The GWP immediate objective is to ensure that Integrated Water Resources Management is applied in a growing number of countries and regions, as a means to foster equitable and efficient management and sustainable use of water.
GWP intents to pursue this agenda with realism and persistence. IWRM is not a science, and blueprint solutions for managing water resources will never be available.The Dublin Conference in 1992 was seminal in introducing key guiding principles. Operationalizing these principles has proved difficult and highly dependent on the contexts encountered.
One of the ongoing challenges for GWP is to communicate beyond the water community. Adding perspectives certainly brings complexity, not least by forcing a refined analysis of the incentives for changes of a variety of new actors - it is nevertheless, the only way for building real communities for change and improvement.
GWP is about IWRM and partnership. A process of change and a way of working based on commonality of Goals, Respect and Pluralism. |
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MONTHLY REPORT - February |
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GWP South East Asia - 19th Steering Committee Meeting
The GWP-SEA 19th Steering Committee Meeting was held from 24-26th February 2010 at Rex Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City – Vietnam. This first GWP SEA Steering Committee Meeting in 2010 take place on 24th and 25th February and continued by a field visit in the afternoon , and a Technical Discussion on The Role of GWP – SEA in WRM Policy, Legal and Institutional Reform on the following day, 26th February 2010.
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NOVEMBER 2009 REPORT - SOUTHEAST ASIA
GWP-SEA participation in a meeting with ADB
GWP-SEA together with GWP South Asia participated in a meeting between GWP and Asian Development Bank (ADB) in New Delhi, India, on 2 -3 November 2009. The meeting discussed current and prospective work programs on both sides.A fter
discussiona, framework programo for cooperation was agreed. The principal elements of this framework are:
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3 November 2009
Water evaporates from the climate change negotiating text
Governments, UN agencies, international NGOs and civil
society advocates gathered at a Water Day in Barcelona today,
to urge negotiators toconsider the critical role that water plays
in climate change adaptation.
Participants called for recognition that water is not a sector but is
the primary medium through which climate changes will impact
on humanpopulations, society and ecosystems, due to predicted
changes in itsquality and quantity. The way that water is managed
in and betweencountries will be a critical component for the success
of any efforts to adapt to the impacts of climate change. It will also
be a vitalconsideration for many mitigation activities,
including hydropower,agriculture and forestry projects.
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Indonesia Water Partnership
On 9 December 2009 Indonesia Water Partnership organized Multi stakeholders dialogue on Role Sharing and Coordination in WRM , as a peak event after two rounds of smaller scale meetings addressing the subject. The dialogue was held in Sapta Taruna Hall of Ministry of Public Works and attended by 59 participant from all water resources sectors.
Conclusion of the dialogue :
- When positive progress have been achieved, there is a clear need to continuously develop commong perception and interpretation on the implementation of Water Resources Law and the related legislations at river basin level;
- It is also very important to accelerate the development of strategic plans for river basin water resources development and management, and to accelerate the formation of River Basin Councils in all river basins in the country not later than 2010 ;
- Considering the maginitude of challenges to implement IWRM related to the size of the country and the rising demands it is important to study the necessity of restructuring water management organization nationally. It is indicated that IWRM can be implemented more effectively if some functions presently spread in different Ministries can be integrated under one new Ministry of Water Resources. It is expected that a more definitive recommendation can be prepared for the preparation of a new Cabinet Government in 2014.
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6TH APWF GOVERNING COUNCIL MEETING |
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30 November 2009 - NOTES OF IMPORTANT POINT
1. Asia Pacific Water Minister Forum (APWMF)
· This will be organized as a follow up of previous declarations (Beppu and Istanbul), especially to accelerate concrete actions
· Will be held in Singapore during SIWW, on 28 June 2010 (SIWW Venue for 2010 will be in Marina Bay and Shangrila Hotel,not in Suntec Complex)
· Invitations have been sent to 24 Ministers, and more will be sent to other water ministers in AP region
· SEA list of ministers is expected to be completed
2. APWF presentation in APWMF
· APWF Secretariat is preparing a 30 minutes presentation for the ministerial meeting
· Draft will be finalized on 30 April 2010 and circulated to all
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