The SEEAW in the context of The SEEAW in the context of Integrated Water Resource Integrated Water Resource

ManagementManagementRoberto Lenton

Chair,

Technical Committee

Global Water Partnership

Outline

Integrated water resources management (IWRM) -- and the role of the Global Water Partnership

The challenges of monitoring and assessing water resources for the MDGs within an integrated approach

The role and value of SEEAW within this context

Integrated water resources management (IWRM) and the role of

the Global WaterPartnership

Global Water Partnership

Integrated Water Resources Management

Seeks to “promote the coordinated development and management of water, land, and related resources, in order to maximize the resultant economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems”

A problem-solving approach to address key water challenges in ways that are economically efficient, socially equitable and environmentally sustainable.

An An IWRMIWRM Process is Process isto strike the balance between:

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Environmental Sustainability

Social Equity

Economical Feasibility

IWRM entails bringing stakeholders together

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Integrated Water Resources Management: core features

Involves developing efficient, equitable and sustainable solutions to water and development problems

Involves aligning interests and activities that are traditionally seen as unrelated or not well coordinated (horizontally and vertically)

Needs knowledge from various disciplines as well as insights from diverse stakeholders

Not just water: involves integrating water in overall sustainable development processes. Also requires coordinating the management of water with land and related resources

GWP Mission

to support countries in the sustainable management of their water resources

GWP Regions

GWP brings stakeholders together

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GWP is a Facilitator

Assisting countries in their IWRM implementation Bringing stakeholders together in 60 countries, three

provinces and one river basin of China

GWP China High-Level Round Tables “come out with list of issues and collectively found solutions”

The challenge:

Monitoring and assessing water resources

for the MDGs within

an IWRM approach

Global Water Partnership

Water: impacts both on Target #10 and Water: impacts both on Target #10 and on the MDGs as a wholeon the MDGs as a whole

Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hungerGoal 2: Achieve universal primary educationGoal 3: Promote gender equality and empower womenGoal 4: Reduce child mortalityGoal 5: Improve maternal healthGoal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseasesGoal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

Target 9: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resourcesTarget 10: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitationTarget 11: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development

Monitoring Frameworks for the MDGs

Target #10: Established Institutional Mechanism: Joint Monitoring

Programme of UNICEF/WHO Agreed conceptual framework for defining and

measuring access

Water’s broader role for the MDGs as a whole: Institutional Mechanism: the World Water Assessment

Programme and the WWDRs Need effective conceptual framework

Why monitoring and assessing water for all the MDGs is so much more complicated!

Overall development goals (MDGs translated at national levels) Water and development “objectives” related to goals Actions to address these objectives, within IWRM approach

Targets to make goals, objectives and actions specific -- with defined and measurable criteria for achievement and timetables

Indicators -- to assess progress towards the targets associated with goals and objectives and the accomplishment of actions

Process indicators, which monitor the basic progress of implementing agreed actions

Outcome indicators, which monitor the direct results of actions. Impact indicators, which monitor progress towards achieving

goals and objectives.

The role and value

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SEEAW

Global Water Partnership

Value of SEEAW within MDG/IWRM context

1. Provides the much-needed conceptual framework for monitoring and assessment

2. Enables consideration and quantification of inter-linkages that are critical to an IWRM approach

3. By integrating water and economic accounts, facilitates the mainstreaming of water policy in economic decision making

4. Enables linkages with other natural resource accounts (e.g., land)

Value of SEEAW within MDG/IWRM context (continued)

5. Enables different stakeholders to have a consistent and transparent frame of information from which to develop recommendations

6. Provides effective framework for considering specific issues (e.g., allocative efficiency)

7. Enables further specific indicators to be derived from it

Credibility and authority are critically important too!

SEEAW has credibility and authority that comes with:

Being based on established system of national accounts

Having been developed with expertise from the statistical community

Having been tested in several countries

Important Next Steps

Further development and testing through pilot projects on the implementation of SEEAW with participating countries

SEEAW Round-Table under the auspices of the UN Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting – further promote and implement SEEAW

UN-Water Task Force on IWRM Monitoring and Reporting – integrate SEEAW in set of robust indicators for IWRM monitoring and proposed mechanisms for monitoring and reporting

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