UNDP’s work and role promoting Water Governance in Europe & CIS Towards a new Regional Programme “Applying a Human Rights-based Approach (HRBA) to Water Governance” Juerg.

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UNDP’s work and role promoting Water Governance in Europe & CIS

Towards a new Regional Programme “Applying a Human Rights-based Approach (HRBA) to Water Governance”

Juerg Staudenmann Water Governance Advisor

United Nations Development Programme

Bratislava Regional Centre – Europe & CIS Water-CoP Meeting 2008 - Bucharest 14 May 2008

Overview UNDP’s mandate & Water Governance strategy Water as key driver for Human Development UNDP’s work in Europe & CIS region Why a new programme?

UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre 2 Water-CoP Meeting 2008 - Bucharest 14 May 2008

UNDP’s mandate

“The UN's global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life”

MDGs as overarching framework / coordinator of UN Development Group – over 160 Country Offices (UN country team) – National, regional and global projects (UNDP and joint) UNDP Strategic Plan: 1 pillar on “Environment & Sustainable Development” – Mainstreaming ESD into development – Facilitating financing and access to environmental services (at local level  pro-poor) – Promoting adaptation to climate change 

“Water and Sanitation”

as priority area of intervention! Water-CoP Meeting 2008 - Bucharest 14 May UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre 3 2008

Why Water

Governance

?

Key HDR 2006 findings: – Water & sanitation is essential for

life and livelihoods

– Water & sanitation are disparities between

key drivers

to achieve majority of MDGs – “Global Water Crisis” is a crisis for the poor and marginalized (large

rural and urban

areas, but also between

poor and privileged

parts of society) – Even lower political commitment to

sanitation and hygiene

(2.6 billion people lacking access; 1.8 million child deaths/year) – Climate Change will add another dimension – The growing “Water Crisis” is a problem of

Water Governance

, not so much of lacking water resources or population growth Key recommendations: – Make water a human right – legislatively – Support national strategies for IWRM, water and sanitation (incl. empowerment of the poor, gender, climate change, …) – Advocate for increase of international aid (+ USD 3-4 billion/year = ODA x2) UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre 4 Water-CoP Meeting 2008 - Bucharest 14 May 2008

UNDP’s Water Governance strategy

Reduce poverty and vulnerability, enhance livelihoods, and protect environmental resources through “

adaptive water governance

”, by supporting countries to: – achieve equitable allocation and efficient water resources management – – achieve or exceed the water supply and sanitation MDGs enhance regional and global cooperation, peace, security and socio-economic development. … through: 1.

ational strategies

for equitable management of water 2.

Local action

on water and sanitation Cooperation on

Transboundary Waters

Adaptation to

climate change

Global and regional

advocacy

Across

: Capacity development; Gender equality; Human rights based approach UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre 5 Water-CoP Meeting 2008 - Bucharest 14 May 2008

Water as key to achieve the MDGs

Almost all MDGs cannot be achieved

if water fails!

– Child mortality & maternal health – Education-sanitation nexus (adequate facilities for girls; health) – Gender equality (reduced vulnerability) – Water – poverty nexus (enhanced livelihood security; pro-poor economic growth; health – work force link) Transboundary Interdependence 90% of population in countries with shared river basins Competing demands for water means the poor will lose out on all fronts unless we – Change and improve “water governance” – Be prepared to adapt to (climate) change

Successfully tackling the WSS crises could trigger next leap forward in human development !

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WSS – Human Development

link

120 100 80 60 40 20 0 0

Y HDI HDI HDI HDI

0.2

0.4

0.6

Hum an Developm ent Index

0.8

X % access water (2004) % access sanitation (2004) % GDP Health (2003) % GDP Education (2003)

1 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 0 0.2

0.4

0.6

0.8

Hum an Developm ent Index

R-squared 0.631406

0.73256

0.352122

0.401594

2008 1.2

UNDP’s Water Governance portfolio in the Europe & CIS region

Regional projects: – GEF-implementing agency – Transboundary Water Management (e.g. Danube/Black Sea, Dnipro, Caspian Sea, Kura-Aras, ...) National / local project: – IWRM – National and participatory planning & implementation (e.g. Kazakhstan, new CA-project) – WSS (e.g. BiH, Tajikistan, Armenia) – Mainstreaming “water-activities” in rural development (e.g. Crimea, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan), Climate change & energy-reform (e.g. Albania, Bulgaria), biodiversity conservation (e.g. Macedonia, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Hungary, …) – Private sector involvement (e.g. UNDP-Coca Cola Partnership “Every Drop Matters” in Croatia, Kazakhstan, Romania, Turkey, …) 2008

Working in partnership

UNECE / WHO / bilateral partners: Protocol on Water & Health / HRBA EC / EUWI / UNECE / OECD: “Common Framework for Addressing Water Issues in Central Asia” UNECE / OSCE / RECs: Environment & Security Initiative Cap-Net / GWP: Capacity building, networking, stakeholder platforms Stockholm Water Governance Facility / SIWI: expertise & support (e.g. “water intelligent reports”) UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre 9 Water-CoP Meeting 2008 - Bucharest 14 May Local and bilateral partners: Projects and concrete action on the ground! 2008

Knowledge Management & UNDP Water Community of Practice (CoP) Knowledge Management Platform:

WaterWiki

( http://WaterWiki.net

)

– A Wiki-platform (like Wikipedia) with projects, Who is who, reports, articles, etc. – Currently under revision (upgrade, new features, new content, Russian translations, expansion) –

Idea

: Dynamic linking, e.g. with UNECE River Basin Assessment, EC Guideline on Water, etc. Water-CoP Meeting 2008 - Bucharest 14 May 2008 UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre 10

Why a new programme?



Situation in RBEC

NOT to achieve the water supply or sanitation MDGs ( in progress ): WSS Plan / ..in UNICEF / Status of IWRM achieve. Water / PRSP / ..in UNEP / MDG-S Planning / Sanitation MDG UNDAF country / Span planned UNDP MDG-F support Armenia OK / n.d. Y / YN / NN Y / .. / N / N 1 / GEF-IWRM Azerbaijan 78.3 / n.d. Y / ?? / na Y / .. / N / N 3 / GEF-IWRM Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkey Turkmenistan Uzbekistan OK / 83.1 76.9 / 64.1 OK / n.d. 83.5 / 85.4

OK / n.d. 79.3 / 89.9

Y / YY / YY Y / YY / na Y / YY / na Y / YY / na Y / NN / YN Y / YY / na N / .. / N / N N / .. / N / N Y / .. / Y / N N / .. / N / Y 1 / exist. proj 2 / new reg proj 2 / new reg proj na (?) / N N / .. / N / N 2 / EUWI? N / .. / N / N 2 / new nat proj Water-CoP Meeting 2008 - Bucharest 14 May 2008 UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre 11

Why a new programme linking Water Governance with Human Rights?

Taking the opportunity!  Special (favorable) regional context with the

Protocol on Water & Health

Aim:  Establish a regional umbrella, which – is closely linked to emerging activities (foremost under the Protocol on Water & Health) – serves as basis to build strong partnerships – supports the identification of “niches” to develop concrete interventions to apply a HRBA Ultimate objective:  Develop and implement

concrete projects at national and local level

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Thank you!

For further information visit:

http://WaterWiki.net