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EU Water Initiative Partners Meeting: Multi-Stakeholder Forum Part 1
Thursday 21 August
Full Day Seminar
Convenor: European Commission (EC) with support from the Swedish Water House (SWH)
Seminar Programme 09:00-12:00, Room T5
Launched in Johannesburg at the 2002 World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD), the EU Water Initiative (EUWI) is a concerted effort of the European Commission, the EU Member States, partner countries and other stakeholders including civil society, the private sector and local government to work together to accelerate progress to achieving the water and sanitation MDG targets. The EUWI is working to reinforce the political commitment to water and sanitation, to create a strong and integrated framework for EU action.
The EU Consensus on Development, agreed in 2005 between the EU Council, the EU Parliament and the Commission, recognises the EUWI as contributing towards agreed EU policy objectives in water and sanitation. The Joint Africa-EU Strategy, signed in Lisbon in December 2007, has reconfirmed the objectives of the EUWI in Africa and called to further develop the existing EU-Africa Partnership on Water Affairs and Sanitation. The European Neighbourhood Policy Action Plans (ENP) promotes participation by ENP partner countries in the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) components of the EUWI. The Latin American - EU strategic Partnership on Water and Sanitation Affairs was agreed on during the World Water Forum in 2006.
The annual EUWI Multistakeholder Forum is an open forum to debate the EUWI, comment on its performance and strategic choices. Organised by the EC, the forum will consist of two half-day sessions to review progress during 2007 and to discuss and endorse proposals on strategy and work programmes at regional level. The first session consists of the presentation and discussion of the annual report on the activities of the different components of the initiative, in particular the 4 regional components in Africa, EECCA, Latin America and the Mediterranean. It will also present and discuss achievements of the ACP-EU Water Facility around specific objectives (support to governance, capacity building and IWRM, development of partnerships) and share ideas for future development of this type of dedicated instrument within an integrated framework for action.
Chair: European Commission
Discussion Facilitator: Paul van Koppen, IRC, Netherlands
09:00 |
Welcome and Introduction: European Commission
• Opening Statements by:
Mr. Olivier Lacroix, First Counsellor, Embassy of France, for the French Presidency of the European Union and Ms. Karin Lexén, Director, Swedish Water House
• The Way Forward – Activities of the EUWI
• The EUWI Secretariat on the Annual Report for 2007 and The Leads of the Components of the EUWI on their Forward Strategy and Work Plan
• Discussion |
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Coffee Break |
11:00 |
Achievements of the ACP-EU Water Facility Representative of the Water Facility Unit, EuropeAid, European Commission, Belgium |
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Discussion |
11:50 |
Conclusions and Wrap-up |
12:00 |
Close of Morning Session |
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Presentation from the event
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