Transcript IUCN WESCANA - World Water Forum

REGIONAL WATER AND
DRYLANDS PROGRAMME
REWARD
IUCN Regional Office for West Asia
ROWA
IUCN ROWA
REWARD
REWARD = multi-donor and multi –project programme
REWARD is core funded by DGCS/Italy through the
WESCANA Regional Water Project (2006-2009)
Other funding thus far:
WANI+SAIC + UNDP + EU + GEF: Jordan
WANI + GWP + INWENT: Regional
WANI + GEF: Egypt + Palestine
(WANI = IUCN Water and Nature Initiative – core funding from DGIS/Netherlands)
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REWARD
GOAL
• Develop Systemic approaches to planning and
management of water resources on a
watershed/river basin basis
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Regional Water Programme
With special attention to
• Developing practical methodologies
• Influencing policies through networks
• Poverty alleviation and gender
• Involvement of all stakeholders
(including local communities)
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As well as attention to
• Environmental concerns and watershed
dynamics (down/up stream effects) and
interaction with ground water management
• Potential use of DSTs
• Economic analysis that takes into account
environmental services
• Climate change
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The programme is build on two pillars:
1) A Regional Water Knowledge Network
Networking, shared learning, capacity building, policy
influencing
2) Demonstration projects
Testing on the ground of approaches in selected
watersheds, strengthening the RWKN
RWKN Development
• Management of water
resources in mountain
watersheds.
• Management of oasis and
the related ground water
resources.
• Management of water
resources in large river
systems (with an emphasis
on irrigation/drainage
management).
• Management of water
resources in urban waterscarce environments
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Members of the Regional Network:
Regional/Global:
AWC/Egypt, CEDARE/Egypt, ACSAD/Syria,
INWRDAM/Jordan,
GWP-MED/Greece, IRC/NL, UNESCO/Cairo,
ELC/Germany,
IUCN-WANI/Swiss and other IUCN Regions
others ….
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Members of the Regional Network:
National (established)
MMW/Oman, PME/Saudi Arabia,
Yemen: MWE, MoA, WEC, SDF
Egypt: MWRI, MoA, CEOSS, CARE Egypt,
Palestine: MoA, PWA, PHG, UAWC
Jordan: MoE, MWI, MoA, MoP, RSCN, JoHud, JRF, JES.
Lebanon: SPNL (society of the protection of Nature in Lebanon)+
MADA
National (targeted)
Institutions in Maghreb, Central Asia and other countries of
West Asia (Iran, Lebanon, Syria, UAE, ………)
Ground water Sub-Network/Dialogue
• Facts:
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Severe water scarcities;
High over-exploitation of ground water resources;
Deterioration of water quality;
Low conjunctivity of ground, surface and rainwater;
Few alternative options for water resources
(desalinization; use of treated waste water.
– High environmental negative impact on ecosystems and
human development of not dealing well with
environmental flows and conjunctive use of all water
resources.
Ground water Sub-Network/Dialogue
• In a context of strong economic development, population
growth and increasing demand for (quality) water; there
is:
 Critical need for approaches, tools and policies to
propose long-term solutions for management and
monitoring of groundwater and other water resources.
• This Dialogue will be put in the larger perspective of
IWRM but focus on groundwater and its conjunctive use
and management with other water resources (surface
water, rainwater, use of waste water, desalinization of
saline water).
Ground water Sub-Network/Dialogue
Focus
• Developing tools and approaches for planning and
management (stakeholder dialogue, participatory
planning, ground water toolkits, system tools).
• Developing instruments for economic analysis that take
into account environmental and social dimensions of
environmental flows and their impact on ecosystems and
human development.
• Interaction with similar initiatives in other regions where
ground water management and conjunctive use are
critical issues (a.o. through the IUCN Global Water
Programme: IUCN Water and Nature Initiative (WANI).
• Recommendations for policy reform that builds on above
approaches and instruments.
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Demonstration projects in the region
Initiated:
Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Yemen
+ Lebanon
Potential:
Iran, Saudi Arabia and Morocco
(dependent on additional funding)
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The programme builds on the EMPOWERS
experience gained in the last years in the
Middle East with :
• Participatory Water Planning Cycle (PWPC)
• Stakeholder Dialogue and Concerted Action
• (SDCA)
SDCA = vertical + horizontal stakeholder
dialogue, planning and action
National Level
Intermediate level
(governorate/district)
Steering committee
Government, universities,
civil society
Governorate level
teams
Local government, line
ministries, NGOs
Village Level NGO
Village water
committee(s)
Women, agricultural,
domestic, CBOs …
Facilitation
teams
Facilitation
Documentation
Technical support
Capacity building
Participatory Water Planning
Cycle
Steps and Activities
Visioning: Initial visioning and problem identification
Assessing: Targeted data collection and analysis; creation of a shared
information base
Strategizing: Scenario building and development of strategies to meet
the vision under different scenarios
Planning: Detailed planning based on most likely scenarios and related
strategies
Implementing: Execution of plans and (pilot) projects
Reflecting: analysis of monitoring and process documentation to
inform further planning cycles
Visioning
Awareness
raising
Develop initial
scenarios
Stakeholder
analysis
Identify
problems
Develop future
vision
Water resource assessments
Social analysis
Awareness
raising
Visioning
Assessing
Analysis
Monitoring
Strategising
Implementing
Planning
Gather
information
Quality
control
Visioning
Assessing
Monitoring
Strategising
Implementing
Planning
Strategizing
Planning
Finalise plans
Analyse costs
and impacts
Stakeholder
analysis
Awareness
raising
Select
activities
Identify
actors and
roles
Develop detailed
strategies
Finalise vision
& scenarios
Select primary
scenario
Test
strategies
and vision
Develop
broad
strategies
Thank you