Nataliya NikiforovaUNECE

Ensuring implementation of the Water-related SDGs through the Existing Regional Platforms

(UNECE Region)

Overview presentation

6 essential elements for delivering SDGs

Development of the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda

Process Unprecedented global

consultations High-level panels UN Global Compact Regional Commissions other inputs

Open Working Group17 Goals

Goal 6 : Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all…and other water-related goals

Way forward 2015 - year for global

action: Member States to negotiate final parameters of post-2015 agenda

Mobilizing implementation means (legal frameworks, financing, technology, capacity building)

Data collection, monitoring, evaluation and reporting

Water-related challenges in UNECE Region

UNECE – United Nations Economic Commission for

Europe but what is Europe?

Not only European Union, but includes all ex-Soviet Union countries

Not a peaceful continent

Not a homogeneous continent in terms of economic development

Not a water-problem free continent

•Population growth

•Competing uses

•Uneven economic development

•Disparities in access

•Lack of capacity

•Collecting and monitoring data

•Disaster risks

•Conflicts over water resources…

•Institutional and legal cooperation frameworks

•Nexus approach – water, food, energy, ecosystems

•Integrated water resources management

•Human right to water and sanitation

•Harmonized systems for reporting and monitoring

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Existing and Future Challenges and Possible Tools

Presentations and Panel Discussion

Describing the potential role to be played by the existing regional platforms to support the implementation of SDGs at different levels:

UNECE Water Convention: from regional to global instrument, and its implementation on the ground (Minna Hanski, Ministerial Adviser, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland)

Reporting under the Protocol on Water and Health and the EU Directives(Luis Simas, Portuguese Water and Waste Services Regulation Authority (ERSAR))

Cooperation mechanisms in Central Asia: achievements and challenges(Iskandar Abdullaev, Executive Director, Regional Environmental Center for Central Asia (CAREC))

Intersectoral cooperation to support implementation of SDGs at basin level (Raimund Mair, International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River )