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Indicators for Action: Reporting on Water Management
Thursday 21 August
Morning Seminar
Convenors: UN-Water, Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), Danish Hydrological Institute (DHI), UNEP-DHI Centre, Capacity Building for Integrated Water Resources Management (Cap-Net) and UNDP Water Governance Program
Event Summary and Conclusions
The seminar adds to the discussion started at the 2007 World Water Week in the session on IWRM monitoring and in 2006 on global monitoring. The main recommendations from 2007 focussed on the need to define indicators that help to show the impact of good water management implementing IWRM principles. This seminar demonstrated the progress made:
• A UN-Water task force on indicators-monitoring reporting was set to define a framework for the monitoring of the water sector globally and in particular selected relevant water indicators. It is coordinated by the WWAP. An initial set of key indicators has been prepared and a consultative process with key stakeholders has started.
• UN-Water carried out an IWRM survey with the UNEP-DHI that was presented at the CSD 16 session in May 2008.
• CAP-NET developed indicators for RBO and field testing is in progress. Notwithstanding this progress, a series of challenges related to IWRM monitoring were reported, such as:
• IWRM monitoring exercises still look too often at institutions instead of at functions in water management and their impacts on them.
• IWRM indicators are often just defined as indicators from different water sectors put together.
Conclusion: a constraining factor continues to be the lack of robust indicators and a framework for monitoring the progress and benefits of implementing the IWRM approach at various scales. There is a need to monitor the integration of the 3 Es in the way resources and uses are managed and developed.
The seminar embarked on a very successful approach using several round tables where participants could focus on one topic and discuss in small groups. The following concrete proposals for improved indicators were formulated:
• Performance against targets and progress made against objectives,
• Water management functions and policy objectives and not on institutions while monitoring IWRM.
• A possible entry: How water works for the economy, MDGs and poverty reduction without compromising ecological sustainability
• How disputes around water decrease.
The seminar closed with general statements on how to improve monitoring progress on water management, such as the need of capacity building for newly developed approaches and the need of further promoting the prioritisation of water in national government policies.
Seminar Programme 09:00-12:00, Room T6
Chair: Mr. Pasquale Steduto, UN-Water Chair
Co-Chair: Mr. Martin Walshe, Global Water Partnership (GWP)
Moderator: Mr. Domitille Vallée, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Rapporteur: Mr. Manfred Matz, SIWI
09:00 |
Welcome and Introduction on “Indicators for Action: Reporting on Water Management at International Level”
Pasquale Steduto, UN-Water chair and Martin Walsh, GWP |
09:15
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Presentations to Illustrate the Search for Relevant Indicators for Action: Example of IWRM Monitoring:
1. Monitoring and Reporting on IWRM Progress
Joakim Harlin, UNDP for the UN-Water IWRM Monitoring Task Force
2. Measuring Progress on IWRM at National Level
- Dr. Palle Lindgaard Jorgensen, DHI, Denmark
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Dr. Ben Chundu, Director, Planning & Information, Ministry of Energy and Water Development, Zambia
3. Measuring Progress on IWRM Implementation and Performance at Basin Level
Dr. Paul Taylor, Cap-Net
4. Presentation of the Brainstorming Work by Moderator |
10:00 |
Coffee Break |
10.30. |
Brainstorming in Working Groups around “Key Set of Indicators for Action on Key Water Management Issues.” |
11.15 |
Discussion on the Group Findings and Conclusion |
12.00 |
Close of Seminar |
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