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Global Water Partnership Central and Eastern Europe
A water secure world - the mission of the Global Water Partnership is to support the sustainable development and
management of water resources at all levels.
The region of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), covered by GWP, has a total area of over 2.03 million km2 and is mostly located in the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea basins.
Rivers in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland discharge their flows to the EasternBaltic Sea. The second group of countries – Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine - is located in the Danube, Dniester and Dnieper River basins which flowsinto the Black Sea.
Water resources in the CEE region are important for the development of its countries, providing water for consumption, sanitation, irrigation, industrial use, navigation, fishing, recreation,and other purposes. Ecosystems depending on water form the backbone of the region’s biodiversity including lakes, river basins, wetlands, coastal areas and groundwater. Throughout the region, many water ecosystems have suffered from degradation or are threatened by pollution, overuse of surface and groundwater and habitat loss.
The application of integrated approaches to water management, use and development, which meets the demands of the population, and satisfies the needs of water ecosystems,remains a key challenge.
Countries of Central and Eastern Europe have a long history of water management and water related legislation dating back to the end of the 18th century. The traditional fragmented or so- called sector approach has its limitations in the sense that it does not support mutual cooperation, communication and common solutions with stakeholders and the participation of the public. In addition to purely technical solutions for the protection and use of water resources, authorities should apply modern management principles including landscape planning, communication and conflict resolution. This integratedapproach can only be implemented through consultation and the exchange of experiences and expertise of all involved parties.
Programmes and actionGWP Central and Eastern Europe consists of twelve country water partnerships that provide an inclusive and neutral platform for stakeholders. With the enlargement of the European Union in January 2007, ten countries in the region are EU members. This opens up the opportunity for new joint
Global Water Partnership Central and Eastern Europe
ventures within the union. The country water partnerships also act as IWRM facilitators in the non-EU countries.
The programme objective is to support countries with integrated approaches to more sustainable water resources development, management and use. Over the next years, GWP Central and Eastern Europe in line with its 2009-2013 Strategy plans to undertake several initiatives including increased multi-sectoral dialogues, and raising political will for adoption of integrated water resources management (IWRM) principles.
Dialogues GWP CEE supports countries of the region in the development and implementation of sound water resource management practices. Its principal work is to organize national and regional dialogues and synthesize their results into regional reports. In 2006-2007, Country Water Partnerships organised a series of IWRM National Policy Dialogues. They reflected priorities on the national levelranging from river basin planning, sustainable sanitation, water governance and cross sectoral cooperation. As to the outcomes, the dialogues led to common declarations with governments, changes in legislation and strengthening cooperation with major stakeholders. Ukrainian participants proposed that IWRM Implementation Strategy should become a part of National Environmental Strategy. In Romania, for example, a Common Declaration considers IWRM as overarching aim to which European Union water related directives contribute and create synergic effects.
Tool Box The GWP ToolBox is a free and open database with a library of case studies and references to support broad audiences in implementing IWRM principles. To facilitate knowledge sharing in the area of water management, GWP provides the IWRM ToolBox, an online database with a library of case studies and references. In GWP CEE the ToolBox focuses on the documentation of successful case studies, capacity building and knowledge management. In frame of ToolBox, GWP CEE experts shared experience on sustainable sanitation with Central Asia and Caucasus during a joint meeting in Kiev in May 2008. Since 2008, Corvinus University in Budapest has been using ToolBox as a part of its international ERASMUS programme. Visit the ToolBox here: www.gwptoolbox.org.
Public ParticipationThere has been a steady increase in interest for public participation, as well as recognition for it on different governance levels, in a wide range of sectors and contexts, including environmental management. To respond to this, GWP established the Public Participation Task Force covering Eastern Baltic region
and the Danube River basin. In 2008, the Task Force organised international Danube Day celebrations during Zaragosa Water and Sustainable Development Expo.
Sustainable SanitationAnother task force has focused on Sustainable Sanitation. It seeks alternative and decentralized solution to sanitation services in IWRM context for rural population, constituting 20–40% of the total population in CEE countries. As a firststep, a group of experts prepared a regional book, Sustainable Sanitation in Central and Eastern Europe: Addressing the Needs of Small and Medium-Size Settlements, providing a comprehensive overview of the sanitation state in CEE countries, methodological guidance to open waste water planning process and case studies of successful implementation of alternative approaches in sanitation in the region and in Sweden and Germany. The study has revealed that 20 million of Europeans, especially in new member states, are lacking access to sanitation services.
Floods ManagementSince 2003, there has been an ongoing study on flash floods under the auspices of theWorld Meteorological Organization (WMO)-GWP Associated Programme on Floods Management. A manual, Guidance on Flash Flood Management-Recent Experiences from Central and Eastern Europe, has been published that provides easily accessible guidance on flash flood management tomayors, provincial administrators and the National Meteorological and Hydrological Service. This will help improve the efficiencyof the professional centres to forecast and
more successfully save properties and the lives of communities in flash floods prone areas.
Governance GWP CEE has the following governance structure:
Consulting PartnersGWP membership is open to all organizations involved in water and water resource management. Currently the GWP CEE network has more than 139 member organizations called “Consulting Partners” in 12 countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
Country Water PartnershipsOn the national level, Country Water Partnerships (CWP’s) bring Consulting Partners from various sectors and interest groups together to identify and discuss their common water problems. CWP’s are up and running in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine. CWP’s foster cross-sector, multi-stakeholder dialogues on water issues, facilitate the introduction of IWRM and serve as information centres.
Regional Council The Council, headed by its Chair and representing the 12 Country Water Partnerships, is the highest decision making body of GWP CEE.
SecretariatA small Secretariat is responsible for the coordination and implementation of regional
workplan 2009-2013 and projects in close cooperation with the Council. The Secretariat is now based in Bratislava and is hosted by the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute.
GWP NetworkGWP CEE is a part of GWP that was founded in 1996 by the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) to foster integrated water resource management (IWRM), and to ensure the coordinated development and management of water, land, and related resources by maximising economic and social welfare without compromising the sustainability of vital environmental systems.
The network is open to all organisations involved in water resources management: developed and developing country government institutions, agencies of the United Nations, bi- and multi-lateral development banks, professional associations, research institutions, non-governmental organisations, and the private sector.
The GWP network works in 13 regions: Southern Africa, Eastern Africa, Central
Africa, West Africa, the Mediterranean, Central and Eastern Europe, Caribbean, Central America, South America, Central Asia and the Caucasus, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and China. The GWP Secretariat is located in Stockholm, Sweden.
The network is supported financiallyby Canada, Denmark, the European Commission, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The secretariat is based in Stockholm Sweden. The GWP network has more than 2000 partners in 70 countries in 13 regions. More information: www.gwpforum.org.
Vision and MissionThe Global Water Partnership’s vision is for a water secure world. Its mission is to support the sustainable development and management of water resources at all levels.
The GWP CEE region
GWP BulgariaMs. Galia BardarskaHristo Belchev Str. 14, floor 1, app. 1, 1000 Sofia, BulgariaPhone/Fax: + 359 2 987 04 61Mobile phone: +359 887 602 672E-mail: [email protected]: www.gwpbg.org
GWP Czech RepublicMr. Mark RiederT. G. Masaryk Water Research Institute, p.r.i.Podlabská 30/2582, 160 00 Praha 6, Czech RepublicPhone: +420 220 197 200Fax: +420 22431 0450E-mail: [email protected]
GWP EstoniaMr. Harry LiivMinistry of the Environment of EstoniaNarva mnt 7a, 15172 Tallinn, EstoniaPhone: +372 62 62 850 Fax: +372 62 62 928 E-mail: [email protected]: www.veeyhing.ee
GWP HungaryMr. János FehérVITUKI Environmental and Water Management Research Institute Nonprofit Ltd.Kvassay Jenö út 1, H-1095 Budapest, HungaryPhone: +36 1 2158 160 (dial up ext. 2308)Fax: +36 1 2161 514E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]: www.gwpmo.hu
GWP LatviaMs. Sandra KrivmaneBO SIA “Daugavas Fonds”Lacplesa street 1, LV-5101 Aizkraukle, LatviaPhone: +371 7013 701Fax: +371 7013 777E-mail: [email protected]
GWP LithuaniaMr. Bernardas PaukstysPublic Establishment “Vandens namai” (Water House)Juozapaviciaus street 6/2, LT-09310 Vilnius, LithuaniaPhone: +370 5 275 72 78Fax: +370 5 275 72 78E-mail: [email protected]: www.vandensklubas.lt
GWP MoldovaMr. Dumitru DrumeaCenter for Strategic Environmental Studies (ECOS)
sos Hincesti 58, 2028 Chisinau, MoldovaPhone: +373 22 723 567E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
GWP PolandMr. Tomasz OkruszkoUniversity of Life Sciences – SGGW159 Nowoursynowska Str, 02-766 Warszaw, PolandPhone: +48 22 5935 300E-mail: [email protected]: www.gwppl.org
GWP RomaniaMr. Liviu-Nicolae PopescuAsociatia Parteneriatul Global al Apei din Romania “GWP-Romania” Alea Fizicienilor no 4, Bloc 3C, Ap 16, Sector 3, Cod 032113, Bucharest, Romania Phone +40 21 3480 947E-mail: [email protected]: www.gwp-romania.ro
GWP SlovakiaMr. Peter RoncakGWP SlovakiaJeseniova 17, 833 15 Bratislava, SlovakiaPhone: +421 905 619 107E-mail: [email protected]
GWP SloveniaMs. Martina ZupanLimnos Company for Applied Ecology d.o.o.Podlimbarskega 31, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Phone: +386 1 427 32 45 Fax: +386 1 505 73 86E-mail: [email protected]: www.gwpslovenija.org
GWP UkraineMr. Andriy Demydenko Ukrainian Center of Environmental and Water ProjectsProspekt Glushkova 42, 03187 Kiev, UkrainePhone: +380 50 352 96 70Fax: +380 44 526 36 15E-mail: [email protected]
GWP CEE Regional Secretariat: Milan Matuska, Regional Coordinatorc/o Slovak Hydrometeorological InstituteJeseniova 17, 833 15 Bratislava, SlovakiaPhone: +421 2 5941 5224Fax: +421 2 5941 5273E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.gwpceeforum.org
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Imprint Publisher: GWP CEE Editor: Richard Müller Pictures: Hana Klinovska, Richard Müller Map: Ludovit Molnar Edition: December 2009