The
next WWF (Marseille, 12-17 March 2012) aims at developing concrete solutions that illustrate how water
can contribute to tackle the challenges currently faced by our planet.
Based on the outcomes of the June 2010 Kick-Off meeting, the
International Forum Committee (IFC) Board adopted a thematic framework
organised around 12 Priorities for Action and 3 Conditions for Success, one of them being "Good Governance".
The
2nd Stakeholder Consultation Meeting – held on 17-18 January 2011 in
Paris – formulated a series of targets and yielded a list of volunteer
organisations willing to contribute to the preparation of the Forum and
of key organisations to be involved in the future steps. The final list
of targets in the field of governance is following.
The Governance
Core Group seeks to propose concrete, measurable and achievable
solutions in terms of (i) effective public governance and institutions,
(ii) integrated water resources management and (iii) better integrity
and transparency in the water sector. To do so, it is building on
existing evidence, tools, methodologies, experimentations, and good
practices worldwide to design realistic roadmaps and action plans:
including
diagnostic tools to identify institutional, legislative and regulatory
bottlenecks and adopt relevant place-based policy responses;
encouraging decision-making that integrate actors at international, national, local, basin and sub-basin levels;
fostering the adoption of relevant mechanisms capacity building, monitoring and evaluation;
enhancing
IWRM based on national frameworks, implemented at different
hydrological levels, and integrating a clear vision of water resources
uses, evolutions, quantity and quality;
promoting relevant instruments for water security diagnoses in view of demographic, geographic and urbanisation challenges;
supporting
the promotion of integrity while mapping potential corruption risks and
sharing nation-specific experience in tackling them.
Given
the broadness of your respective institutions’ expertise and their
demonstrated capacity to mobilize partners in the process of
implementing actions, I think it is essential to count you as key
players in the preparatory process. Therefore, I would like to invite
you to join the good governance group as contributors to the targets
below described. Your role would consist in participating in ongoing
discussions within the multi-stakeholder group, and share your
knowledge/practices to enrich them until the WWF takes place (design of
action plans) and beyond the Forum (implementation of action plans).
|
Effective Public Governance – Target 1: By 20xxx, x countries will have adopted institutionalized and informed participation mechanisms allowing stakeholders (local authorities, NGOs, users) to influence decision-making at all relevant scales and in an integrated manner. Temporary contact: Suez Environnement, Alexandre Brailowsky |
|
Effective Public Governance – Target 2: By 20xx, all countries will have adopted governance tools, indicators and mechanisms for performance measurement (service delivery) to monitor and evaluate water policies; and all countries will have put in place at national and local level processes for capacity building on the governance tools application. Contact: ASTEE, Pierre-Alain Roche |
|
IWRM – Target 3: By 2021, increase by 30% the number of river basin management plans (analysis of initial status and main issues). Contact: INBO, Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug |
|
IWRM – Target 4: By 20xx, increase the number of country with water security diagnoses and governance tools, based on existing (local, national, international) regulatory and legislative frameworks and IWRM mechanisms. Contact: UNESCO, Alice Aureli |
|
Integrity & Transparency – Target 5: By 20xx, X countries will have committed to promote integrity in the water sector, diagnose/map existing or potential corruption risks, and ensure that anti-corruption policies are well implemented and effective. Contacts: TI-WIN, Frances Bellaubi (TISDA/TI Berlin) – Alexandra Malmqvist (WIN) |
|
Integrity & Transparency – Target 6: By 20xx, have all countries set-up guidelines for a mechanism to provide public information about a. Water infrastructure plans and investment projects(financial, technical, and socioeconomic impacts); and b. Approaches, methods and tools for improving governance of water resources and cost-effective service delivery. SIWI, Kakan Tropp |
To
participate in the governance preparatory process: contact directly the
target solution group coordinators as referred to below with copy to Aziza Akhmouch – Core Group on Good Governance