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Introduction and overviewof the Conference
Josefina Maestu
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The Context
• Climate Change• Population Growth• Food needs • Energy
GREATER NEEDS FOR COOPERATION
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There Are Many Benefits!
• For equity and poverty reduction • For development-economic benefits • For the environment• For Peace
We will hear about this in the side event of lunch time of today
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In Zaragoza
• We have decided to go a step further and deal with the "how" question.
• This is: what are the tools for cooperation (legal, institutional, financial, information and knowledge sharing, benefit sharing, and dispute resolution mechanism)? and how they are implemented in practice?
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Tools For Cooperation Are Critical Because
• Water is Complex
• The water sector “is not an island”
• There are Links between Water and Land and biodiversity
• There are many countries, groups and organizations with responsibilities, making it difficult for a single organization to be effective on its own.
• Water Problems do not originate solely in the sector’s institutions (policies, laws, traditions, organization) and nor can they be solved by water institutions alone.
• Water management is always tied to land management and influenced by urban planning. Biodiversity underpins water security
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What Tools to Further Cooperation?
• Legal frameworks and institutional arrangements• Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms• Information sharing and joint assessments• Financing water cooperation
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We have considerable advances in the global legal and institutional framework for cooperation
• The Water Conventions• Creation of Transboundary Commissions
We will hear about this in the next presentation
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The Focus of the Conference
• We will be drawing lessons specifically from specific experiences on the use of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.
• The conference will highlight the importance of mediation, water diplomacy, negotiation at transnational but also at national and local level.
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Themes and focus areas
Themes:• Mediation• Participatory approaches• Water diplomacy
Focus areas:• Transboundary cooperation• River basin cooperation among stakeholders• Rural areas (irrigation associations and community initiatives)• Cities (business, water operators, local actors)
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Why are we here?
• Insuring cooperation requires that we have to learn to do a lot better in negotiation and dispute resolution and to learn a lot faster than we have in the past.
• Across the world, we can share with each other a number of common approaches that can help.
• Inspiring participants to do ‘better’ highlighting some of the crucial ingredients for success in negotation and dipute resolution.
• Identify the general and locally specific difficulties, challenges, barriers and failures that we cannot ignore and can learn from.
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A cooperative effort
The conference is hosted by the Ebro River Basin Authority (CHE), and organized by the UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC) in collaboration with:• UNESCO’s International Hydrological Programme (IHP)• United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNEC• Global Compact CEO Water Mandate• Global Water Operators’ Partnership Alliance (GWOPA)/UN-
Habitat• International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)• International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC)• E)• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)• World Bank
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COOPERATION EXPERIENCES
Europe: Sava, Basin, Tizsa, Basin Spain/Portugal, Russia/Finland, Decentralised countries in Europe,
Asia: Jordan, india, Myanmar
Africa: Etiopia, Kenia, Madagascar, Morroco, South Africa, Senegal Basin
Latin America: Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala
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Participants
Over 120 participants will attend the Conference among which:
• Key experts in water cooperation• Representatives from government authorities• Representatives from cases• UN-Water partner organizations
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Outputs
The Conference contributes to the IYWC and WWD 2013 by producing:
• Documented cases on the practical implementation of tools and approaches
• A synthesis on lessons learnt on approaches for dispute resolution (ADR) and on improving water cooperation
• Proceedings of the conference capturing the main debates and discussions, include shared lessons
• Prepare information briefs and visual materials to be used during the international year
• Feedback on the main messages for World Water Day 2013.
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Programme day 1
Water cooperation: nations and stakeholders. Making it happen!
• Opening and welcome• Session 1: Furthering water cooperation between nations and between
stakeholders: making it happen!• Lunch time side event: World Water Day 2013 “Cooperation: the fundament
of global water goals”• Workshop Water Game
Side events:• World Water Week 2013 (SIWI)• The UN Global Compact: CEO Water Mandate and the Water Action Hub
20:30 Official Welcome at the Aljafería – Parliament of Aragon
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Programme day 2
Water cooperation in rural areas and cities. Making it happen!
• Session 2: Furthering water cooperation in rural areas: making it happen!• Session 3: Techniques and models to further water cooperation to improve
water efficiency and water services in cities• Wrap up and take away lessons
Side events:
Intensively developed aquifers (Botín Foundation Water Observatory)
Informal meeting on the Post-2012 and ODS process (UNICEF, UN-Water)
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Programme day 3
Water cooperation in Spain- Side Event
• Overview• Strengths and weaknesses according to different actors • Other cooperation formulas
Field Visits:
Zaragoza water Cluster
Irrigation Cooperative of Riegos del Alto Aragon.
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The conference design
• An open event (through webcast and Twitter);• An interactive event (though the design in interview style plenary and
facilitated game and working group sessions);• An all inclusive event (so that all of us will be given the opportunity to
have their say in plenary and in small and very small groups); • Inspiring (through the examples provided by the actors in cooperation) • And specially as a learning space about how to make cooperation
happen (by being given an opportunity of reflecting on our own experience and enough time for enquiring on the how to improve cooperation)
• A practical event with a focus on “take home” lessons on what would work for us.
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Engaging all in the conference
ALL in Small (and very small) Group work and the Water Game
Sharing and reflecting on what helped in successful experiences
Presenters and panelists/ Interviewees
Providing insights and examples for all to discuss and reflect on
Facilitators/Chairs/
InterviewersTo help Focus on results, Key Points & Animation
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RecapTo highlight to key ideas
Side events
(5)
To provide a platform to share other experiences in greater depth
EARLY MORNINGS
Field Visits
(5)
To show “cooperation in action” in the city and in rural areas
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A Communicating ConferenceCommunications at the Conference:• Daily newsletter• Webcast (via Conference website) and video of the Conference• Twitter (#IYWC)• Interviews• Video Interviews• Press conferences and press notes• Press articles
On the Conference website you can find:
- Information briefs
- Overview papers
- Cases papers and summaries
- Interviews
www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/water_cooperation_2013/
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What’s Next?
Milestone events on water cooperation in 2013:
• 11th of February: Kick-off Meeting of the International Year - UNESCO HQ Paris, France
• 22 March: World Water Day - The Hague, The Netherlands• 22 March: High-level dialogue at UN General Assembly - New York• August: High-level international conference - Dushanbe, Tajikistan• September: World Water Week ‘Water Cooperation – Building
Partnerships’ - Stockholm, Sweden• 9 -11 October: Budapest Water Summit - Hungary
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We would like to ask you…
• To contribute to the IYWC by reviewing the lessons learnt overview and information briefs and send us your comments
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Most important: we hope this conference will have an IMPACT for
your work and basin, with “take home” practical ways of improving cooperation