Monthly Report Global Water Partnership

October 2015

Table of contents NewsFlow November 2015 .................................................................................................................................... 2

GWP Global ............................................................................................................................................................ 9 GWP Regions ........................................................................................................................................................ 10 CARIBBEAN .............................................................................................................................................................. 10

CENTRAL AFRICA ....................................................................................................................................................... 12

CENTRAL AMERICA .................................................................................................................................................... 14 CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE .................................................................................................................................. 17 CENTRAL ASIA AND CAUCASUS .................................................................................................................................... 25 CHINA ..................................................................................................................................................................... 40

EASTERN AFRICA ....................................................................................................................................................... 43

MEDITERRANEAN ...................................................................................................................................................... 49 SOUTHERN AFRICA .................................................................................................................................................... 50 SOUTH AMERICA ....................................................................................................................................................... 59

SOUTH ASIA ............................................................................................................................................................. 66

SOUTHEAST ASIA ...................................................................................................................................................... 83 WEST AFRICA ........................................................................................................................................................... 95

Global Water Partnership (GWP), Global Secretariat, Drottninggatan 33, SE-111 51 Stockholm, Sweden

Phone: +46 (0)8 1213 8600, Fax: + 46 (0)8 1213 8604, e-mail: gwp@gwp.org

NewsFlow November 2015

GWP Bhutan introduces IWRM to local leaders

Local leaders in the Bhutan districts of Tashi Yangtse and Samdrup Jongkhar participated in GWP

workshops to learn about integrated water resources management (IWRM).

Read more. (by GWP South Asia: article yet to be published)

The sensitization workshop in Tashi Yangtse was conducted on 12-13 October and in Samdrup

Jongkhar on 15-16 October. The local leaders and the district environment officers actively

participated in the programme.

The workshops were held with the aim of educating Gups (Local leaders) on water resources and its

management. Gups, as the head of the Gewog (block), has a very important role which includes the

utilization and management of water resources. With the IWRM sensitization in these two districts,

all 20 Bhutan districts have now been covered and GWP Bhutan is hopeful that the leaders will make

use of the knowledge gained to allow them to make informed decisions with regard to water

resource management.

During the workshops, presentations on the importance of environment and water were made,

followed by very fruitful discussions on various environmental and water related issues. In order to

stress the importance of good water governance, exercises were conducted where the local leaders

expressed their thoughts and ideas in a pictorial form. The participants said that the knowledge

gained would be shared among the locals, and be used in the management and planning of the use

of natural resources in their areas.

Benin youth submit White Paper to authorities

Young parliamentarians, acting through the National Youth Parliament for Water and Sanitation

(PNJEA) of Benin, organized a ceremony in Cotonou on 29 October to present a White Paper to the

Beninese authorities. The paper is a collection of observations and recommendations on youth

participation in the governance of water.

Read more. (by GWP West Africa)

Rainwater harvesting initiative in Jamaica

GWP Caribbean teamed up with its partners, the Caribbean Youth Environment Network-Jamaica

Chapter (CYEN-Ja) and the Water Resources Authority (WRA) of Jamaica, to host a Rainwater

Harvesting (RWH) Outreach Initiative at the Jamaica Climate Walk 2015.

Read more. (by GWP Caribbean, article yet to be published)

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Organised by Environmental Solutions Limited (ESL), the march took place in New Kingston,

Jamaica, on the evening of October 24. The climate walk was the first of its kind in Jamaica, and was

attended by students, prominent stakeholders, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and

government agencies.

The day’s events involved a march throughout New Kingston, and an Eco-Village, organised by

E.C.C.O. Magazine (Environmentally Conscious Consumer Operations), which hosted the event’s

exhibition booths. GWP Caribbean, the CYEN-Ja and the WRA collaborated to have a RWH themed

booth at the Eco-Village. The booth was manned by two members, each from the CYEN-Ja and the

WRA, and supplemented with the CYEN-Ja members who participated in the march.

A life-sized rainwater harvesting model of the WRA was the main item on display at the booth.

Brochures produced by GWP Caribbean and other water related material supplied by the WRA

complemented the showcase. The booth was well-received, generating a substantial volume of traffic,

with some quipping it was “the most pertinent booth on display.”

Many were familiar with the simple concept of making use of rainwater. However, when enlightened

on the issue of climate change and the stress on our water resources, they expressed concern on how

imperative rainwater harvesting is, especially for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) like Jamaica.

The life-sized RWH model allowed for live demonstrations on how rain could be harnessed for daily

usage, which iterated the practicability of visitors to the booth investing in a system of their own.

Even as the event reached its twilight, the booth attracted many visitors. The outreach proved to be a

great collaboration between GWP Caribbean, CYEN-Jamaica and the WRA, and it prompted a lot of

interest among various stakeholders about the benefits of rainwater harvesting.

GWP Central America identifies youth focal points

GWP Central America joined two Latin American youth networks in the organization of the Latin

American Youth and Environment Conference

(https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/elacja?source=feed_text&story_id=1708597842707754), held

in Mexico City from October 21-23. GWP supported the participation of six people from each of the

countries in the region.#ELACJA

Read more. (by GWP Central America, article yet to be published)

The application process for their participation was an opportunity for GWP Central America to

identify possible national youth focal points that could be part of the GWP youth movement, initiated

after the launch of GWP´s Youth Strategy. A call for presentations was launched and the young

people selected had experience and interest in the issues regarding water and youth.

The event was held at one of the auditoriums of the Mexican Congress, with the participation of

approximately 130 youth from 10 Latin American countries. The event was organized around three

main topics: Water and Climate Change, Biodiversity and Climate Change, and Local Development in

Protected Areas.

There were four keynote speakers including Diana Ramirez of the United Nations Economic

Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Victor Manuel Chavez-Avila of the

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National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Fernando Camacho of the National

Commission of Natural Protected Areas and Mexico (CONANP) and Oscar Prado Moon National

Water Commission of Mexico (CONAGUA).

Five thematic panels where the young people shared their experiences regarding initiatives related to

the three themes mentioned above were organized. There were Central American participants in all of

the panels. The participants were also able to exchange ideas and formulate key messages on climate

change, which will be shared at side events during COP 21 in Paris.

“Young people must be 100% involved in all environmental activities - including water- it is a vital

resource and we need it for our lives. We must be involved because we are the future… if we do not

act now then it will be too late”, said Catherine Flores from Panama.

GWP Central America worked closely with Youth Movement for Water (MOJA) a Mexican based

youth network and La Ruta del Clima, a Costa Rican based initiative, both working towards building a

wider network in Latin America. Both have shown interest in becoming a GWP partner.

Photos, interviews and relevant website links at: http://www.gwp.org/es/GWP-

Centroamerica/NOTICIAS/Jovenes-centroamericanos-por-el-agua/

More from GWP Central America:

National Adaptation Plans discussed in El Salvador

GWP Central America, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations

Environment Programme (UNEP), in coordination with the Central American Commission on

Environment and Development (CCAD) and the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources

(MARN) of El Salvador, organised the workshop "Integrating Water Security in the National

Adaptation Plans (NAPs)." The event was held in San Salvador, El Salvador, on 27-29 October.

Read more. (by GWP Central America, article yet to be published)

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established the NAP process as a

means to facilitate effective adaptation planning in developing countries. For Central America it is

essential to work on the NAPs considering the challenges posed by climate change to the management

and planning of actions at all levels in the region.

The purpose of the workshop was to promote the formulation of NAPs and to provide the necessary

tools to include water security as one of the key strategies for adaptation. To support countries in the

inclusion of water security in the NAPs, GWP has participated in the development a supplement on

water to the technical guidelines for the NAPs.

The inauguration was presided by the Vice Minister of MARN, Angel Ibarra; the Resilience

Programme Officer for UNDP El Salvador, Silvia Vides; the Adaptation to Climate Change Officer

for UNEP at the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, Elena Pita and GWP

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WACDEP Coordinator, Alex Simalabwi.

Participants to the workshop included representatives of Climate Change and Water Resources

Directions of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, as well as

delegations from the Ministries of Planning and participants in previous processes related to the

formulation of NAPs.

Photos and interviews at: http://www.gwp.org/es/GWP-Centroamerica/NOTICIAS/Seguridad-hidrica-

en-los-PNA/

Southern African symposium promote water sector interaction

GWP Southern Africa and partners held a symposium on the island of Mauritius 28-30 October,

under the theme ‘Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and Infrastructure Planning for

Water Security in Southern Africa’. The University of Mauritius, a GWP partner, was the lead host of

the symposium, which has been held annually in the Eastern and Southern African region for the past

15 years.

Read more. (by GWP Southern Africa)

GWP Contributes to Climate Services Tutorial

The United Nation Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Global Framework for

Climate Services (GFCS) have developed an online tutorial to raise awareness about the benefits of

using climate services for decision-making. GWP contributes to the tutorial through a video interview

with GWP Senior Programme and Network Officer Frederik Pischke.

Read more. (by GWPO, article yet to be published)

The tutorial is designed for national policy-makers, but it is also open to practitioners and the general

public. It features interviews with experts and short self-assessment exercises to test the user’s

knowledge. In the GWP part of the tutorial, Frederik Pischke talks about issues related to water

management, and the challenges posed by climate variability and change.

“Water is one of the five priority areas of the GFCS because it is the medium through which much of

climate change affects society. Climate services are used to enhance effective water management,

for example reservoir managers use forecasts to plan ahead to ensure the availability of water

resources. Having a better understanding of where and how climate change and climate variability

might have an impact helps us prepare better,” says Pischke.

GWP was accepted as a member in the GFCS Partner Advisory Committee (PAC) in January 2015

because of its focus on the Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP), the Associated

Programme on Flood Management (APFM) as well as the Water, Climate and Development

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Programme (WACDEP) and its contributions to National and Regional Climate Outlook Fora through

the GWP Regional and Country Water Partnerships. These initiatives all promote the development of

climate services.

The third meeting of the PAC was held on 22-23 October, in which the GFCS tutorial was released. It

is accessible here: http://www.unitar.org/free-courses

GWP at COP21 – Urging Parties to Act on Water

GWP is preparing to participate in the upcoming UNFCCC COP21 conference taking place in Paris,

France, from 30 November until 11 December. Funding for water resources management and future

financing mechanisms are two of the topics that GWP will speak up for at the gathering.

Read more. (by GWPO, article yet to be published)

The Conference of the Parties (COP) is an annual meeting that brings together the 196 countries

within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This year’s

session, COP21, is crucial because the pressure is rising for a new global climate agreement.

Last year at COP20 in Lima, Peru, GWP promoted the importance of urban water management in a

successful side event, and water management in the context of South-South cooperation was raised at

another event. Promoting South-South collaboration continues to be one of GWP’s objectives at

COP21.

This year GWP representatives will urge governments to:

scale up work on climate resilience and identify innovative financing mechanisms for water

resources, including private sector and risk insurance.

create a thematic funding window for water resources management under the Green Climate

Fund.

There will be a GWP booth at the conference. More information about GWP’s activities will be posted

here shortly.

GWP in the news (October-November 2015)

Global water conference in Karachi from November 17 (Business Recorder) Broward partnership challenges neighbors to save water, money (Sun-Sentinel) Namibia hosts 7th SADC Multi-stakeholder Water Dialogue (African Farming)

Energy and fuel: Gas prices to remain fixed throughout winter (Malta Independent Online) 7th WACDEP Technical Coordination Meeting opens in Accra (Graphic Online) Water Resources Minister inaugurates WACDEP meeting (Ghana News Agency)

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BeWater works with Tunisian youth in water resources management and climate change adaptation (BeWater)

Coming events

17-18 Nov 2015 Livestream: International Conference on El Niño 17-18 Nov 2015, Securing Sustainable Water For All, Karachi, Pakistan 19 Nov 2015, World Toilet Day, UN 19 Nov 2015 Webinar: How to reach and move beyond $100bn in climate finance, Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and CICERO 17-19 Nov 2015, Seventh session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention, Budapest Hungary 24 Nov 2015, Webinar: The Not So Common Cattail: Using wetland plants for bioenergy and other ecosystem services (IISD) 9-11 Dec 2015, Water Security 2015, University of Oxford, UK 10 Feb 2016, EIP Water Conference, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

Vacancies

GWP Mediterranean: Project Coordinator/Chief Technical Advisor, to be based in Tirana, Albania & Athens, Greece. Deadline for applications: 18 November 2015. GWP Mediterranean: National Coordinator in Kosovo, to be based in Pristine, Kosovo. Deadline for application 6 December 2015. GWP Mediterranean: National Coordinator in Montenegro, to be based in Podgorica, Montenegro. Deadline for application 6 December 2015. GWP Mediterranean: National Coordinator in FYR Macedonia, to be based in Ohrid, FYR Macedonia. Deadline for application 6 December 2015. GWP Mediterranean: National Coordinator in Albania, to be based in Tirana, Albania. Deadline for application 6 December 2015. GWP Mediterranean: Project Manager, to be based in Tirana, Albania. Deadline for application 6 December 2015.

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Resource Mobilisation and Partnership Manager, to be based in the global GWP secretariat in Stockholm, Sweden. Deadline for applications: 15 December 2015.

New Resources

Guidelines on Natural Small Water Retention Measures (GWP Central and Eastern Europe) ShockWaves Report: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty (World Bank) Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (RECIEL) Eliminating Discrimination and Inequalities in Access to Water and Sanitation(UN-Water) The State of Food and Agriculture 2015 (FAO) Cultivating Equality (CARE International, CGIAR, CCAFS) Friends of Governance for Sustainable Development 17goals.org

Calls Call for abstracts: Desalination for the Environment Clean Water and Energy (EDS).Deadline 30 Nov 2015. Resilient Cities 2016 Call for Contributions. Deadline 8 January 2016. Call for papers: WEDC International Conference. Deadline 1 February 2016. Erasmus Mundus Masters course in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management (MESPOM). Deadline 4 February 2016.

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GLOBAL

Narrative Report

October 2015

IDMP and APFM

Compiled by Frederik

1. GFCS Tutorial released http://www.unitar.org/gfcs-tutorial/ which includes an interview on the

GFCS priority area on water by Frederik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=522WGi9ePRU

GWP has been accepted as a member in the GFCS Partner Advisory Committee (PAC) in January 2015

with its focus through the IDMP, APFM and WACDEP in promoting the development of climate

services for the GFCS priority area on water. The third meeting of the PAC was held on 22 and 23

October 2015, in which a tutorial on the GFCS was released to which GWP contributed with an

interview by Frederik.

More information about the GFCS: http://www.gfcs-climate.org/

Videos produced by the GFCS also explain the idea behind and the applications of Climate Services

http://www.gfcs-climate.org/videos would be good, if GWP as a partner of the GFCS can help to

promote

2. APFM Newsletter released with the latest news on our joint GWP-WMO Programme

http://www.apfm.info/?p=5052

WACDEP Africa reporting by Maika Müller

The 7th WACDEP Technical Coordination Workshop took place in Accra, Ghana from the 5th to 7th October. http://www.gwp.org/en/WACDEP/NEWS-AND-EVENTS/Events-Listing/7th-WACDEP-Technical-

Coordination-Workshop-in-Accra-Ghana/

Maika Mueller attend the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP

2-11) in Bonn, Germany from the 19th to 21th of October. The conference aimed at preparing the draft

Paris negotiation text to be agreed at COP 21 in December

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GWP Regions

CARIBBEAN

Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) Monthly Report for October 2015

Activities

GWP-C Gains New Partners in Suriname During the month of October, the Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) welcomed a new partner based in Suriname, known as the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT)-Suriname. In the remote interior of Suriname, an area of over 22 million acres containing some of the world’s most pristine rainforests is the legacy of the Trio and Wayana indigenous peoples. However, these tribes face constant pressures from mining and timber concerns. In addition, the acculturation of indigenous peoples has eroded traditional practices and has left many rainforest communities culturally and economically weakened. Indigenous youth seek opportunities in nearby cities that often leave them without adequate employment, while their absence in the indigenous community has a devastating effect on the traditional peoples and the protection of their ancestral lands. One of the main objectives of the non-governmental organisation (NGO) is to therefore work in partnership with indigenous people to conserve biodiversity, promote sustainable livelihoods, improve human health and well-being, and to strengthen internally traditional cultures and their leadership in the Greater Amazonia Region.

GWP-C Collaborates with Partners in Jamaica to Share Knowledge on Rainwater Harvesting at Jamaica Climate Walk 2015

The Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) teamed up with its partners, the Caribbean Youth Environment Network-Jamaica Chapter (CYEN-Ja) and the Water Resources Authority (WRA) of Jamaica, to host a Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) Outreach Initiative at the Jamaica Climate Walk 2015. Organised by Environmental Solutions Limited (ESL), the march took place in New Kingston, Jamaica, on the evening of Saturday, October 24, 2015. The climate walk was the first of its kind in Jamaica, and was attended by students, prominent stakeholders, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and government agencies. The day’s events involved a march throughout New Kingston, and an Eco-Village, organized by E.C.C.O. Magazine (Environmentally Conscious Consumer Operations), which hosted the event’s exhibition booths. The GWP-C, the CYEN-Ja and the WRA collaborated to have a RWH themed booth at the Eco-Village. The booth was manned by two (2) members, each from the CYEN-Ja and the WRA, and then supplemented with the CYEN-Ja members who participated in the march.

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A life-sized Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) model of the WRA was the main item on display at the booth. RWH brochures produced by the GWP-C, and other water related material supplied by the WRA complemented the showcase. The booth was well-received, generating a substantial volume of traffic, with some quipping it was “the most pertinent booth on display.” Many were familiar with the simple concept of making use of

rainwater. However, when enlightened on the issue of climate change and the stress on our water resources, they realised and expressed how imperative rainwater harvesting is, especially for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) like Jamaica. The life-sized RWH model allowed for live demonstrations of how rain could be harnessed for daily usage, which iterated the practicability of visitors to the booth investing in a system of their own. Scenes of the Rainwater Harvesting display at the Eco Village at the Jamaica Climate Walk 2015:

Even as the event reached its twilight, the booth attracted many visitors. The outreach proved to be a great collaboration between the GWP-C, CYEN-Jamaica and the WRA and prompted a lot of interest among various stakeholders about the benefits of rainwater harvesting.

The Rainwater Harvesting booth by GWP-C, CYEN-Jamaica and the WRA of Jamaica at the Jamaica Climate Walk 2015.

Knowledge sharing at the Rainwater Harvesting booth made a great impression on the old and

young.

CYEN-Jamaica member (extreme right) is seen here sharing knowledge with visitors on

rainwater harvesting.

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CENTRAL AFRICA

1- ECCAS experts mobilized for reshaping hydrological norms in central Africa The workshop on the mobilization of Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) experts for reshaping hydrological norms was held in Douala, Cameroon from October 20th to 21st, 2015. This workshop was implemented within the framework of the project known as RESIHYST Africa Project “Hydrological standards reviewing for resilient hydraulic infrastructure to climate change in Africa “. It was organized by UNESCO in collaboration with the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS). This workshop brought together ECCAS’ experts in database management, GWP-CAf expert officials from ministries of water, transport, public works and focal points of International Hydrological programme (IHP) from Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sao Tome and Principe as well as representatives of universities and hydrological research center.

The objective of this workshop was to mobilize ECCAS experts to advocate for the reshaping of hydrological standards and to assess the implementation of activities related to transboundary aquifers in the region.

Following the debates, experts noticed that reshaping hydrological standards/norms was justified by the inadequacy and inadaptability of hydraulic infrastructures to climate change. These are due to the old and lapsing data for guides and charts enabling the construction of hydraulic infrastructures. Therefore, this phenomenon required a new model for shaping hydraulic structures. At the end of the workshop, recommendations were made to ECCAS and UNESCO to:

- Assist Central African States in setting up IPH Committees; - Associate transboundary basin organizations in the process of reshaping hydrological

standards; - Mainstream climate change in the framework of reshaping hydrological standards; - Ensure the inter-operability of the database of the joint management platform of

transboundary aquifers with the ECCAS regional database on water

2- GWP-Cmr : The 9th Steering Committee meeting

The 9th GWP-Cameroon (GWP-Cmr) Steering Committee meeting was held on October 29th 2015 in

Yaoundé, Cameroon.

The meeting aimed at assessing the status of the implementation of recommendations of the 8th

steering committee, adopting the 2015 annual report (technical and financial), the 2016 annual work

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plan, finalizing the revised internal rules and designating members of the Technical and Scientific

Committee (TEC).

The Steering Committee meeting was an opportunity for GWP-Cmr Secretariat to present the status

of the implementation of the 2015 work plan with regards to the challenges/constraints it faced, and

for Steering Committee members to evaluate the report and make recommendations.

Amongst the activities realized by GW Cmr in 2015 and presented, two stand out with respect to their

outputs: the successful development of a project titled “climate resilience for food security and

poverty alleviations in rural areas” in Cameroon which has been selected for funding by the Climate

Development for Africa (ClimDev Africa), and the successful finalization of Cameroon’s National

Adaptation Plan (NAP) that was approved by government in 2015.

In order to strengthen GWP-Cmr as an institution, and improve delivery of results, participants agreed

upon the following recommendations:

Finalize the setting up of the Technical Scientific and Committee.

Accelerate the process of institutionalization of GWP-Cmr

Undertake the mission of lobbying strategic actors.

Keep key GWP-Cmr Partners informed of activities conducted by the secretariat.

3- GWP-CAf‘s partner “Water for life Cameroon” (W4L) celebrated the global handwashing day

The annual Global Handwashing Day was celebrated worldwide on the 15th of October this year under the theme “raise your hand for hygiene”. GWP-CAf ‘s partner “Water for Life Cameroon” in collaboration with the ministries of water and education, commemorated this day at the Cité Verte primary school in Yaounde, Cameroon. During the event, primary school pupils were taught how to wash their hands with soap and also sensitized on health risks and water-borne diseases. The demonstration of handwashing was called “the minute for hand washing with soap and clean water”. Steps of hand washing with soap and clean water included:

1. Wet hands 2. Rub hands with soap 3. Rub hands between nails and fingers 4. Rince hands with clean water 5. Dry hands in air

The representative of the ministry of water invited pupils to repeat each step of the process. Through plays, groups of pupils raised awareness on the importance of hand washing with soap and clean water. By the end of this day, eight hundred pupils were sensitized with seven hundred soaps and six hundred flyers distributed.

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CENTRAL AMERICA

Monthly Report October 2015

GWP CENTRAL AMERICA

Water security in the NAPs of Central America

GWP Central America, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations

Environment Programme (UNEP), in coordination with the Central American Commission on

Environment and Development (CCAD) and the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources

(MARN) of El Salvador, organized the workshop "Integrating Water Security in the National

Adaptation Plans (NAPs)." The event was held in San Salvador, El Salvador from 27 to 29 October.

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established the NAP process as a

means to facilitate effective adaptation planning in developing countries. For Central America it is

essential to work on the NAPs considering the challenges posed by climate change to the

management and planning of actions at all levels in the region.

The purpose of the workshop was to promote the formulation of NAPs and to provide the necessary

tools to include water security as one of the key strategies for adaptation. To support countries in the

inclusion of water security in the NAPs, GWP has participated in the development a supplement on

water to the technical guidelines for the NAPs.

The inauguration was presided by the Vice Minister of MARN, Angel Ibarra; the Resilience

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Programme Officer for UNDP El Salvador, Silvia Vides; the Adaptation to Climate Change Officer for

UNEP at the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, Elena Pita and GWP WACDEP

Coordinator, Alex Simalabwi.

Participants to the workshop included representatives of Climate Change and Water Resources

Directions of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, as well as

delegations from the Ministries of Planning and participants in previous processes related to the

formulation of NAPs.

Photos and interviews at: http://www.gwp.org/es/GWP-Centroamerica/NOTICIAS/Seguridad-hidrica-

en-los-PNA/

GWP CENTRAL AMERICA

Central American Youth for Water

Translation of banner: “Changes in the availability and quality of water due to climate change

compromises life. With education as the basis, it is necessary to carry out public and political efforts

to care and better use the water resources using knowledge and technology.”

GWP Central America joined two Latin American youth networks in the organization of the Latin

American Youth and Environment Conference (#ELACJA), held in Mexico City from October 21-23.

GWP CAM supported the participation of six young people from each of the countries in our region.

The application process was for their participation was an opportunity for GWP Central America to

identify possible national youth focal points that could be part of the GWP youth movement,

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initiated after the launch of GWP´s Youth Strategy. A call for presentations was launched and the

young people selected had experience and interest in the issues regarding water and youth.

The event was held at one of the auditoriums of the Mexican Congress, with the participation of

approximately 130 youth from 10 Latin American countries. The event was organized around three

main topics: Water and Climate Change, Biodiversity and Climate Change, and Local Development in

Protected Areas.

There were four keynote speakers including Diana Ramirez of the United Nations Economic

Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Victor Manuel Chavez-Avila of the National

Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Fernando Camacho of the National Commission of

Natural Protected Areas and Mexico (CONANP) and Oscar Prado Moon National Water Commission

of Mexico (CONAGUA).

Five thematic panels where the young people shared their experiences regarding initiatives related

to the three themes mentioned above were organized. There were Central American participants in

all of the panels. The participants were also able to exchange ideas and formulate key messages on

climate change, which will be shared at side events during COP 21 in Paris.

Young people must be 100% involved in all environmental activities - including water- it is a

vital resource and we need it for our lives. We must be involved because we are the future… if

we do not act now then it will be too late. - Catherine Flores, Panama

GWP Central America worked closely with Youth Movement for Water (MOJA) a Mexican based

youth network and La Ruta del Clima, a Costa Rican based initiative, both working towards building a

wider network in Latin America. Both have shown interest in becoming a GWP partner.

Photos, interviews and relevant website links at: http://www.gwp.org/es/GWP-

Centroamerica/NOTICIAS/Jovenes-centroamericanos-por-el-agua/

(#ELACJA)

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CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

Monthly report October 2015

COUNTRY WATER PARTNERSHIPS activities

GWP Hungary

The Council Meeting of GWP CEE was attended by GWP Hungary Chair (Cres, 3-6

October).

The Ökoindustria 2015 (International Environmental Industry, Energy Efficiency and

Renewable Energy Exhibition) was organized in Budapest 14-16 October, where five Hungarian GWP

partners were present and conducted discussion about topical issues.

As follow up of the WMO-GWP IDMP the GWP Hungary in agreement with the General

Directorate of Water Management decided to translate the National Drought Management Policy

Guidelines. Translator has been identified; details are under discussion with project manager.

The General Directorate of Water Management (OVF) applied for GWP Partnership.

The application was approved by country and regional level.

The ICPDR Public Participation Expert Group invited Jozsef Gayer to the meeting of the

group on 16 October, where he presented the main activities of GWP Hungary.

GWP Hungary, national organizer of the Stockholm Junior Water Prize competition

published the summary of the 2015 competition containing the events of both the national and the

international level.

GWP Hungary signed an agreement with the Stockholm International Water Institute

for the organization of the Stockholm Junior Water Prize competition the next three years (2016-18).

Further development of the online GWP water glossary was carried out.

GWP Hungary homepage has been maintained and regularly updated.

GWP Slovakia

The second round of the Slovak National Dialogue on Drought

within the Integrated Drought Management Program took

place on October 27th 2015 in Bratislava. The Dialogue was held

at the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute, the resort institute

of the Slovak Ministry of the Environment. Thirty seven people

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from eleven institutions attended the event, among which were 3 partner institutions of GWP SK. Four

participants were directly from the Ministry of Environment of Slovakia and two from the Slovak Water

Management Enterprise.

The dialogue was moderated by the chair of the GWP SK, Tomáš

Orfánus, who gave the space for a very fruitful discussion. The

most important messages from the discussion were:

A suggestion for the establishment of independent inter-

sectoral commission in water management has been

given and generally approved but it was emphasized that

excluding of the academic institutions (Slovak

universities and institutes of the Slovak Academy of

Sciences) from the such commissions can bring a high risk

of using the out-of-date solutions.

The human factor (incl. corruption) is a heritage of the past times but according to some

participants, it still remains one of the most directive factors within the decision processes

considering the basin water management in Slovakia.

Much less concern is given about the education of

employees of the water management enterprises than it

was in the past.

A competition among the relevant institutions still

prevails above the cooperation in Slovakia, especially as

for the higher-budget projects. The need for platforms

like GWP SK has been emphasized in this concern.

The dialog between the GWP SK platform and the

decision sphere (Ministry of Environment) has started to be very constructive.

Within his closing speech Dr. Tomas Orfanus, GWP Slovakia Chair expressed his appreciation for all

who have contributed to the successful realisation of IDMP and encouraged the present organizations

to register as GWP partners.

GWP Slovenia

Organization and preparation of GWP CEE Council Meeting. Discussions with the hotel

in Cres, Croatia, which facilitated the agreement between hotel and the GWP CEE Secretariat

(September and October 1-2, 20150. The program and organization of the field trip to Vrana lake,

Lubenice and Cres, as well preparation of travel instructions.

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October 3-6, 2015 GWP CEE Council Meeting. The mail points of the agenda were:

Country Water Partnerships accreditation process, progress on partner database update, Discussion

on overall 2015 regional performance, Regional Secretariat performance, Reporting on budget spent

in 2015, IDMP CEE – report on activities and budget spent from April – October 2015 and Workplan /

Budget 2016, Sustainable Sanitation Task Force – report on activities in 2015 and workplan / budget

2016, Danube Strategy Task Force – report on activities in 2015 and workplan / budget 2016, Youth

Strategy and plans 2016, Gender Strategy and plans 2016, Communications – report on activities in

2015 and workplan / budget 2016, including Danube Art Master, Workplan and budget 2016, GWP

CEE / GWPO project development and discussion on project ideas for 2016, Planned events, including

UNECE MoP, European River Symposium.

Barbara Čenčur Curk, who is preparing the DRIWER Danube project, Interreg Danube

Transnational Program, invited GWP Slovenija to be a partner partner, associated supporting partner

(ASP) or observer in the project. After reading the concept of the project I realized that better partner

would be GWP CEE as 8 partner countries are also the members of GWP CEE. GWP CEE coordinator

decided that we will accept the role of ASP. The expression of interest has been submitted on 03-11-

2015. For Slovenija and also other participating countries the project would be very important as

most of the countries still do not have adequate protection of water sources of drinking water.

GWP Romania

During 4-5 October 2015, GWP- Romania Association participated to the 2nd GWPCEE

Regional Council meeting planned for 2015. The CWP representative has presented the works and

results obtained since the 1st RC meeting held in April 2015. The Second RC meeting draft documents

were sent after the RC meeting and were followed by their readings and additional works by the end

of October when most of them were finalized and sent out to senders.

After the Technical Committee last 3 new Technical Focus Papers were launched on 28

August in Stockholm, we continued with their presentation and dissemination to our Local Partners.

The number of pieces in printed forms we received, were given/ sent to our partners from

universities or technical libraries and also to R&D Water Institutes and to National Water

Administration “Apele Romane” at the headquarters in Bucharest and also some Basins Authorities

with which we had along the years useful and long lasting collaboration. All these activities and

documents made available to our partners are real helps for them and also us, with them we

remaining recognized by the old and mainly by new comers at

the heads of respective institution, and the reason of doing

this serves also to the increase of GWP visibility from all levels,

global, regional and national.

On 21 to 24 October GWP- Romania

participant attended the “EURO-INBO 2015 “ 13th

International Conference for the implementation of EU Water

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Directives. The conference is organized by EURO-INBO through the Group of European Basin

Authorities for the Implementation of the European Water Directives. The Conference took place at

the Ministry of Reconstruction of Production Environment and Energy, the Special Secretariat for

Water, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the International Network of Water-Environment

Centers for the Balkans (INWEB), KEODI and the Centre for Integrated Water Resources

Management, run within the period 21-24 October 2015 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

The BTOR of the GWPCEE participants presented the details about the active

participation/presentations of relevant subjects from GWP CEE activities, connected with the main

issues of 13th INBO International Conference.

During the presentations within the INBO sessions and roundtables the GWP- Romania

representative Liviu Nicolae Popescu has introduced: “The National Consultations Dialogues reports

containing the dialogues outcomes related to main aim to get an overall goal for water in the “Water

in UN SDG post 2015 Agenda”, as well as the outcomes and reports on identified targets which may

be applied for their implementations etc. all these being done within the Roundtable International

and Regional Initiatives, from International Organizations and water component of COP21.

Within INBO Conference there was an event on 21 October called the ARISTOTLE University Event. It

is a specially organized event during which the famous University structure, scholarship agenda, R&D

activities/ projects/ results and appreciations plus the open proposals for future partnerships were

made. The participants also discussed the further analysis in case positive ideas come out from the

analyses.

In the afternoon of the same day, a workshop was organized with a main topic “Diffuse Pollution

Sources Management solutions”, aiming at analysing and learning from the results how to tackle

those pressures at local and other extended levels. The multiple European experiences can be

visualized on INBO site including the outcomes of the discussions held on respective aspects/issues.

The last part of day was dedicated to Liaison Bureau Meeting (LBM) Agenda and during this meeting

the recognition of other supporting organizations like GWP was addressed. Then the main topics of

the following 13th International Conference were introduced, connected with the EU /Waters

Directives first cycle implementations achievements and also the possible outcomes expected for

their connection with the RBMP, FRMP, and the associated Plans of Measures from the second cycle.

A special point of LBM was dedicated to the next COP 21 organized from 30 November to 11

December 2015 in Paris, and for which the INBO has prepared a call “Supporting the implementing

of the Water and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Action Agenda of UE Members States”.

Administrative activities: Works for the GWP Romania website format update, and

completion with the already mentioned recently finalized produced and/or translated documents

related to IWRM processes: strategies elaboration, Youth Education, experts and public

consultations, etc.

The finalized outcomes of the IDMP are under translation from Romanian to English and after the

process is finalized, both language versions will be uploaded on GWP Romania website.

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GWP Ukraine

On 15 September 2015 in the framework of the Dedicated SDG on Water support

information actions the web news about the preparation to the Summit on Sustainable Development

and about the Agenda for Post 2015 “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable

Development” as well as the Ukrainian translations of the 4 key political statements of the WWF-7

were published on the website and promoted via e-lists of water partners.

From 8 October till 23 October the info actions on Hygiene and health promotion and

hand washing master classes as well as WASH promotion lessons have been organized in schools and

kindergartens in 5 regions of Ukraine, including Nova Kahovka, Kharkiv, Yaremche, Luhansk. In

Luhansk regional MAMA-86 organization with a support of UNICEF carried out the training for

trainers on WASH and Health on 10 October. Since 14 October teachers, who was trained, organized

GHWD actions for about 1800 children in 13 schools and kindergartens as well as 32 Hygiene

promotion lessons for more than 700 schoolchildren. City Luhansk was involved in military conflict

2014- 2015 in the Eastern part of Ukraine, in 2014 the WS of the city was fully interrupted for near 3

months. In some districts still water supply exists only 3 days per week. In such situation the access

to WASH of many families decreased. Due to support of UNICEF about 3 000 children have got the

hygiene items or kits during the GHWD actions or Hygiene lessons.

More information is available on :

http://mama-86.org.ua/index.php/uk/watersan/watersan-news/731-master-class.html:

http://mama-86.org.ua/index.php/uk/watersan/watersan-news/732-2015-10-19-13-37-16.html

http://mama-86.org.ua/index.php/uk/watersan/watersan-news/734-2015-10-23-15-35-01.html

Outcomes

The information about Water Dedicated SDG were actively promoted and disseminated among

stakeholders and partners of GWP –Ukraine via Internet resources under GWP leadership and now

National Conference “Water and Environment” in the framework of XIII International Water Forum

“AQUA-Ukraine-2015” is prepared based on concept developed on SDG on water. Majority of GWP-

UA members will present their work on water issues in context of SDG on water. This conference will

be organized by the Ministry of ecology and natural resources, State Agency of water resources of

Ukraine and GWP-Ukraine.

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News that increased the visibility or enhanced the reputation of GWP

GWP logo is used for web news and for all preparation work for Conference “Water and

Environment” (conference program). The invitation for the conference has been done on behalf of

GWP-UA to visualize GWP.

Coming events

10 November - National Conference “Water and Environment” in the framework of XIII International

Water Forum “AQUA-Ukraine-2015”

IDMP CEE activities

Release of the Guidelines on Natural Small Water Retention Measures

On the occasion of EUROPE INBO 2015, we officially released the Guidelines on Natural Small Water Retention Measures together with the Case Studies collected form 4 CEE countries (Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia) on 22 October 2015.

IDMP CEE Guidelines presented at the Europe-INBO 2015

At the ”13th International Conference ”Europe-INBO 2015”; Thessaloniki, Greece; 21 - 24 October

2015 IDMP CEE Programme Manager gave presentation on the Guidelines for preparation of the

Drought Management Plans. Presentation was part of the Round table 1 (measures of adaptation to

the effects of climate change). Contacts were made International Office for Water to exchange small

water retention case studies on Natural Water Retention Measures portal.

One of the IDMP CEE follow-up ideas submitted to the Danube Transnational Programme (Danube

TP)

In October GWP CEE together with the Slovenian Environment Agency (Drought Management Centre

for Souteastern Europe) developed a project proposal “Drought Risk in the Danube Region

(DRiDanube).

Already at the beginning of October GWP CEE participated (and partly organized) a preparatory

meeting with the core partners (Earth Observation Data Centre for Water Resources Monitoring from

Czech, Vienna University of Technology, National Meteorological Administration from Romania and

Hungarian Meteorological Service) in Vienna. The main topic was discussion on the core project

activities, outcomes, objectives, etc.

Project was submitted to the 1st call of the Danube TP on 3 November. Results of the evaluation of

1st phase are expected in (early) spring next year and invitation of selected project to the 2nd step

probably in April 2016. In best case scenario, projects will start in September/October 2016. GWP

CEE is a work package leader on Communication Activities. From the IDMP CEE partnership also Szent

Istvan University from Hugary and National Meteorological Administration from Romania are part of

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the partnership. ICPDR, JRC (with whom we also cooperated in IDMP CEE) and Slovak

Hydrometeorological Institute (GWP Partner) support project as Associated Strategic Partners.

Guidelines for preparation of the Drought Management Plans in national languages

At the Council meeting (at the beginning of the October) CWPs expressed their interest to translate

the Drought Management Guidelines into national languages. We are expecting to have Hungarian,

Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian and Ukrainian version ready till the end of the year. There is

also a plan to print several copies of the English version.

Plans for the 3rd round of the National Consultation Dialogues

This idea was discussed at the last Council Meeting at the beginning of October. The main point of

the 3rd round of the NCD is to focus on the identified problems and challenges (which were defined

in the first two rounds) with key actors at the national level. One of the (possible) outcomes of this

NCD should be an action plan (prepared together with the competent authorities) which would

identify what to do to support "non-functional" parts of the management or identify future activities

that are needed in order to establish/maintain drought management process on national level. Till

now we have confirmation from Lithuania which will organize the 3rd NCD already in this year

(December), others will be having it in the next year.

2nd National Consultation Dialogue in Slovakia

More about it in the report from GWP Slovakia.

IDMP CEE at Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda 2.0 Workshop

The Regional Coordinator presented IDMP CEE as part of GWP CEE portfolio in a roundtable on

international cooperation at Water JPI workshop in Orleans, France on 8-9 October 2015. Drought

and water scarcity was prioritised as top research priority in the Theme 1: Maintaining Ecosystem

Sustainability of the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda 2.0.

GWP CEE Secretariat activities

In October 2015 GWP CEE Secretariat was dealing mainly with:

4-5 October – Council Meeting, Cres, Croatia.

Releasing IDMP publications - Guidelines on Natural Small Water Retention Measures, Case Studies.

Finalizing 2 IDMP Technical notes.

On 6-7 October Sabina Bokal, Richard Muller and Gergana Majercakova participated at the Drought project preparatory meeting in TU Wien, Vienna, Austria.

On 8-9 October Richard Muller attended the Water JPI workshop in Orleans, France

On 15-16 October Gergana Majercakova attended the 18th ICPDR PP EG meeting in

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Budapest, Hungary.

On 21-24 October Richard Muller and Sabina Bokal attended EUROPE-INBO Conference 2015, in Thessaloniki, Greece.

On 27 October Richard Muller and Gergana Majercakova attended the Second National Dialogue on Drought, organized by GWP Slovakia.

Preparation of 2015 reporting and 2016 workplan.

Project proposals preparation and finalization.

Preparation of the side event at the UNECE Water Convention Meeting of the Parties entitled Cooperation in transboundary basins: What are the benefits? with UNECE, SDC and Ministry of the Environment of Estonia. It will take place on Tuesday, 17 November at 13:30 - 14:45. Bernardas Pauksyts of GWP Lithuania, will present "Benefits of transboundary cooperation in Neman and Pregolya River Basins".

Participation at the WaterInnEU regular teleconference on 3 November 2015.

Providing input to agenda of the European River Symposium 2016.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

17-20 November, UN ECE Water Convention Meeting of the Parties (MoP), Budapest, Hungary

1-2 December, ICPDR Ordinary Meeting, Vienna, Austria

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CENTRAL ASIA AND CAUCASUS 1. The Roundtable on the UNDP project "Decreasing transboundary degradation in the Kura-Araks

river basin"

CWP-Azerbaijan took part in 2 events devoted to preparation of UNDP project "Decreasing a transboundary

degradation in the Kura-Araks river basin" -Phase II:

1) On 22 October 2015 - in the roundtable attended by specialists from Azerbaijan and Georgia.

2) On 23 October 2015 - in the regional meeting attended by the same specialists and representatives from the

Ministry of Environment and Nature Resources of Azerbaijan.

The two delegations exchanged experiences in the field of integrated water resources management. Experts gave

their proposals for the second phase of the project.

2. Training-seminar "Toilet bowl isn't a rubbish dump"

CWP-Armenia conducted the training-seminar for schoolchildren and teachers on 16 October and 21 October

2015 in the Parakar village. The main aim was to raise awareness of schoolchildren and teachers that wastewater

is a valuable resource and about guidelines for using a centralized sewerage system. Participants listened to a

lecture "Climate change impact on water resources", as well they were informed about problems related to the

wastewater treatment plant operation, and possible ways to solve it by involving inhabitants. Guest from

Uruguay told about operation of wastewater treatment plant in Montevideo.

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Training-seminar on 16 October 2015

Training-seminar on 21 October 2015

3. The signing ceremony of the agreement on social partnership in strategic programs

On 23 October 2015, CWP-Armenia took part in the signing ceremony of the agreement on social partnership in

strategic programs between the Government of Armenia and the Civil Cooperation network on strategic

programs. CWP-Armenia is a partner of the Civil Cooperation network on strategic programs of Armenia and

leads the environment protection group.

More information: www.news.am

Signing the agreement Participants

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4. Preparing a project-proposal "Analysis of national strategies in the sphere "Climate Change and

Health Care"

CWP-Armenia has developed a project-proposal "Analysis of national strategies in the sphere "Climate Change

and Health Care" to be submitted for financing by the Climate East Forum.

The project is supposed to analyze national strategies in the above mentioned sphere, as well as to conduct

workshops on climate change impact on people health in 5 communities in the Lori district in Armenia.

5. Seminars conducted by the Greens Movement of Georgia

On 17 and 24 October 2015 CWP-Georgia took part in the seminars conducted by the Greens Movement of

Georgia in Tbilisi.

CWP-Georgia aim was to raise awareness of students about mechanisms of community development, social

mobilization , GWP activities and WACDEP CACENA. CWP-Georgia will continue communication with young

people next months. Total number of participants - 40.

6. Water Use Discussion

On 21 October 2015 CWP-Georgia participated in the discussion within the USAID project "G4G - Governance for

Development" organized by the REC Caucasus. This discussion was held in the Conference Hall of the local

administration in Tbilisi.

Themes:

- Challenges for implementing the water use plan;

- International experience in the water use sphere: challenges and problems.

Specialists (Total: 30 people) from governmental organizations, private sector and NGOs took part. CWP-Georgia

Chair Mr. George Dzamukashvili informed participants about CWP-Georgia activity, emphasizing fruitful work on

improvement of water legislation of Georgia by CWP-Georgia as a coordinator.

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7. WACDEP CACENA in Georgia

CWP-Georgia finalized work on construction of drainage system in the Sakira/Borjomi village. There were built 3

lines of drainage pipes to make the drainage system more effective. The active villagers were involved into this

work.

8. Study-tour on the projects implemented by the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia

(REC CA)

On 29-30 September 2015, CWP-Kyrgyzstan participated in the study-tour organized by REC CA within the project

"Promotion of Ecosystems Services related to Water in Central Asia". This event was held in the Club-Hotel

"Okhotny Dvor" (Hunting Yard) in the Korumdu village and Grigorievka village, Issyk-Kul region.

Representatives of governmental organizations, Ministry of Agriculture, WUAs, NGOs took part.

The aim was acquaintance with outcomes of the projects implemented by REC CA: "Implementing principles of

ecosystems services in the Kyrgyz Republic", "Development of tools on sustainable management of ecosystems

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in the Chon-Aksu river basin", "Automation system for control of irrigation water distribution in the Chon-Aksu

river basin".

9. Meeting with teachers and students of the Kyrgyz National Agrarian University

The meeting organized by CWP-Kyrgyzstan jointly with UNDP program "Environment Protection for Sustainable

Development" and the Aarhus Centre was held on 7 October 2015, in the lecture-hall of the Kyrgyz National

Agrarian University in Bishkek.

Participants were informed about the celebrating of 70th Anniversary of UN as well as SDGs and CWP-Kyrgyzstan

activity.

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10. WACDEP CACENA in Kyrgyzstan

CWP-Kyrgyzstan conducted 2 seminar-trainings within WACDEP CACENA in the Talas region:

1. On 29 October 2015 in the Conference Hall "Elina" in the Pokrovka village, Manas district. 35 people

including 12 women (farmers, water managers, WUAs' members, agronomists etc.) participated.

2. On 30 October 2015 in the Conference room of administration of the Kok-Oy village. 24 people

including 4 women (farmers, students being trained in "farm management" from the Vocational School

№6 in Talas) participated.

Moderator: Ms. Kasiet Musabaeva (CWP-Kyrgyzstan Chair).

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Seminar-training in the Manas district, Talas region

Seminar-training in the Talas district, Talas region

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11. Eighth meeting of the Working Group on Water and Health

The eighth meeting of the Working Group on Water and Health took place in Geneva, from 21 to 22 October

2015.

The main objectives of the eighth meeting of the Working Group were:

- to review the implementation of the programme of work for the period 2014–2016.

- to provide guidance on its further development, with particular consideration of the financial situation

- to initiate a strategic discussion towards the formulation of the programme of work for 2017–2019 to be

adopted at the fourth session of the Meeting of the Parties (Bern, 14–16 November 2016).

CWP-Kyrgyzstan Chair Ms. Kasiet Musabaeva and CWP-Turkmenistan Chair Ms. Guldjamal Nurmukhamedova

participated.

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12. National training course on IUWM

On 29 September - 2 October 2015 CWP-Mongolia under support of GWP, the World Bank and Water

partnership program organized the National training course on IUWM that was held in the Mandal resort near

Ulaanbaatar city for 30 participants.

The aim was to develop partnership, improvement a capacity of 26 water professionals on IUWM approach

implementation.

Opening ceremony of training course Participants

SDGs discussion Presenting certificates of training course on IUWM to participants

13. GWP/World Bank meeting with the Vice-Mayor of the Ulaanbaatar city and the Head of the

Tuv province

On 2 October 2015 in the City Hall of Mayor's office, CWP-Mongolia organized the meeting of representatives

from GWP and WB with the Vice-Mayor of the Ulaanbaatar city and the Head of the Tuv province.

Participants (Total: 10 people) discussed GWP activity in Mongolia, as well as ways of cooperation on

implementing IUWM modules in the Ulaanbaatar city and the Tuv province.

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14. Meeting on water culture and education in Mongolia

On 2 October 2015 CWP-Mongolia organized the meeting of Mr. Francois Brikke and the World Bank

representatives (total: 7 participants) with Buddha lama that was held in the Choijin monastery. There was

discussed traditional water culture in Mongolia.

GWP representatives expressed interest to develop water culture in Mongolia and to support Mongolia in

keeping culture regarding water protection and saving.

Meeting with Buddha lama

15. The training course on wastewater treatment for schools and kindergartens

CWP-Mongolia organized the meeting on development of the training course on wastewater treatment and of

a user guide for schools and kindergartens that was held on 16 October 2015 in the Mongolian University of

Science & Technology in the Ulaanbaatar city. The aim was to build capacity of 16 participants on improving

water management and wastewater reuse for gardening as well as their understanding about water security

and safety.

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16. The meeting "Water governance and sustainable water institutions"

The discussion about water governance and sustainable water institutions organized by CWP-Mongolia and the

Environmental Standing Committee of the Parliament of Mongolia was held on 22 October 2015 in the State

Government House in Ulaanbaatar.

About 60 participants discussed and presented their suggestions on improvement of water sector including

water legislation of Mongolia.

Discussion in the Parliament of Mongolia Opening Ceremony Presentation by Prof.Basandorj

17. The meeting on drinking water quality and security

CWP-Mongolia organized the meeting on drinking water quality and security on 17 October 2015 in the

Delgerkhaan town, the Tuv province.

About 80 herders and local people have learned more about good quality water as a guarantor of good health,

about the mineralized water to be treated for drinking etc.

Participants Lesson by Prof. Basandorj Discussion

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18. The National Conference "Water governance and sustainable education"

On 13 October 2015, CWP-Mongolia took part in the National Conference organized by the President's Office of

Mongolia, GTZ, SDC, in the State Government House in Ulaanbaatar.

About 1000 people attended this conference. The conference gave message to the Society that water is the

most valuable thing for human life. It also contributed to water partnership development.

19. WACDEP CACENA in Turkmenistan During October 2015 CWP-Turkmenistan promoted outcomes of the pilot project: 1. On 28 October - the lecture for students and teachers of the Agricultural University (hydraulic engineering department). 2. On 29-31 October - conducting Farmers' Days in the Akhalsky and Dashoguzsky districts. 3. Preparing publication on the pilot project method for mass media.

20. CWP-Turkmenistan became a partner of USAID Programme NGO "Inanch-Bepa" became a partner of the project "Transboundary water management adaptation in the Amudarya basin to climate change uncertainties" within the USAID Programme (the leading organization - SIC ICWC).

21. The Pilot Training for Strengthening Model Capacity

CWP-Uzbekistan Chair Mr. Normukhamad Sheraliev took part in the Pilot Training for Strengthening Model

Capacity held on 28 September - 2 October 2015 in Tashkent. The objective of this pilot training is to strengthen

model capacity -get people to understand a modeling (more information in the GWP CACENA Report for

September 2015).

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22. Second preparatory meeting for the establishment of the Asia Water Council GWP CACENA Regional Coordinator Vadim Sokolov attended the Second preparatory meeting for establishment of the Asia Water Council. The meeting was held in the Daejeon city, South Korea (it is a headquartered of K-Water corporation), on 28-30 October 2015. The meeting was attended by 32 senior officials from 11 countries (Australia, Georgia, Indonesia, Mongolia, Laos, Uzbekistan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand), and a number of international and regional agencies and organizations (including the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank). The meeting was opened by the greetings from the K-Water corporation CEO Mr. Choi Gyewoon. Former Vice-President of ADB Mr. Lohani Bindu presented the goals and objectives of the Asian Water Council, and also suggested a draft of the AWC Constitution (main governing document). The draft Constitution is proposed on the basis of Article 32 of the Civil Code of the Republic of Korea. The Asia Water Council aim is to raise awareness of Asia's water problems in the international society and promote sustainable development of Asia by solving regional water issues. AWC shall also make efforts to resolve regional water issues through water-related policies, technology development, researches and discussion. AWC also aims to implement sustainable development of Asia by building a platform where diverse water-related stakeholders in Asia can participate.

AWC Board (Founders+)

President Advisory Board Vice-President

Secretariat

Active Members of AWC (by colleges)

Governments

International organizations and

Multilateral development banks/ Export credit agency

Public organizations

Enterprises

Academia and Research organizations

Civil society, NGOs

Special Committees

Figure1. Composition and Structure of the Asia Water Council

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In accordance with proposed Constitution, the AWC is composed of General Assembly, Board of Council, Advisory Board, Special Committees and Secretariat. During the meeting in Daejeon there was discussed a roadmap of the Asian Water Council for 2015-2017. It was proposed to hold the first General Assembly of AWC in March 2016. Director of the Directorate of Water Resources Management of the Ministry of Public Works and Services of Indonesia, Mr. Agnus Kusmulyono announced the invitation on behalf of the Government of Indonesia to host the first General Assembly in Bali on 24-26 March 2016. Also there was proposed to hold the Second General Assembly of the Asian Water Councils in June 2016 during the World Water Week in Singapore. The main goal of those two assemblies will be to prepare and conduct the 1st Asian International Water Week scheduled for October 2017 in Korea. The objectives of the Asia International Water Week are as follows:

Raise awareness of Asia‘s water problems linking with the agenda of the World Water Forums across the world and seek for solutions

Call for policy decision-makers to put a plan to solve water problems into action

Provide a platform to share latest water-related technologies and information

Provide an opportunity for shared growth by preparing a venue of international cooperation for companies

Provide a venue for the preparatory meetings of Asian region prior to the 8thWorld Water Forum

Provide a venue of networking in Asian region to achieve water-related goals among UN Sustainable Development Goals

The main goal of the 1st AIWW is to discuss the outcomes of the 7th World Water Forum and the following 8th World Water Forum which will be held in 2018 in Brazil. The principal action during meeting in Daejeon was addressed to establishment of the special committees under the Asia Water Council. There were created the AWC special committees as follows:

1. Strategy & Policy 2. Smart Water Management Initiative Committee 3. International Standardization 4. Water-Energy-Food Nexus Committee 5. Water-Aid Program Committee 6. Water Education Committee 7. Knowledge Base & Dissemination Committee (Asia Water Insight)

The goal of special committees is to set priorities for implementation of activities under the auspices of the Asia Water Council in accordance with its vision and mission. Those committees should mobilize the key stakeholders and discuss with them solutions to the above priorities for each of the seven areas. The Special Committees should regularly inform AWC about progress and key outputs to be submitted in the Asian International Water Week. To ensure the active work of seven special committees during a meeting in Daejeon the elections of Chair and vice-Chair of each committee, as well as permanent coordinator of actions were held . As a recognition of strong involvement of GWP CACENA into preparatory process for AWC establishment and as a regional priority theme of water, energy and food nexus for Central Asia, the participants unanimously elected Mr. Vadim Sokolov (Regional Coordinator of GWP CACENA) for the post of Vice-Chairman of the Special Committee on Nexus.

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According to initiative of Vadim Sokolov the Special Committee on water-energy-food nexus approved the formation of the package of sub-regional projects as a priority, taking into account specifics of linking water problems to other aspects in the individual sub-regions of Asia (South Asia, South East Asia, North Asia, and Central Asia). For example, there was offered the concept of linking water problems, taking into account the negative impact of hydropower regime on food security and ecosystems sustainability in the Aral Sea basin as part of this package. From a political point of view it is important that GWPO and RWPs of SA and of SEA will participate in the Asian Water Council at the policy level and in Ad Hoc Committees at the expert level. Representatives from GWP SA and GWP SEA are strongly recommended to attend the 1st General Assembly of AWC, which will be held in Bali on 24-26 March 2016.

Participants of the AWC meeting in Daejeon from CACENA (from the left): Mr. Tseden Orgodol, Presidential administration of Mongolia; Mr. Ravshan Mamutov, Head of Investment department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources of Uzbekistan; Mr. Vadim Sokolov, GWP CACENA Regional Coordinator; and Mr. Oh, senior officer of K-Water

Participants of the AWC meeting at the Central Dispatch Centre of the National Water Management System of Korea, located in the K-Water Headquarter in Daejeon.

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CHINA

Activities

From October 12 to 14, 2015, Angela Klauschen, Senior Network Officer of GWPO and

Salman Riaz, Finance Officer of GWPO visited GWP China Regional Secretariat in Beijing.

The Regional Secretariat team,

including Zheng Rugang, Secretary

General/Coordinator , Cheng Xiaotao

and Jiang Yunzhong , Deputy

Coordinators, Ma Yilin,

Communications Officer, Wu Juan,

Administrative Officer and Zhang Daidi,

Officer head , met GWPO colleagues to

organize a three-day internal working

meeting. The meeting was conducted

to promote the implementation of the

activities of GWP China at national and

local levels.

The discussion was opened by Zheng who reviewed the activities of GWP China region of 2015

and the plans in 2016. The plan of promoting south-south cooperation among GWP China,

South Asia, South East Asia and CENTRAL ASIA AND CAUCASUS Regional Water Partnerships was

fixed as the first activity in December this year, organizing a thematic workshop on flood

management. GWP China was volunteered to host the first workshop in Guangdong Province.

With the support of GWPO, four Regional Water Partnerships have actively involved in the

preparation and communication between each other for the better promotion of south-south

cooperation mechanism. As visiting Beijing office, Salman reviewed GWP China’s activities for GWPO, based on

instructions from the GWPO Steering Committee’s Audit and Finance Subcommittee, which has

been acknowledged and emphasised by the Donors, the Sponsoring Partners, and Financial

Partners. The main purpose of the review was to reassure the GWP donors that the Host

Institution of GWP China to manage the GWP's funds complying with the minimum

performance standards set for this service. After reviewing, discussing and meeting wi th

auditors, GWP China Region presented documents as requested, files and systems proven to be

GWPO Reviews GWP China Annual Administrative and Financing Operation

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very good tools for knowledge building and sharing, and improving the relationship between

the Region, Host Institution and GWPO.

On October 15 and 16,

2015, the “Workshop on Water

Resources Regulation in Heihe River

Basin and Sustainable Economic

and Social Development” was

organized by GWP China Yellow

River in Zhengzhou, Henan

Province.

The objective of the workshop was

to share the experiences on water

resources regulation and

management in Yellow River and Heihe River basins to strengthen water resources regulation and

management in the two river basins in the future. More than 70 participants from River Basin

Organizations/Bureaus, GWPO, GWP China, GWP Shaanxi and Fujian WPs, universities and

institutions, NGOs and corporations participated in the event. The presentations and discussions

were conducted regarding the actions taken and results achieved on water resources regulation and

management in Yellow River and Heihe River basins and existing problems; relations between the

healthy rivers and the water conservation society building; the methods to improve water use

efficiency in the river basins and better protect the environment and restore ecological conditions;

and recommendations on strengthening the water resources regulation and management and social

development.

In Media

News of the Forum was shared by various online media sources as seen below:

http://www.yellowriver.gov.cn/xwzx/hhyw/201510/t20151020_158323.html (Yellow River Conservancy Commission—in Chinese)

http://www.jzhwj.com/show.aspx?id=9763&cid=21 (Jiaozuo Yellow River Website—in Chinese)

http://www.hhxinxi.com/Item/2951.aspx (Yellow River Information Web—in Chinese)

Water Resources Regulation in Heihe River Basin

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Coming events of GWP China Region

The survey will be jointly conducted by GWP China and GWP China Hebei from November 3 to 6, in

Hebei and Henan Provinces. Hebei and Henan are neighbor provinces sharing water resource from

Yellow River. The two provinces are also facing several challenges of water shortage due to climate

change, including water use conflict, integrated water use of multiple water resources and

harmonious development between water resources and local eco-society.

Under the framework of “WACDEP: work package 1”, the survey will be designed and implemented

as the way in Shaanxi Province (Water Investment to the “Last Km”). The investigation group is going

to visit some areas in two provinces, interview local residents and governmental agencies and collect

materials and information to find the problems and propose solutions.

Reference:

• It is a part of activates listed in “the 2015 GWP China Regional Plan”, WACDEP Region: Work

Package 1

The Meeting will be organized by GWP China Regional Secretariat on November 8. All related

secretariats personnel of regional, provincial and river basin water partnerships will participate to

review the activities of 2015 drawing sharing experiences. The plan of 2016 will also be shared

among the participants to discuss the better ways of implementation and achieving the expected

outcomes of all the planned activities.

Reference:

It is a part of activates listed in “the 2015 GWP China Regional Plan”, WACDEP Region: Work

Package 8

Survey on Transboundary Water Management Practice

GWP China Regional Secretariat Capacity Building and Annual Working Meeting

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EASTERN AFRICA

1. STRENGTHENING GOVERNANCE: GWPEA HELD ITS 20th REGIONAL

STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING IN RWANDA at TULIP LA PALISE HOTEL

From 8-9 October 2015, GWP Eastern Africa held its 20th Regional Steering Committee Meeting in

Bugesera, Rwanda.

The meeting was called to order by the Chair of RSC Chair, Eng Nkurikiye Anicet who welcomed and

thanked participants for responding to the invitation despite their multiple tasks and duties. More

particularly, he welcomed new members representing Kenya Water Partnership who attended the RSC

meeting for the first time.

Mr Frederik Pischke, Senior Network Officer from GWPO supporting GWPEA, expressed the

commitment of GWPO to support Eastern Africa towards water security, climate and drought resilience

in the EA Region through WACDEP and IDMP HoA programmes. He reiterated that GWPO will continue

engaging donors and development partners at global level so that they can support the GWP

programmes and strategic goals towards 2020. He urged the CWP’s to play an instrumental and

catalytic role in the process of achieving the SDG targets in the post 2015 development Agenda.He

stressed the importance of speeding up the accrediation process of CWP’s to meet the deadline by

November 2016.

Figure 1: Group photo of participants to the 20th RSC meeting

During the two days meeting, RSC members were invited to deliberate a number of items relating to

the GWPEA Programmes/ projects and over all Governance. More specifically, members of RSC

reviewed the work progress and budget reports for January – September 2015 and work plan and

budget for 2016.

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Other important agenda items dicussed include accreditation of CWP’s, GWP anti-fraud /corruption

policy, legal registration of GWPEA in Uganda, GWPEA assessment report, staff employnment,

extension of host agreement, and local fundraising issues. The meeting also reviewed the new

Communication and Resource Mobilisation Strategies, upcoming statutory meetings, etc….

The RSC meeting culminated by a field visit WACDEP project demonstration sites in Bugesera Region

where GWPEA supported building climate resilience and water security through the following

interventions:

Protection of lake cyohoha buffer zone

Community Water supplysystems

Biogaz digesters

Rain water harversting and Kitchen Gardens

Figure 2: Group photo during the Field visit to the Lake Cyohoha buffer zone

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2. KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND CAPACITY BUILDING: GWPEA

ORGANIZED A REGIONAL WORKSHOP FOR MEDIA PRACTITIONERS

From 22- 23 October 2015, the Global Water Partnership Eastern Africa (GWPEA) conducted a

regional workshop themed “ Role of the media in promoting water security, climate resilience

and drought risk management”. The workshop was attended by 15 media practitioners from

Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, Ethiopia and Djibouti.

The two-day event took place in Entebbe-Uganda and was organized with the aim of enabling

upgrading skills and knowledge of media practitioners on Integrated Water Resource Management

(IWRM) and its application in the region in addressing challenges caused by water insecurity, climate

change and drought. Through plenary and group discussions, participants have also shared their

experiences and best practices on how they have been covering media releases on water, climate and

drought in their respective countries. On the second day of the workshop, participants were taken to

the field to visit two important sites – Kigungu landing site and the Wagagai Flower farming on Lake

Victoria. The field visit was intended to enable journalists witness challenges related to water

resources management in the region and realize the role they can play in advocating for a more

integrated management approach for sustaining the water resources and natural ecosystems

Figure 3: Group photo of participants

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The specific objectives of the

workshop were:

a) Build the capacity of the

media in reporting on water, climate

and drought management

b) Allow participants share

experiences and best practices on

covering that important topic.

c) Raise awareness and

knowledge of IWRM

d) Create an understanding of

mutual roles and responsibilities

e) Create a sustainable

collaboration between GWPEA and the media.

In order to achieve the above objectives and outcomes, the two-day regional workshop was structured

with both knowledge and skills modules/session and conducted in a practical and interactive manner

that allowed all participants to engage and contribute during plenary discussions.

On day one, there were a number of knowledge modules aimed at increasing the participants’

understanding and knowledge of a number of topics. These included; an introduction to GWP and its

networks; an introduction to climate change and IWRM; a presentation on the GWPEA projects as well

as the GWPEA communications strategy.

There were also three skills building sessions with presentations:

Using the media to promote water security, climate resilience and drought risk management:

How is it done?”

“How IGAD uses media to promote water security, climate change resilience and drought

disaster reduction: Experiences and lessons learnt”

Group work assignments to discuss key media issues in the areas of water security; climate

change; and drought risk management.

During the group work session, participants were requested to identify 4 key media challenges on the

following aspects in the Nile Basin region; and propose ways in which the media can promote these

issues.

a) Water Security

b) Climate Change resilience

c) Drought Risk Management

On day two, participants undertook two field visits Kigungu Landing Site on the shores of Lake

Victoria, and Wagagai Flower Farm in Entebbe. The purpose of the visits was to enable the

participants witness IWRM in action and be able to generate stories to be shared with their respective

audiences.

At the end of the workshop, participants recommended to have both knowledge and skills building

modules in future training that will ground them with both the skills and knowledge to appreciate the

complex issues of climate change and water security.

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Also, it terms of future engagement with the media, it will be very critical that efforts are made to

engage media managers, especially the news editors who are key in deciding which journalist is

assigned which news story to cover. These also determine the news worthiness of a given story when

two stories are competing for the same space.

3. ENGAGING MULTI-STAKEHOLDERS INCLUDING WOMEN AND YOUTH

ON “WATER –FOOD-ENERGY-ECOSYTEM NEXUS”

On 29 October, GWPEA attended a workshop convened by Nile Basin Initiative Secretariat at NBI

Office in Entebbe. The workshop gathered stakeholders to validate the inception report of the EU-

funded project for NBI designed to promote trans-boundary cooperation and multi-stakeholders

engagement in the Nile River Basin Region.

GWPEA has been identified as one of the key project implementing partners especially to deliver two

outputs, notably (1) conducting National multi-stakeholders’ Dialogues on Water-Food-Energy –

Ecosystem Nexus (WFEE) in the post 2015 Development Agenda; (2) Organising a Regional

training workshop intended to engage youth and women on WFEE nexus in the Nile Basin

Region. The workshop will be intended to demonstrate the role and responsibilities of young water

professionals and women, changing agents, to promote water-food security and climate resilience in the

Region through the sustainable management of Water Resources and ecosystems. The project is

expected to be effectively implemented in the year 2017.

Figure 4: Group photo of participants during the inception workshop

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4. BUILDING SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND CLIMATE RESILIENCE OF POOR

AND VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES THROUGH COLLABORATION AND

PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN GWPEA AND NBD

Since October 2015, GWPEA and Nile Basin Disclose Forum (NBD) have started the process of

collaborating and partnering in various areas relevant to their vision, mission and mandate. It is expected

that the two organizations will soon sign a MoU that will guide the above collaboration framework.

It is against that background that the GWPEA and NBD teamed up to develop and submit a joint project

proposal to the Global Innovation Fund (GIF). The project is aimed at Building Socio-Economic and

Climate Resilience of poor and vulnerable communities in the Eastern Africa Region. The overall

objective of the project is to enhance resilience of poor communities, with special focus to vulnerable

groups such as women and girls, through local innovative solutions

The specific objectives of the projects are to:

• Develop innovative technologies and approaches that will enhance access to food, water and

energy

• Demonstrate innovative technologies and approaches that will enhance access to food, water

and energy

• Design a scaling-up and sustainability strategy and implementation procedures, including

policy/practice influencing for greater impact on livelihoods of communities in the region

If approved by GIF, the project will enable leveraging financial resources amounting to USD 7, 5

million to implement the proposed activities in a three year period.

5. GWPEA ATTENDED THE WACDEP COORDINATION MEETING IN GHANA

The WACDEP Technical Coordination meeting for 2015 was held in Accra- Ghana, 5-7 October 2015.

During the meeting, Regional Coordinators, Managers, Communication Officers as well as partners from

programme supported institutions came together to discuss ways of improving communications and

knowledge management within WACDEP both internally and externally. The WACDEP workshops

serve as platforms to discuss a number of key issues including programmatic, financial (WACDEP

budget allocations) for countries/regions and guidelines for WACDEP financial and narrative reporting.

The overall aim of the WACDEP meetings was to share progress, approaches and lessons learnt in

delivering the WACDEP outputs. In so doing, it creates communities of practice so that regions and

countries with commonalties in deliverables can be encouraged to work together and learn from each

other.

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GWPEA was represented in that meeting by the Regional Program Manager and the Regional Project

Manager for IDMP-HoA and they were able to make the following four presentations:

1. An overview of the progress, challenges and innovative approaches in the implementation of the

WACDEP in Rwanda and Burundi trans-boundary catchment (Lake Cyohoha)

2. Approaches and experiences of WACDEP and partners leading to building community resilience

3. Approach and experiences around project preparation/ financing

4. Progress, achievements and lessons of the Integrated Drought Management Program in the Horn of

Africa (IDMP HOA)

Key lessons learnt from the presentations are as follows:

Political support is vital in taking forward the program processes

It’s useful to link practice and policy

There is huge capacity deficit in water security support by stakeholders at all levels (Regional,

national, sub-national and local) hence, need to work with several partners to fill the gap

Documenting lessons, success stories and best practices in on-going/ supported can bring

about replication

MEDITERRANEAN No report.

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SOUTHERN AFRICA

1.0 Introduction

Activities during the month of October focused on GWP SA facilitating the 16th WaterNet/ WARFSA/

GWPSA Symposium which was held in Mauritius under the theme ‘Integrated Water Resources

Management (IWRM) and Infrastructure Planning for Water Security in Southern Africa’. As the

Coordination Unit of WACDEP Africa, GWPSA played key roles during the 7th WACDEP Technical

Coordination Meeting held in Ghana. The meeting marked the end of the first phase of the programme

and was an opportunity for planning for 2016 and share lessons from the various WACDEP

implementing countries.

At country level, WACDEP Zimbabwe also contributed to the Climate Change Department supplement

featured in a daily national newspaper in support of the goal of the Department, government and other

partners who seek to promote robust climate adaption strategies. During the same month, WACDEP

Zimbabwe team visited Siya Dam together with the Ministry of Environment Water and Climate,

Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) and the ZINWA-Save catchment in an effort to familiarise

themselves with what is actually on the ground. This visit follows a successful Project Preparation and

Financing training which was held in July, 2015 where the project proposal for setting up a Mini hyro

station at Siya Dam was drafted.

The 16th WaterNet/ WARFSA/ GWPSA Symposium provided an opportunity to converse on key issues

on the water/ energy nexus, the SADC research programme and other key themes that the region has

lined up to embark during the fourth SADC Regional Strategic Action Plan (2016-2020) which was

approved immediately after the SADC Multistakeholder Water Dialogue, at the Water Resources

Technical Meeting in Namibia

In the month of November, GWP SA will host the 11th Consulting Partners (CP) Meeting in Pretoria,

South Africa and also partner with the RESILIM Programme to carry out in country consultations aimed

at providing input into the Disaster Risk Reduction Action Plan for the Limpopo River Basin.

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2.0 October 2015 Activities

2.1 Fourth SADC Regional Water Programme conversed during 16th WaterNet/ WARFSA/ GWPSA

Symposium

The 16th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWP-SA Symposium was held on the island of Mauritius at

Le Méridien Hotel from the 28 to 30 of October 2015 under the theme ‘Integrated Water

Resources Management (IWRM) and Infrastructure Planning for Water Security in

Southern Africa’. The University of Mauritius, a GWPSA partner was the lead host of the

Symposium. The Symposia has 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.

A total of 85 oral presentations and 39 poster presentations were made under the

following sub- themes:

– Hydrology and Global change;

– Water and environment;

– Water, Land and Agriculture;

– Water and Society;

– Sustainable Water Distribution and Sanitation; and

– Water Resources and Infrastructure Management.

– Special Session

The symposium sessions also included ad 3 plenary sessions and 7 special sessions. As a

leading convention for capacity-building, partnership-building and follow-up on the

implementation of international and regional processes and programmes in Integrated

Water Resources Management, the symposium this year made key presentations during

the special sessions that enabled further discussion and mapping the way forward on the

fourth SADC Regional Work Programme.

Under the special session entitled “Powering Africa: Unlocking Opportunities for

Integrated Water and Energy Development in SADC”, chaired by Dr. Jakob Granit,

delegates discussed the need to push various renewable energy agendas, and the water/

energy nexus in order to alleviate the electricity deficit in the region.

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The special session on “ Water accounting, IWRM and development planning in Southern

Africa", chaired by Dr. Jaap Amtzen, confirmed to the need for water accounting to be

institutionalised due to the great need to demonstrate to policy makers on how water is

contributing to economic development.

The special session on “The payback – Eco framework: measuring the impact of scientific

research in the water sector – Experiences from WARFSA funded research (1999-2014)

re-examined the impact of the research projects funded from the 1st and 2nd phase of the

WARFSA programme. The main outcome of the discussion pointed to the need for

‘research for impact’ and not just for publication. Discussions in that session also pointed

to the need for research to be multi-disciplinary and focus on key regional developmental

priorities at various scales.

The above sessions pointed to the direction of the 4 th phase of the SADC Water

Programme; the 4th Regional Strategic Action Plan (RSAP IV), which was approved at the

recently held SADC Multi Sector Water Dialogue that was held in Windhoek, Namibia in

September, 2015.

Speaking at the session on “the SADC research agenda for the Water Sector and RSAP IV”,

convened by SADC and WaterNet, Dr. Kenneth Msibi, who made the presentation on

behalf of the SADC Water Division outlined the SADC research agenda in light of the

Regional Strategic Action Plan IV. The main outcome of the discussion pointed to the need

for research to go beyond research to explore impact and thereby enhance the value of

water research to regional development; create demand for research from government

and change mind-set towards evidence based policy and decision making; make collective

effort to leverage funding for research from member countries. Dr. Msibi further noted

that the RSAP IV is to accommodate water and energy trade-offs. Additionally, an

emphasis on the importance of water accounting was made, further stating that SADC

would support the institutionalisation of water accounting in the implementation of the

RSAP IV.

The symposium as a whole placed great emphasis on integration of knowledge,

particularly involving scholars from the natural, medical and social sciences. 193

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participants; comprising policymakers, academics, practitioners from water and related

sectors, and cooperating partners were present; 19 of whom were local delegates.

Further Reading:

http://www.gwp.org/en/GWP-SouthernAfrica/GWP-SA-IN-ACTION/News/Fourth-SADC-

Regional-Water-Programme-conversed-during-16th-WaterNet-WARFSA-GWPSA-

Symposium/

https://www.facebook.com/835385689818525/photos/a.945620882128338.1073741838.8

35385689818525/1067903173233441/?type=3&theater

2.2 Fourth Regional Work Programme validated and approved during the 7th SADC Multi-Stakeholder Water Dialogue & WRTC Meeting

A validation to the draft 4th Regional Work programme; the Regional Strategic Action Plan

(RSAP IV) was made at the 7th SADC Multi-Stakeholder Water Dialogue held in Windhoek,

Namibia from the 29th to the 30the September, 2015. Subsequently, the Water Resources

Technical Committee (WRTC) approved the plan at its meeting after the dialogue.

Held under the theme, “Watering Development in SADC: The central role of water in driving

industrialization” the dialogue was attended by 150 delegates from across the region

representing the water sector, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), cooperating and

development partners, academia, the media, and other relevant stakeholders from non-water

entities (energy, agriculture, industrialization). The delegates, of which a good number were

youth were brought together to deliberate the role that water will play in driving

industrialization in the region.

The validation of the RSAP IV was done in the fifth session of the Dialogue programme,

which took in the form of group work looking at the following eight topics:

Regional instruments for cooperation: Support the harmonisation and implementation

of the National Water Policies

Gender mainstreaming, Youth and Stakeholder engagement

Infrastructure development, operation and maintenance

Climate Change and variability

Industrialization and Nexus approaches

Water Resources Management for Sustainable development

Capacity development and research

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Establishment and strengthening of oceanic states cooperation and shared watercourse

institutions

Speaking during the closing session of the dialogue, Mr. Phera Ramoeli, Senior Programme

Officer, SADC Secretariat informed delegates that the RSAP IV document should be out by

December 2015. He added that he was looking forward to the enthusiasm and support from

the participants on the implementation on the RSAP IV and the dialogue outcomes. He further

applauded the great support that had been received from the youth and hoped that would

continue in all the activities that will be undertaken.

The dialogue is a biennial activity which provides a platform for regional stakeholders to

discuss and share experiences on different aspects of Integrated Water Resources

Management (IWRM). The dialogue is supported from the Government of Denmark

(Danida), the Governments of Germany in delegated cooperation with the Governments of

Australia (AUSaid) and the United Kingdom (UKaid) managed by GIZ, in collaboration with

the Global Water Partnership Southern Africa (GWP-SA). This year, additional support was

received from two USAid programmes, namely Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development

Facility (CRIDF) and Resilience in the Limpopo Basin Program (RESILIM).

Further Reading on the dialogue:

http://www.gwp.org/en/GWP-SouthernAfrica/

Allafrica.com. “SADC Launches Zambezi Environment Outlook 2015”.

http://allafrica.com/list/aans/post/af/cat/southernafrica/pubkey/publisher:editorial:000103

35.html

Egypt News. 20th September, 2015. “Namibia: Water Key to Industrialisation”

http://www.egyptnews.net/index.php/sid/237203263 . (from: All Africa Wednesday 30th

September, 2015).

Farmbiz. “Namibia hosts 7th SADC Multi-stakeholder water dialogue”.

http://farmbiz.co.za/namibia-hosts-7th-sadc-multi-stakeholder-water-dialogue/

Lahja Nashuuta 5th October, 2015. Water essential for industrialization.

http://southernafrican.news/2015/10/05/water-essential-for-industrialisation/

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Mawire, Wallace. African Farming. 6th October, 2015. Namibia hosts 7th SADC Multi-

stakeholder Water Dialogue. http://www.africanfarming.net/event-news/namibia-hosts-

7th-sadc-multi-stakeholder-water-dialogue

Mhunduru, Eric N. 2nd October, 2015. Namibia Observer. “Pricing essential for managing water demand”. http://observer24.com.na/business/5140-pricing-essential-for-managing-water-demand.

Namibia Broadcasting Corporation. The 7th SADC Multi stakeholder water dialogue is

underway in the capital http://www.nbc.na/news_article.php?id=16602&title=The-7th-

SADC-Multi-stakeholder-water-dialogue-is-underway-in-the-capital (video clip)

Namibia Press Agency. 30th September, 2015. “Namibia on quest for shared water resources.”

http://nampa.org/index.php?f=display&n=119971

News of the South. “Namibia Developing Strategic Water Security

Plan.”http://newsofthesouth.com/namibia-developing-strategic-water-security-plan/

Ritah, Anita Matsika. 29th September, 2015. “SADC convenes a stakeholder dialogue on the

role of water in driving industrialization”:

http://waterjournalistsafrica.com/2015/09/29/sadc-convenes-a-stakeholder-dialogue-on-

role-of-water-in-driving-industrialization/

Rural Reporters. “Namibia Tackles Water Scarcity During SADC. “ -

http://ruralreporters.com/namibia-tackles-water-scarcity-during-sadc/ See more at:

http://ruralreporters.com/namibia-tackles-water-scarcity-during-sadc/

Smit, Ellanie. Namibian Sun. 29th September, 2015. “Water crucial for

development.”http://www.namibiansun.com/africa/water-crucial-for-development.85605

Star Africa. “Namibia host 7th SADC Water Dialogue.”

http://en.starafrica.com/news/namibia-host-7th-sadc-water-dialogue.html

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Tembo, Benedict. Zambia Daily Mail. 1st October, 2015. “SADC road map to accelerate

economic growth.” https://www.daily-mail.co.zm/?p=45749

Tembo, Benedict : Zambia Daily News October 07 2015. “Watering development in the SADC

region” - See more at: http://www.animus-csr.com/Watering-development-in-the-SADC-

region.html#sthash.DccUtKBo.dpuf

2.3 The 7th WACDEP Technical Coordination Meeting

The 7th WACDEP Technical Coordination Meeting was held in Accra, Ghana from the 5-7th October,

2015. As the meeting came at a time when the GWP regions and countries are in the process of

finalising the implementation of WACDEP in the 8 countries and expanding to 10 additional countries

as per the AMCOW Triennial Work Plan (2014-2017), the workshop specifically achieved the

following outcomes:

Shared progress, challenges, opportunities and innovative approaches related to the implementation of the WACDEP in the countries and regions.

Supported the countries and regions in developing the 2016 WACDEP Annual Work plans with budgets for the regions and countries.

Initiated the process of developing WACDEP Regional Project Documents (2016/17 – 2019) to support the expansion of WACDEP.

Initiated the process of developing knowledge products from the implementation of the WACDEP.

Further Reading:

Water Resources Minister inaugurates WACDEP meeting, 6th October, 2015.

http://www.ghananewsagency.org/science/water-resources-minister-inaugurates-wacdep-

meeting--95316

Edmund Smith-Asante. 6th October, 2015. “7th WACDEP Technical Coordination Meeting

opens in Accra - See more at: http://graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/50753-7th-wacdep-

technical-coordination-meeting-opens-in-

accra.html#sthash.TwRzteWE.dpufhttp://graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/50753-7th-

wacdep-technical-coordination-meeting-opens-in-accra.html

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Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Housing.

http://www.mwrwh.gov.gh/index.php/gallery

2.4 WACDEP Zimbabwe contributes to the Climate Change Department supplement

The Department of Climate Change Management which falls under the Ministry of

Environment, Water and Climate introduced the 1st edition of the climate change supplement

on the 13th of October 2015. The supplement was featured on the national newspaper, The

Herald and WACDEP Zimbabwe also contributed an A6 full colour advert on the key roles the

Programme has undertaken in the country to integrate water security and climate resilience

in the development planning processes. The advert was featured so as to show the

commitment of WACDEP Zimbabwe in supporting the Climate Change Department, relevant

stakeholders and the government in coming up with robust climate adaptation strategies.

Further Reading:

http://www.herald.co.zw/wp-

content/uploads/2015/10/Climate_Change_Supplement_2015.pdf

2.5 Reconnaissance site visit to Siya Dam by WACDEP Zimbabwe team

Following the Project Preparation and Financing training that was held from the 26th to the

28th of July 2015. The objective of the training was to offer hands on training in project

preparation and financing also taking into account investment options. Using the same

training, a project proposal for a feasibility study for Siya dam mini hydro was developed. The

team tasked to further develop the proposal conducted a familiarisation site visit on the 23

October 2015. The team comprised of the WACDEP team, Ministry of Environment Water and

Climate, Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) and the ZINWA-Save catchment.

3.0 Upcoming November 2015 Activities 3.1 11th Consulting Partners (CP) Meeting

The 11th GWP SA Consulting Partners (CP) meeting takes place on 12-13 November, 2015 in

Pretoria, South Africa. The meeting that is held after every two years brings together the

GWP Partners in Southern Africa, GWP SA Board, Regional Technical Committee (RTEC) and

the GWP SA Secretariat staff. Also invited are the Strategic Partners with whom GWP SA has

programmatic alliances, but these are self-funded.

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The CP serves as a platform to reflect on lessons to better support regional and national

development priorities will have the following expected outcomes:

Partners updated on the progress of implementation of resolutions from the 10th CP Meeting held in Harare and fulfilment of all governance requirements.

Report back on implementation of the current 3 year programme. Reflection on CWP performance and ways of ensuring the partnership is positioned

to address water insecurity risks and support development priorities. Strategies for developing programmes with water related sectors such as

environment and biodiversity, climate change and land & agriculture (food security and desertification issues).

The 11th CP meeting follows after the 10th meeting which was held in June 2013 in Harare,

Zimbabwe and was critical in evaluating the previous strategic period (2009-2013) and also

contributing to the GWP 2020 Strategy and the more immediate term 2015-2017 Regional

Work Programme.

3.2 Country Consultations lined-up to discuss the Limpopo River Basin - Disaster Risk Reduction

Action Plan

In-country consultative workshops have been lined –up in all the riparian states to discuss the

Disaster Risk Reduction Action Plan for the Limpopo River Basin.

GWP SA has been working in partnership with the RESILIM Programme to develop a Disaster

Risk Reduction Action Plan for the Limpopo Basin under the auspices of LIMCOM. At the initial

stage of the development of the DRR Action Plan, country consultations were undertaken in

all the riparian states and a Regional Inception Workshop was held in Maputo, Mozambique.

The input from the two processes has contributed to the development of a draft Disaster Risk

Reduction Action Plan.

The next stage of the process will entail further validation of the proposed interventions from

riparian states by further consultations with various stakeholders. With this in mind, the first

in-country consultation is scheduled to be held in Botswana on 11th November, 2015.

Expected participants will comprise various government ministries, NGOs, and other

interested stakeholders that have been involved in dealing with disasters in the country.

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SOUTH AMERICA

GWP SAM - OCTOBER REPORT 2015

1. Peru - Santa Eulialia´s WACDEP Steering Committee working on projects to execute in 2015

On Friday 2nd the Steering Committee of WACDEP project had it´s monthly meeting. It´s worthy to

mention that a high number of relevant stakeholders attended the meeting, engaged in the

project as the Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, Ministry of

Housing, Construction and Sanitation, The Nature Conservancy, Acquafondo, Santa Eulalia´s

Mancommunity, COCEDE Peasant Community WACDEP Staff (Nicole Bernex, Alexandra Carlier,

Gonzalo Ríos, Gregorio Ríos - Local promotion)

As some CD SAM members were still in Lima, they were invited to participate. The Programme

Coordinator Alexandra Carlier presented the main highlights of the month and Corina Piaggio,

SAM Communication Officer presented the Communication Strategy for the project.

The institution representatives gave it´s impressions and established a very rich exchange of

experiences ready to be replicated in Santa Eulalia´s basin and also project possibilities to be

executed before the end of 2015. Some examples were given and now it´s time to put together

main concerns of the basin and present concrete projects regarding mainly agriculture and

irrigation, where the support is already commited with the contribution of multilateral

agreements with FIDA and FAO. The Ministry of Environment is launching next December a

Manual of Best Practices, regarding a sustainable management of the soil, with a direct link with

water topics. They also had a project of action plan on desertification and drought that can be

applied in Santa Eulalia basin, in the arid areas.

TNC and Acquafondo made a pilot project that can be replicated in Santa Eulalia for checking the

water quality based on painted fluids.

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2. Venezuela: Caracas has fifty new Guardians of water

GWP Venezuela continues its sensitization programme with the toolkit preparing children to

understand the water topics. They held another training workshop of water quality through the

use of the water kit. This time the target were a group of 50 children aged from 6 to 12 years.

The first workshop was held in Caracas, with the own staff belonging to metropolitan

municipality and Unimet. First 25 children of the Sucre municipality, and later on it was the turn

for 25 children of the Libertador municipality. They were trained on 23 and 30 October.

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GWP sent a press release and some media published it. With the Title: "Caracas has fifty new

guardians of water." the forelock text stated: With Scientific tools, but adapted for the easy

understanding of children in primary education, the Metropolitan Mayor of Caracas, together

with the Venezuelan Association of water (Aveagua) and the Universidad Metropolitana

(UNIMET), held the workshop "learning about water quality: ensuring the water safety for

children".

Publication http://www.2001.com.ve/con-la-gente/113529/caracas-cuenta-con-cincuenta-nuevos-

guardianes-del-agua.htm

Pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gwpsudamerica/albums/72157656657411180

3. Venezuela: Lara State very active regarding water agenda

GWP Venezuela had its members assembly, where they celebrated institutionally their 10th

Anniversary. There was a keynote presentation regarding the project of enlargement of the

Terepaima National Park.GWP Venezuela is very active in this project and its aim is to focus on

the protection of the basins, specially at the birth of the main rivers. This Park was declared as a

national protected area due to its critical environmental situation about its biodiversity, their

water resources and environmental richness.

Terepaima National Park covers an area of 16,971 hectares in the tropical rain forest, has a natural

viewpoint to the Valle del Turbio , hiking, outdoor recreation , farms to camp. Its temperature is

cool , approximately 19 ° to 26 ° C , is attractive to go on a walk.

The vegetation in the upper is cloud forest with presence of trees and the Short mountaineer , the

salvio and manzanita mountain and several species of ferns.

The rivers of the Portuguese state, and therefore the reality is applicable to the rest of the country,

are showing a steady deterioration caused by inadequate use being made mainly from the

upper reaches. Cultivation and grazing in areas of high sensitivity is accelerating erosion.

The untreated water from some localities end up in the rivers.

Waterworks (reservoirs, Tomas, diversion channels) have altered the life cycle of commercially

important aquatic species for altering their reproductive processes and fluvial dynamics.

It is becoming less water infiltrates into the ground, so the aquifers or springs are exhausted and the

rivers do not maintain their flow during the dry season.

In this area GWP Venezuela also held a consultation and a training among the residents who applied

for it and was a very successful experience. There was a need to understand their position

regarding the maeasures that some stakeholders like Aveagua were planning and wanted to

implement in order to protect the area. So far they have been visited more than 15

communities across the mountain region of Sierra de la Portuguesa. This project is a part of the

planned activities of GWP Venezuela and other stakeholders.

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GWP also gave assistance to the workshop round tables and the National Congress of technical

water tables , organized by the Regional Environmental Council of Lara state and gave also

academic support in the implementation of the V Symposium of environmental laboratories of

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people attended. Several of the exhibitors are active members of AveAgua.

Map of the Park

Pictures

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WACDEP PROGRESS MONTHLY REPORT October 2015- Main highlights.

- PACyD team was present in the Water festival (“champería " ), in the locality of San Pedro de Casta.

They were there for the recording of the video on this festival and make a photographic record

of the cultural aspects of the festival. There were four days of filming with Supay collective in

which was tried to record not only the whole process of the festival and the main activities held

by the communities, but also the role of municipal authorities in the festival. A professional

photographer also attended. With this photographic and audiovisual material the plan is to

create a promotional video clip, not only of the festival itself, but also of the PACyDas well.

This Audiovisual product will show not only the importance of the water assessment as a natural

resource, but also is meant to work as a local symbol of the sub basin with cultural value.

- Complementary information gathering, within the framework of the activity to the baseline of the

PACyD on the basis of a participatory methodology. For this, the nine districts of the Santa

Eulalia sub basin were visited. In each locality a participatory workshop was held as a diagnosis,

for the elaboration of the baseline of the PACyD.

- Validation of PACyD demonstration projects in each locality of the sub Basin of Santa Eulalia River.

This activity was carried out to get the approval and comments of the citizenship of each district.

- Field visit to the community of Chaclla and meeting with representatives of the communal board,

aiming to identify the area where the construction of the infiltration trenches will take place,

according to the technical records of the demonstrative project of the mentioned locality.

- Meeting organization with specialists in TNC forests Andes, Condesan and the Universidad Agraria

La Molina, to exchange information on use of native and exotic species in reforestation

processes in the sub basin of Santa Eulalia river.

- Specialists' meeting organization of the environment ministry to learn about the National Strategy

of Struggle against the Desertification and Drought, and to align its strategic goals with the

demonstrative projects of the PACyD.

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Other activities:

- Involvement of the PACyD team in the workshop” towards an efficient and participatory local

governance”, organized by IDMA.

- Involvement of the PACyD team in the meeting for the initiatives presentation of the program

Aquagol of TNC.

- Involvement of GWP-South America in the ministerial meeting of the OAS, held in Tela, Honduras,

in which was discussed the Inter-americanProgramme for Sustainable Development, which

constitutes the agenda of the OAS for the next few years.

- Startup of agreements with the Ministry of the environment so that the sub basin of the Santa

Eulalia river is considered to be a pilot river basin that includes the national strategy for the fight

against desertification and drought.

Pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gwpsudamerica/albums/72157661020775125

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SOUTH ASIA

Part 1: GWP SAS Regional Office

1.1 21st Regional Council Meeting of Global Water Partnership South Asia

The 21st Regional Council (RC) Meeting of GWP SAS was held on 7 and 8 October 2015 in

Islamabad, Pakistan (Photo 1). Country Representatives from Country Water Partnerships of

South Asia - Bangladesh, Bhutan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, the designated Regional Chair,

Regional Chair, Regional Coordinator, Programme Manager of Water and Climate Resilient

Programme (WACREP) of GWP SAS, Head of Network Operation and Senior Network Officer

for Mediterranean, China and South Asia from Global Water Partnership Secretariat at

Stockholm including observers from PWP attended the meeting. Country Representatives of

IWP and GWP Nepal were unable to attend the meeting due to unavoidable circumstances.

Concerns and matters related to GWP SAS have been discussed and made decisions over the

issues at the meeting.

Part 2: Bangladesh Water Partnership (BWP)

CORE Activity Report:

1.1 13th Annual General Meeting of Bangladesh Water Partnership

The 13th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of BWP was held at the conference room of

Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC), Farmgate, Dhaka on 24 October 2015. A

total number of 43 members attended the meeting. The meeting was presided over by Mr

Md. Shahidul Hassan, President of BWP. The following were discussed at the meeting;

Confirmation of the minutes of 12th AGM

Placement of Secretary General's Report for approval

Placement of BWP Audit Report 2014 for approval

Photo 1: Participants of the RC meeting

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Appointment of Auditors for 2015, 2016 and 2017

Work Plan and budget for 2016 and monitoring tools for 2015

Formation of a new Executive Committee (EC)

The house reviewed and approved the minutes. The Secretary General of BWP informed the

AGM that BWP successfully implemented 30 activities during the year 2014. The audit report

was jointly presented by Dr Khondaker Azharul Haq, Vice President and Ms Mukta Akter,

Executive Secretary, BWP. The AGM approved the Anisur Rahman and Company as the new

auditor of BWP for 2015, 2016 and 2017. The Work plan and budget for 2016 and monitoring

tools for 2015 were shared and discussed at the meeting. The new Executive Committee (EC)

was formed by general consensus where Dr Haq elected as the President, Mr H. S. Mozaddad

Faruque as the Vice President while Mr Moshiur Rahman as the Secretary General for 2016

and 2017. Outcome: (i) The AGM approved the secretary general’s report and (ii) Adopted the

Audit Report of 2013 (iii) New EC formation

The AGM acknowledged the progress of BWP activities and suggested to be more proactive

and diversified in its future endeavors. The meeting concluded with welcoming the new

Executive Committee (EC) and the vote of thanks Mr Hassan, President.

WACREP Activity Report:

2.1 Challenges of Drinking Water Security in Selected Coastal Areas with Special Emphasis

on Polders and Participation of Youth and Women

BWP in association with, its partner organisation, Center for Environmental and Geographic

Information Services (CEGIS) organised two workshops on ‘Challenges of drinking water

security in selected coastal areas with special emphasis on polders (Polder is a low-lying tract

of land enclosed by earthen embankments, constructed to protect low-lying coastal areas

from tidal floods and salinity intrusion in southern Bangladesh) and participation of youth and

women’. The workshops were being held respectively on 13 and 15 October in Khulna and

Photo 2: Participants of the AGM

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Barishal divisions of Bangladesh. More than 140 participants including youths and women

present at the workshops.

The main objective of the workshops was to identify challenges as well as recommendations

to increase access to safe drinking water in the selected coastal polder areas. Upazila Nirbahi

Officer, Upazila Chairman, Upazila Vice Chairman, Upazila Members, local government

officials, NGOs, schools and community stakeholders including representatives of BWP

attended the workshops which were chaired by Engineer Md. Waji Ullah, Executive Director

of CEGIS.

The two workshops consisted of technical sessions and open discussions which conducted by

Dr Dilruba Ahmed, Director, Socio-economic and Institutional Division, CEGIS. The two study

reports which presented at the technical sessions are based on the field survey of selected ten

coastal polders in the south region of Bangladesh on challenges of drinking water security. Ms

Mukta Akter made a presentation representing BWP on ‘BWP: Towards a sustainable

dedicated water goal’.

The participants shared their issues related to water - water contamination by salinity

intrusion and high level of iron in drinking water, during the open discussions and also shared

their opinion on drinking water security. Finally the group developed a set of

recommendations which will possibly assist the authorities and policy makers to develop

strategies and interventions for providing access to safe drinking water to the vulnerable

communities. These recommendations included rainwater harvesting through ponds and

reservoirs and conducting more community based awareness raising programmes on safe

drinking water and its quality maintenance.

Detailed report of the workshop will be submitted in mid-November 2015.

Photo 3: The workshop on 13 October 2015, Batiaghat, Khulna Division

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Part 3: Bhutan Water Partnership (BhWP)

1.1 Integrated Water Resources Management sensitisation for the local leaders

The sensitization workshops at Tashi Yangtse district was conducted on 12 to 13 October

2015 and for Samdrup Jongkhar district on 15 and 16 October 2015. The local leaders and

the district environment officers actively participated for the programme. The workshops

conducted with the aim of educating Gups (Local leaders) on water resources and its

management. Gups as the head of the Gewog (block) has a very important role which

includes the utilisation and management of water resources. With the IWRM sensitization in

these two districts, all 20 districts have now been covered and BhWP is hopeful that the local

leaders will make use of the knowledge gained from the programme to allow them to make

informed decision with regard to water resource management.

During the programme, presentations on the importance of environment and water were

made and followed by very fruitful discussions on various environmental and water related

issues. In order to stress more importance on water, its issues and the way to manage it, an

exercise was conducted where the local leaders expressed their thoughts and ideas in a

pictorial form. Exercises on the importance of water, issues of water and the integrated

approach to address the issues were being conducted. The participants expressed that their

understanding and thinking about water have never been out of the box and now they

understood that there are lots to know about water and its management.

In general the programme was found to be useful for the local leaders. They assured that the

knowledge gained would be shared among the locals, and most importantly use them in the

management and planning of the use of natural resources in their areas.

Photo 4: The workshop on 15 October 2015, Amtoli, Barguna, Barishal Division

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Coming events:

Support waste water management project and community sensitisation programme

Part 4: India Water Partnership (IWP)

Core activity report

1.1 Review of State Water Polices of Goa and Tamil Nadu in line with National Water

Policy 2012 in the context of climate change

IWP as part of its Work Plan-2015 is reviewing the State Water Policy of Goa and Tamil

Nadu in line with National Water Policy-2012 in context of Climate Change with the

support of Institute for Resource Management and Economic Development (IRMED),

Delhi.

Photo 2: Participants of Tashi Yangtse district

Photo 3: Participants of Samdrup Jongkhar district

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Review of State Water Policy of Tamil Nadu was completed in October 2015 and a set of

86 policy recommendations (Annex-I) on water policy formulation and implementation

process, decentralisation of water governance, climate change, drinking water for all,

water and agriculture, water and forests, water pollution, groundwater management,

development and management of water resources, water harvesting and data

management etc. have been sent to Water Resources Department of Government of

Tamil Nadu to be considered for inclusion in the revised Tamil Nadu State Water Policy.

The review of Draft State Water Policy of Goa; the State level workshop to be held on 10

November 2015 with the cooperation of Department of Water Resources, Government of

Goa.

The study team conducted a visit to South Goa district from 29 September to 10 October

2015 and visited various departments and agencies. The study team consulted the Krishi

Vigyan Kendra (KVK) in the state, concerned executive engineers of Public Works

Department (PWD) who are working on rural and urban drinking water supply, department

of agriculture which looks after the promotion of horticultural activities, department of

animal husbandry and ground water and the three divisions of irrigation departments -

minor, medium and major. There the team identified the awareness on National Water

Policy 2012 and State Water Policy including climate change and coping strategies.

The team also visited two water starved villages under Quepem Taluka of South Goa district

which were recommended by the officials of district officers of the Water Resources

Department. The selected villages are, Cavre Pirla a panchayat level village and Kajur. The

study team held discussion with the villages of Cavre Pirla and Kajur, where 34 and 23

respectively have attended for the discussions.

The salient features of the review at district level and village level;

Awareness on National and State water policy: There was some awareness on National

Water Policy 2012 among officials at the district level whereas they are well aware about the

State Water Policy which is under revision. Some were able to provide suggestions for

inclusion in the draft state water policy. Farmers and villagers do not aware about both the

policies.

Awareness about climate change: All officers at the district level know about climate change

while many especially those from the Departments of Agriculture including Horticulture,

Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Executive Engineers and Animal Husbandry and Groundwater are

concerned about the issue. A few especially from PWD are still not worried about the issue.

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1.2 Reviewing and Analysing the State Level Regulatory and Institutional Framework of the

States of Kerala, Nagaland and Uttarakhand to operationalise the National Water Policy

(NWP) 2012

IWP with the collaboration of Indian Environment Law Offices (IELO) is reviewing and

analysing the State Level Regulatory and Institutional Framework related to water for the

States of Kerala, Nagaland and Uttarakhand.

Reviewing of Kerala state has been completed in October and observed the below details.

Does Kerala State has its water policy?

The Kerala State has water policy of 2008.

Is there any law or policy in the state which makes it mandatory to undertake a scientific

study to determine the ecological requirement of water for a river?

The Water Policy 2008 states that, ecological and environmental flows need to be worked

out and maintained in the water courses to ensure self-rejuvenation of rivers against

pollution and for sustainability of life. It also emphasising developing a water resource

assessment and regulatory mechanism in the Department of Water Resources with mandate

of assessing and analysing the potential, supply and demand in all the water resources

projects/programmes.

Has the state formulated state action plan for climate change and has the concerns

regarding effect of climate change on water resources been integrated into these plans?

Are there district level climate change action plans being formulated within the regulatory

framework?

Kerala State has developed State Action Plan on Climate Change which is approved by

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF and CC), Government of India.

The concerns regarding the effect of CC on water resources has been integrated in these

plans including preparation of integrated basin plans for water resources supply

augmentation as there are no district level plans on climate change at present.

Has the state begun to integrate the concerns of climate variability into water resource

management and planning?

There are efforts by State government to integrate concerns on climate variability in water

resources planning.

Is there any special impetus to increasing water storage capacity?

There is an impetus to increase water storage capacity by considering the climate variability.

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Is there any plan for increasing water use efficiency across all water using groups,

agriculture, domestic, commercial and industrial?

The State Action Plan for Climate change lays emphasis upon ensuring water use efficiency

by treatment and recycling of water for non-potable use and by separating the supply

network of recycled water from that of drinking water. There are plans to use these

strategies in all existing water supply projects and also in the upcoming projects.

Are sustainable agricultural practices being adopted reshaped as per the water availability

in the state?

The Principles of conservation agriculture and organic agriculture will be promoted for

sustainable environmental resource support systems. These include, practices for water use

efficiency, integrated nutrient management - VAM (Vescicular Arbuscular Mycorrhizae),

modern techniques of System Rice Intensification (SRI) and minimum tillage etc.

Is climate change variability included as a criteria for water development projects?

Under the State Action Plan for Climate change, there is emphasis on including climate

change variability in development of future water projects and to ensure water use

efficiency.

Are stakeholders being involved in land-soil-water management planning for evolving

different agricultural strategies, reducing soil erosion and improving soil fertility?

The State Action Plan for Climate change emphasises for strengthening and capacity building

of agricultural extension system with intensive trainings on available options in agriculture.

This includes crop calendars, agronomic practices focusing the existing weather patterns,

prescriptions for pest and stress management in crops and establishing ‘Agroclinics’ to

enable farmers to find solutions to their farm related problems. Another strategy envisaged

under the state plan is preparation of land use/landscape plans for all the local bodies

including the municipalities and panchayats, inline with town plans for the major cities of

states. The town planning to be based on landscape ecology considering the natural

resources, water, green belts, paddy lands and wetlands conservation.

Has the state done aquifer mapping to know the quality and quantity of ground water?

Annual replenishable groundwater was assessed by Central Ground Water Board in 2008 to

be 6,841 Mm3 of which the quantity available as Annual Net Available Ground Water is

estimated as 6,230 Mm3.

Does the state have a ground water law and mandated to manage and conserve

groundwater?

Yes, Kerala State has its Ground Water (Control and Regulation) Act 2002 and is mandated to

manage and conserve groundwater.

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Is extraction of ground water linked with recharge of the same?

The Kerala Ground Water (Control and Regulation) Act 2002 does not provide for such a

linkage, though the Groundwater authority is empowered to put conditions while granting

permissions for extracting groundwater.

Is there a mechanism for water allocation amongst different competing users?

There is no mechanism for water allocation amongst competing uses. The State Water Policy

2008 underlines the need for developing a criteria for water allocation.

What is the regulatory mechanism to prevent loss of land eroded by the river, which

causes permanent loss, revetments, spurs, embankments, etc.?

The Kerala Land development Act 1964 provides provision for preparation and execution of

land Development Schemes including schemes for conservation and development of soil

resources, control and prevention of soil erosion and reclamation of waste lands. It further

established the Land Development Board, District Land Development and Padasekharam

Committee as institutions to carry out functions under the act. The District Land

Development Committee is empowered to prepare a scheme for controlling and preventing

soil erosion, preservation and improvement of soil condition and reclamation of waste,

saline or water-logged areas.

Has the state incorporated river basin/sub-basin as a unit for planning, development and

management of Water resources?

The State Water Policy 2008 recognises river basin as a unit for planning and development of

water resources.

Are there river basin management authorities established by the state government?

The State Water Policy 2008 stated that, State Level River Authority would be established

and under which there would be river basin and sub-basin organisations. Presently, Pampa

River Basin Authority has been established under Pampa River Basin Authority Act 2009, to

formulate policies and projects for enabling the sustainable development of water sources,

reservoirs and water resources of the Pampa River and the scientific management for

protecting ecosystem.

Is there community participation in the conservation of river corridors, water bodies,

wetlands?

The Local Level Monitoring Committee formed under Kerala Conservation of Paddy and

wetland Act 2008 ensures participation of community including the farmers. The District

Expert Committee and Kadavu Committee formed under the Kerala Protection of River

Banks and Regulation of Removal of Sand Act 2001 ensures participation of local people in

protecting river banks.

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1.3 Stakeholders Meeting of Bhima Area Water Partnership

IWP with the support of its network partner Indian Water Works Association (IWWA) is

undertaking revival of Bhima Area Water Partnership (AWP). A meeting of stakeholders of

Bhima Water Partnership was conducted on 3 October in Pune, Maharashtra chaired by Mr

V. M. Ranade, Chairman of Bhima Water Partnership with the participation of 30 members.

Dr Upendra Kulkarni of IWWA introduced the IWP and GWP and its mandate - water secured

world through partnership approach to the audience.

Mr V. M. Ranade illustrated the framework of action plan developed by Bhima Water

Partnership in 2003 and subsequent years. Mr Rajiv Bhavsar mentioned about the success of

coordinated efforts of 26 NGOs in Pimpri Chinchwad area (Pawana river sub basin). Dr

Vishwas Yevale shared his experience of Jaldindi through Bhima river -for a length of 450km

which was started in 2002. Mr Datta Deshkar, Editor Jalsamvad, Mr Sharad Mande of IWWA

and Mr Satish Deshmukh from Industry expressed their views about the issues connected

with Bhima river. In general it was agreed that Bhima Water Partnership should be revived

while Mr Sharad Mande suggested in organising a workshop for engineers of Water

Resources Department, Officials of Pollution Control Board and Municipal

Councils/Corporations along with farmers and teachers.

1.4 Meeting of Peoples’ Area Water Partnership on Crop Loss due to Drought

The Peoples’ Area Water Partnership (PAWP) with the support of its network partner Arun

Institute of Rural Affairs in Dhenkanal district of Orissa is assisting rural poor, especially the

farming community to enhance their agricultural productivity through promotion of water

conservation practices. The programme assists more than 50 village communities which will

be expanded further in due course.

Dhenkanal district of Orissa has been hit hard by the drought in India in 2015. The estimated

crop loss is between 40 to 100 percent. During October, the PAWP undertook the following

activities.

Field survey for the crop loss

The primary round of field survey was conducted by PAWP members and volunteers to crop

patches under Budhibili, Kantapal, Tumusinga, Bada Suanlo, Sogar, Kotagara, Bam and

Kantol Gram Panchayats spread over CD blocks of Kamakshyanagar, Bhuban and

Kankadahad. PRI representatives especially Ward Members joined the PAWP team for

assessing the crop loss. The crop loss varied from 100 to 40 percent and there is a chance of

an immature yield. PAWP is planning to collect the detailed block wise/chak (land patch)

wise crop loss from the government sources (Department of Agriculture and Panchayati Raj,

Government of Orissa) in the future.

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Meeting of Farmers and Community heads

After the primary round of survey meetings organised at Tandimunda under Batagaon Gram

Panchayat in Kankadahad block on 30 October and at Kotagara in Kamakshyanagar block on

31 October 2015. A total of 115 farmers, members of Micro Water Partnership/Local Water

Partnerships including Pani Panchayat, PRI representatives, leaders of local farmer groups

joined the sessions and shared their grievances and concerns. The key points raised at both

the meetings are;

Incomplete irrigation structures

Enforcing the local agriculture and block officials to supply water pumps on

subsidized cost to farmers to facilitate lift irrigation to recover crops.

Allow lift irrigation and cutting small canal embankments for emergency

irrigation.

Declaration of only 123 Blocks (taluks) as drought affected till date to be

revised as all Blocks with more than 33 percent crop loss to be declared as drought hit. The

compensation to be paid rapidly to support the farmers to raise the next crop (winter/rabi

crop).

The suicidal rate has already crossed half a century therefore the meetings

urged the local administration to take rapid actions to support to compensate the loss.

1.5 Preparatory Exercise for India Water Week-2016

The Second Technical Committee Meeting of India Water Week (IWW) 2016 was held at

Central Water Commission, Government of India at New Delhi on 30 October under the

Chairmanship of Mr A. B. Pandya, Chairman, Central Water Commission. Dr Veena Khanduri

as a member of Technical Committee participated in the meeting. The following agenda

points were discussed;

Finalisation of sub-themes for IWW-2016

Finalisation the details of organizing Technical Sessions

Modalities for one day Sessions on Jal Kranti Abhiyan;

Role and inputs of partner Country – Israel, by considering their expertise on Water

Resources Development and management

Finalising the names of Nodal Officers for Technical Sessions

Modalities for proposed interaction of Honourable Prime Minister with farmers,

water resources professionals and other stakeholders.

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WACREP Activity Report

2.1 Climate Resilient Development- A Case Study of Mashi Sub-Basin in Rajasthan

IWP is undertaking the activity with the support of its network partner, Centre for

Environment and Development Studies (CEDS) based at Jaipur, Rajasthan. In continuation to

the activities undertaken in September, the following activities were undertaken in October

2015.

Progress in GIS and remote sensing data analysis

Report writing work based on the ISRO data set will be completed hopefully by November

2015.

Conduct Socio-Economic Survey

As Mashi Basin has very less groundwater potential, IWP is analysing the exact geological

conditions- whether rainwater harvesting can help in recharging groundwater which would

be suitable for the Basin. The geo-hydrological tests were being conducted in 20 villages

located nearby the basin and data processing is ongoing. The report based on geological and

geo-hydrological information for the basin is to be completed by end of November 2015.

2.2 Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Developing a framework for resilience in urban areas with

reference to housing societies

IWP is undertaking the above activity in four blocks of Gurgaon (Haryana) namely; Gurgaon,

Pataudi, Sohna and Farrukhnagar with the support of The Tata Energy Research Institute

(TERI). The following activities were undertaken in October 2015.

Analysed different regulatory, institutional, socio-economic and technological

factors affecting the Water-Energy-Food Nexus (WEF nexus) in the study area. Studied Water

Act, Haryana Electricity Regulatory commission, Haryana Government renewable energy,

Haryana Solar policy, State renewable energy policy, Haryana Electricity Reform Act 1997,

Haryana Municipal Control Act 1994, The Haryana Preservation of sub-soil water Act 2009,

Food and supplies Department, FSSAI-Food safety in states etc.

Under institutional factors, institutional arrangement, roles and responsibilities

of various institutions associated with WEF nexus like Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon,

Haryana Urban Development Authority, Haryana Industrial and infrastructure Development

Authority, Physical Health and Electricity Department, State Pollution Control Board, Dakshin

Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam, Haryana Electricity Board, HAFED etc. were mapped and studied.

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Aspects like demography, increasing prosperity, urbanisation, different social

groups based on income and change in dietary habits were covered under socio-economic

factors.

Different techniques like green building concepts, water harvesting, low carbon

etc. were studied under technological factors.

Household survey: Final household survey on WEF nexus has been initiated.

Questionnaire finalisation for other stakeholders: questionnaire on commercial and

institutional stakeholders has been prepared to be used in the final study.

Activities planned for November 2015

Household survey

Institutional and commercial survey

Analysis of different regulatory, institutional, socio-economic and technological factors

affecting the WEF nexus in the study area.

2.3 Promotion of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) in Peri-Urban Settings

(Action Research to develop innovative IWRM Investments)

IWP is undertaking the activity with the support of TARU Leading Edge, New Delhi in Garhi

Harsaru village in Gurgaon district of Haryana. The following activities were undertaken in

October 2015.

Finalisation of Tools: Tools for both the quantitative and qualitative study has

been finalised which includes the structured household questionnaire, school/anganwadi

questionnaire and observation tool (Quantitative Analysis) and semi-structured focus group

discussion questionnaires (quantitative questionnaire).

Training of investigators: Half a Day training for the investigators was

conducted on 27 October at TARU office. The investigators were briefed about the tools to

be used and also the ethical means for collecting data.

Transect walk: A transect walk was conducted in the village to map the

resources and finalise sample distribution in the village. Pictures of the transect walk;

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Finalising the sampling strategy: The sampling strategy and number of samples

have been finalized based on the transect walk and interactions.

Data collection: The data collection in the village has been started where five

investigators with one supervisor and a coordinator have been tasked to complete the data

collection.

Solution mapping tool: Draft Solution Mapping Tool has been developed for

community consultation namely;

- Community level- ground water, surface water, rain water and waste water.

- Household user level- water and sanitation fittings, rain water and water use

efficiency

- Farmer level- less water intensive crop

Activities planned for November 2015

Data analysis using primary and secondary data

Report writing

Developing the solution mapping framework based on the consultations, substantiating

with images, details and sustainable options selected by the community.

Part 5: GWP Nepal/ JVS

Core Activities

1.1 Stocktaking report on climate vulnerability on agriculture sector for National

Adaptation Plan (NAP) process

The stocktaking report on climate vulnerability on agriculture sector has been finalised. The

report documents climate vulnerability on agriculture sector and analyses several aspects of

climate vulnerability such as trend of greenhouse emission and climate change impacts on

productivity and food security. Furthermore, it has also reviewed existing policies, legal

provisions and institutional frameworks in agriculture sector.

1.2 Integrity Mapping in water sector projects

The report on 'Integrity mapping in Irrigation Projects' has been finalised. The aim of the

report is to contribute enhancement of integrity in irrigation sector for its sustainable

development. The document has identified several integrity risk areas in irrigation

development process and has suggested appropriate interventions to mitigate the identified

risks. It has also enlisted all institutions involved in irrigation development process along

with the policy and legislative framework in irrigation sub-sector.

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1.3 Media sensitisation on water related issues

A report based on the responses of media personnel in the structured questionnaire

including the key areas which need to be addressed in the training is finalised. Similarly,

relevant resource persons are also being identified along with the required materials to

acquire the objective of the activity. The training is planned for December 2015.

1.4 Executive committee meeting

The 159th Executive Committee Meeting of GWP Nepal /JVS was held on 30 October in

Kathmandu. The programmatic and administrative issues of GWP Nepal/JVS were discussed at

the meeting.

Part 6: Sri Lanka Water Partnership (SLWP)

Core Activity Report: 1.1 Public, Private / Partner collaboration

a) SLWP Chair, Ms Badra Kamaladasa participated for a preparatory meeting of 5th

International Network for Water and Ecosystems in Paddy Fields (INWEPF) at the Ministry of

Irrigation on 1 October. SLWP is collaborating as a core organiser for the symposium which is

being scheduled to be held on 3 to 5 November 2015.

b) SLWP Chair participated for the Chief Executive Officers’ forum and second

annual meeting of Sri Lanka Business and Biodiversity Platform (SL B&B Platform) held on 6

October at Ramada Hotel, Colombo. Approximately 55 members including CEOs, senior

officials of B&B Platform, donors, patron organisations and implementing organisations

including SLWP attended the meeting. The Biodiversity platform Sri Lanka was launched on

the day while four projects have been selected to implement through SL B&B.

The project proposed by SLWP, titled ‘Wetworking and conserving the Bolgoda wetland

Complex’ has been selected by Sampath Bank for provision of funding. Memorandum of

Understanding for the project was interchanged as a symbolic gesture to launch the

programme at the ceremony.

c) SLWP Chair participated for a programme on ‘Gender, Agricultural Water and

‘Big Data’: Practical Steps and Forward Thinking’ organised jointly by Network of Women

Water Professionals (NetWwater), International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and

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Women’s Federation for World Peace (WFWP) under Sustainable Development Goals

(SDGs). The programme was held on 12 October 2015 at Club Palm Bay Hotel, Marawila.

The objective of the workshop was to assess and respond to the global and local challenge of

data, gender equality and agricultural water development as the global community moves

forward with implementation of SDGs. Nearly 50 participants representing IWMI, member

organisations of WFWP, Government of Sri Lanka, INGO and NGOs attended the

programme. Dr Alan Nicol, Principal Researcher and Theme Leader - Governance, Gender

and Poverty from IWMI and Ms Kusum Atukorale Chair, NetWwater and Senior Advisor to

SLWP familiarised the participants on objectives and agenda of the meeting. Ms Lesha

Witmer and Dr Nicol made presentations by giving background on gender, agricultural

water, Big data and SDGs. A plenary discussion was held following the presentations and

discussion were held in five working groups.

1.2 A Tree planting and climate change awareness programme was organised on

16 October at Maligatenna Junior School to celebrate the National Tree Planting week by

Lions Club - Pilimathalawa, one of the SLWP partner. Approximately 86 students, 13 teachers

and two Lions Members participated in the programme.

1.3 SLWP Programme Committee Meeting was held on 23 October at IWMI,

Colombo.

1.4 Dr Kala Vairawamoorthy, a GWP Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) member

who is currently on assignment with IWMI had three discussions with SLWP; one with

Programme Committee members and the other two with Country Coordinator with a view

to associating himself with SLWP activities. SLWP is fully supportive of this effort as it had

been its stand that TAC Members adopt GWP Regions to familiarise themselves of ground

situations with respect to GWP activities. SLWP will be working closely with Dr

Vairawamoorthy on urban water and GWP issues in general as this provides opportunity for

upstream and downstream information flow.

WACREP Activity Report:

2.1 WACREP Field Office (FO) Leaders’ programme was held in Kantale on 5 October with the

participation of 95 FO leaders and 25 members of Programme Management Committee

(PMC). The programme was jointly organised by the Irrigation Department, Department of

Agriculture and Irrigation Management Division. Since, Almost 30 percent of FO

representatives are Tamil translation of Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) FO booklet and the

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Community Based Organisation booklet to Tamil language to be undertaken in 2016 as the

programme move towards the northern and eastern part of the country where the native

language is Tamil.

2.2 Farmer Resilience Survey Consultants Report

Preparation of the Consultant’s Report based on the recommendations of Farmer Resilience

Survey, for the upcoming Policy Dialogue in 2016 is at the final stages.

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SOUTHEAST ASIA

REPORT

WORKSHOP ON INTER-RESERVOIR OPERATION – PRACTICES AND

POLICIES

Hanoi, 09/10/ 2015

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ACTIVITY COMPLETION REPORT

No Item Description

1 Work Plan Year 2015

2 Country Vietnam

3 Strategic Goal Goal 1: Catalyse change in policy and

practice

4 Outcome Challenge Vietnam incorporates water security in their

IWRM and climate related policies and

plans as well as in national development

policies and plans.

5 Title of Activity Workshop on Inter-reservoir operation –

Practices and Policies

6 Implementation arrangement Members of VNWP’s Standing Board

conducted the activity.

When 07 October 2015

Where Hanoi, Vietnam

Organizer and Co-organizers Vietnam Water Partnership

Who have been involved

(speakers, facilitators,

participants, resource persons,

consultant, etc)

Dr. Le Van Minh and Mr. Hoang Van Bay,

Co-chair of the workshop

Dr. Le Bac Huynh, VNWP Standing Board

member - speaker

Dr. Bui Nam Sach, Director of Institute for

Water Resources Planning – Presenter

Mr. Vu Hong Chau, Director of Institute for

Southeast Asia Water Resources – Presenter.

Dr. Nguyen Lan Chau, Deputy Director of

Institute for Mechanic and Environment.

And others.

Implementation method (by

contract , hired consultant,etc)

Hired consultant

Other information

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7 Output of Activity A report on (a) results of the workshop, (b)

conclusions and further recommendations

8 Budget used (in Euro) 2,500

GWP Fund 2,500

Budget from other sources

Total 2,500

9 In-kind support received Office facilities such as computer, printer,

meeting room, etc.

10 Attachment :

Attachments: (i) Workshop report on “ Inter-

reservoir operation – Practices and

Policies”;

(ii) Pictures of the workshop

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Attachment 1.

Workshop report on Inter-reservoir operation – Practices and Policies

I. Introduction

Ensuring water for life, environment and ensuring food security and energy in the

context of climate change is a particularly important issue of Vietnam in the current

period. However, the protection, exploitation and use of water resources - the foundation

of food production and energy has not been properly focused and harmony of interests,

thus in recent times, water resources of river basins are seriously declining in both

quantity and quality of water. Meanwhile, water sources are strongly affected by climate

change so the movements are increasingly complex, the most obvious manifestation is

the decline of total water resources, increasing the frequency of major floods and

droughts in many regions of Vietnam. Due to the nature of Vietnam, water is the key

source to ensure food security, energy, and sustainable development. Currently, in most

of Vietnam river basins (river water, river cross-border and international river), the

management of water resources, especially in the exploitation and use of water resources

is not rational; many water reservoirs are overexploited or unreasonable used that result

in increasing risk of water insecurity, this is clearly reflected in the annual dry season,

sometimes even in the rainy season.

Strengthening policy, institutional management and operation of water reservoirs in the

river basins, especially in management and operation of reservoir in large river basins

in Vietnam in the dry season to exploit and use of water resources effectively, multi-

purpose and safely, simultaneously execution combined with specific policies for

integrated management of river basin water resources are integrated solutions, effective

to maintain, protect water source, a prerequisite to secure water resources for socio-

economic development.

II. Workshop objective

Assessing the current state of river basin management; mining and use of water in the

reservoir system on large river basins to form the scientific and practical basis to propose

mechanisms, policies and appropriate measures to strengthen financial management

water resource and river basin management and operation of reservoir in large river

basins in order to ensure water resources in terms of climate change impacts.

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III. Results of the workshop

3.1. Workshop was held on 07/10/2015, in Hanoi

3.2. Workshop participants

Total: 60 delegates

Composition:

- Policy- makers from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment

(MONRE), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), Ministry

of Industry and Trade;

- Energy Group of Vietnam (EVN);

- Related research institutes and university: Institute for Water and Environment,

Institute for Water Resources Planning, Water Resources University;

- Professional Associations: Vietnam Water Resources Association, Large Dam

and Water Resources Development Association, Irrigation and Drainage

Association, etc.

- Independent experts;

- Media;

- VNWP Standing Board members.

3.3. The main results of the Workshop.

1. The workshop agenda was divided in different sessions including paper

presentations and discussion sessions. There were six paper presentations and

many discussion during the workshop. The participants also discussed about the

technical aspects of inter-reservoir operation regulation (IROR) in river basins as

well as reality experiences and current legal framework, regulations of legal

documents of water resources management related to IROR at present. Presenters

analyzed and assessed thoroughly based on real experiences and scientific base as

well as current legal of natural resources and environment related to management

and operation of the large electric generation reservoirs and irrigation reservoirs

under the adjustments of existing IRORs. The assessments and analysis of

implementing legal documents and IRORs showed the advantages and issues in

integrated management, exploitation and use of water resources in large reservoir

in Vietnam. In which, the special focuses are on issues and constraints of IRORs

and propose specific measures to adjust and upgrade existing IRORs and as

references for formulating new IRORs.

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2. The aspects of integrated management, protection, exploitation, effective and multi

purposes and sustainable use of natural resources, environment and ecosystem and

social-economic development in the large reservoir basins were analyzed

comprehensively. The recommendations will be delivered to related state

government responsibility on water resources, management agencies, scientists to

determine the issues need to be considered and assessed as scientific and actual

base for completing policies and legal frame work for Integrated Water Resources

Management (IWRM) in river basins in Vietnam. Firstly, it’s necessary to adjust

and complete IRORs in order to achieve the objectives of integrated and effective

exploitation of reservoir water resources for sustainable social-economic

development, environment protection and response safety to natural disasters such

as heavy rain, storm, flood, drought and water shortage to ensure security of water

and energy in river basins.

3. The workshop agreed that:

- In the short-term period of the implementation of Law on Water Resources, the

state management agencies of related ministries, sectors, local government and

reservoir managers have great coordinated with technical agencies and scientists

to formulate 11 IRORs of 11 large river basins in Vietnam. The new and

important issues were stated in the IRORs in order to deal with the shortcomings

and weak management and operation of reservoir systems in river basins which

cause many urgent matters recently.

- However, some operation objectives and criteria need to be considered and

clarified in terms of scientific base and actual situations. It is needed to special

focuses on inter-reservoir operation for flood control or water supply for

downstream to avoid the inter-reservoirs is operated as single reservoir. It should

assess in a scientific base manner of the operation criteria to ensure proper

capacity of flood control or downstream water supply and harmonization benefits

of electric generation, environment protection and meet water use requirements.

- The existing IRORs have just considered to meet the objectives of flood control

and supplement water sources for downstream uses in specific terms. However,

the provisions on integrated natural resources exploitation, especially water

resources, in reservoirs have not yet mentioned clearly. It is also incapable to

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resolve conflicts of water uses in downstream, especially in the drought and water

shortage time.

- It still lack of institution frame work of provincial level and no decision support

system as required. Therefore, the reservoir operation faces many problems in

reality and the purposes of flood control and downstream water supply has not

yet achieved.

IV. Conclusions and recommendations

- A software of Decision Support System (DSS) should be studied and developed

for inter-reservoir operation. In which, the basic is the connection between

mathematical models of meteorology-hydrology-hydraulic model; economic-

environment model; multi-purpose optimization problem.

- Designate responsibilities of reservoir owners in implementing legal regulations

of water resources management such as developing meteorology-hydrology

observation systems and applying related technology for data collection, save,

and processing; warning and prediction for effective operation of each reservoir

and coordination of inter-reservoir operation.

- Continue to adjust and complete existing IRORs, single reservoir operation

regulation to ensure the inter-reservoir operation throughout the year, do not

separate in flood and dry seasons respectively. Develop new IRORs for the other

remain river basins. The participation of stakeholders and public consultations

are needed during developing inter-reservoir operation regulation.

- Develop a strong enough coordination mechanism, coordinating experts,

managers and reservoir owners to ensure effective implementation of IRORs. In

addition, the mechanisms for coordination, regular monitoring and evaluation of

IWRM in river basins is needed to develop soon. In which state the inter-reservoir

operation for improving effective management, protection, exploitation and use

of water resources, natural resources and environment in reservoir systems.

This workshop results were reported and approved at the workshop.

Hanoi, October, 2015

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Attachment 2. Some pictures of the workshop

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MALAYSIA WATER PARTNERSHIP

Water For Our Future – Post 7th World Water Forum Seminar

The 7th World Water Forum was

held from 12 to 17 April 2015 in

Daegu and Gyeongbuk, South Korea.

Under the theme, ‘Water for our

Future’, the 7th World Water Forum

(7WWF) has chosen

‘implementation’ as the core value

and aims to be the gateway to a new

era of water.

It is also our ‘hope to resolve all

water-related problems and to

promote harmonious use of water for

sustainable development and

management’. The theme ‘Water for

our Future’ stands for our will to

move forward to the future by

implementing solutions to water

challenges of today.

The Water For Our Future – Post 7th World Water Forum Seminar was conducted on the 6th

October 2015 in Dewan Baiduri, Wisma NRE, Putrajaya, Malaysia.

This seminar is organised in collaboration with the Department of Irrigation and Drainage (DID)

Malaysia, with the objectives:

•To share the messages from the 7th World Water Forum to the national level and,

•To get input for the enhancement of Malaysia’s action plans on national water resources

management.

The Seminar was officiated by the Secretary-General of Natural Resources and Environment

Ministry. Approximately 160 participants attended the seminar and they represented the Ministry of

Natural Resources and Environment, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Energy, Green Technology

and Water, Drainage and Irrigation Department, Economic Planning Unit, State Planning Unit,

Town and Country Planning Departments, Forestry Department, Department of Agriculture,

Minerals and Geoscience Department, Local Authorities, State Water Board, Water Supply and

Sewerage Treatment Operators, Engineering, Planning and Environmental Consultancies, National

Research Institutes, Universities, NGOs and the Dutch Embassy.

A total of nine papers sharing the messages from the 7th World Water Forum and one keynote paper

were presented at the Seminar’s opening ceremony and three thematic sessions. The themes of the

three sessions are as follows – (a) Integrated Water Resources Management, (b) Water and Green

Growth and (c) Water-Food-Energy Nexus. Panel discussions were held after each thematic session

presentation.

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The keynote paper at the Seminar, entitled, “7th World Water Forum – Major Outcomes and

Messages”, was delivered by Prof. SoonTak Lee, Co-Chair of the International Steering Committee

of the 7th WWF 2015 and Governor, World Water Council.

Presentations at the Seminar have been uploaded to the MyWP website.

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WACDEP Project 3 – WCPOC5

Community Rainwater-Harvesting For Enhancing Flood And Drought Resilience

The project aims at exploring ways to reduce flood, drought and other climate risks in a community in

Kampung Kuala Sungai Baru, a village in Puchong, Selangor, and also increasing their resilience

towards those hazards.

The selection of the community was based on information from some local authorities and also the

Department of Irrigation and Drainage in the state of Selangor. Kampung Kuala Sungai Baru is one of

the communities in Selangor affected by both floods and water-rationing.

The premise selected for the rainwater harvesting installation is Maahad Tahfiz al Muqri, a small rural

and private or madrasah, Maahad Tahfiz al Muqri, located in Kg Kuala Sg Baru, Puchong, Selangor,

Malaysia, about 20 km away from Kuala Lumpur. Tahfiz is a school where, apart from learning Islamic

teachings, the students learn to memorize the Quran.

The ages of students range from about 8 to 21 years old. The number of the students in the school varies

from time to time due to the nature of the school system. Students may register or leave almost at anytime

of the the year since they pay monthly fees. Thus, the number of students may vary from month to

month. For the purpose of this report, an estimated number of students of about 70 will be used. The

number of teachers and staff also may vary but a safe figure would be about 6.

The following are some of the activities which have been carried out to date:

1. Installation of rainwater harvesting system

Initially planned for 2014, the installation of the rainwaterharvesting system faced few delays due to

unexpected renovation and upgrading works at the school which took many months to complete. They

involved mainly the toilets, the piping system, and wiring which were physically poor, unhygienic, and

unsafe due to lack of maintenance. The issue was made worse by the apparently intentional delays made

by the contractor hired by school whom reportedly had received full payment before his job was

completed.

However, the RWH contractor found it practical to install a gutter first while waiting for the water pump

the renovation works was still in progress. In February 2015, a gutter was installed at one on the

buildings near the toilet.

Due to lack of available safe space, an existing tank on the floor in the washroom was reconstructed and

enlarged to accommodate the rainwater collected. The water was used directly by the students for

secondary purposes.

A water pump was installed by April 22, 2015 to transfer the water to three units of flush latrines whose

water was previously supplied by the main water supply. The teachers and students were briefed on the

apparatus and basic procedures regarding its operations and maintenance. Any major problems due to

the system will be solved by the contractor.

The system was designed in such a way that when the harvested rainwater runs out, water from the

main water supply will automatically flow into the tank to ensure continuous water supply to the

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community. The system may require slightly more modification or adjstment to improve water use

efficiency.

During its operation, the water pump faced two technical problems: one in July and the other in October.

At the time of the report, the water pump is still being repaired and is expected to run again by mid-

November, failing which it will be replaced by a new unit.

The teachers and students were briefed by the project manager and contractor on the system and the

relevant health and safety issues. The main message was that every individual needs to use water

efficiently and wisely even if the water supply is “free” harvested rainwater. They were also strongly

reminded of the benefits of the practice and also the previous water rationing events which have caused

them severe life difficulties.

Discussion groups were also conducted to, among others, allow the children to figure out ways on how

to use water more efficiently. The students were also given educational materials about indivudal roles

in water management and catchment management.

Some even discussed about the possibility of growing vegetables using the rainwater to not only be

consumed by the school community but also selling them to the rural community. The contractor, who

is also an avid vegetable grower also promises to assist in related technical matters, if required.

Apart from flushing the toilets, the harvested rainwater is also used for other secondary purposes mainly

cleaning up the washrooms, the school compund, and the floors especially the dormitories, and cleaning

the students’ feet after evening sporting activities. There have been remote cases of students stubbornly

using it for bathing (since the tank is built so conveniently on the floor) but so far, no health cases have

been reported. Every once in a while the students are reminded to only use the water for other than

drinking and bathing purposes.

In general, the figure for water saving is based upon the water bills received by the school. Before the

installation of the system, the monthly water bill was recorded at about RM2,500. Since the installation

of the system, the water bill has slightly gone down varyingly between about 15% to 25%, a saving of

at least about RM300/month, which is quite significant for the small school. Some of the highest saving

were recorded during the long school holidays in March, May, and September.

Based on discussion with both the teachers and students, it is expected that further significant savings

can be made once the students (and the maintenance workers) are used with the habit of not using tap

water for secondary purposes. The school teachers believe that although time will be required to achieve

this, it won’t take long since the students are still young and easy to capture good habits.

2. Talk and discussion group sessions for the students

Realizing that one-off talks don’t really help in habit changing, a few briefings on smart water use were

held for the students. They were also explained about the system during the installation so that they have

a better picture of not only how the system works but also how it saves water and help to reduce flood

in the area.

(The school is on a slightly higher ground level so doesn’t face any serious flooding problems although

the surroundings area does.)

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3. Distribution of IWRM educational materials amongst the students and teachers

Various educational materials on water management at the individual levels were distributed among the

students and teachers. They are brochures and posters. Due to lack of facilities, the videos can only be

watched during one of the talks. More videos are planned to be shown in the near future.

4. Dialogues with, and visits to the school by, the residents

Dialogues and informal discussions were held between MyWP and the nearby villagers and also with

the school management. Even though the villagers find it beneficial to install the system, they are, in

general, see it as quite costly. Although the return may be good in the long run, the capital investment

is a challenge.

The cheap cost of water is also not very motivating towards such practice. However, water rationing

effects in the future is something that they know they can reduce, if not avoid, using the system. Cheaper

methods of RWH need to be look at e.g. installing a community RWH facility where every family will

invest a small amount of money into it. This is one of the possibilities still in discussion among the

villagers whose premises may be the surau (small mosque), the community hall or even the compounds

of individual houses.

WEST AFRICA

Monthly Report West Africa October 2015

1. Ghana: 7th WACDEP Technical Coordination Workshop held in Accra, Ghana

The Ghana Country Water Partnership (CWP-Ghana) hosted the 7th Technical Coordination

workshop of the Water, Climate and Development Program (WACDEP) from Monday 5th October

to Wednesday 7th October, 2015 at the La-Palm Royal Beach Hotel in Accra. The purpose of the

meeting was to share progress, approaches and lessons learnt in delivering the WACDEP outputs

in the 8 countries rolling out the program. It also served as a platform to discuss the key constraints

and opportunities identified during implementation, and set the stage for scaling up WACDEP

implementation.

There were about eighty (80) participants drawn from GWP Office in Stockholm Sweden, the

Africa Ministerial Council on Water (AMCOW) TAC members from the 8 countries, WACDEP

Coordination Unit in Pretoria, regional and country offices of GWP in Tunisia, Central Africa,

Eastern Africa, West Africa and Southern Africa, the WACDEP Reference Group Members and

other supporting institutions like Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), African

Development Bank (AfDB), International Water Management Institute (IWMI), and Infrastructure

Consortium for Africa (ICA).

The technical coordination meetings of WACDEP are aimed at creating communities of practice

so that regions and countries with commonalties in deliverables can be encouraged to work together

and learn from each other. During this 7th meeting in Accra, in addition to programmatic issues,

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financial issues for the programme and the proposed new WACDEP budget allocations for

countries/regions and guidelines for WACDEP financial and narrative reporting were discussed.

The WACDEP coordination brought support to countries and regions for the development of the

2016 WACDEP Annual Work plans with budgets for the regions and countries.

A major issue also discussed were the capitalization processes going on or to be initiated in the

countries/regions and at the continental and global levels. The meeting noted that a lot of knowledge

products were been developed and the processes in the countries and regions should continue to

allow the continental level develop global products to target high level decisions makers and donors.

Issues related to targets and dissemination channels of the knowledges products from the WACDEP

implementation were also discussed. The workshop also initiated the process of developing

WACDEP Regional Project Documents (2016/17 – 2019) to support the expansion of WACDEP

In attendance were representatives from key partners of WACDEP-Ghana like the Water Resources

Commission (WRC), Ghana Irrigation Development Agency (GIDA), Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA), National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Ministry of Food and

Agriculture (MoFA), Pronet-GHANA, Ministry Of Finance (MOF), and Community Water and

Sanitation Agency (CWSA).

Also present were representatives from media houses like MultiTv, The WASH Times,

Aliveghananews, the Ghana News Agency (GNA), and Hot FM to cover the opening ceremony.

The ceremony was chaired by the Acting Chairman of CWP-Ghana and the Executive Secretary of

Water Resources Commission, Mr. Ben Ampomah with the Minister for Water Resources, Works

and Housing (MWRWH), Hon. (Dr.) Kwaku Agyeman-Mensah delivering the Welcome address.

The workshop was closed by the Deputy of the MWRWH, Hon. Vincent Oppong Asamoah.

This workshop was sponsored by the Global Water Partnership (GWP).

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The chair of Ghana CWP reading the welcome note

Participants to the WACDEP meeting in Accra

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2. Benin, the francophone Youth acting for water hands over White Booklet to authorities The young

parliamentarians acting

through the National Youth

Parliament for Water and

Sanitation (PNJEA) of

Benin, have organized on

Thursday, October 29,

2015, in Cotonou an

official ceremony to

present the White Booklet

to the Beninese authorities.

The PNJEA also seized the

opportunity to distinguish

its godfathers and

godmothers including the

Minister of Water.

Photo 1 : The President of PNJEA handing the White Booklet to the Minister of Water

So much like the White Paper (collection of observations and recommendations on the place of youth

in the governance of water and the environment in order to achieve a more effective involvement of

youth in the fight against problems related to these sectors) that will be produced and delivered to

international decision makers on the occasion of the COP 21, members of the National Youth Parliament

for Water and Sanitation (PNJEA), have managed to develop the Country White Booklet. The White

Booklet is a document that summarizes the findings and recommendations of Benin's youth about their

role in the governance of the water, food security and climate change sectors included in the report of

the consultations carried out by the PNJEA under the project "Francophone youth for water", which was

validated late August 2015 in Cotonou.

Initiated by the Office Franco-Québécois de la Jeunesse (OFQJ) and the Global Water

Partnership (GWP), the project aims to mobilize young water experts on four continents during

international events related to environmental matters, to act both at local and global levels. The project

is implemented with the technical support of GWP West Africa, CWP-Benin and the financial support

of GIZ-Benin. During the ceremony of the White Booklet handing over, the youth read their statement

of commitment and they distinguish several personalities as Godfathers and Godmothers. Several guests

from the water and sanitation sectors the ambassador of France in Benin, the PROSEHA / GIZ

Programme Officer, the Minister of Water, and the chair of Benin CWP attended the ceremony.

Speaking at the closing of the event, the water minister congratulated these young dedicated to the water

sector and all the partners who worked to produce this Photo 3 : The youth reading their commitment

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document that will serve in years to come, as the roadmap with actions to be carried out by the youth

for the youth to safeguard the common good, which is our environment. She also referred to her desire

and determination to work with these young people. Finally, the Minister of Water has committed to

present this PNJEA initiative at the Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State of the Niger Basin Authority

scheduled for November 6, 2015 in Bamako, Mali.

3. The Youth for water Project in Togo

The implementation committee of the youth project in Togo organized a press conference on Tuesday,

October 27 to introduce the National White Paper. The event took place in the presence of

representatives of the government, development partners, youth organizations and the media. It was an

opportunity to initiate other actions, particularly with the Delegation of the European Union in Togo to

support the dissemination of the white paper after the COY11.

The activities of the Youth for Water continue with the preparation of young delegates for their

participation at the COP 21 so they can draft the White Paper to pave the way to bringing the voices of

young people, but especially to help conduct more concrete actions such as creating monitoring

indicators. In West Africa 2 young from Benin and one from Burkina Faso will take part. As a

reminder, national consultations were held in Burkina Faso, Togo and Benin and have produced

shared diagnoses and concerted proposals on the inclusion and the role that the youth can play in water

governance and food security in the context of climate change.

4. Drought Management, Mali national platorm discusses legal and instutional framework

The Mali CWP organized on 29 October 2015 a meeting of drought management stakeholders at

national to set up the platform in the frame work of the Integerated Drought Management Project

(IDMP).

The meeting brought together about twenty people from the CWP Mali, local NGOs, meteorological

services, civil society and government departments in charge of the issues of water resources,

agriculture and climate change.

The discussions focused on the "decision of the establishment and operating procedures of the

Platform for the Integrated Drought Management in Mali (PGISM)". The rules and the statutes for the

establishment of the PGISM were discussed. It was decided at the meeting that the various statutory

documents should be signed by the Ministry of Water and Energy of Mali but the vice-presidency will

be ensured by the representative of Water Aid Mali.

The IDMP Project Manager, Mrs VODOUNHESSI Felicité who took part in the meeting met with the

CWP to raise issues related to the smooth management of the project in Mali. The Chair of the CWP

expressed their willingness to organize the Parteners meeting very soon

5. IDPM WA, moving with the establishment process of the regional platform

A meeting was held on October 27, 2015 in the conference room of GWP West Africa to discuss

issues related to the establishment of the regional platform for stakeholders on drought management in

the region. During this second meeting a presentation was made on various tools that could be used to

ease communication between members of the platform before and when it is set up. Among these tools

were social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc.), Google communication tools, Yammer, etc.

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The participants concerns were on the security of the data through the use of these tools and the

storage limits allowed but the tools were mostly welcome as their are free and can be easily used.

A second presentation made on the structure of the plat from raised questions on the institutionnal

framework to be given to it. The level of participation and accountability issue were also raised.

The participants made some proposals to have a smooth establishment process of the platform. Among

other things it was recommended to develop a roadmap defining the procedures for the

implementation of the Platform before the next meeting (a draft in which each member can contribute;

to recruit a specialist to draft the operating rules in order to find a functional framework for the

organization of the Platform; to ensure institutional linkage of the Platform in order to seek funding for

its sustainability even after the project ends.

Participants at the IDMP meeting in the conference of GWPWAf

6. National workshop for the dissemination and ownership of ECOWAS water

infrastructures guidelines in Côte d’Ivoire

The ECOWAS Water Resources Coordination Center and IUCN have organized on 1 and 2 October

2015 in Abidjan a national workshop on the dissemination and appropriation of the guidelines for the

development of water infrastructure in West Africa. The workshop brought together twenty

participants from the National Assembly, technical ministries and civil society, having a direct interest

in the application of the guidelines. CWP Ivory Coast (PNECI) was represented by its Chair, Mr.

Koffi N'DRI and KOUADIO Francis, the Executive Secretary.

The workshop's overall objective is to contribute to the promotion of good practice at national and

cross-border level in the construction and management of large hydraulic infrastructures, through the

engagement of stakeholders.

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Specifically, the workshop aimed at informing national and local actors on the outputs of the regional

dialogue and discussing the relevance of their declination in each country. It aimed at discussing and

finding the best conditions of declination and local application guidelines and the draft ECOWAS

directives. Issues related to integrating the guidelines and the draft ECOWAS Directive in the national

regulations, policies

and practices the

development of

water infrastructure

across the country

and across borders

were also discussed.

In the

recommendations

made at the end of

the workshop the

CWP Ivory Coast is

in charged of

making the

advocacy with the

Government for

taking decrees for implementing IWRM.

7. Lake Chad Basin and the Mano River Union Stakeholders share experiences

The CWP Ivory Coast took part in the regional

training and management experiences sharing

workshop between the actors of the Lake Chad Basin

and the Mano River Union organized from October 5

to 7, 2015 at the Hotel New Pergola at Abidjan,

Republic of Côte d'Ivoire.

The workshop which brought together actors from

different categories and levels of responsibility in

each of the basins, was meant firstly, to build the

capacity on water governance, negotiation and sharing

of profits and then to foster an exchange of experiences between the participants on specific issues

related to IWRM and its implementation in each catchment basin.

The training was conducted according to an interactive approach in plenary session, punctuated by

technical presentations based on BRIDGE tools developed by IUCN. There were group sessions

follow restitution at the plenary.

The PNECI was represented in this training by its Chair and Executive Secretary. The Minister of

Water, Forestry of Ivory Coast, Mr. Babaud DARRET presided th official ceremony

8. Working visit of the Cahir at the Secretariat and meeting of the budget and finance

committee

The Chair of GWP WAf, Pr. Abel AFOUDA had a working visit at the Secretariat from October 19 to

24, 2015. During his stay on Ouagadougou, the Chair met with the staff to have an update on the

implementation of various activities and give his orientations for finalizing pending issues.

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He was presented the templates for the monitoring and drafting of the work plans, the draft progress

reports of the CORE and the three projects bein implemented (WACDEP, IDMP and Mekrou), the

guidelines for elaborating the budgets lines for 2016. On all these Prof. AFOUDA gave some

orientations. The decision was also taken to convene the virtual meeting of the Steering Committee to

appreciate the various documents and give orientations to the Secretariat. This meeting will be done

early in November 2015.

During his stay in Ouagadougou, the Chair and some staff met with WASCAL officials to discuss

their inolvement in the implementation of the Mekrou scientific activities and also with the Director of

the ECOWAS Water Resources Coordination Center which is one of the most important partner of

GWP in the region.

To prepare the SC meeting, the members of the Budget and Finance Committee met to examine all

documents that should be submitted to the Steering Committee members and give their opinions to

ease the decision taking process for the SC members. The Budget and Finance Committee is an Adhoc

committee of three SC members set up to help the Secretariat better prepare SC meetings. They met on

October 24, 2015. After a thorough examination of the documents to be transmitted to the Steering

Committee, the CBF made some recommendations that will be transmitted to the SC members. But

they have noticed in their report a good level of implementation of activities (CORE, IDMP,

WACDEP and Mekrou) desspite some constraints and difficulties and have given advices to the

Secretariat accordingly.

The SE staff with the Chair of GWP WAf

9. Benin : the CWP trains local actors to advocacy

After the Municipal / Communal and Local elections which took place in Benin leading to the renewal

of decision-making bodies at municipal level, the CWP Benin has initiated a training session on the

advocacy techniques for local water stakeholders. The participants included members of the National

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Association of Users of the national portion of the Niger Basin (UNA-Benin, the Consultation

Framework of non-state actors in the water sector and sanitation (Canea), the Local Water

Partnerships (PLE) of Mono and Couffo, the Consumers Associations of Drinking Water (CAPE) and

the social intermediation NGOs

This initiative is part of the support brought by the Benin CWP to the municipalities for their good

governance and the development of the water and sanitation sector. The training aims to focus on the

mechanisms that can influence the decisions process of local officials on the one hand and WASH

policy implementation both at local and national levels on the other.

About thirty people from 10 communes from regions of the North, the Centre and the South - West of

Benin. CWP Benin will support in the implementation of work plans developed by participant

organizations.

View of participants during group sessions in Benin

10. Adapting to Climate Change, the Benin CWP trains women to the use of the economic

stove "WANROU"

In order to support the Municipal Association of Users of natural resources of the Niger Basin of

Péhunco (ACU-Péhunco) to implement a micro-project for the mobilization and the integrated

management of resources of the Beket reservoir, the community of Beket in the town of Péhunco

received a 10-day training session in September 2015 on the construction and use of economic

Wanrou stoves. Indeed, this micro-project is in line with the "Shared Vision for the preservation of the

Niger Basin ecosystem for its sustainable development" and the "promotion of IWRM in the national

portion of Niger Basin" of the WASH-Benin Program.

Group picture of participants to the training Women designing stoves themselves

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The main objective of this training session is to reduce pressure from women on forest resources

through the collection of firewood.

This training was organized by the Country Water Partnership of Benin (CWP Benin) with the support

of the Dutch WASH Alliance through the Benin-WASH program.

In all as results of this training, 33 women and youth were trained on the construction technique of

improved stoves "wanrou" in Beket and on environmental preservation issues; 5 construction kits were

given so that other women in the village can be made aware; 22 training pads were distributed to the

trainees; 22 couples of stoves were built in the village during the training; 4 village instructors sub

committees of at least 8 members have been set up in the districts of Dabarou, Tokoro, Boroo and

Gnon Mairou in Beket; the group of women and young people trained, representing the Village

Committee of instructors of Beket was installed with the support of the village chief and members of

the Management Committee of the water reservoir of Beket; 20 other households have benefited from

the economic stoves a week after the training on the initiative of trained instructors.

11. Mekrou Project, following up the implementation of activities

Many Studies to be carried early 2016 Terms of References (ToRs) were developed and launched in

all the three countries for biding. Some offers have already been received and each CWP as well as the

regional coordination are following closely.

The project has also requested from each country to submit a proposal of pilot project to be carried in

the framework of the Mekrou. Proposals have been received from Burkina, Niger and Benin is still to

submit.

The Project Manager, Mr. Corneille AHOUANSOU is supposed to take part to the meeting of the

Niger Basin Authority (NBA) in Bamako, Mali from November 2 to 5, 2015. Prior to this meeting the

Draft cooperation framework agreement for the promotion of political dialogue in the Mekrou

transboundary basin was submitted to the Executive Secretary of the NBA. This cooperation

framework agreement will be signed later.

A draft report of the monitoring and operational planning manual has been submitted by the consultant

and WASCAL will be associated to the implementation of the scientific activities of the project in the

region.