including:
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Farmers
Trade Unions
Women
Science and Technology
Local Authorities
NGOs
Business
Youth
Indigenous Peoples
Also includes UN agencies.
Key Outputs for CSD17
• Consultation Outcomes and Policy
Recommendations
• Proposed Text Amendments for CSD17
• Side Events, stakeholder co-ordination and
lobbying
Agriculture
Integrated Water Resources Management in the context of
sustainable agriculture – ensure management of water
among competing users
Ecosystem Approach for agriculture – develop systems of
water rights that allow for prior allocation of water to meet
the requirements of environmental flows, building
ecosystem resilience for sustainable agriculture and
livelihoods. Recognize ecosystems as water consumers.
Enhance demand management – assess suitability of
irrigation service charges, and reduce subsidies for
agriculture that do not lead to sustainable water use
Apply water footprint analyses – as a tool for awareness
raising, and to better consider crop choices and sustainability
limits
Rural Development
Develop more advanced water management arrangements
in rural areas that preserve and conserve water supply and
take into account climate impacts for long-term
sustainability
Provide rural communities with incentives and rewards for
preserving and conserving ecosystems, through Payment for
Ecosystem Services schemes where appropriate
Build capacity and provide training, tools and necessary
technologies in rural areas to practice integrated water resources
management and sustainable agriculture
Adopt an ecosystem approach in rural development plans,
promoting water rights systems that that seek to to preserve
ecosystems and their services for long-term rural needs.
Reform water sector policy and utilisation schemes to account
for the true value of water, with emphasis on demand
management through rational pricing mechanisms, thereby
reducing wastage and subsidising the cost of water for the poor.
Land
Integrated land and water management – consider land-use
policies in the context of water resources management. Build
capacity for this approach at a local and river-basin level.
Governance – enhance communication between land planners,
water management professionals and climate change experts
Ecosystem Services – integrate assessment of value of ecosystem
services into land use planning, including value of freshwater
ecosystems for avoiding land degradation.
Drought
Enhance drought resilience methods – rainwater harvesting,
water re-use, enhanced irrigation efficiency.
Integrated Water Resources Management – ensure robust
IWRM plans and flexible adaptive water management capacity to
respond to changes in water availability.
Develop systems for ‘prior allocation’ for environmental flows
alongside basic social needs in times of water scarcity, ‘hands off’
quotas.
Transboundary Water Management – in context of drought
management. Build capacity for negotiating transboundary
arrangements, ratify UN Watercourses Convention – rainwater
harvesting, water re-use, enhanced irrigation efficiency.
Data sharing – enhance access to space technologies and earth
observation systems, increasing finance earmarked for drought
management information systems.
Desertification
Land reform – promote security of tenure that enhances
incentives for sustainable land and water resources
management
Loans and incentives – provide financial incentives for
ecosystem-based approaches that preserve water quantity and
quality
Promote economic diversification reducing pressures exerted
on land by dry-land poor that lead to desertification
Way Forward
‘One-pager’ of priority issues for governments
Text for Major Groups intervention at Ministerial
Roundtable on Integrated Water and Land Resources
Management for Rural Development and Agriculture.
Daily meetings – 11-12 UN Cafeteria
Thank you!
Hannah Stoddart
GPPN Secretariat
[email protected]
http://gppn.stakeholderforum.org