Programme
09:00 Welcome by IWA and Swedish Water House
Ms. Johanna Sjödin, SIWI and Dr. Glen Daigger, IWA

09:15 Networking Session Amongst Participants
Dr. Inga Jacobs, YWP Chair, IWA

09:30 The Green Economy: How Can We Achieve It and What are the Responsibilities of Different Actors?
Mr. Joppe Cramwinckel, World Buisness Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

09:45 Approaching sustainable agricultural production: much more than food, water & energy.
Dr. Lisa Deutsch, Stockholm Resilience Center (SRC)

10:00 Bridging the Gap: Linking Food Production and Consumption.
Ms. Josephine Gustafsson, SIWI

10:15 Questions & Answers

10:25 Coffee Break and Case Study Discussions in Groups

11:25 Reporting Back in Plenary

12:20 Wrap Up

12:30 Close of Seminar

Programme
09:10 Welcome.

Mr. Diego Rodriguez, World Bank

09:20 The Challenge of Making Good Decisions.

Mr. John Matthews, Conservation International

09:45 Toward a New Vision of Resilience: Engineering and Ecology.

Mr. David Purkey, Stockholm Environment Institute

10:00 Valuing Uncertainty in Water Management.

Ms. Monica Scatasta, European Investment Bank

10:15 Better Living Through Water Governance: Building Resilience through Institutional and Political Boundaries.

Ms. Jessica Troell, ELI, USA, and Ms. Jacqueline Tront, United States Department of State

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Debating Resilience.

Moderator: Mr. John Matthews, CI

Panelists:

• Mr. Anil Mishra, UNESCO-IHP
• Mr. David Purkey, SEI
• Mr. David McCauley, ADB, Philippines
• Mr. Kathleen Dominique, OECD, France

12:20 Summation: Onward through the Fog.

Mr. Fred Boltz, Conservation International

12:30 Close of Session

Programme
09:00 Welcome Remarks
Mr. Ravi Narayanan, WIN

09:05 Words from the chair  
Mr. Jean-Marc Faurès,  Senior Water Resources Management Officer,  FAO

09:10 Water Integrity, Corruption, Transparency in Relation to Water for Food.
Mr. Håkan Tropp, UNDP Water Governance Facility

09:25 Highlight the Problems and Examples of Success.
Mr. Jean-Marc Faurès, FAO

09:35 Corruption Risks in Construction of Small Dams, Case from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Mr. Mark Giordano, IWMI

09:55 Corruption Risks in Water Licensing (Chile and Kazakhstan).
Mr. Jeroen Warner, Wageningen University

10:15 An Analysis of the 2011 Drought Response and Food Distribution in Kenya.
Mr. Samuel Kimeu, Transparency International (TI)

10:35 Water Transparency Index
Ms. Elena Lopez-Gunn, Complutense University

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Panel and Group Discussions
Facilitator: S. Vishwanath, Biome environmental Solution

1. Ms. Elena Lopez-Gunn, Complutense University
2. Ms. Ulrike Pokorski da Cunha, German Development Cooperation (GIZ)
3. Mr. Zhanyi Gao, International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID)
4. Mr. Tushaar Shah, IWMI

12:15 Wrap-up / conclusions
Mr. Ravi Narayanan, WIN

12:30 Close of Seminar

This seminar was webcasted live. You can watch it on our video section!

Programme
Micro-Irrigation: Tackling the Complex Web of Poverty

09:00 Context and Achievements of the Project.
Mr. Rudolph Cleveringa, IFAD

09:15 Interest of Private Sector in Micro-Irrigation for Food Security.
Ms. Sibyl Anwander Phan-Huy Coopernic Group, Switzerland

09:30 Understanding Numbers through Stories: The Scampis Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Process.
Ms. Cecilia Ruberto, IFAD

Untold Stories About Micro-Irrigation… and Much More

10:00 Story-Telling

Guatemala Group

• Project Strategy Adaptation. Introduction of School Garden for MIS.
  Mr. Santiago Guadalupe Girón de Leon, Funcafè, Guatemala
• Empowering Groups of Women and Youth Through Correct Nutrition Health, Hygiene.
  Ms. Magalì Avila Chosco, Funcafè, Guatemala

India Group

• Use of Promotion Strategy for Introducing the MIS Innovation.
  Mr. Tapan Pattanayak, IDEI, India
• The Promotion Strategy and Involvement of Tribal Farmers.
  Mr. Bijaya Kumar Rout, IDEI

Madagascar Group

• Establishment of Micro-irrigation Market Chain, The Strategy.
  Mr. Feno Andriamanalina, AVSF, Madagascar
• How and Why a Small Entrepreneur Started the Business on Micro-irrigation and Future Opportunities.
  Mr. Lova Randriambelo, Innovagri, Madagascar

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 Story-Telling

Scaling-up group

• Overall Scaling up of Integrated Strategies for Micro-irrigation and Scaling up with Coffee Producers.
  Mr. Mynor David Maldonado, Mazariegos, Funcafè, Guatemala
• Scaling up MIS - Integrating MIS in Indian National Programme for Livelihood Improvement, Complexity and
  Opportunities.
  Mr. Susanta Nanda, OTELP, India
• Scaling up MIS - Integrating MIS in Madagascar National Programme for Livelihood Improvement, Complexity and Opportunities.
  Mr. Christin Ramaroson, AD2M and CapFIDA, Madagascar

12:00 Integrated Strategies for Scaling up Micro Irrigation Systems: Key Messages

12:30 Close of Seminar

Event Summary and Conclusions
IFAD's work on Scaling Up Micro Irrigation Systems (SCAMPIS) attracted a full house as well as over 300 people online during the first day of Stockholm World Water Week (26 August 2012). In a session entitled "Micro-Irrigation for Food Security: The Untold Stories of Forgotten Stakeholders", participants listened to fascinating stories from Guatemala, Madagascar and India where the livelihood of 30 000 people have been improved thanks to the introduction of micro-irrigation systems, natural fertilization and agricultural trainings. The project has shown the benefits of combining investment in Agriculture Water Management with innovation involving the private sector.

Although micro-irrigation is an efficient technology to enable farmers to access limited water resources, increase agricultural production and raise smallholders incomes, it is important to stress the diversity of the changes brought about by SCAMPIS project. The livelihood change has to do with cultural changes.

Going beyond the discussion about micro-irrigation technology efficiency the seminar pointed out the different dimensions of change manifested in three different countries, the challenges encountered and the future hopes.

The speakers shared personal experiences and stories, each of them from a different point of view, about a different topic, this stimulated dynamic discussion and reflections from the participants.

The session generated thoughtful and useful comments from the participants. Some of the emerging issues and questions include:

• Return on investment in Micro Irrigation Systems;
• The need for scaling up Micro Irrigation Systems to consider the depletion of blue water (water in rivers, dams, streams and other reservoirs) which is used by irrigation;
• Need to look at self-adoption by people outside the projects who learn by observing and implementing the technology in their own contexts;
• Men should also work in the field rather than leaving the bulk of the work to women and children;
• It is important to explore and expand markets for crops because this determines investment. Scaling up depends on market demand;
• While micro-credit should be considered, it is not suitable for the majority of smallholders due to high interest rates, among other factors such as expectation for obtaining subsidies;
• While most technologies tend to exclude the poorest of the poor, Micro Irrigation Systems are suitable for these vulnerable groups; and, it is also important to explore alternative energy systems for pumping water.

The main conclusion was that the main focus is not to scale up technology but to reduce poverty and improve the lives of rural poor people.

Broadcast of the session at http://bambuser.com/v/2935141

More pictures at https://picasaweb.google.com/108221338430931858791/WorldWaterWeek2012UntoldStoriesAboutMicroIrrigation

Videos at http://bambuser.com/v/2935141

The intense and dynamic discussions have been reflected in the seminar evaluation, many new ideas, reflection and commitments have been shared by the participants in the final seminar evaluation. Detailed participants' feedback at http://www.slideshare.net/ceci1982lia/untold-stories-seminar-world-water-week-participants-feedback

Programme
09:00 Welcome and Introduction. Cap-Net/UNDP, IHP/HWRP

09:05 Introduction: Capacity Development in Agriculture and IWRM and Innovative Learning
Nick Tandi, Cap-Net UNDP

09:20 The Need for Capacity Development in IWRM and Efficient Agricultural Water Management.
Dr. Barbara van Koppen, IWMI

09:40 Introduction to Learning Theory and the Implications for e-learning and Blended Learning.
Mr. Johannes Cullmann, IHP/HWRP, Germany

10:00 Coffee Break and Working Groups: Addressing Salient Issues in Agricultural Water Management through Capacity Building.
Facilitator: Dr. Arno Rosemarin, SEI

11:00 Capacity Development in IWRM: Experiences and Lessons Learnt.
Ms. Ruth Goedert, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany

11:20 Poster Session: Capacity Development in Efficient Agricultural Water Management in the Context of IWRM - An Invitation to Partner.
Facilitated by Mr. Kees Leendertse, Cap-Net UNDP, South Africa
Facilitators:

• Ms. Ines Beernaerts, FAO
• Mr. Johannes Heeb, CEWAS, Switzerland
• Dr. Arno Rosemarin, SEI
• Dr. Barbara van Koppen, IWMI
• Mr. Marco Leidel, TUD, Germany

12:20 Concluding Remarks.
Mr. Johannes Cullmann, IHP/HWRP, Germany

12:30 Close of Seminar

The seminar discusses new methods for computer aided water management, and the efficiencies that can be gained through the application of these systems. The tools combine data retrieval, simulation models, GIS, optimisation, economic analyses and multiple-criteria analyses methods.

After introductory keynotes on the development and application of simulation models and decision support systems (DSS) for improved agricultural water management, a number of cases from around the world will be presented and discussed:

• Under the National Hydrology Project in India, simulation models and decision support systems have been implemented for real time management and long term planning and optimisation.
• The development of the shared and accepted Nile Basin DSS is an important step in achieving a joint vision for the Basin.
• Decision support systems that include coupled surface water and groundwater models are being developed in Australia to add real time functionalities for optimising the day to day operation.

Programme
09:00 Background and Purpose
Mr. Karsten Havnø, DHI, and Dr. Torkil Jønch Clausen, DHI and GWP

09:15 Partnership Development of DSS for Improved Water Utilisation in Agriculture.
Mr. Henrik Sørensen, DHI

09:30 Improving Agricultural Water Management Through DSS.
Dr. Fred Kizito, IWMI

09:45 Application of DSS for Improved Transboundary Water Resources Management in the Nile Basin.
Dr. Abdulkarim H. Seid, Project Nile Basin Initiative

10:00 Questions & Answers

10:15 Computer Aided River Management in Australia.
Mr. Brett Tucker, State Water Corporation, Australia, and Mr. Neville Smith, Water for Rivers, Australia

10:35 Integrated Water Management Using DSS in India.
Mr. Henrik Sørensen, DHI

10:50 Questions and Answers

11:05 Coffee Break

11:20 Launch of the GWP-DHI-SIWI Technical Focus Paper: "Application of Models and Decision Support Systems for Integrated Water Resources Management in Practice", based on process started at World Water Forum in Marseille

• Dr. Mohamed Ait Kadi, Chair of Technical Committee, GWP
• Mr Børge Storm, Senior Water Resources Expert, DHI
• Mr. Karsten Havnø, Managing Director, DHI

11:50 Panel Debate - Among users/decision-makers, developers, and the audience.
Panelists:

• Mr. Brett Tucker, State Water Corporation, NSW, Australia
  
• Dr. Mohamed Ait Kadi, GWP
• Dr. Xiaokai Li, World Bank
• Dr. David R. Purkey, SEI
• Dr. Jerome Priscoli, US Army Corps of Engineers, USA

12:20 Summing-up and Way Forward.
Mr. Karsten Havnø, DHI

The Drive's latest campaign material, including a planner's guide, factsheets and a flyer will be presented at the event. Discussion will explore how equity-focused approaches can help to realize the right to sanitation. With three years left, participants will also focus on accelerating progress towards the MDG sanitation target, while also looking at how to influence the post 2015 development framework.

Programme
12:45 Keynote speech: "The Drive to 2015": Background and Focus.
Ms. Therese Dooley, UNICEF

12:55 Keynote speech: Sanitation goals, targets and indicators post-2015.
Ms. Clarissa Brocklehurst, Post 2015 Working Group

13:05 Discussion with panellists
Facilitator: Ms. Josefina Maestu, UNW-DPAC

• Mr. Kamal Kar, Development Consultant
• Ms. Idrissa Doucouré, Water and Sanitation for Africa
• Ms. Therese Dooley, UNICEF
• Ms.Clarissa Brocklehurst, Post-2015 Working Group

13:35 Debate with the audience

13:45 Dismission

Programme 
12.45 Opening and Introduction.
Dr. Jakob Granit, SEI, Sweden

12.55 Valuing the Ocean.
Prof. Kevin Noone, Stockholm University, Sweden

13.05 Strengthening the Management of Water Resources in the Continuum from Land to the Coastal Sea with Spatial Planning.
Ms. Birgitta Liss Lymer, SIWI, Sweden

13.15 From planning to Action on Buzzards Bay - The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in Implementation.
Mr. Mark Rasmussen, Buzzards Bay Coalition, USA

13.25 Integrated Methodological Framework on Joint ICZM/IWRM in the Mediterranean Region.
Prof. Michael Scoullos, Chairman, GWP-Mediterranean

13.35 Discussion and Wrap-up

Programme
Chair: Mr. Anton Earle, SIWI

12:45 Opening Comments.
Dr. Alistair Rieu-Clarke, CWLPS

12:50 Panel Discussion

• Mr. Luis Maier, Fundacion Vida
• Mr. Tamsir Ndiaye, OMVS
• Mrs. Sibylle Vermont, UNECE
• Mr. Fabien Dupuis, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• National Water Authority, Peru

13:20 Audience Questions

13:30 Panel Response

13:40 Concluding Remarks.
Mrs. Lesha Witmer, Special Advisor

Lunch provided by the organiser

Event Summary and Conclusions
Approximately 60 participants gathered for this event organised by WWF, GCI and the University of Dundee. Alistair Rieu-Clarke, University of Dundee, and Lesha Witmer, special advisor to WWF, moderated a panel comprised of: Fabien Dupuis, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Luis Maier, Fundación Vida; Sibylle Vermont, UNECE Bureau; Peruvian National Water Authority; and Tamsir Ndiaye, OMVS.

The side event examined the existing and potential contributions of the UN Watercourses Convention (UNWC) and the UNECE Water Convention in supporting transboundary cooperation at the regional, basin, national, and community levels from a range of perspectives. These instruments lay out the rules and principles governing the use, management, and protection of international watercourses, lakes, and aquifers. In particular, the side event considered the benefits of the entry into force of the UNWC and the 2003 amendments to the UNECE Water Convention, and how these instruments might, in the near future, be implemented in a coordinated and mutually reinforcing manner.

The following conclusions and ideas will be used for further debate and planning:

• The two conventions are complementary and synergy is possible;
• The simultaneous existence of the two conventions will prove beneficial to states, in particular because of the ability to develop synergies and to exchange and transfer both existing and yet-to-be-developed tools between them
• The entry into force of both the UNWC and the UNECE Amendment in the very near future are and should be a starting point for collaboration, coordination, and facilitation for implementation, and can help ensure strong international governance for transboundary waters
• The fact that there is no provision in the present text of the UNWC for the governance structure opens the possibility to devise an efficient and effective multi-stakeholder approach from the start
• Parties will make the ultimate decision, but there is high interest and willingness from the NGO community to assist with and support the process
• A "merger" of (future) secretariats of the UNWC with the UNECE is a possibility to consider; however, other organisations have also expressed an interest to facilitate the future secretariat;
• It is important to make sure that preparations, deliberations, and decisions for the future governance structure of the UNWC involve parties from regions beyond Europe to create a shared feeling of ownership
• The aim of decisions to be taken should be to create a participatory governance structure that is sustainable both in terms of management and budget, and that can assist in creating added value for all parties and stakeholders.

Programme
12:45 Welcome.
Ylann Schemm, Elsevier, the Netherlands

12:50 Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge 2011 1st prize Winner Video

12:55 Speech by Chairman, Elsevier Management Committee and Head of Reed Elsevier Global Academic & Customer Relations
Youngsuk (Y.S.) Chi, Elsevier, USA

13:10 RE Environmental Challenge 2011 2nd prize video

13:15 1st and 2nd prize winners announced

13:25 Winners Describe Projects

Iron-Amended Biosand Water Filter in Nepal

Sanergy - Sustainable Sanitation in Urban Slums

13:40 Closure.
Ylann Schemm, Elsevier, the Netherlands 

With this perspective, the UN-Water Stakeholder Dialogue, sponsored by SIWI, will look at recent and promising initiatives in Green Accounting and Water Scenarios. In two consecutive panels composed of prominent experts and country representatives, these issues will be discussed in detail through posing probing questions to panelists.

Programme
14:00 Opening.
Mr. Jens Liebe, UNW-DPC

14:10 Welcome.
Mr. Michel Jarraud, WMO and UN-Water

14:20 Presentation of Panelists.
Mr. Engin Koncagül, WWAP

Water Accounting Initiatives

14:30 Keynote Speaker: Mr. James Winpenny, Independent Economic Consultant

14:40 Panel Discussion: Green Accounting - Current and Future Initiatives
Facilitator: Ms. Josefina Maestu, Coordinator, UNW-DPAC

• Mr. Juan Carlos Escudero, Director, Center of Environment Studies, Vitoria-Gasteiz
• Mr. Raúl Alberto Navarro Garza, CONAGUA
• Dr. Christine Jasch, IÖW-UNIDO
• Mr. Shaoyi Li, UNEP and Member of the Secretariat of the International Resource Panel
• Mr. Junguo Liu, Beijing Forestry University
• Mr. Jack Moss, AQUAFED
• Ms. Eun-kyung Park, Korea Water Forum
• Mr. Chris Perry, Independent Consultant
• Mr. James Winpenny, Independent Economic Consultant

World Water Scenarios - Current and Future Initiatives

15:55 Keynote Speaker: Mr. William Cosgrove, World Water Scenarios Project

16:05 Short Presentations by Panelists

16:40 Panel Discussion
Facilitator: Mr. Olcay Unver, WWAP

• Mr. William Cosgrove, World Water Scenarios Project
• Mr. Raúl Alberto Navarro Garza, CONAGUA
• Mr. Jack Moss, WBCSD Water Scenarios
• Mr. David Wiberg, IIASA

17:15 Wrap-up.
Mr. Jens Liebe, UNW-DPC

Refreshments

The session will offer:

• New Insights on and business models for smallholder water management to:
  - Secure staple crop production in the face of climate change.
  - Supplement incomes to enable farmers to purchase food when crops fail.
  - Diversify diets for food and nutritional security.
• Country and regional tools to understand the potential and target and prioritise investments.
• Donor perspectives on how smallholder water management initiatives support broader food security goals.

Key Messages:

• Smallholder water management:
  - Is an important contributor to rural livelihoods.
  - Is farmer-driven.
  - Has large potential.
  - Has implications for the way water is managed.
  - Poses environmental and equity risks if spread unchecked.

Targeted investments can help address these constraints and enhance the sector's potential.

Programme
New Perspectives on Water Management for Smallholder Farmers: Key Findings of the AgWater Solutions Project

14:00 Presentations/Videos:

• Promising Solutions: Pumps, Decentralized Water Harvesting, Groundwater, Small Reservoirs.
  Dr. Meredith Giordano, IWMI
• Opportunities for Food Security.
  Prof. Charlotte de Fraiture, UNESCO-IHE
• Implications of Decentralized Water Management for Water Governance.
  Dr. Tushaar Shah, IWMI
• Scaling up Access to Water: Issues of Social and Environmental Sustainability.
  Dr. Jennie Barron, SEI

14:45 Questions and Feedback

15:15 Coffee Break

Country Perspectives: Achieving Policy Change by Linking Research with Decision Making

15:45 Examples from:

• Ghana: Food, Water, Energy Nexus.
  Mr. Ben Nyamadi, Ghana Irrigation Development Authority
• Tanzania: Government Investment in Smallholder Irrigation.
  Eng. Mbogo Futukamba, Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives and Prof. Nuhu Hatibu, Kilimo Trust
• India: Policy Changes in Groundwater Management in West Bengal and other Examples.
  Mr. Vijay Shankar, Samaji Pragati Sahayog

16:15 Questions & Answers Investment Opportunities in Food Security

16:45 Business Models, National & Regional Assessments.
Dr. Jean-Marc Faures, FAO

Round Table with Development Banks (WB, ADB, AfDB), UN Agencies (IFAD, WFP), NGO and Private sector.

17:10 Questions & Answers

17:30 Close of Seminar

Programme
14:00 Welcome. Mr. Alexander Müller, FAO

14:10 Seminar Overview.
Dr. Fethi Lebdi, AgWA

14:20 Africa's Challenges and Opportunities.
Dr. Sheikh Javed Ahmed, AfDB, Tunisia

14:40 Investment in AWM in Africa: Recent trends and Prospects.
Dr. Maher Salman, FAO

15:00 Private sector involvement in agriculture in the CAADP context: Irrigate Africa
Ms. Njabulo Zwane, Agriculture Development, South Africa

15:20 Focus on the Role of AgWA in Capacity Building and Knowledge Sharing to Scale up AWM Investments.
Dr. David Love, WaterNet

15:40 Coffee Break

Tools to Support Investments in AWM

16:10 AgWA Country Support Tool. Application in West Africa.
Dr. Ben Nyamadi, GIDA, Ghana

16:30 Diagnostic Financial and Institutional Tool for Investment in Water for Agriculture.
Dr. Maher Salman & Ms. Claudia Casarotto, FAO

16:50 Comments and Questions

17.20 Wrap Up.
Dr. Fethi Lebdi, AgWA Secretariat Coordinator & Dr. Maher Salman, FAO

17.30 Closure

Programme
Chair: Mr. Albert Engel, GIZ, Germany
Moderator: Mr. Johan Kuylenstierna, SEI, Sweden

14:00 Opening and Welcome.
Ms. Mari Albihn, Sida, Sweden

Part I: Setting the Scene

14:10 Water Use Efficiency on Field and Watershed Level and Objectives of Farmers and Agricultural Sector.
Dr. Francois Molle, IRD/IWMI

14:25 Panel Discussion: Two Statements from Bolivia and Burkina Faso about National Strategies of Watershed Management and Irrigation and their Role for Food Security.

• Mr. Luís Salazar - Director of the Watershed Service of the Government of the Department of Cochabamba
• Dr. Laurent SEDEGO, Minister of Agriculture, Hydraulics and Water Resources, Burkina Faso
• Dr. Francois Molle, IRD/IWMI

15:05 Introduction to Country Specific Case Studies from Bolivia and Burkina Faso
Mr. Johan Kuylenstierna, SEI

• From Surface to Sprinkler and Drip Irrigation, a Technological Shift in Small Scale Farming Systems - Practical Experiences from Bolivia and Ecuador.
  Mr. Paul Hoogendam, KfW and CES, Bolivia
• Small Farmer Self-administrated Irrigation.
  Mr. Humberto Gandarillas, GIZ, Bolivia
• Water Harvesting in the Sahelian Zone of Burkina Faso: Increasing Yield in Low Potential Areas.
  Dr. Dieter Nill, GIZ, Germany
• Building Resilience through Small Reservoirs and Associated Irrigation Systems to Secure Food Production in Burkina Faso.
  Mr. Albert Compaore, Sida

15:45 Coffee Break

Part II: Discussion of Case Studies and Experience Exchange

16:15 Working groups based on Country Specific Case Studies.

• Technological Shift: Mr. Paul Hoogendam, KfW and CES, Bolivia with Dr. Jürgen Fechter, KfW (rapporteur)
• Self-administrated Irrigation: Mr. Humberto Gandarillas, GIZ Bolivia and Ms. Jutta Schmitz, GIZ Germany (rapporteur)
• Water Harvesting: Dr. Dieter Nill, GIZ, Germany and Dr. Elisabeth van den Akker, GIZ, Germany (rapporteur)
• Resilience and Food Security: Mr. Albert Compaore, Sida and Ms. Elisabeth Folkunger/Ms. Zarah Ayadi, Sida (rapporteur)

17:00 Wrap-up of Results.
Mr. Johan Kuylenstierna, SEI, with rapporteurs

17:20 Way forward.
Dr. Stefan Schmitz, BMZ Germany

17:30 Close of Seminar

Event Description
The Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) partnership has 86 partners drawn from developing country governments, donors, multilaterals, banks, research and learning agencies, civil society networks and sector partners. The second SWA High Level Meeting took place in Washington in April 2012, attended by key decision makers, including over 40 Ministers. This seminar provides an analysis of the over 200 measurable performance commitments made, targets set and allocations promised at that meeting, and progress made in their implementation. The seminar is an open forum to learn about and shape SWA activities, including the High Level Meeting and the National Planning for Results Initiative (NPRI). The session will also provide insights into the relationship between SWA and global monitoring instruments such as the UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment on Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS).

The session aims to:

1. Bring the outcomes of the High Level Meeting 2012 to the wider water and sanitation audience and present an analysis of the commitments made and the plans for monitoring them.
2. Consult with stakeholders on how the SWA High Level Meeting Dialogue can be sustained as a platform for political dialogue, strengthening of country-led planning in off-track countries, and global monitoring.
3. Generate recommendations for SWA with respect to the High Level Meeting, country level support, and monitoring.

This seminar was webcasted live. You can watch it on our video section!

Programme
14:00 Welcome
Session Chair, Dr. Darren Saywell, Vice Chair, SWA

14:10 Outcomes and Implications of Commitments
Mr. Sanjay Wijesekera, UNICEF

14:30 Reinforcing the Political Dialogue: Panel Discussion
Moderator: Darren Saywell, Vice Chair, SWA

• Mr. Abdul Hafiz Koroma, National WASH committee, Liberia
• Mr. George Yarngo, Assistant Minister, Ministry of Public Works, Government of Liberia 
• Mr. Baker Yiga, ANEW
• Ms. Heather Skilling, USAID
• Mr. Bai Mass Taal, AMCOW 

15:15 Coffee Break

15:45 Country Level Support: Presentation of an Update on NPRI and SWA Partner Agreements on Strengthening Country Level Support
Mr. Dominick de Waal, USAID
 
16:00-16:15 Strengthening Global Monitoring

• Lessons from the 2012 HLM for Sector Monitoring; Update on Progress on Expanding Sector Monitoring
  Ms. Clarissa Brocklehurst, SWA Secretariat
• JMP Process to Develop Proposed Post-2015 Goals, Targets and Indicators
  Robert Bos, WHO

16:15 Questions and Answer

16:25 Group Sessions

17:00 Reporting back from Groups

17:20 Summarizing and Closing by Chair 

Programme
Chair: Mr. Gerard Doornbos, EUREAU

14:00 Opening

• Mr. Per Bertilsson, SIWI
• Dr. Claudia Castell-Exner, EUREAU
• Mr. Ulf Wickström, LRF, Sweden

14:15 Keynote Lecture: The New Link between City Managers and Farmers: From Impact Suffering to Economical Co-management.
Prof. Malin Falkenmark, SIWI

14:45 How to Manage Impacts of Agricultural Land Use Changes with Respect to Sustainable Drinking Water Resources - EUREAU:

• EUREAU's Perspective.
  Dr. Claudia Castell-Exner, EUREAU Commission Drinking Water
• Voluntary Co-Operation between Farmers and Drinking Water Suppliers - A Sustainable Solution for Groundwater Protection.
  Dr. Martin Kaupe, RheinEnergie, Germany
• Catchment Management - A Joint Working Approach to Reducing Impacts of Agriculture on Drinking Water Supplies.
  Dr. Jim Marshall, WATER UK, UK

15:30 Coffee Break

15:45  Keynote lecture by the Cypriotic EU Presidency
Mrs Androulla Georgiou, Director of the Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment of the Republic of Cyprus
     
16:00 Part II: Development of a sustainable agriculture with co-operations and good agricultural practices - examples from real life

• Development of a Sustainable Agriculture with Co-operation and Good Agricultural Practices
  Jonas Berglind, LRF Federation of Swedish Farmers
• Ulf Wickström, LRF Federation of Swedish Farmers

16:30 Panel Discussion: The way forward to Protecting Sustainable Drinking Resources by Managing the Impacts of Agricultural Land Use Changes

Keynote Remarks and Discussion with:

• Prof. Malin Falkenmark
• Representative EUREAU
• Representative Federation of Swedish Farmers

17:30 Close of seminar

Programme
17:45 Welcome and opening comments
Thomas Chiramba, UNEP

17:50 Outcomes from Status Reporting on Water Resources Management
Peter Koefoed Bjornsen, UNEP-DHI Centre

18:10 Panel discussion
Joakim Harlin UNDP/UN-Water

• A future global monitoring and reporting system
• Defining post-MDG global goals and targets for water

18:45 Concluding remarks
Thomas Chiramba, UNEP

Programme
17:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks.
Ms. Janet Edmond, Conservation International, USA

17:50 Integrated Approaches to Ensuring Water for Ecosystems and Ecosystems for Water.
Dr. Thomas Chiramba, UNEP

18:05 The Landscapes for People Food and Nature Initiative and Storybook Communications Tool.
Mr. John Buchanan, Conservation International, USA

18:20 Discussant Panel Responses.
Ms. Stéfani Neno, FAO & Dr. John Matthews, Conservation International, USA

18:30 Q&A Discussion with Audience.
Moderated by Ms. Janet Edmond, Conservation International, USA

18:45 Closing

Programme
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17.45 New Perspective on the Water Challenges in the Anthropocene: Recognizing Water as the Bloodstream of the Biosphere.
Prof. Johan Rockström, SRC, Sweden

17.55 Global Food Self-reliance Outlook: Green-Blue Water Linkages and Virtual Water Dependence.
Prof. Malin Falkenmark, SIWI and SRC, Sweden

18.05 Water Related Disturbances and Feedbacks: Thresholds, Regime Shifts and Risks for Traps.
Dr. Line Gordon, SRC, Sweden

18.15 Required Transformations of Water Governance: Institutional Implications of Putting the Bloodstream Perspective in Operation.
Prof. Carl Folke, SRC, Sweden

18.25 Presentation of a Coming Book: Confronting the Water Challenge in a Turbulent World, Cambridge University Press.
Dr. Mats Lannerstad, SEI, Sweden

18.30 Questions and Discussion

Programme
17:45 Opening Comments.
Cynthia Bunton, CRBi, LLC, USA

17:55 Best Practices.
Maria Teresa Nogales, Alternativas - Cultivando Comunidades, Bolivia

18:05 Lessons Learned.
Cynthia Bunton, CRBi, LLC, USA & Maria Teresa Nogales, Alternativas - Cultivando Comunidades, Bolivia

18:20 Group Discussion and Conclusion.
Cynthia Bunton, CRBi, LLC, USA & Maria Teresa Nogales, Alternativas - Cultivando Comunidades, Bolivia

The speakers will bring a broad array of perspectives, encompassing government, business and science. This year's Stockholm Water Prize Laureate, the International Water Management Institute, will be represented by their Director General Dr. Colin Chartres. He will hold the annual Laureate Lecture on what has to be done to deliver sustainable intensification of agriculture and food security and how future farming systems have to be in harmony with the environment, rather than impacting adversely on it, if we are to maintain life supporting and enhancing ecosystem services.

This seminar was webcasted live. You can watch it on our video section!

Programme
10:00 Moderator's Introduction
Mr. Jens Berggren, Director Word Water Week & Prizes, Stockholm International Water Institute

10:10 Welcome Address
Mr. Torgny Holmgren, Incoming Executive Director Stockholm International Water Institute

10:20 Official Opening Address
Hon. Ms. Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for International Development Cooperation, Sweden

10:35 Welcome to Stockholm
Mr. Sten Nordin, Mayor of Stockholm, Sweden

10:50 Hon. Dr. Mohamed Bahaa El Din Saad, Minister, Water and Irrigation, Egypt, President AMCOW

11:05 Mr. Sanjeev Chadha, President, Middle East and Africa, PepsiCo Inc.

11:20 Dr. José Graziano da Silva, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

11:35 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate Lecture
Dr. Colin Chartres, Director General, International Water Management Institute

Event Summary and Conclusions
During the opening plenary session of the World Water Week 2012, the high-level speakers addressed the challenges, solutions and hopes to ensure the water and food security globally.

Mr. Jens Berggren, the former Director of World Water Week and Prizes, began his speech with addressing the recent challenges in water and food security due to the food prices crises in 2007, rainfall variability and extreme weather events. He expressed his hope to discuss the challenges mentioned above during the Week.

Mr. Torgny Holmgren, the incoming Executive Director of the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), emphasised the importance of water in food production as well as the possible way of approach the challenges.

Hon. Gunilla Carlsson, the Minister for International Development Cooperation, spoke about the role of water in international development cooperation. Hon. Minister, first, addressed the messages brought back from Rio +20 highlighting the innovation, collaboration with the private sector and positive political environment in order to reach sustainable development. Second, the significant aspects of partnership in water sector include the partnership with private investment, private sector’s technologies and skills and the role of development partners including donors, foundations, research institutions and civil society in development cooperation.

Mr. Sten Nordin, Major of Stockholm, welcomed all the participants to the City of Stockholm and narrated the various role of water around Stockholm in history such as a strategic defense, trade medium and environment. Water plays a critical part in two most basic human instinct, survival and curiosity, he said.

Hon. Mohamed Bahaa El Din Saad, the Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation of Egypt and the Chair of African Ministers' Council for Water, addressed the challenges of demand and supply of freshwater in the national, regional and international level. With the lifestyle change and population growth, water use in agricultural production has become more critical, and the integrated water resource management and efficient water management is desperately needed than ever, he said.

Mr. Sanjeev Chadha, President of PepsiCo Middle East and Africa, emphasized the partnership and technology advancement in order to improve water resource management in the developing countries. The partnership supported by PepsiCo between a NGO and the local municipality of India ensured the stable water supply, and eventually, contributed to increase of income of villagers. Direct seeding of rice, a newly introduced technology, has reduced the water use by 30% to produce rice. He reaffirmed PepsiCo's commitment in reducing global poverty.
Dr. José Graziano da Silva, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, addressed the interlinkage between the efficient and equitable management of water and food security. The problems lie not only in the production of the food but also in the process and access to food, he said.

The Stockholm Water Prize Laureate Lecture was given by Dr. Colin Chartres, Director General, International Water Management Institute (IWMI). IWMI's Comprehensive Assessment contributed to address the global food and water issues and suggested the solutions. Dr. Colin Chartres pointed out the key outcomes of the Comprehensive Assessment: first, on the top of the uncertainty by the global climate change, the population growth and growing wealth are the two main drivers of food and water insecurity; second, as a solution, 'sustainable agricultural intensification' can simply produce more with less. He concluded that current food and water insecurity is pressing the 'business-as-usual paradigm' to be replaced; and sustainable intensification of agriculture, investment in research and development, capacity building and land and water sector reform must take place.

Programme
12:45 Welcome Speech and Introduction to WACDEP.
AMCOW President, Minister for Water Resources and Irrigation, Egypt

12.50 Presentation of the Framework for Water Security and Climate Resilient Development.
Prof. Torkil Jonch Clausen, GWP

13:00 Panel Discussion on Application of the Framework in African Development Cooperation for Climate Resilient Development.
Moderator: Dr. Ania Grobicki, GWP
Panel:

• Bai Mass Taal, AMCOW
• Robert Burtscher, Austrian Development Cooperation, Austria
• Kathleen Dominique, OECD
• Flemming Winther Olsen, Danida, Denmark
• Sam Bickersteth, CDKN, UK
• Alex Rugamba, AfDB/ICA/PIDA, Tunisia

13.40 Closing Remarks and Summary.
Dr. Nehal Adel Mohamed, AMCOW TAC President, Egypt

Programme
12:45 Motivation of the Event
Mr. Klaus Fog, Sigma

12:55 Panel Discussion and Interactive Discussion

• Mr. Bert Share, ABInbev
• Ms. Sabine Von-Wiren-Lehr, European Water Partners
• Mr. Søren Nøhr Bak, Grundfos BioBooster
  

Programme
Moderator: Mr. Sang Young Park, KWF

Event Summary and Conclusions
The Korean Government and the World Water Council jointly organised a side event on Monday, 27 August during the World Water Week in Stockholm. It was an occasion to update a room full of participants on the evolution of the Water and Green Growth programme that has been operating between the two parties since 2010 and to evoke the future development of this paradigm.

After opening remarks from Mr. Ji-Hyun Lim of the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs of Korea, Prof. Ben Braga, Vice-President of the World Water Council, welcomed participants to the event, and emphasized the need to find ways of harmonizing our development with the preservation of our natural resources.

"It means utilizing water as a motor for that development, reaching far beyond just water for water’s sake. It means increasing investment in water infrastructure and programmes because the consequences of not ensuring future water security would be too disastrous." He added that decision-makers should move forward to balancing uses of water thoughtfully through a comprehensive demand and supply management process, and associating populations in the choices through public consultation and implementation processes. Dr. Eun-kyung Park, President of the Korean Water Forum and WWC Bureau member, then provided the historical context in which the programme had found its genesis.

The majority of the session was dedicated to discussion of Korea's economic growth with regard to water and its major milestones in green growth, with reference to the particularities of the Water and Green Growth joint programme. Anthony Cox of the OECD then led participants in a reflection on remaining challenges in the international landscape and how to move the agenda forward. When the floor was opened, participants then raised questions about infrastructure development in a socially and environmentally sensitive way and the related financing gap.

Programme
12:45 Introduction to Current Efforts to Track Financial Flows in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene through the UN-Water GLAAS and Implications for Decision-makers.
Robert Bos, WHO

12:55 Presentation of GLAAS Findings on Finance and Proposed Financial Tracking Methodology.
Sophie Tremolet, Independent Consultant

13:10 Panel Discussion: Perspectives from Countries, Donors, and International

13:30 Plenary Discussion: Reactions and Next Steps Including How to Be Involved in This Initiative

Programme
12:45 Prioritising Water- and Energy-Saving Opportunities in Manufacturing Operations.
Dr. Liese Dallbauman, PepsiCo, USA

12:55 Lifting Farm Performance through Sustainable Agriculture.
Mr. Ian Hope-Johnstone, PepsiCo, UK

13:20 Sensible Water and Fertilizer Use on the Farm with Broad Impacts on Energy and Water Sustainability.
Dr. Upmanu Lall, Earth Institute Columbia Water Center, USA

A crucial question is whether the global rush for water and land will lead to a more water and food secure world, or the other way around? Are the investments increasing productivity and development or exploiting human and natural resources? How are the effects trickling down locally and globally and for whom? Will land and water deals change the transboundary hydro-political relations between countries, and if so in what direction? Will the global rush stimulate conflicts or cooperation and what role will water play?

This session was webcasted live. You can watch it on our video section!

Moderator: Dr. Ana Cascão, SIWI, Sweden

Panelists:

• Dr. Jamie Skinner, Team Leader Water, International Institute for Environment and Development
• Dr. Madiodio Niasse, Director, International Land Coalition
• Dr. Alexander Müller, Assistant Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• Hon. Mr. Ali Badara Mansaray, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Food Security & Forestry, Sierra Leone
• Dr. Taysir Al-Ghanem, Qatar National Food Security Programme
• Dr. Jennifer Franco, Transnational Institute

Event Summary and Conclusions
During the 2012 World Water Week, the High Level Panel discussed the recent phenomenon of the recent large-scale land acquisitions taking place globally. The Stockholm International Water Institute invited the high level panel consisted of a government official, an investor, an academic researcher, a representative of an international organization, a representatives from civil society. Ana Cascão opened the floor with a brief description on what is the development of this issue so far. The Investment in agricultural land has increased since 2008. The Media reports, policy briefs by the think-tanks, and reports by international organisations have shown a great deal of attention to this issue globally. However, what really is on the 'investment contracts' still remains as a doubt. According to the examples, the farm land is or will be used for the productions for food, flower, fodder, biofuel, biomass and other cash crops.

The International Land Coalition (ILC) has been addressing this issue and organising discussions with relevant stakeholders. According to the work that has done by ILC, large-scale land areas have been obtained by foreign investors for the time period between few months to 50 years. Dr. Madiodio Niasse addressed the dilemma between the urgent need in agricultural investment and the investments that violate human rights.

Dr. Jamie Skinner pointed out the nature of secrecy in the practice of land acquisitions. The on-going debate is based on the limited information, he explained. Although the lack of transparency and information, there is tendency that the government owned or controlled land is subjected to this; and the contracts are written by the modern law but neglecting customary land rights; the decision makers of these deals are not clear; and the deals often do not consider other water users.

Dr. Alexander Müller emphasized that the need for agricultural investment which has been drastically decreased compared 30-40 years ago. FAO is taking a role to organise a consortium on land investment in order to develop the international guidelines for the land tenure, he said.

Hon. Ali Badara Mansaray, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Food Security & Forestry of Sierra Leone, spoke the government’s experience involving the recent influx of investors during the last few years. Hon. Minister stressed that the government is aiming to review the investments in order to follow up. At the same time, the Minister encouraged the private sector to invest in agriculture since it is desperately needed.

Dr. Taysir Al-Ghanem, Communication's Director Qatar National Food Security Programme, stated the role of the Qatar National Food Security Programme nationally and globally. The investments are made in domestic agricultural companies to develop overseas agricultural land. The Programme contributes to the global food market since the produced food crops are sold in abroad not brought back to Qatar.

Dr. Jennifer Franco, Transnational Institute, pointed out the land acquisitions as the threats to labour condition, livelihood loss, land and water rights in the developing countries. Despite the fact that land and water grabbing is almost impossible to separate, the clauses about water is rarely mentioned in the contracts, she said.

The panel had an opportunity to elaborate the concept of food security. Food security includes not only production of food but also access to food. The investment seems to be focused on the production not on distribution or process of food. The production of cash crops (including biofuel) is notable in the land that is obtained by the investors. Although the estimation of how much land has been transferred is varied, these factors can act as a threat to food security.

From the regulatory process perspective, the water allocation for the investors' land can be an issue due to the changes in water availability in the distant future. Long-term water availability can be a crucial issue to the other water users who access and use the same water as the investors. In addition, the discussion on land acquisitions is missing the real life problems and the water-dimension increased the complexity of the issue even more.

Programme
Resilience in the Water and Food Security Nexus

15:45 Introduction, Welcoming Remarks, IFRC and WFP

15:50 Achieving Resilience through Water Interventions for People, Food and Nature. Scenarios and Vision.
Dr. Alain Vidal, CPWF

16:05 Building Resilience through Water Related Food Security Interventions: WFP's Perspective.
Mr. Carlo Scaramella, WPF Office for Climate Change, Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction

16:10 WFP's Experience and Challenges in Resilience Building: Examples from Ethiopia and Kenya.
Ms. Eva Ludi, ODI

16:20 Questions & Answers

Closing the Gap on Sanitation Coverage, IFRC's Approach and Rationale

16:30 New Developments on Emergency Sanitation
Mr. William Carter, IFRC

16:40 Sanitation in Recovery following the Haiti Earthquake.
Mr. Michel Becks, The Netherlands Red Cross Society

16:50 Water and Productive Sanitation as Drivers Towards Food Security.
Mr. Patrick Fox, Swedish Red Cross

17:00 Questions & Answers

17:10 Coffee Break

WASH, Food Security and Resilience: The Way Forward

17:30 Panel Discussion.
Moderator: Mr. Carlo Scaramella, Office for Climate Change, Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction.

• Mr. Jean Lapègue, Action Contre la Faim
• Mr. Maher Salman, FAO
• Mr. Carlo Scaramella, WFP
• Mr. Robert Fraser, IFRC
• Dr. Eva Ludi, ODI
• Ms. Anna Tufvesson, Swedish Embassy in Nairobi
• Mr. Leonard Tedd, DFID

18:25 Questions & Answers

18:35 Closing Remarks

Programme
15.50 Trade, Food Security and Sustainable Management of Water Resources: Global Trends and the Middle East
Dr. Baris Karapinar, World Trade Institute, University of Bern

16.10 Prof. Tony Allan, King's College London

16.30 Embodied Water in Trade - Environmental Standards and Subsidies
Ms. Malena Sell, ICTSD

16.50 Regulating Water Footprint in Trade: the Role of WTO Rules and Principles
Ms. Kateryna Holzer, World Trade Institute, University of Bern

Programme
15:45 Opening and Welcome by the Water and Climate Coalition.
Ms. Karin Lexén and Dr. Mats Eriksson, SIWI

15:55 Role of Policy and Institutions in Local Adaptation to Climate Change.
Dr. David Molden, ICIMOD

16:15 Water Governance and Food Security: Role of Local Institutions in Strengthening Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change in Chitral, Pakistan.
Mr. Mohammed Younis Khan, Aga Khan Rural Support Programme

16:35 Linking Policy and Practice in Adaptation - Cases from Africa.
Mr. Roy Anunciacion, People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty

16:55 Water and Climate Mitigation - Example from the Mau Forest Complex, Kenya.
Ms. Joanna Elliott, African Wildlife Foundation

17:15 The Climate Convention Workshop on Water and Climate - Outcome and Possible Next Steps.
Mr. José Luis Luege Tamargo, CONAGUA, Mexico

17:30 Linking Policy and Implementation - What Can We Expect from Future Negotiations Under the UNFCCC.
Ambassador Bo Kjellén

17:45 Bridging Local and Global Scale in Adaptation to Climate - The Case of Local Adaptation Plan for Action.
Mr. Ajaya Dixit, ISET-Nepal

18:00 Panel Discussion

18:45 Summary and Closure

AMCOW, GWP, FAO and IWMI will co-convene a session in partnership with the WSP/World Bank, IFPRI, SEI, WfWP, WRC and PLAAS of South Africa to discuss how to develop, implement, monitor and measure concrete targets on gender, water and food security in the context of the AMCOW gender strategy. Progress on more universal gender indicator development and monitoring for domestic uses will be discussed, together with similarities, synergies but also differences with gender indicators for productive water uses. By aiming at gender equality in women's and men's holistic livelihoods, the session overcomes the water sector's compartmentalisation between domestic and productive uses.

The objectives of the session are to:

• Catalyse a common understanding of evidence-based and livelihood-oriented targets on gender, water and food security
• Facilitate partnering and cross-sectoral synergies to develop gender indicators
• Identify follow-up cooperation actions

The expected outcomes are to:

• Agree on initial broad minimum shared indicators
• Agree on follow up cooperation actions by AMCOW, GWP, FAO, IWMI, and cooperating partners; IFPRI, WSP/Worldbank, SEI, WfWP, WRC and PLAAS of South Africa.

Programme
15:45 Welcome and Introduction by the Chair.
Hon. Betty Atuku Bigombe, State Minister for Water Resources, Uganda

15:55 Context of GWP Gender Strategy and Cooperation with AMCOW.
Dr. Mercy Dikito-Wachtmeister, GWP

16:05 The AMCOW Gender Policy & Strategy.
Ms. Phoebe Luwum, AMCOW

16:20 FAO Contributions to the AMCOW Gender Strategy Implementation: Overview of Gender, Water and Food Security Indicators and Tools.
Dr. Ilaria Sisto, FAO

16:35 The Advantages of an Integrated Approach to Implementing the AMCOW Gender Strategy. Gender Indicators from the Angle of Productive and Multiple Water Uses.
Dr. Barbara van Koppen, IMWI

16:50 Gender Indicators from the WASH Angle.
Ms. Rosemary Rop, WsP/WB

17:05 Coffee Break

17:20 Gender Indicators for Women's Empowerment Strategies in Water and Food Security.
Dr. Alice Bouman - Dentener, Women for Water Partnership, The Netherlands

17:35 Women Empowerment in Agriculture Index: Its Contribution to Implementation of AMCOW Gender Strategy.
Dr. Ruth Meinzen Dick, IFPRI

17:50 Feedback on Indicators for Implementing the AMCOW Strategic Objectives on:

• Water and Sanitation: Use and Reuse.
  Mr. Linus Dagerskog, SEI
• Gender in Productive Water Uses and Water Resources Management.
  Ms. Barbara Tapela, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, Water Research Commission South Africa
• Gender and Economic Water Uses.
  Dr. Bancy Mati, Consultant, Kenya

18:30 Way Forward - Concrete Follow up Actions and Partnerships
(AMCOW, GWP, IFPRI, FAO, IWMI, SEI, Women for Water Partnership, WSP/Worldbank)

18:45 Closure.
Dr. Ania Grobicki, GWP

Programme
Chair: Ms. Gretchen Kalonji, UNESCO
Co-chair: Mr. Pasquale Steduto, FAO

15:45 Welcome Addresses.
Ms. Gretchen Kalonji, UNESCO and Mr. Michel Jarraud, UN-Water

16:00 Opening Remarks.
Mr. Rahmat Bobokalonov, Minister of Land Reclamation and Water Resources of the Republic of Tajikistan, and Prof. Torkil Jonch Clausen, SIWI

16:10 Keynote Speech.
Prof. Martin Nowak, Harvard University, USA

16:25 Panel Discussion: "Piecing Together the Water Cooperation Puzzle".
Moderator: Mr. Johan Kuylenstierna, SEI

• Legal Frameworks: Mr. Alejandro Iza, IUCN
• Communication/Sanitation: Mr. Peter van der Linde, Akvo Foundation
• Regional Coordination Mechanisms: Mr. Bai-Mass Taal, AMCOW
• Gender: Ms. Alice Bouman-Dentener, Women for Water Partnership
• Transboundary Waters: Ms. Francesca Bernardini, UNECE
• Sharing data and information: Mr. Neno Kukuric, UNESCO IGRAC
• Education, Conflict Resolution/Prevention and Water Diplomacy: Ms. Léna Salamé, UNESCO
• Financing Cooperation: Mr. Gustavo Saltiel, World Bank
• Awareness Raising/Participatory Approaches: Mr. Raymond Jost, ISW/IWFE

17:20 Questions & Answers

18:00 Handing over the World Water Day "baton" - "From World Water Day 2012 …". Mr. Pasquale Steduto, FAO
"… to World Water Day 2013". Mr. Niels Vlaanderen, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, The Netherlands

18:30 Launch of Official Website (UN Intl Year and World Water Day) and Contest "Slogan for Water Cooperation 2013".
Ms. Stefanie Neno, UN-Water, and Ms. Lucilla Minelli, UNESCO IHP

18:30 'Water for Life' UN-Water Best Practices Award on Water Cooperation.
Ms. Josefina Maestu, UNW-DPAC, and Mr. Olcay Unver, UN-WWAP

18:40 Wrap Up and Conclusion.
Ms. Gretchen Kalonji, UNESCO

Event Description
Specifically international and large river basins are characterised by multiple spatial and sectorial connections between water resources, food and energy production and epitomise the challenges related to reaching a nexus between these sectors. In many river basins, population - and economic growth but also climate change and international trade put additional pressure on sectorial demands with growing trade-offs and potential use conflicts among them.

Against this background, the seminar seeks to explore problem dimensions of the nexus in various international, large basins and shed light on the value-add of IWRM as a commendable approach for managing the nexus under the premise of benefitsharing, while considering inherent complexities and uncertainties.

Case studies help demonstrate key challenges as well as potential solutions in setting up appropriate governance
mechanisms for managing the nexus in international, large basins. Based on lessons learned from different approaches, participants will identify priority actions, effective methods and models and institutional arrangements for strengthening inclusive and participatory cross-sectorial dialogues, coordinated management approaches and integrated decision-making forging the water - energy- food security nexus within and between international basins.

The seminar offers a unique mix of cutting-edge scientific research on the nexus/IWRM in river basins and practical applications leading to a sound basis for future action.

Programme
Chair: Dr. Uschi Eid, UNSGAB

15:45 Brief Introduction by Seminar Chair

Session 1: Exploring Nexus Dimensions & Grand Challenges in International Basins

15:50 Dimensions of the Nexus in Transboundary Basins - Key Challenges, New Approaches.
Dr. Fritz Holzwarth and Thomas Stratenwerth, BMU, Germany

16:05 Nexus in and Nexus-driven Connections between River Basins - Reflection of Global Nexus Changes in Large Basins.
Prof. Janos Bogardi, Global Water System Project

Session 2: How to Manage? Evidence from Case Studies: What are Challenges - How Are These Addressed?

16:20 Case Studies 1-3

• How to Manage the Nexus: Approaches from German Development Cooperation on Transboundary Water Management in the SADC Region
  Mr. Malte Grossmann, GIZ Competence Centre Water, Germany
  
  
• Lake Winnipeg and Remote Nexus Influences.
  Mr. Rick Lawford, IISD, Canada
  
  
• Nexus in the Guadiana Basin.
  Dr. Maite Aldaya, Botin Foundation, Spain

17:05 Coffee Break

17:20 Case Studies 4-5

• Eye on Mongolia: Facing the Water, Sanitation and Food Security Challenge.
  Dr. Juergen Hofmann, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Germany
  
  
• Nexus Dialogue on Dams and Water Infrastructure Optimization - A Global Platform for Promoting Implementation of Best Practices of Large-scale Multipurpose Infrastructure (Nexus Outcome Initiative).
  Dr. Mark Smith, IUCN

Session 3: Taking It forward

17:50 Panel Discussion: Defining the Way Forward
Chairs: Dr. Uschi Eid/Dr. Nicole Kranz
Panellists:

• Ms. Francesca Bernadini, UNECE
• Mr. Hans Guttman, Mekong River Commission
• Dr. Peter Koefoed Bjørnsen, UNEP-DHI Centre
• Mr. Jan Leentvaar, UNESCO-IHE
• Mr. Franz Marré, BMZ, Germany
• Mr. Khalid Mohtadullah, GWP Senior Adviser
• Dr. Aaron Salzberg, US Dept. of State

18:35 Official Launch of Mekong2Rio Outcome Document.
Mr. Guttman, Mekong River Commission

18:40 Closing remarks

Programme
17:45 Introduction
Mr. Benidito Braga, Vice-President of the World Water Council

17:55
Round Table Discussion
Facilitator: J.D. Priscoli

• Mr. Bert Diphoorn, Vice-Chair of UN-Water
• Mrs. Catarina de Albuquerque, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Water
• Dr. Patricia Wouters, Professor of International Law, UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, University of Dundee

18:25 Wrap-up by Experts of Round Table

18:35 Closing Remarks
Mr. Olcay Ünver, World Water Assessment Programme Coordinator

Programme
Facilitator: Mr James Winpenny, Wychwood Economic Consulting Ltd

17:45 Welcome and Presentation of the WWDR4 Executive Summary
Mr. Federico Properzi, UN-Water, and Mr. Olcay Ünver, WWAP

17:55 Lessons from the 4th edition of the World Water Development Report
by Mr. Engin Koncagül, WWAP

18:05 Findings and Recommendations from the Advisory Group for UN-Water Publications with Specific Attention to the Future of the World Water Development Report Process
Ms. Josephine Gustafsson, SIWI

18:15 Theme, Content and Proposed Structure of WWDR5
Mr. Olcay Ünver, WWAP

18:25 Open Plenary Discussion

18:45 Side Event Closes

Refreshments are Provided

Programme
17:45 Welcome and Introduction.
Dr. Marianne Kjellén, WGF - UNDP Water Governance Facility at SIWI, Sweden

17:50 Key-note: The Importance of Monitoring and How It Is Evolving.
Ms. Jaehyang So, WSP, USA

18:00 Panel Discussion
Moderator: Dr. Joakim Harlin, UNDP
Panellists:

• Mr. Jefferson Wylie, Government of Liberia, Liberia
• Ms. Fe Crisilla Banluta, Department of the Interior and Local Government, Philippines
• Mr. Greg Koch, Director, The Coca-Cola Company, USA (t.b.c.)
• Dr. Bogachan Benli, UNDP Water and Ocean Governance Programme, Sweden
• Mr. Alastair Morrison, GoAL-WaSH, WGF, Sweden

18:40 Concluding Remarks.
Dr. Håkan Tropp, WGF - UNDP Water Governance Facility at SIWI, Sweden

This seminar was webcasted live. You can watch it on our video section!

Programme
09:00 Welcome and Opening

09:10 Business Perspectives for Development - An Analysis for 3 IFAD Projects.
Ms. Miriam Otoo, IWMI

09:40 Green Water Credits - Enabling Sustainable Land and Water Management.
Mr. Godert van Lynden, ISRIC, The Netherlands

10:10 Regreening Tigray - Upscaling 3R Catchment Management in Ethiopia.
Dr. Kifle Woldearegay Woldemariam. Mekele University, Ethiopia

10:40 Coffee Break

11:10 Empowering Smallholders: More Crop per Drop with Smart ICT.
Mr. Wim Bastiaanssen, eLEAF, The Netherlands

11:40 Panel Discussion

12:15 Launch of the Community of Practice on Water for Food Security and Concluding Remarks.
Ms. Audrey Nepveu, IFAD

12:30 Close of Seminar

Event Summary and Conclusions
The session convened by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) presented several promising ideas from the IFAD water grant recipients. The session discussed the next messages:

• Integrated land and water management is pivotal for realizing food security as it has been found to generate synergies when the actions of actors with the landscape are linked.
• We need to increase the scale of our operations to supersede projects trials. Scale is not the sum total of many small interventions, but calls for the transformation of entire landscapes, based on proper understanding and management of underlying soil and water processes and the microclimates. It calls for a transformation of the social, economic, and institutional dimensions of an involved society.
• To move ahead from isolated interventions and single investments with their single rates of return, we need to advance to comprehensive business models. This requires new governance systems that exploit the benefits that can be obtained from integrated landscape management, while business models are needed for implementing the transformation.

The opening speaker, Ms. Miriam Otoo (IWMI) discussed the necessity of the development and promotion of innovative business models that represent sources of revenue generation and benefits for all relevant actors. In the natural resources sector, existing business models include: Payment-for-Environmental Services (PES); Benefit-Sharing Mechanism (BSM); Franchising model; and Cost-reduction model.

Mr. Godert van Lynden of ISRIC presented Green Water Credits a PES-model). Based on the fact that water always flows downstream, this model is about farmers upstream being paid for good soil and water conservation (SWC) by water users located downstream who benefit from good practices upstream. Participants of the session concurred that although many private investors are not attracted to natural resources management; it is a fundamental part of sustainable development.

Mr. Kifle Woldearegay of Mekele University, presented the inspiring story of regreening Tigray, Ethiopia. A watershed which had been degraded three decades ago is now a rejuvenated landscape for 4.4 million people who depend on smallholder agriculture. Investors are also trickling back to support people’s livelihoods. The story showed that change at scale requires a vision, the strong involvement of the communities, and time.

The last speaker, Mr. Wim Bastiaanssen of eLeaf, presented a project on Smart ICT. This intervention is riding on the proliferation of mobile phones in developing countries where there are now more mobile phones than bank accounts. The business model around Smart ICT recognizes the critical role of intermediaries who add value to information required by smallholder farmers so that they make informed decisions and reduce risk.

Summing up the session, Ms. Audrey Nepveu, Technical Advisor Water & Rural Infrastructure for IFAD, said IFAD is supporting business models to change rural people’s lives by using approaches that support sustainable investments in the livelihoods of the rural poor.

The session was live broadcasted and can be viewed here:
http://bambuser.com/v/2939248
http://bambuser.com/v/2939380

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Programme
09:00 Opening Address.
Mr. John Joyce, SIWI, and Mr. Per Bertilsson, SIWI

09:10 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Prabhu Pingali, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA

Paper Session A
Chair: Dr. Ariel Dinar, University of California Riverside, USA

09:40 Regional Blending of Fresh and Saline Irrigation Water: Is It Efficient?
Dr. Iddo Kan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

10:05 Irrigated Agricultural Adaptation to Water Supply Variability and Salinity Impacts of Climate Change.
Dr. Kurt Scwhabe, University of California Riverside, USA

10:30 Coffee Break

Paper Session B
Chair: Dr. Doug Parker, University of California, USA

10:50 Is Ground Water Pumping to Blame for Declining Surface Water Flows? An Empirical Analysis of Water Use Externalities in the Snake Plain.
Dr. Kelly M. Cobourn, Boise State University, USA

11:15 The Impacts of Natural and Institutional Risks of Water Shortage on Irrigated Agriculture: An Econometric Analysis of Land Allocation Decisions.
Dr. Scott Lowe, Boise State University, USA

11:40 Rice and Irrigation in West Africa: Achieving Food Security with Agricultural Water Management Strategies.
Dr. Pamela Katic, IWMI, Ghana

12:05 Global Valuation of Agricultural, Virtual Blue Water Trade Measured on a Local Scale.
Dr. Anne Biewald, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany

12:30 Close of Seminar

Part I: Open Data for Water and Sanitation

The internet has shown us that open data is the future for information and data systems. This workshop will discuss a few different efforts working with open data: data journalism, experiences with data from field surveys, efforts to scrape data from public nonelectronic sources and assembling historical data from disparate and disjointed sources. The organisations presenting have cutting edge experiences to share with you.

Part II: Agriwaterpedia.info

Efficient agricultural water use for food security under climate change conditions is strongly gaining importance. Approved approaches easy to apply are needed. Hidden in the memory of experts and in archives, development cooperation has built up a treasure of this knowledge. www.agriwaterpedia.info is the attempt to make this knowledge easily accessible to be disseminated and used worldwide. GIZ will launch the web site and invites experts and organisations to share their knowledge.

Programme
09:00 Introduction, Akvo and GIZ.

Open Data for Water and Sanitation

09:10 Open Data Systems.
Mr. Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson, Akvo Foundation, The Netherlands

09:20 Data Journalism. Mr. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue, USA

09:25 Building the Water Data Community in India.
Ms. Sunita Nadhamuni, Arghyam/India Water Portal, India

09:30 Field Surveys with Mobile Phones.
Mr. Ned Breslin, Water For People, USA

09:35 Open Data Systems without the Pain.
Mr. Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson, Akvo Foundation, The Netherlands

09:40 Open Data to Contribute to the Water and Sanitation Services which Last for Generations.
Mr. Nick Dickinson, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, The Netherlands

09:45 Questions & Answer

10:05 Round Table Discussions

10:25 Wrap Up.
Mr. Mark Charmer, Akvo Foundation, UK

10:30 Coffee Break

Agriwaterpedia.info

11:00 Welcome and Introduction.
Ms. Barbara Gerhager, GIZ, Germany and BMZ, Germany

11:10 Developing a knowledge and expert platform for effective water use for food security in climate change
Mr. Stefan Opitz, GIZ, Germany

11:20 Launch of www.agriwaterpedia.info and Demonstration
Mr. Franz-Birger Marré and Dr. Stefan Schmitz, BMZ, Germany

11:35 Working Groups.
Ms. Barbara Gerhager, GIZ, Germany

• Is www.agriwaterpedia.info User Friendly?
  Mr. Felix Zeiske, GIZ, Germany
• Potential of Cooperation's?
• Topics That Are Not Covered?
  Dr. Elisabeth van den Akker, GIZ, Germany

12:00 Results of Working Groups.
Ms. Elisabeth van den Akker, GIZ, Germany

12:15 Wrap Up, Conclusions and Recommendations.
BMZ and Ms. Barbara Gerhager, GIZ, Germany

12:25 Common Conclusions.
Mr. Mark Charmer, Akvo, UK, and Ms. Barbara Gerhager, GIZ, Germany

12:30 Close of Seminar

Sound decisions that maximise water's beneficial uses require good governance based on comprehensive policies and good science, and partnerships involving all stakeholders, in public as well as private institutions. Such decisions
will lead to cost-effective investments - in institutions, information and infrastructure - that improve food security in a mutually beneficial manner with trade-offs made, if necessary, between water's other beneficial uses. Effective
institutions must enable sound decision-making and encourage participation of all stakeholders, including the private sector. The best information upon which to base effective strategies, plans and decisions, including leading-edge input from the science-research community, must be available to the right persons at the right time.

What tools and approaches are available to enable sound decisions that lead to effective investments that maximise food security from water management and development? Are there good examples of successful institutional arrangements? What essential information is required and how can its development and use be facilitated? What processes best enable the right investments in the infrastructure that really deliver improvements in livelihoods?

Programme
Chairs/Moderators:

• Prof. Mohamed Ait Kadi, GWP
• Dr. Joppe Cramwinkel, WBCSD
• Dr. Rudolph Cleveringa, IFAD
• Ms. Roxanna Samii, IFAD

Rapporteurs:

• Ms. Gemma Dunn, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Mr. Kenge James Gunya, GWP
• Mr. John Metzger, GWP

09:00 Welcome

IWRM as Providing the Enabling Environment through:

1. Policies (Legal and Financing)
2. Institutions
3. Management Instruments

09:05 Introduction.
Chair and Moderator: Prof. Mohamed Ait Kadi, GWP

09:10 Keynote. Food and Water Security through IWRM
Dr. Uma Lele, GWP Technical Committee

09:25 Multiple Use Water Services for Food Security and Health: Lessons Learnt by the MUS Group.
Dr. Barbara van Koppen, IWMI

09:40 Integrated Water Resources Sustain Food Security and Water Resources in Sri Lanka.
Mr. Munasinghege Karunaratne, Co-operative Insurance Co. Ltd, Sri Lanka

09:55 Discussion

10:30 Coffee Break

Private Sector/Business Community Perspectives/Interests in Supporting Investments Increasing Food Security

11:00 Introduction.
Chair and Moderator: Dr. Joppe Cramwinkel, WBCSD

11:05 Keynote: Investing at the Intersection of Food and Water Security: Role of the Private Sector.
Dr. Liese Dallbauman, PepsiCo, USA

11:20 Creating Shared Value - Testing a Model of Corporate Value Creation through a Water Lens to Address Water
and Agriculture.
Mr. William Sarni, Deloitte Consulting LLP, USA

11:35 Water Management in a Globalised World: The Case of Soybean, Corn and Wheat Production in Argentina.
Ms. Eugenia Vidallé, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

11:50 Discussion

12:30 Lunch

The Enabling Role of Government and the International Bilateral Financing Institutions

14:00 Introduction.
Chair and Moderator: Dr. Rudolph Cleveringa, IFAD

14:05 Which Way Water Security? Reflecting on Evidence Reported in DFID's Systematic Map on the Performance
of Water Resource Management Institutions.
Ms. Virginia Hooper, University of East Anglia, UK

14:20 Towards Water Security through Integrated Water Resource Management: The Case of the La Plata
Basin in South America.
Ms. Julia Lacal Bereslawski, CIC-Programa Marco, Argentina

14:35 Step-By-Step to Good Local Water Governance and Multiple-Use Water Services for Food Security - Reflections
from Far Western Nepal.
Ms. Sanna-Leena Rautanen, Rural Village Water Resources Management Project, Nepal

14:50 Discussion

15:30 Coffee Break

Facilitated Panel Discussion Organised Around Some Key Discussion Questions

16:00 Introduction.
Chair and Moderator: Ms. Roxanna Samii, IFAD

16:05 Panellists:

• Dr. Uma Lele, GWP Technical Committee
• Dr. Liese Dallbauman, PepsiCo, USA
• Ms. Virginia Hooper, University of East Anglia, UK
• Mr. Alexander Müller, FAO
• Dr. Aziza Akhmouch, OECD
• Dr. Zhanyi Gao, ICID

17:10 Final Discussion and Conclusions

17:30 End of Workshop

Africa Focus builds on outcomes of the Africa process of the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille and the 4th Africa Water Week in Cairo as well as the Rio+20 outcomes. The aim of AMCOW and AUC is to catalyze action and innovation to confront the challenges we face in water resources management.

Seminar 1 of the Africa Focus has two sessions with the 1st session focusing on "Water for Growth in Africa: From Marseille to Cairo - Rio +20, the Way Forward" and the 2nd session calling attention to "Managing African Water Resources: Challenges and Opportunities". Both sessions will feature introductory presentations followed by panel discussions featuring key resource persons in the sector.

Programme
Water for Growth in Africa: From Marseille - Cairo - Rio +20, the Way Forward
Chair: Dr. Mohamed Bahaa El-Din, AMCOW President / Minister for Water Resources & Irrigation, Arab Republic of Egypt
Moderator: Mr. Bai Mass Taal, AMCOW Executive Secretary

09.00 Opening Statement.
Dr. Mohamed Bahaa El-Din, AMCOW President / Minister for Water Resources & Irrigation, Arab Republic of Egypt.

09.15 Statement from the AUC

09.25 Setting the scene: Water for Growth in Africa - From Marseille to Cairo. Presentation of major outcomes from WWF6 (Africa Process) - AWW-4 - Rio +20. Mr. Bai Mass Taal, AMCOW Executive Secretary

09.45 Panel Discussion on Way Forward
Panelists:

• Prof. Jumanne  Maghembe (MP), Minister for Water, Tanzania
• Dr. Laurent G. Sedogo, Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries, Burkina Faso, Sering Jallow, (AfDB OWAS)
• Prof. A Szollosi-Nagy, (UNESCO-IHE)
• Mr. Hama Arba Diallo, (GWP)
• Mr. Dominic Waughray, (WEF-WRG)

10.45 Coffee break

Managing African Water Resources: Challenges and Opportunities
Co-Chair: Hon. Charity Kaluki Ngilu, MP, Minister of Water and Irrigation, Kenya and Hon. Issoufou Issaka, Minister for Hydraulic and Environment, Niger
Moderator: Dr. Joakim Harlin (UNDP)

11.10 The Africa 2012 IWRM Status Report - Challenges and Opportunities.
Dr. Paul Taylor

11.30 Panel Discussion
Panelists:

• Dr. Khalil M Timamy, AUC
• Mr. Maarten Gischler, EUWI-AWG
• Mr. Gustavo Saltiel, CIWA
• Dr. Themba Gumbo, Cap-Net
• Mr. Andre Fourie, WEF-WRG
• Dr. Ahmed Wagdy, Advisor to AMCOW President
• Dr. Stephen Donkor, UNECA

Programme
Co-Chairs/Moderator:

• Dr. Fritz Holzwarth, BMU, Germany
• Mr. Johan Kuylenstierna, SEI
• Mr. Jeremy Bird, IWMI

Rapporteurs:
Mr. Alain Vidal, Director, CGIAR CPWF, and Dr. Torkil Jønch Clausen, SIWI

09:00 Welcome and Introduction to Workshop. Brief Report from Bonn2011 and Rio+20.
Dr. Fritz Holzwarth, BMU, Co-convener of Bonn2011 Conference

09:15 Keynote: Towards a Green and Growing Economy with the Water-Food-Energy Nexus.
Prof. Joachim von Braun, Center for Development Research, ZEF, Germany

09:30 Crossing Water-Food-Energy Nexus in the Middle East: Integrate Resource Planning and Trade-offs to Meet a Green, Sustainable Economy.
Mr. Jay Witherspoon, CH2M HILL, Australia

09:45 Dams on the Mekong River: Lost Fish Protein and the Implications for Land and Water Resources.
Mr. Stuart Orr, WWF International

10:00 Questions & Answers. Summing Up by Moderator

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Keynote: A Business Perspective on the Stress Nexus.
Mr. Erwin Nijasse, Shell Group Strategy

11:15 Integrating Water and Energy Policy for Hydropower Development in the Amazon Region.
Ms. Olimar Maisonet-Guzman, The American University, USA

11:30 Future Challenges in Northeast Thailand: The Nexus of Energy, Water and Food Investments.
Ms. Orn-Uma Polpanich, SEI

11:45 Questions and Answers

11:55 Introduction and Questions by Moderator, Followed by Discussions Around Tables. Report-back from Tables and Brief Plenary Discussion

12:25 Summing up by Moderator

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Brief Summary of Morning Sessions and Introduction to Afternoon Sessions by Moderators

14:10 Moving the Water-Food-Energy Nexus forward with an Ecosystem Services Perspective - Report from the World Water Forum 6 Nexus High-Level Panel.
Mr. Alain Vidal, CGIAR CPWF

14:25 Keynote: Water for Food, Energy and Ecosystems - Options for Benefits Sharing in the Upper Niger Basin.
Dr. Jane Madgwick, WI

14:40 Rising Prices, Rising Environmental Regions? Constructing a Multi-Level Governance Framework for the Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus.
Dr. Inga Jacobs, WRC, South Africa

14:55 Green Water Credits - An Innovative Investment Mechanism to Reach Sustainable Soil, Water and Energy Resources Management in a River Basin.
Mr. Godert van Lynden, ISRIC - World Soil Information, The Netherlands

15:10 Questions & Answers. Summing up by Moderator

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 Implications of Yunnan's (China) Aggressive Hydropower Development on Regional Food Security, Changing
Land Utilization and Livelihood.
Dr. Thomas Hennig, Phillipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

16:15 Innovations in Managing the Agriculture, Energy and Groundwater Nexus: Evidence from Two States in India.
Dr. Aditi Mukherji, IWMI

16:30 Final Panel Discussion

• Ms. Letitia Obeng, Chair GWP
• Mr. Bai-Mass Taal, AMCOW
• Mr. Hans Guttman, Mekong River Commission, China
• Dr. Fritz Holzwarth, BMU, Germany
• Mr. Alex McPhail, WB

17:15 Summing-Up and Conclusions

Event Summary and Conclusions
Achieving water security and food security for all in an increasingly water stressed world is intimately linked to energy security. While food demand may increase by up to 70 per cent by 2050, the global demand for energy may increase by up to 40 per cent. Agriculture accounts for some 70 per cent of the world's freshwater withdrawals for food, feed, fibre and fuel. Energy production in some parts of the world accounts for up to 45 per cent of all water withdrawals. Satisfying these demands, while maintaining ecosystems, livelihoods, fisheries and biodiversity, is a challenge. While energy production carries a heavy water bill, a significant energy bill is associated with pumping, treatment and desalination of water. The "footprints" work both ways. Hence water, food and energy security need to be addressed in an integrated way, in the context of a pro-poor green economy valuing ecosystem services, as a "nexus" with water at the heart.

The Workshop addressed these issues through a series of keynote presentations, invited scientific papers, discussions between presenters and audience, including a roundtable discussion, and a final Panel Discussion. The keynotes addresses set the stage by reports from the Bonn2011 Conference and 6th World Water Forum in March 2012, as well as from renowned international institutions working with the nexus, and eight scientific papers from around the world illustrated how these issues are conceptualized and addressed in practice.

The examples included the water quality and reuse dimensions of the nexus in water scarce Middle East; the protein challenge in Mekong River as host of the world’s largest inland fisheries threatened by hydropower development; food security against hydropower development in the Amazon and in the Yunnan province of China; pricing and nexus governance in South Africa; green water credits as a mechanism to reach sustainable soil, water and energy resources management; and innovations in managing the agriculture, energy and groundwater nexus in India.

The Workshop concluded that:

1. The Water-Food-Energy Nexus responds to increasing scarcity of natural resources due to increasing demands by highlighting the interconnectivity of decisions to improve the efficiency and sustainability of our economies and avoid unintended consequences. A nexus approach both challenge and stimulate the water, food and energy sectors to collaborate. Considerations of ecosystem functions and water quality are as important as water quantity.
2. The challenge remains how to implement the nexus in practice by identifying entry points at local, national and transboundary levels and building on existing frameworks such as IWRM. Implementation calls for pragmatism rather than dogmatism, for sharing of experiences across sectors and between diverse geographic, physical and cultural settings.
3. Taking a nexus perspective requires that water, food and energy pricing, opportunity costs and trade-offs are addressed. More consistent and coherent policy frameworks as well as effective and flexible governance approaches are essential for allowing markets to work for resource efficiency and ensuring equitable access to services. Sharing of benefits, and valuing water and water ecosystem services consistently, make nexus thinking contribute to our economies more than the sum of its component parts. There is no win-win and no sustainability without sharing and collaboration.

What kinds of innovations may lead to improved efficiency in irrigation? What is the potential for an expansion of supplementary irrigation? What investments are needed in blue water management for food security in a context of multiple and competing uses?

Programme
Chair: Mr. Avinash Tyagi, WMO
Co-chair: Dr. Peter McCornick, IWMI
Commentator/Moderator: Dr. Jean-Marc Faures, FAO
Rapporteurs:

• Mr. Jack Moss, AquaFed
• Prof. Jan Lunqvist, SIWI
• Ms. Emmaculate Madungw, BUSE, Zimbabwe

09:00 Introduction by Chairs

09:05 Keynote: Small Private Irrigation: A New Model in Agricultural Water Management.
Dr. Charlotte de Fraiture, UNESCO-IHE, The Netherlands

09:25 Quantifying the Potential Water Savings Associated with Irrigation Efficiency Improvements.
Dr. Juliet Christian Smith, Pacific Institute, USA

09:40 Modern Irrigation Systems Improve Water Efficiency and Generate Wealth for the Farming Communities.
Mr. Hugo Hammar, Borealis AG, Austria

09:55 Is the Rebound Effect (Jevon's Paradox) a Useful Metaphor for Water Management - Insights from the Irrigation Modernization, Spain.
Ms. Beatrice Mayor Rodriguez, UCM, formerly Botín Foundation, Spain.

10:10 Questions & Answers

10:25 Summing up by Chairs/Moderators

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Keynote: Renewed Emphasis on Water Storage For Food Production.
Prof. Chandra A. Madramootoo, McGill University, Canada

11:20 Traditional & Successful Practices in Water Scarcity 'Thar Desert', Rajasthan, India.
Dr. Ikbal Husain, Public Health Engineering Department, India

11:35 The Role of On-farm Storage in Irrigation - A UK Case Study.
Dr. Keith Weatherhead, Cranfield University, UK

11:50 New FAO Framework for Coping with Water Scarcity
Dr. Pasquale Steduto, FAO

12:05 Questions & Answers

12:25 Conclusions of Morning Session

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Introduction by Chairs

14:05 Keynote: Can We Mobilise More Blue Water? Where, How and for Whom?
Dr. Francois Molle, IRD/IWMI

14:25 Water Constraints to Future Food Supply and an Assessment of Potential Adaptation Measures.
Ms. Hester Biemans, Wageningen University and Research Center, The Netherlands

14:40 Water Scarcity and the Impact of Improved Irrigation Management.
Dr. Alvaro Calzadilla, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany

14:55 Rice Bowl of Myanmar: The Ayeyarwaddy Delta and Its Water Management Developments through the Ages of Paddy Production.
Mr. Aye Myint, National Engineering and Planning Services Company Ltd, Myanmar

15:10 Questions & Answers

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 Panel Discussion

• Dr. Roberto Lenton, Robert B. Daugherty, Water for Food Institute at the University of Nebraska, USA
• Dr. Gao Zhanyi, ICID
• Dr. Luna Baharati, IWMI
• Dr. Francois Molle, IRD/IWMI

17:15 Summing Up and Conclusions

17:30 End of Workshop

Production of animal sourced foods has a large resource use and appropriates one third of global croplands for feed production and occupies 30 per cent of the global land surface for grazing. With a land use also being a water use, the importance of the livestock sector in relation to growing water constraints is a global concern.

This seminar reveals the multi-dimensional linkages between blue and green freshwater resources, the use of different kinds of biomass for feed, and different livestock production systems, including aquaculture. The presentations will show how the complexity behind water use in livestock production can be analysed, and how trade-offs and synergies relate to options to improve livestock water productivity, to sustain ecosystem services and to enhance livelihoods.

Programme
How Can We Analyse and Describe the Links Between Water and Livestock? What Should be the Message to the Research Community and the Public?
Chair: Dr Jennie Barron, SEI, UK

09:00 Future Outlook Livestock Sector - Drivers and Options.
Dr. Mario Herrero, ILRI

09:15 Livestock Production Systems - Green, Green and Blue Consumptive Water Use.
Dr. Mats Lannerstad, SEI/ILRI

09:30 Water Footprint Farm Animal Products. What Can We Learn?
Dr. Mesfin Mekonnen, University of Twente, The Netherlands

09:45 The LCA Perspective - Implications of Water for Livestock.
Dr. Bradley Ridoutt, CSIRO, Australia

10:00 Panel Discussion with Presenters

10:30 Coffee Break

Revealing the Wide Range of Livestock-water Linkages Across Scales: Different Animals, Feed Sources and Production Systems
Chair: Dr. Mario Herrero, ILRI

11:00 Livestock Water Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa - Case Studies and Entry Points for Improvement.
Dr. Katrien Descheemaeker, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

11:15 Globalised Livestock Intensification - Monogastrics, Concentrates, Trade and Water.
Mr. Jens Heinke, PIK, Germany, and ILRI

11:30 Pastures. How to Optimize Production and Sustain Ecosystem Services?
Dr. Karl-Ivar Kumm, SLU, Sweden

11:45 The Forgotten Fish - The Role of Aquaculture in Livestock Production.
Dr. Nathan Pelletier, JRC, European Commission

12.00 Panel Discussion

12:30 Close of Seminar

Event Description
Urban populations have increased by 53% since 1990, but access to urban sanitation grew by only 2%, leaving 700 million more urban dwellers unserved. 

To date poor-inclusive urban sanitation 'successes' are few; sanitation approaches are bound by past practices; technical, organisational and institutional integration of onsite and water borne systems, treatment, reuse and adaptation for climate change are all rare - at scale.
 
Based on analytical studies and practical experience, the seminar will identify "What do we know, and what more do we need to know and do?" to improve poor-inclusive urban sanitation delivery at scale. Specifically, examples of integrated sanitation approaches, including fecal sludge management and de-centralized wastewater treatment systems will address technical, institutional, operational and financial aspects of scaling up urban sanitation in Latin America, Africa and East Asia considering the value chain from collection to transport, treatment, disposal or reuse.
 
The seminar objectives are to share emerging evidence; to  identify 'gaps' for future research in poor-inclusive integrated urban sanitation; and spur on more focussed action - at scale.

Programme

Why Go To Scale Now and Why Poor Inclusive Integrated Sanitation?

9:00 Welcome to the Seminar, Introduction to first session
Chair: Ms. Isabel Blackett, WSP

09:05 Overview of Urban Growth, Slum Development and Housing
Mr. Bert Diphoorn, UN-HABITAT

09:15 Buzz Groups

09:17 Overview of Poor-Inclusive Sanitation in Urban Areas - from toilets to service delivery
Mr. Peter Hawkins, WSP

09:35 Buzz Groups

09:38 Why Are Integrated Sanitation Solutions Required?
Mr. Alexander Grieb, KfW, Germany Outline of Concept, Rationale

10:00 Plenary Questions and Open Discussion

10:30 30 Coffee and tea break

Lessons from Practice - Building on What We Know

11:00 Introduction to Session and Main Purpose
Chair: Alexander Grieb, KfW

11:03 Sanitation without Sewers in Latin America
Mr. Zael Sanz Uriarte, Bolivia, WSP

11:16 Buzz Groups

11:18 Are Community Based Decentralized Wastewater Systems an Effective Sanitation Option?
Ms. Isabel Blackett, WSP

11:32 Buzz Groups

11:35 Demonstrating Integrated Sanitation in practice: examples from sub Sahara Africa
Mr. Gerald Kühnemund, KfW

11:50 Plenary questions and open discussion  

12:20 Seminar Conclusion and Summing up Chair 

12:30 Close  

Event Summary and Conclusions
The seminar started with an introduction by Bert Diphoorn from UN-Habitat presenting a 'scary' overview of urban migration including:

• urban growth is most rapid in developing countries,
• in the next 40 years there will be around 800,000 new urban residents / per week
• the majority of growth is in smaller cities and towns in lower and middle income countries, and
• women and girls suffer from a lack of privacy and dignity, or having to give up schooling.

Following on, Peter Hawkins from WSP made a case for moving "From Toilet Provision to Sanitation Services" backed by a study of successful poor-inclusive sanitation at scale. He showed that urban sanitation includes solid waste and drainage services; toilets need to be desludged and able to withstand flooding and adverse climate conditions. Key challenges include:

• The hygienic emptying of latrines in dense slums
• Systems that work in challenging environments
• Sanitation for poor tenant households
• Getting the most out of sewerage

He proposed a framework of complementary services based on a national enabling environment, local governance and community consultation. Key drivers and accountability mechanisms to drive the process were highlighted.

Alexander Grieb of KfW developed the integrated services concept arguing for an holistic sanitation system for the entire urban area and all socioeconomic levels. It should be based on urban development plans, comprehensive sanitation Masterplans and include investment packages for implementation of sanitation services. These will link onsite and offsite services requiring a viable feacal sludge management integrated between removal, treatment, disposal and reuse and address household, institutional, and public spheres. Service providers should be commercially oriented or a utility. Appropriate incentives are needed to develop and motivate the service provider but also the user-based payments according to public and private benefits.

Zael Sanz of WSP explained why sector authorities, donors and cooperation agencies should pay greater attention to domestic feacal sludge services markets in urban areas of Latin America, as the number of citizens relying in onsite sanitation facilities has been increasing for the last 15 years in many cities of Latin America. He presented innovative approaches that are been adopted for the regulation of these services in some countries, based on creating incentives for service providers and householders to properly dispose of the sludge in treatment facilities.

Isabel Blackett presented findings of a study of 400 community managed decentralized wastewater treatment systems (DEWATS) in Indonesia concluding that DEWATS can be effective for serving poor communities where: the appropriate type is built in the right location; the number of users is optimized and sustained; there is shared responsibility with Government for operation and maintenance; it's part of a sanitation plan and the community have the motivation to make them work.

Finally, Gerald Kühnemund described KfW's integrated sanitation projects in Uganda and Burundi. The approaches include improving public and community toilets; close cooperation with change agents to ensure proper use of toilets and willingness to pay; focus on affordable and locally available technologies; developing public private partnership with manufacturers of sanitation products; facilitation of credit acquisition and construction subsidies for households are in consideration and integrated feacal sludge management to include collection, transport, treatment and disposal/reuse.

Programme
09:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks.
Mr. Ian W Makin, ADB

09:05 ADB Water Operations for Food Security.
Mr. Wouter Lincklaen Arriens, ADB

09:15 Research for Rural Development in Asia.
Dr. Andrew Noble, formerly Research Director, ACIAR.

A Looming Crisis?
Chair: Dr. Andrew Noble, IWMI

09:30 Looming Food and Water Crisis in Asia.
Prof. Peter Rogers, Harvard University and NUS

09:50 Water and Food Security in Asia - Addressing a Growing Challenge.
Ms. Louise Whiting, FAO RAP

10:10 Climate Change and Food Security: Role of Watershed Development in India.
Dr. V. Ratna Reddy, Livelihoods and Natural Resource Management Institute

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Interactive Panel Debate - Water and Food in Asia.
Chair: Mr. Wouter Lincklaen Arriens, ADB

11:00 Water Uncertainties and Production System Risks in Asia.
Mr. Akhtar Ali, ADB

11:20 Rice, Sugar and Water initiatives in South Asia.
Mr. Lifeng Li, WWF

11:30 Panel Debate.
Facilitator: Mr. Wouter Lincklaen Arriens, ADB

• Ms. Luna Bharati, IWMI
• Mr. David S. McCauley, ADB
• Mr. Kenneth Irvine, UNESCO-IHE
• Mr. Akhtar Ali, ADB

12:30 Close of Seminar

Programme
Chair: Ms. Yasmin Siddiqi, ADB

12:45 Welcome and Introduction.
Ms. Yasmin Siddiqi, ADB

12:50 Water Scarcity, Allocation and Flood Risk Management in a Rapidly Changing World
Prof. Li Yuan Yuan, GIWP

13:10 Towards a renewed framework of action for sustainable water resources management and food security in Asia.
Ms. Louise Whiting, FAO

13:20 Panel Discussion

• Mr. Lei Gang, WWF
• Prof. Li Yuan Yuan, GIWP
• Ms. Louise Whiting, FAO

13:45 Close of Session

Lunch Provided by the Organiser

Programme
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12:45 Welcome and Opening Comments.
Ms. Carol Chouchani Cherfane, UN-ESCWA, Lebanon

12:50 The Inventory of Shared Water Resources in Western Asia: an Overview.
Mr. Andreas Renck, BGR, Lebanon

13:10 Country Comments on the Inventory.
Mr. Ali Subah, Ministry of Water and Irrigation (MWI), Jordan

13:15 Country Comments on the Inventory.
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13:20 Question & Answer

13:45 Closing 

Lunch provided by the organiser

Event Summary and Conclusions
"The Inventory of Shared Water Resources in Western Asia", compiled by the ESCWA and BGR is the first UN-led effort to take stock of both shared (transboundary) groundwater and surface water resources in the region in a comprehensive, systematic and unified manner.  It covers all surface and groundwater resources shared between Arab countries in the Middle East and also includes data on water resources that are shared with Iran, Israel and Turkey.

This groundbreaking work comprises 9 surface and 18 groundwater chapters that address key aspects of hydrology, hydrogeology, water resources development and use, and also examine the status of cross-border cooperation and management efforts. With more than 400 pages of detailed information and over 50 new maps, the Inventory provides an up-to-date view of the state and evolution of shared water resources with recent, comprehensive data series and solid trend analysis displayed in 200 figures, tables and boxes. All chapters follow a standardised structure and methodology and are rich in visuals. The publication was developed in close consultation with ministries of water in ESCWA member countries and regional experts, thereby transcending traditional approaches to report preparation and desk studies.

Prior to its formal launch in Beirut in early 2013, the Inventory was pre-released at the World Water Week on August 28th. After opening words delivered by Carol Chouchani Cherfane (ESCWA), the BGR team (Andreas Renck, Eileen Maternowski and Yusuf Al Mooji) introduced the scope, objectives and work process for the Inventory and provided a sneak preview of selected chapter content, style and visuals. Mr. Ali Subah, Assistant Secretary General in the Ministry of Water and Irrigation in Jordan provided an inside view from the perspective of one of the participating countries. He underlined the fact that by bringing together the state of knowledge on shared surface and groundwater resources in the region, the Inventory takes a central role in fostering cooperation and exchange between countries and fulfills its goal of promoting a collaborative and sustainable management of shared water resources. The session concluded with questions from the audience and closing remarks by Franca Schwarz (BGR).

The Inventory website was also launched at the side event (www.waterinventory.org), through which users are able to access the Inventory chapters, maps and other related content.

Chair: Ms. Anna Forslund, WWF, Sweden

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12.45 Opening Comments and Welcoming Speeches.
Mr. Lasse Gustavsson, WWF International

12.50 The  Role of Freshwater Fish in Securing Global Food Security - Summary of WWF study.
Ms. Patricia Schelle, WWF International

13.00 Mainstream fish or mainstream dams: food security in Cambodia
Mr. Marc Goichot, WWF Mekong programme

13.15 A valley of life - lake fisheries in the middle and lower Yangtze River
Lei Gang, WWF China

13.45 Summary and Conclusions.
Ms. Anna Forslund, WWF, Sweden

During the event the WWF report "Flowing Rivers, Full Bellies The case for freshwater conservation to achieve food security" will be launched.

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12:45 Welcome.
Dr. Rafiq Husseini, Union for the Mediterranean

12:48 The Palestinian National Authority's Project.
Eng. Rebhy El-Sheikh, Palestinian Water Authority

12:58 Information Memorandum

13:00 Commentary on the Environmental Aspects of the Gaza Strip and the Importance of the Resting the Aquifer underneath the Gaza Strip.
Mr. Henrik Slotte, UNEP

13:07 Commentary of the World Bank on the Water Supply and Distribution in the Gaza Strip and the Importance of Alternative Source of Drinking Water.
Mr. Rick Pollard, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist

13:14 Commentary on the Role of EIB and the Project Information Memorandum.
Mr. Ioannis Kaltsas, European Investment Bank

13:21 Questions & Answers

13:36 Closing Statement on the Strategic Plan for Supplying Water to Gaza and the Central Role of the Desalination Project.
Dr. Shaddad Attili, Palestinian Minister of Water

13:43 Closing Remarks.
Dr. Rafiq Husseini, Union for the Mediterranean

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12:45 Welcome, Introduction and Context.
Miss Ruth Romer, IPIECA, UK and Mr Laurent Bellet, EDF, France

12:55 Overview of the IPIECA Global Water Tool for Oil and Gas and the GEMI Local Water Tool for Oil and Gas.
Ms Jan Dell, CH2M HILL, USA

13:10 Case Studies from Companies Using Water Risk Assessment Tools.
Convened by Ms Jan Dell, CH2M HILL, USA

13:35 Summary and Wrap up. Mr Karl Fennessey, ConocoPhillips, USA

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12:45 Opening Comments.
Dr. Roberto Lenton, Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute at the University of Nebraska, USA

12:48 Mr. Keith Olsen, Farms a Rainfed Corn and Wheat Operation (1214 hectares), Nebraska, USA

13:00 Mr. Martin Pasman, Farms a Diversified Commodity Crop Operation (20,000 hectares), Argentina

13:12 Mrs. Mridula Sharma, Farms an Irrigated Wheat and Rice Operation (14 hectares), India

13:24 Dr. Thomas Wickham, Wickham's Fruit Farm (81 hectares), New York, USA, and Former Director General, International Water Management Institute

13:36 Discussion and Closing Comments.

Lunch provided by the organiser 

Event Summary and Conclusions
"View from the Field: Farmers' Perspectives on Water for Food" brought together the viewpoints of agricultural producers from diverse countries whose farms range in size and are irrigated and rainfed.

James B. Milliken, President of the University of Nebraska, USA opened the session by commenting on the importance of listening to farmers and being responsive to their needs as we address questions of water and food security.

Mr. Keith Olsen from Nebraska (USA) owns a corn and wheat operation that covers 1214 hectares and receives .5 meters of rainfall. Olsen utilizes no-till farming techniques that leaves residue in the field to collect and retail soil moisture on this entirely rainfed farm. He has been able to go from a wheat-fallow rotation to a wheat-corn-corn-peas rotation in increase production from 1.1 to 3.4 tonnes/hectare/year (or from 17.5 to 53 bushels/acre/year).

Mr. Martin Pasman's family has been involved in farming in Argentina for over 5 generations and 150 years.  The operation has expanded considerably since 1970, now covering 20,000 hectares in four different areas. Pasman shares Olsen's commitment to no-till farming, which allows him to successfully farm on poor soils. Pasman also uses 59 center pivot irrigation systems to irrigate 5,200 hectares, which enables him to apply highly efficient precision farming techniques and thereby reduce labor and other input costs.

Mrs. Mridula Sharma grows wheat, lentils, maize and rice, along with irrigated cotton and sugar cane, on a 14 hectare farm near New Dehli, India. Sharma pointed out that 14 hectares is large by Indian standards, where nearly 80% of farms are less than 2 hectares in size.  Most rain falls between June and September, leading to three growing seasons and focal crops: rice from July 5 to November 15; wheat from November 15 to April 15; and moong beans and dhencha from April 15 to July 5.  Both canals and tube wells are both used to irrigate crops. Water conservation practices include land-leveling, cemented channels, and no-till sowing.

Dr. Thomas Wickham is both a farmer and a Former Director General of the International Water Management Institute.  Wickham described operations on his family’s fruit farm, located on 81 hectares in Long Island, New York, USA, which includes some of the oldest continually cultivated land in the country, much of the farm dating from 1661. To ensure that the land continues to be used for agriculture, the land has been enrolled in a local farmland preservation program, where development rights are purchased. Groundwater is plentiful and used to grow strawberries, apricots, peaches, plums, blueberries, tomatoes, apples, grapes and pears. The fruit is sold on-site through a retail market and "u-pick" customer visits. 

These four farmers have significantly different operations, yet they agree that their continued success depends upon using a combination of technology and data-driven decision-making to aggressively manage available water supplies.

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14:00 Opening Remarks.
Dr. Mats Eriksson, SIWI

Welcome Address.
Mr. Michel Jarraud, WMO
Mr. Alexander Müller, FAO

SESSION II: CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES

14:10 Setting the Scene 1: Climate Services for Water and Agriculture - Current Status and Future Needs (Global Framework for Climate Services, GFCS).
Mr. Filipe Lúcio, WMO

14:30 Setting the Scene 2: Current Status and Shortcomings in Early Warning Systems for Water in Agriculture.
Dr. Pasquale Steduto, FAO

14:50 Setting the Scene 3: Perspective on Climate Services and EWS to Reduce Hunger Risks and Food Insecurity.
Mr. Carlo Scaramella, WFP

15:10 Coffee Break

SESSION III: REPORTS FROM END USERS

15:30 Country Level Perspective: Combating Drought in South Africa - the role of Early Warning Systems
H.E. RT Mabudafhasi, Deputy Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, South Africa

15:45 Farmers Perspective: The Need for Climate Services and EWS for Reduced Uncertainty and Enhanced Food Production.
Mr Martin Pasman, farmer, Argentina

SESSION IV: PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE NEEDS FOR THE FUTURE

16:00 Panel Discussion on Climate Services and EWS in the Crossing of Water and Food Security.
Moderator: Dr. Ania Grobicki, GWP
Panel Members:

• H.E. RT Mabudafhasi, South Africa
• Mr. Michel Jarraud, WMO
• Dr. Pasquale Steduto, FAO
• Mr. Carlo Scaramella, WFP
• Mr Martin Pasman, Argentina

17:25 Closing of Seminar.
Dr. Mats Eriksson, SIWI

The Stockholm Industry Water Award honours contributions by business and industry that improve the global water situation. It recognises and encourages innovation and leadership in sustainable development of the water sector.

The prize was established in 2000 in collaboration with the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. An award committee established by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences reviews the submissions and selects the winning company. The committee contains representatives of the Academy and of Global Water Partnership, International Water Association, Stockholm Water Foundation, World Business Council for Sustainable Development as well as leading academics of water sciences.

Building on the Seminar 1 of the Africa Focus, Seminar 2 features a session with the thematic focus: 'Africa in 2040 - Water as a Catalyst for Pan African Integration and Development' and another session on 'Water and Sanitation Delivery in Africa: Beyond 2015'. Both sessions feature introductory presentations followed by panel discussions featuring key resource persons in the sector.

The Africa Focus will be rounded off with a High Level Ministerial panel featuring AMCOW Ministers, designed to endorse the outcomes of the sessions.

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Africa in 2040 - Water as a Catalyst for Pan African Integration and Development

Co-Chair: Hon. Mrs. Sarah Reng Ochekpe, Minister of Water Resources, Nigeria and Hon. Betty Bigombe, Minister of State for Water, Uganda
Moderator: Mr. Alex Simalabwi, GWP

14.00: Presentations

• The Future of Africa-Water, Climate and Development
  Mr. Alex Simalabwi, GWP
• Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa, PIDA
  Mr. Shem Simuyemba, AfDB
• Infrastructure Consortium for Africa Water Platform
  Ms. Sonja Hoess, ICA

14.30: Panel Discussion
Panellists:

• Mr. Bai Mass Taal, AMCOW
• Dr. Enos S. Bukuku, EAC
• Dr. João Samuel Caholo, SADC
• Dr. Akissa A.Bahri, AWF-AfDB

Water and Sanitation Delivery in Africa: Beyond 2015

Co-Chair: Hon. Mahamat Ali Abdallah Nassour, Minister for Urban and Rural Hydraulic Resources, Chad, and Dr. Salem Mohamed Rashrash, Chair, General Water Resources Authority, Libya
Moderator: Mr. Nelson Gomonda, WaterAid - Africa

15.05 Presentation: A Snapshot of Drinking Water and Sanitation in Africa - 2012 Update
Mr. Sanjay Wijesekera, UNICEF

15.35-16.10 Panel Discussion
Panelists:

• Mr. Baker Yiga, ANEW
• Ms. Heather Skilling, USAID
• Mr. Tom Slaymaker, WaterAid
• Mr. Sylvain Usher, AfWA
• Mr. Sanjay Wijesekera, UNICEF

16.10: Coffee break

16.30: High-level Ministerial Panel
Chair: Dr. Mohammed Bahaa El-Din Saad, AMCOW President / Minister for Water Resources & Irrigation, Arab Republic of Egypt

16.30 Comments from Ministers

17.20 Closing Remarks by AMCOW President

The International Water Resource Economics Consortium (IWREC) is the premiere global platform for water economists to share and debate new research on water economics. SIWI is proud to host the 10th Annual Meeting where you can learn from leading experts on the use of economics in water management and decision making.

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IWREC Chief Economists Panel

14:00 Introduction.
Moderators: Mr. John Joyce, SIWI, and Dr. Frank Ward, New Mexico State University, USA

14:10		Dr. Changyong Rhee, Asian Development Bank, Philippines
14:20		Dr. Mark Rosegrant, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA
14:30		Mr. Anthony Cox, Organisation for Economic Co-operaion and Development, France
14:40		Dr. Jikun Huang, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
14:50		Dr. Ronan Palmer, Environment Agency, United Kingdom
15:00		Dr. Niels Vlaanderen, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, The Netherlands
15:10		Dr. Jun Xia, RIWS Wuhan University and Key Labratory of Water Cycles and Related Land Surface Processes, CAS

15:20 Coffee Break

15:40 Chief Economists Panel Discussion

Paper Session C
Chair: Dr. Kevin Parris, OECD

16:40 Estimating Foregone Direct Benefits of Irrigation Water Reallocations: What Is the Appropriate Model?
Dr. Susanne Scheierling, WB

17:05 Reclaimed Wastewater, WTP, and Endogenous Free-Riding Beliefs.
Dr. Diane Dupont, Brock University, Canada

17:30 Close of Seminar

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A Look into the Future
Chair: Mr. Ian W Makin, ADB

14:00 Food and Water Security in Changing Times.
Prof. Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts

14:20 Food and Water Security in a Changing Climate.
Mr. David S. McCauley, ADB

14:40 Moving Towards Environmentally Sustainable Water Allocation in South Asia.
Ms. Luna Bharati, IWMI

15:00 Large-Scale Precision Irrigation in Asia: Prospects and Problems.
Mr. Robert Meaney, Retired Chairman Valmont International, 2012 Advanced Leadership Fellow Harvard University

15:30 Coffee Break

High-Level Panel Debate: Water and Food Security for All in Asia
Chair: Mr. Ravi Narayanan, APWF

16:10 Dr. Andrew Noble, IWMI

16:15 Ms. Badra Kamaladasa, Irrigation Department of Sri Lanka

16:20 Panel Members:

• Ms. Badra Kamaladasa, Irrigation Department of Sri Lanka
• Mr. Wouter Lincklaen Arriens, ADB
• Dr. Andrew Noble, IWMI
• Ms. Louise Whiting, FAO
• Prof. Peter Rogers, Harvard
• Ms. Sunita Nadhamuni, AKVO, former CEO of Arghyam

17:25 Closing Remarks
Mr. Ravi Narayanan, APWF

• Build a more rigorous and reliable evidence base on key water and sanitation issues to make informed decisions that helps programs improve over time.
• Design robust mapping, monitoring, and evaluation systems that measure lasting outcomes and help to implement proactive change for greater impact.
• Develop innovative, content-rich and visual ways to report on progress that emphasises outcomes vs. outputs, facilitates learning and knowledge transfer, and provides compelling, evidence-based (non-anecdotal) stories to supporters.

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14:00 Session Introduction.
Mr. Ned Breslin, Water For People

14:15 Water Point Mapping - Solutions for Decision Making.
Mr. Abdul Hafiz Koroma, National Water Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion Committee, Ministry of Public Works, Liberia

14:35 Questions & Answers

14:50 Assessing and Monitoring Water Services in Ghana.
Ms. Marieke Adank, IRC, The Netherlands

15:10 Questions & Answers

15:25 Coffee Break

15:55 We Build Big Data Systems, so You don’t Have to.
Mr. Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson, Akvo Foundation, The Netherlands

16:15 Discussion and Questions & Answers

16:30 Re-Imagining Reporting.
Ms. Diana Betancourt, Water For People

16:50 Questions & Answers

17:05 Session Wrap Up

17:30 Close of Seminar

• Set clear goals for progress for the 2020-2030 to 2050 time frame, respecting the essential linkages to food, fibers, fuels, energy and biodiversity, within meaningful geographical and political boundaries (local, bottom-up processes).
• Define progress indicators and disclosure obligations.
• Collection and communication of actionable demand, supply, and cost data to inform and empower users and
  suppliers.
• Skills education and institutional capacity building for efficient resource management.
• The role and timing for norms, standards, permits to impose available practices.
• The role of economic instruments to reform usage subsidies, tax pollution, and provide tangible incentives for innovation in efficiency and critical ecosystems services.
• Priority public investments in creating and modernising water infrastructure.
• The role of public-private partnerships and means to encourage private entrepreneurship and capital investment.
• A predictable, transparent management of the innovation and transformation process involving key stakeholders to create co-optimised sustainable solutions.

The seminar takes place straight after the Industrial Water Prize Award Ceremony. The FBS will be carried out as an interactive interview-style panel discussion under the lead of a moderator and the subject will be introduced by two scene setting keynotes. Throughout the discussion, there will be a series of very short presentations (3-5 minute) from the panelists themselves, and engagement with the broader audience.

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Moderator: Mr. Claude Fussler, Advisor to WBCSD.

15:00 Welcome Address.
Mr. Per Bertilsson, SIWI

15:10 Keynotes

Water and Energy Challenges and Solutions in the Food Sector.
Mr. Beth Sauerhaft, PepsiCo (The 2012 Stockholm Industry Water Award Laureate)

15.25 Water and Energy Challenges and Solutions in the Forestry, Paper and Paper Sector.
Mr. Sami Lundgren, UPM

15.40 The Water Availability-Cost-Curve Methodology.
Mr. Colin Herron, CONAGUA, Mexico

15:55 Panel Discussion with speakers

• Mr. Xavier Ursat, EDF Groupe
• Mr. Björn Stigson, WBCSD
• Mr. Gary White, Water.org 
• Mr. Xavier Leflaive, OECD

17:20 Reflections and Concluding Remarks.
Mr. Joppe Cramwinckel, WBCSD

17:30 Close of Seminar

Presentations will analyse the current levels of investment, the role of the private sector, and the potential impacts of FDI on water resources. Even in fully exploited ("closed") basins such as the Nile enormous productivity gains are still possible, in particular through improved green water management. The private sector, including investors, agro- and food businesses can play an important role in achieving the sustainable intensification of sub-Saharan water and land resources. Both capital intensive projects and enhanced existing family farms are needed.

The uncertainties of climate change and of dysfunctional infrastructures and institutions are well recognised. But this
seminar will address primarily the engagement of the private and sovereign fund investors in sub-Saharan Africa. The seminar will consist of high-level presentations and a panel of professionals from the private sector, research, international agency and NGO communities.

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14:00 Introduction.
Prof. Tony Allan, King's College London, UK

14:05 Will Malthus Be Wrong Again? The Global Food Crisis and the Discovery of Farmland.
Dr. Eckart Woertz, Princeton University, USA

14:20 Mapping the Investors and Targeted Regions.
Martin Keulertz, King's College London, UK

14:40 Options to Improve Water, Livelihood and Environmental Impacts of FDI in Agricultural Land in Africa.
Dr. Timothy O. Williams, International Water Management Institute, Ghana

15:10 Water-Related Risks and Opportunities of Land Investments.
Dr Mark Mulligan and Dr Holger Hoff, King's College London and Stockholm Environment Institute, UK and SE

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 Panel Discussion

• Prof. Tony Allan King's College London, UK
• Dr. Ana Cascao, SIWI, Chair
• Eng. Mbogo Futakamba, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives, Tanzania.
• Mr. Usha Rao-Monari, International Finance
  Corperation
• Mr. Phil Riddell, Indo African Agricultural Capital
• Ms. Maren Kneller, German Ministry for Economic Development and Cooperation/BMZ

16:15 Book Launch of the Handbook of Land and Water Grabs: Foreign Direct Investment and Food and Water Security. Routledge: 2012.

Speakers:

• Prof. Tony Allan King's College London, UK
• Mr. Martin Keulertz, King's College London, UK
• Mr. Suvi Sojamo Aalto University, Finland
• Mr. Jeroen Warner, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

At the Poster Sessions the authors will be available at their posters in order to provide short introductions and comments. The chairs of the different workshops will provide an overview of the posters in their respective workshop sessions. Refreshments will be served.

Tuesday, August 28 at 17:30 and Wednesday, August 29, also at 17:30

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17:45 Welcome and Introduction.
Mr. Stefano Burchi, International Association for Water Law

17:50 Prevailing Trends in the Regulatory Framework for Water Resources Management.
Mr. Stefano Burchi, AIDA

18:00 What Water Law Responses to the Food Security Problematique?
Mr. Stephen Hodgson, IFAD

18:20 Discussion.
Stefano Burchi, AIDA and Stephen Hodgson IFAD

18:40 Summing up and conclusions.
Mr. Stefano Burchi, AIDA

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17:45 Introduction.
Dr. Chris Baker, Wetlands International, the Netherlands

17:55 The Right to Water and Human Rights Law.
Mr. Tobias Schmitz, Both ENDS, the Netherlands

18:05 Case Studies: Wetland Ecosystems and Services at Risk.
Wetlands International

18:15 Not Only a Conclusion, but a Way forward.
Simavi, The Netherlands

18:25 Open Discussion, Questions & Answers

Refreshments provided by the organiser

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17:45 Welcome Note

17:50 A Short Film about the Work of the 2012 Wash Award Winners

18:10 Presentation of the Winners

18:15 Moderated Discussion with the Winners

18:45 Closing

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17:45 Yellow River Challenges.
Ms. Sun Feng

18:05 Water Management Innovation: Yellow River Flood Early Warning System.
H.R.H Prince Pieter-Christiaan van Oranje, AGT International

18:30 Q & A Session with the Audience

Refreshments provided by the organiser

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17:45 Panel Discussion
Moderator: Federico Properzi, Chief Technical Adviser to UN-Water
Panellists:

• Robert Bos, WHO
• Pasquale Steduto, FAO
• Vincent Sweeney, UNEP
• Zafar Adeel, UNU-INWEH
• Pay Drechsel, IWMI
• Avinash Tyagi, ICID
• Reza Ardakanian, UNW-DPC

18:45 Close

Refreshments provided by the organiser

The venue enjoys a solid reputation not only in Sweden but throughout the world, attracting vibrant locals and leading luminaries alike.

Price: 900 SEK

Bus transportation from Stockholmsmässan (World Water Week congress venue) to Södra Teatern is provided.

The International Water Resource Economics Consortium (IWREC) is the premiere global platform for water economists to share and debate new research on water economics. SIWI is proud to host the 10th Annual Meeting where you can learn from leading experts on the use of economics in water management and decision making.

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Paper Session D
Chair: Dr. John Janmaat, University of British Columbia, Canada

09:00 Can Markets Save Water? Towards a Methodological Framework for the Development of Private Drought Insurance Systems in Semi-arid Basins. An Application to a Mediterranean Catchment.
Dr. Mario Gomez, IMDEA-Water, Spain

09:20 The Economics of Water Infrastructure and Climate Change: The Case of Flood Protection Investments in Vietnam.
Dr. David Corderi, IADB

09:40 Resource Dependence and Water Scarcity: How Do They Influence Policy Preferences for Water Sharing?
Dr. Henning Björnlund, University of South Australia, Australia and University of Lethbridge, Canada

10:00 The Economics of Tiered Pricing and Cost Functions: Are Equity, Cost Recovery, and Economic Efficiency Compatible Goals?
Dr. Karina Schoengold, University of Nebraska, USA

10:20 Maintaining the Common Pool: Voluntary Water Conservation in Response to Increasing Scarcity.
Dr. Ralf Steinhauser, Australian National University, Australia

10:40 Coffee Break

Paper Session E
Chair: Dr. Frank Ward, New Mexico State University, USA

11:00 Transboundary Water Management: Can Issue Linkage Help Mitigate Externalities and Enhance Cooperation?
Dr. Kim Hang Pham Do, Massey University, New Zealand

11:20 River Sharing and Water Trade.
Dr. Erik Ansink, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

11:40 Regional Cost-effectiveness in Transboundary Water Quality Management for the Baltic Sea.
Dr. Berit Hasler, Aarhus University, Denmark

12:00 Transboundary Water Institutional Design.
Dr. Linda Fernandez, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

12:20 Marginal Value of Saved Water in the Euphrates and Tigris Region.
Dr. Phillia Restiani, SIWI

12:30 Close of Seminar

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09:00 Opening of the Day and Opening Speeches

• Mr. José Luis Luege Tamargo, CONAGUA, Mexico
• Mr. Vidal Garza, FEMSA Foundation, Mexico
• Mr. Gonzalo León, Fundación Chile, Chile
• Mr. Jürgen Mahlknecht, Water Center for Latin America and the Caribbean, Mexico
• Ms. Ania Grobicki, GWP
• Mr. Oscar Lara, Congressman of Mexico

09:20 Explanation of the Aim and Objectives by Moderator: Mr. Felipe Carazo, TNC

09:25 Main Speech about the Importance of the Private Sector in Relation to Food Security.
Mr. William Sarni, Deloitte Consulting, USA

09:50 Strengthening Goat Milk Producers in Mexico.
Ms. Aurora Adame, Grupo Bimbo, Mexico

10:05 Innovation for Sustainable Potato Sourcing: The Chilean Potato Project.
Mr. Christian Benucci, PepsiCo

10:20 Small Producers Best Case. GWP (tbc)

10:35 Coffee Break

11:05 Presentation of the Best Case: Coca-Cola Supply Chain.
Mr. Greg Koch, Coca-Cola Company, USA (tbc)

11:20 Creating Shared Value and Rural Development to Increase Food Security and Nutrition through the Internalisation of Environmental Services in Venezuela.
Mr. Carlo Galli, Nestlé

11:40 Expert Comments and Debate between Panellists.
Facilitator: Prof. Tony Allan, King's College London, UK

12:25 Final Conclusions and Closure. Mr. Héctor Malarín, IDB, Peru (tbc)

Event Summary and Conclusions
The Latin American region provides one quarter of the world's food requirements. Agriculture plays a primary role in helping to achieve food security and improved water management as it accounts for 70% of all freshwater withdrawn. In recent years business organizations have focused on issues and activities along their supply chains - recognizing that many impacts are beyond their direct control as their suppliers use water in their operations. Since water efficiency deals with the future of humanity and development, Latin America is aiming to become a leader in water efficiency for the food supply chain.

Companies operating in areas of water stress in the region, such as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Nestlé, are increasingly becoming aware how it is in their interest to work up and down the supply chain to deliver improvements in their use of water. These transnational companies, in the best spirit of a pre-competitive approach, shared some of their best practices in addressing water and food security concerns by managing availability, access, use, and local water issues at all stages of the supply chain. Best practices in Brazil, Chile and Venezuela included encouraging suppliers to improve their water conservation and recycling practices, to considering the impact of water when creating new products.

Coca-Cola (sugarcane in Brazil), PepsiCo (potatoes in Chile) and Nestlé (dairy products in Venezuela) are the top purchasers of agricultural products. They have furthered developed their environmental sustainability programs to both meet the expectations of consumers and secure a sustainable supply of agricultural products. To further address the challenges the region faces and to encourage the private sector involvement, companies consider collective action in their agricultural supply chains to address water scarcity and food security. These companies are encouraging and fostering a closer relationship with their suppliers to develop their capabilities to implement criteria and move toward certification.

In the seminar, reference was made to international multi-stakholder initiatives such as Bonsucro, Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS), the Rainforest Alliance and the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) Platform, among others, as innovative examples of collective action for regional best practices. This direct engagement with agricultural supply chains recognize the importance of collective action in addressing water issues in the agricultural supply chain and provided insight on positive engagements between food and beverage companies with small producers within the Latin American region.

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09:00 Welcome and Introduction

09:15 NEXUS in the Perspective of the Poor - Reducing Vulnerability and Increasing Resilience
Ms. Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, Sida, Sweden

09:30 Minipanel: The Nexus and Human and Environmental Securities

• Mr. Robert Speed, WWF
• Mr. Jean-Marc Faures, FAO
• Mr. Diego Rodriguez, World Bank

10:00 Minipanel: The Nexus and the Business Sector

• Mr. Ken Bruder, Bloomberg
• Mr. Paul Reiter, IWA
• Mr. Xavier Ursat, EDF
• Mr. David Grant, SAB Miller

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Minipanel: The Nexus and Science & Research - Nile Basin

• Mr. Holger Hoff, SEI
• Mr. Jakob Granit, SEI
• Mr. Charles Iceland, WRI
• Mr. Guy Pegram, Pegasys
• Ms. Abby Onencan, Nile Basin Discourse

11:30 The Nexus, Politics and Implementation, Concluding Panel Discussion

• Mr. Fritz Holzwarth, BMU, Germany
• Mr. Franz Marré, BMZ, Germany
• Mr. Li Yuanyuan, Ministry of Water Resources, China
• Mr. Albert Butare, Energy and Water, Rwanda
• Mr. Alexander Müller, FAO
• Mr. Xavier Leflaive, OECD

12:30 Close of Seminar

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09:00 Welcome, Introduction and Scene Setting
Mr. Jeff Erikson, SustainAbility

09:05 Welcoming Remarks with Objectives, Agenda and Outcome of the Session.
Ms. Betsy Otto, WRI

09:10 Corporate Water Risk and Opportunity Management.
Mr. Joppe Cramwinckel, WBCSD

09:20 Stewardship Progression.
Mr. Jason Morrison, UN CEO Water Mandate/Pacific Institute

Panel Discussion I - What Are Your Needs to Drive More Action?

09:30 Introduction by the Moderator.
Mr. Jeff Erikson, SustainAbility

09:35 Sharing Experience and Expressing Needs with a Focus on:

• Information Companies Need to Make Better Corporate Water Management Decisions
• Information both Companies and Public to Authorities Need for Successful Partnerships Drive Action on the Ground

Perspectives:

• Mr. Sami Lundgren, UPM
• Mr. Alain Renard, C&A
• Mr. Jon Freedman, GE
• Dr. Robin Farrington, GIZ, Germany
• Mr. Bastiaan Mohrmann, IFC

10:25 Dialogue with Audience
Moderator: Mr. Jeff Erikson, SustainAbility

10:50 Networking Break

Panel Discussion II - Solutions and Tools: How do They Fit Together?

11:10 Introduction by the Moderator.
Mr. Jeff Erikson, SustainAbility

11:15 Discussion on How Available Tools Address Decision Making Needs in the Context of Water Stewardship

• The Ceres Aqua Gauge. Mr. Berkley Adrio, Ceres
• WBCSD Global/GEMI Local Water Tool. Ms. Anne-Leonore Boffi, WBCSD
• The Water Footprint Assessement Tool. Ms. Ruth Mathews, WFN
• WRI's Aqueduct. Mr. Tien Shiao, WRI
• WWF/DEG Water Risk Filter. Mr. Jochem Verberne, WWF

12:05 Dialogue with the Audience
Moderator: Mr. Jeff Erikson, SustainAbility

12:20 Wrap Up, Thanks and Close
Ruth Mathews, Water Foodprint Network

12:30 Close of Seminar

Programme
09:00 Opening Remarks and Seminar Overview.
Mr. Edmund J. Cain, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, USA

09:10 Overview of U.S. Philanthropy.
Mr. Brad Smith & Dr. Seema Shah, The Foundation Center, USA

09:30 Foundation Strategies and Grantee Case Studies on Innovation, Advocacy, Learning and Leveraging of Resources in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Sector - Opportunities, Successes and Challenges.
Moderator: Mr. Brad Smith, The Foundation Center, USA.

• Innovation & Multiple Use Services
  Mr. John Thomas, Rockefeller Foundation & Dr. Mary Renwick, Winrock International, USA
• Advocacy
  Dr. Braimah Apambire, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, USA & Mr. John Oldfield, WASH Advocates, USA
• Scale & Sustainability
  Mr. Louis Boorstin, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA & Mr. Ned Breslin, Water For People
• Learning from Partnerships
  Gaye Burpee, CRS and Howard G. Buffett Foundation, USA & Mr. Peter Lochery, CARE United States
• Reporting & Transparency/Social Entrepreneurship
  Mr. David Rothschild, Skoll Foundation, USA & Mr. Ned Breslin, Water For People

11:00 Coffee Break (Session Attendees Will be Encouraged to Connect with Panelists)

11:30 Reflections from Panelists/Attendees on Coffee Break Conversations/Additional Q&A
Moderator: Mr. Brad Smith, The Foundation Center, USA.

12:00 Demonstration of WASHfunders.org Internet-based Tool.
Dr. Seema Shah, The Foundation Center, USA

12:20 Conclusions and Way forward.
Mr. Brad Smith, The Foundation Center, USA

12:30 Close of Seminar

The world's deltas are under unprecedented pressure due to human induced change and natural forces. Rapid population growth, land use change, climate change, sea level rise and land subsidence do not only result in significant and irreversible damage to infrastructure, ecosystems and livelihoods but also retard development gains. These complex problems call for concerted action - an integrated framework for decision making incorporating spatial planning, disaster management and risk reduction strategies. The resilience of deltas can only be enhanced through adaptive governance, sound economic instruments and innovative financing.

Enabling Delta Life is a collaborative initiative for water management and governance in deltas between the Global Water Partnership and the Delta Alliance, supported by the Netherlands Ministry of Development Cooperation. The Delta Alliance is an international knowledge-driven network organization with the mission of improving the resilience of the world's deltas.

Programme
09:05 Elevating Delta Management in National Planning
Mr. Jos van Alphen, Senior advisor Staff Delta Commissioner, the Netherlands

09:20 Perspectives on Delta issues

• Report-back from the Delta Workshop Held at the GWP Consulting Partner Meeting
  Mr. Kees Slingerland, Delta Alliance International
• The Pearl River Delta
  Dr. Wang Yuhai, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research
• The Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta
  Dr. Khondaker Azharul Haq, GWP Bangladesh
• The Mekong Delta
  H.E. Watt Botkosal, GWP Cambodia

10:10 Panel Discussion: Common Challenges, Effective Interventions
Facilitator: Dr. Ania Grobicki, GWP
Panel Members:

• H.E. Watt Botkosal , GWP Cambodia
• Dr. Khondaker Azharul Haq, GWP Bangladesh
• Mr. Armand Kocou Houanye, GWP Benin
• Mr. Kees Slingerland, the Delta Alliance International
• Ms. Panpilai Sukhonthasindhu, GWP Thailand
• Dr. Dao Trong Tu, GWP Vietnam
• Dr. Wang Yuhai, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research

10:50 Coffee Break

11:10 Adaptive Delta Management and Financing Interventions

• Economics of Water Allocation in Delta Management
  Prof. Petra Hellegers, Wageningen University & Research Center
• Green Water Defense - A Perspective on Water Security at Deltas
  Dr. Xiaokai Li, the World Bank

11:40 Panel and Audience Discussion: Adaptive Governance and Financing for Delta Solutions
Facilitator: Mr. Cees van de Guchte, Deltares and the Dutch Delta Alliance Wing
Panel Members:

• Mr. Jos van Alphen, Delta Commissioner,
• Dr. Mochammad Amron, GWP Indonesia
• Eng. Mohamed Elrawady, GWP Egypt
• Prof. Petra Hellegers, Wageningen University & Research Center
• Dr. Xiaokai Li, the World Bank

12:20 Summary and closing remarks
Prof. Eelco van Beek, GWP the Netherlands

This session will take an interactive approach and draw on participants' expertise to assess the governance challenges and opportunities facing the water sector at the local, national and transboundary levels in implementing effective adaptation to climate change as well as equitable and sustainable utilisation of freshwater. In addition, it will draw upon case studies from countries and basins in different geographic regions to highlight innovative practices and lessons from around the world. The primary audience is policy makers, government officials, relevant stakeholders and professionals working in the field at different administrative level and interested in water governance and adaptive management. Special attention will paid to the local level since experience on the ground could offer successful examples of cooperative and adaptive water management which could be replicated/scaled up at national and transboundary level.

Programme
09:00 Welcome and Introduction.
Ms. Jessica Troell, ELI

09:10 Bridging the Gap: The Challenge of Adaptive, Multilevel Water Governance.

• Nesting Adaptation from the Local to the Regional Levels: How to Implement International and Regional Frameworks in a National and Local Context.
  Mr. Mario Lopez, CONAGUA, Mexico
• The Adaptation Framework under GWP.
  Mr. Alex Simalabwi, GWP
• Innovative Finance Approaches to Multi-Level Water Governance and Adaptation: Using Economics as a Signal for Governance Process.
  Ms. Kathleen Dominique, OECD
• Climate Change Adaptation in Transboundary Basins.
  Ms. Francesca Bernardini, UNECE
• Peru Multilevel Water Gobernance to Confront Extreme Hydrometereological Events
  Dr. Hugo Jara, National Water Authority of Peru

10:00 Overview of Breakout Session: Process and Expected Output.
Mr. Juan Carlos Sanchez, IUCN

10:05 Facilitated Roundtable Discussions.

• Mr. Luis Maeir, Fundacion Vida, Goascoran River Basin
• The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Water Funds
• IUCN
• Mr. Cees van de Guchte, The Nederlands
• Mr. John Mathews, AQWA
• Mr. Guy Pegram, Pegasys - Africa
• Ms. Jessica Troell, ELI
• Mr. Alex Simalabwi, GWP
• Ms. Kathleen Dominique, OECD
• Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Bolivia
• Autoridad Nacional del Agua de Peru

11:00 Coffee Break

11:20 Report Back

11:50 Panel Discussion

• Dr. Msibi, Southern African Development Community, Water Division
• Mr. Tom Panela, ADB
• Mr. Alistair Rieu-Clarke, IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, University of
  Dundee.

12:25 Rappertur and Close up.
Dr. Mark Smith, IUCN

12:30 Close of Seminar

This workshop will address and discuss:

1. The dilemmas, nexus and trade-offs between risks and benefits associated with the availability and use of water of different quality in agriculture and crop production
2. Water quality fit for the purpose of use
3. Risk reduction and health hazards in food security
4. The control and management options in a system perspective, as linked with Water and Sanitation Safety Plans, embracing the effects of microbial, chemical and disease vector-related determinants.

This will be addressed as keynotes, oral presentations and integration of the poster session through thematic mini-panel discussions.

Programme
Chairs: Dr. Robert Bos, WHO, and Dr. John McDermott, IFPRI
Moderators: Prof. Johan Kuylenstierna, SEI, and Ms. Bernadette Conant, Canadian Water Network
Rapporteurs: Prof. Thor Axel Stenström, SMI, and Ms. Maria Alejandra Arias, University of Bonn, Germany

09:00 Introduction

09:10 Keynote: Can We Expect Food Security, Good Nutrition and Health in an Increasingly Water-stressed World?Dr. Colin Chartres, IWMI

Integrated Security for Water and Health

09:40 Integrated Food Security Project in Bolivia's Andes.
Dr. Sergio Claure, Abt Associates Inc., Bolivia

09:55 Addressing Water-related Health Risks in Agroecosystems.
Dr. Eline Boelee, Water Health, The Netherlands

10:10 Discussion

10:30 Coffee Break

Geochemicals and Vectors. Impacting Factors on Health and Food Security

11:00 Arsenic Exposure in the Bengal Delta: From Water to Rice to Humans.
Ms. Dipti Halder, KTH, Sweden

11:15 Agricultural Practices that Promote Mosquito Breeding in Rural Farming Communities of Southeast Nigeria: Implication for Food Security.
Dr. Oliver Odikamnoro, Ebony State University, Nigeria

11:30 Discussion

11:50 Interactive Session

12:30 Lunch

Risk Reduction and Health Hazards in Food Security

14:00 Keynote: Water Quality Fit for Its Purpose!
Dr. Dominique Gatel, Eureau

14:20 Assessment of Potential Health Risks of Waste Stabilization Ponds (WSPs) Effluents for Irrigating Vegetables: A Case Study Arusha Municipality WSP Tanzania.
Dr. Richard Kimwaga, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

14:35 A Systems Analysis of Irrigation Water Quality in Environmental Assessments Related to Foodborne Outbreaks.
Dr. Richard Gelting, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA

14:50 Discussion

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 Safe Wastewater Reuse: A Call for Sanitation Safety Plans.
Dr. Guéladio Cissé, IWMI

16:15 Waste-Water Reuse Management in Jordan: Applications and Solutions.
Mr. Ahmad Aluleimat, Ministry of Water and Irrigation - Water Authority of Jordan, Jordan

16:30 Thematic Discussion

17:45 Interactive Session

17:25 Conclusions by the Chairs

17:30 End of Workshop

This workshop will discuss the impact of food production on water and ecosystems on the context of food security and how to address solutions for managing the trade-offs between human needs and healthy ecosystems. By presenting examples from different parts of the world, we will also address current and future challenges in managing water resources in agricultural landscape such as climate change and population growth between others.

Programme
Chairs: Mr. Stuart Orr, WWF, and Dr. Mark Smith, IUCN
Rapporteurs: Mr. Jakob Lundberg, FAO, and Ms. Ilana Cohen, Aguaconsult

09:00 Introduction

09:10 Opening Keynote: Safeguarding Global Food Security and Life Supporting Ecosystems.
Mr. Alexander Müller, FAO

Achieving Food Security While Managing for Ecosystem Services in Production Landscapes

09:35 Intensification of Livestock Production Systems: Driver of a Regime Shift in Water-Related Ecosystem Services in Uruguay?
Dr. Lisa Deutsch, SRC, Sweden

09:50 Why do Farmers Join Payments for Environmental Services (PES) Schemes? An assessment of PES-Water project participation in Brazil.
Mr. Matheus Zanella, FAO-Brazil, and Ministry of Rural Development, Brazil

10:05 Interactions Between Bundles of Ecosystem Services and Livelihood Strategies in Semi-Arid West Africa.
Ms. Hanna Larsson, SRC, Sweden

10:20 Questions & Answers

10:30 Coffee Break

Impact of Agriculture on Water Quality and Ecosystem Health

11:00 Keynote: An Ecosystems Approach to Water and Food Security.
Dr. Thomas Chiramba, DEPI UNEP

11:25 Impact of Fertilizer Subsidy on Paddy Production, Livelihood and Water Quality of Kala Oya Basin in Sri Lanka.
Ms. Mudiyanselage K V Herath, Sri Lanka

11:40 Food Security and Clean Water Under Climate Change: Smallholder Farmers in the Philippines.
Dr. Laura Schmitt Olabisi, Michigan State University, USA

11:55 Questions & Answers

12:00 Conclusions of Morning Session

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Introduction

Trade-Offs Between Ecosystems and Food Production

14:05 Keynote: Towards Protecting Ecological Integrity
Ms. Ndileka K. Mohapi, Department of Water Affairs, South Africa

14:30 Hydropower Development and Food Security in Laos.
Dr. Stephen Sparkes, Statkraft A.S, Norway

14:45 The Double Role of Agriculture Towards the Conservation of Water-related Ecosystem Services in Andean Watersheds.
Ms. Marcela Quintero, International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Peru

15:00 Questions & Answers

15:30 Coffee Break

Solutions and Policy Implications

16:00 Economic Valuation of a Multiple Use Wetland Water System in the Gangetic Floodplain of West Bengal, India
Dr. Sacchidananda Mukherjee, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, India

16:15 Policy Support Systems for Benefit Sharing across Landscapes and Communities in Pursuit of Sustainable Food and Water Security.
Dr. Mark Mulligan, King's College London, UK

16:30 Questions & Answers

16:40 Final Panel Discussion

17:25 Conclusions

17:30 End of Workshop

This workshop will address ways to increase water productivity and close yield gaps. How can soil and water management be improved? By what methods can farmers handle dry spells, droughts, and prolonged aridity? What role should communitybased resource management play? What key barriers have to be overcome for a broad scale upgrading of rainfed agriculture?

Programme
Chair: Dr. Roberto Lenton, University of Nebraska, USA
Co-chairs: Dr. Simon Cook, CGIAR, and Mr. Pasquale Steduto, FAO
Moderators:

• Prof. Mohamed Dahab, University of Nebraska, USA
• Dr. Jennie Barron, SEI
• Dr. Elin Enfors, SRC
• Mr. Alain Vidal, CPWF

Rapporteurs:
Prof. Malin Falkenmark, SIWI, and Dr. Katrin Drastig, ATB, Germany

Green Water and Rainwater Management

09:00 Introduction
Chair: Dr. Roberto Lenton, University of Nebraska, USA
Moderator: Prof. Mohamed Dahab, University of Nebraska, USA

09:05 Keynote: Rainfall for World Food Production: Addressing the New Challenges in the Anthropocene
Prof. Johan Rockström, SRC, Sweden

09:30 Water Requirements for Future Global Food Production and Potentials of On-Farm Green - Blue Water Management to Increase Crop Production.
Dr. Dieter Gerten, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany

09:45 Rainwater Management Transforms Africa Towards Food Security and Resilience
Dr. Tilahun Amede, CPWF/ IWMI

10:00 Discussion

10:25 Session Conclusions

10:30 Coffee Break

Conservation Tillage and Rainwater Harvesting

11:00 Introduction
Chair: Mr. Pasquale Steduto, FAO
Moderator: Dr. Jennie Barron, SEI

11:05 Appropriate Soil Water Conservation Practices Can Mitigate Abiotic Stress and Promote Pulses in Rice Fallows in India.
Dr. P.K. Ghosh, ICAR

11:20 Securing the Sustainable Rainfed Yield Production in Arid Conditions.
Dr. Gennady Carmi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

11:35 Speed Poster Presentation and Discussion

12:25 Session Conclusions

12:30 Lunch

Social Perspectives and Barriers

14:00 Introduction
Chair: Dr. Simon Cook, CGIAR
Moderator: Dr. Elin Enfors, SRC, Sweden

14:05 Keynote: Reframing the Fluid Mosaic for Water in Rainfed Areas: Changes in Perspective Needed to Unlock the Agricultural Potential of the Landscape.
Mr. Vijay Shankar, Samaj Pragati Sahayog, India

14:30 Effects of Climate Variability on Maize Production in Kenya.
Dr. Tingju Zhu, IFPR

14:45 Household Relations and Rainwater Harvesting: Matching Innovations to the Context and Capacities of Resource-poor Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Ms. Lisa Bunclark, Newcastle University, UK

15:00 Discussion

15:25 Session Conclusions

15:30 Coffee Break

Landscape Scale Aspects and Social Ecology

16:00 Introduction.
Chair: Dr. Simon Cook, CGIAR
Moderator: Mr. Alain Vidal, CPWF

16:05 Exploring Ecosystem Services.
Dr. Mulugeta Lemenih, IWMI

16:20 Developing Rainwater Management Strategies Through Integration of Technologies, Institutions and Policies for Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia.
Dr. Bharat Sharma, IWMI

16:35 Session Conclusions

16:40 Speed Poster Presentation and Discussion

17:25 Conclusions

17:30 End of Workshop

Programme
12:45 Welcome.
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

12:50 Purpose of Workshop.
Mr. Dhesigen Naidoo, WRC, South Africa (via pre-recorded video link)

12:55 Water and Energy Production Cycles and the Food Value Chain in Southern Africa.
Ms. Manisha Gulati, WWF-SA, South Africa

Programme
12:45 Welcome and Overview.
Dr. Eileen O'Neill, WEF, USA

12:50 Global Nutrient-Related Water Quality Challenges - The Scale of the Problem.
Ms. Mindy Selman, World Resources Institute, USA

13:05 4R Nutrient Stewardship.
Dr. Terry L. Roberts, International Plant Nutrition Institute, USA

13:20 New Tools for Improving Water Quality.
Mr Cy Jones, World Resources Institute, USA

13:30 Question and Discussion

Programme
12:45 Opening Remarks.
Prof. Jan Lundqvist, SIWI

12:48 Launch of "Taste the Waste of Water" - Video and Comments from the Film Maker on the Role of Media in Efforts to Reduce Food Losses and Waste.
Mr. Valentin Thurn, Thurn Film

13:00 Food Losses and Waste in the UK.
Dr. Julian Parfitt, Oakdene Hollins

13:12 Building Awareness on Food Waste Issues through Collaboration and New Media/Communication Tools - A Swedish Example.
Ms. Catarina Östlund, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, and Ms. Louise Ungerth, The Stockholm Consumer Cooperative Society

13:25 Discussion Session: What's the Role of Media in Raising Awareness on Food Waste Issues?

13:45 Close of Side-Event 

Programme
12:45 Welcome and Introduction.
Felipe Carazo, Manager Central America, TNC, Costa Rica

13:00 Community-Based Management of Environmental Services Payment Schemes by Members of CLOCSAS.
Rolando Marín, Coordinator General, CLOCSAS.

13:15 Food Security and Risk Management through Integrated Watershed Management in Chiapas Sierra Madre, Mexico.
Walter Lopez Baez, Inifap.

13:30 Benefits of Water Funds to Business Sustainability.
Representative tbc.

13:45 Discussion and Conclusions.
Felipe Carazo, Manager Central America, TNC, Costa Rica

Event Summary and Conclusions
A healthy ecosystem can provide a variety of crucial services for public goods, such as clean water, nutrient cycling, climate regulation and food security services that contribute directly or indirectly to human well-being. Yet today, many ecosystems in Latin America and the Caribbean are in decline due to dwindling or polluted water resources. Losing them would seriously affect the production of food, both today and increasingly so in the future.

Experts from The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the Latin American Federation of Community Organizations for Water and Sanitation Services (CLOCSAS in Spanish) and the National Institute for Forestry, Agriculture and Livestock (INIFAP in Spanish) discussed examples in Mexico and Costa Rica to increase food production while using water, and other resources, in an optimal and sustainable way. This means that ensuring food security, managing water resources and protecting ecosystems must be considered as a single sustainable policy rather than as separate, and sometimes competing, options. An approach like this requires multi-sector collaboration, because only then can policies and practices be integrated in a coherent manner.

The case of small producers in Costa Rica focused on the importance of recognizing local managers as actors with rights and obligations to influence decision-making. On the other hand, in Mexico, important steps are being followed to enhance an integrated watershed approach so it takes into account risk and vulnerability. The focus on promoting capacity building and governance has been very successful in development of the community and the protection of ecosystem services to guarantee water and food production.

The overarching recommendation is that future sustainability requires an integrated and participative approach to managing multipurpose ecosystems in a functional landscape or river basin setting. These ecosystems - whether wetlands or forests, arid pastoral lands or rice fields - represent the future of food security in the Latin American and Caribbean region and provide the base for resilience against shocks in the near future.

Programme
12:45 Setting the Scene on Water Valuation.
Mr. Joppe Cramwinckel,  WBCSD

12:50 Setting the Scene on Water Valuation.
Mr. Anthony Cox, OECD

13:00 Better Valuing Water - A Government Perspective.
Mr. Olivier Bommelaer, Advisor to the Directorate of Evaluation & Economics, French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy (MEDDE)

13:10 Better Valuing Water - Case Study.
Mr. Mathieu Tolian, Veolia Water

13:20 Better Valuing Water - Case Study.
Dr. Mark Smith, IUCN

13:30 Facilitated Discussion - How Do you See Water Valuation Evolve in the Coming Years?

13:40 Conclusion and Wrap-Up.
Mr. Joppe Cramwinckel, WBCSD

Lunch provided by the organiser

Programme
12:45 Overview: Why This Book and How did It Come about?
Melinda Fones Sundell, SEI, Sweden

12:50 How Transforming Gender Relations at Household Level and Community Level Are Interrelated: Some Practical Examples from Kenya.
Violet Shivutse, GROOTS Kenya, Kenya

13:05 Gender Relations and Land: Ways Forward in Eastern Africa.
Dr. Akinyi Nzioki, CLEAR

13:20 Better Value Chains: Socially Just, Economically Viable
Dr. Cathy Farnworth

13:40 Summing up and Information About the Book.
Melinda Fones Sundell, SEI, Sweden

Lunch provided by the organiser

Programme
14.00 Welcome
Mr. Per Bertilsson, SIWI

14.10 Opening Address
Mr. Gábor Baranyai, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

14.15 A history of the EUWI and the achievements of its first 10 years
Mr. Andre Liebaert, European Commission & Mr. Fritz Barth, UNDP

14.30 National Policy Dialogues: A Success Story in the Implementation of the EUWI in the Eastern Europe, Caucuses and Central Asia (EECCA) region.
Mr. Gheorghe Constantin & Ms. Ana Drapa, Ministry of Environment & Forests, Romania

14.50 A Retrospective of the EUWI Support to the Development of the African Water Sector, EU-Africa Relations and Transboundary River Basin Management.
Mr. Bai-Mass Taal, AMCOW, and Mr. Lenka Thamae, Orange Senqu River Commission

15.10 Promoting Transboundary Cooperation in South-Eastern Europe: The Case of the Drin River Dialogue.
Ms. Anthi Brouma, MED EUWI Secretariat / Global Water Partnership-Mediterranean

15.30 Questions and Answers

16.00 Coffee Break

16.20 Improving Research, Cooperation and Knowledge Sharing on Water and Development: Lessons Learned from the EUWI Research Component - SPLASH and the Centres of Excellence.
Ms. Miriam Feilberg, Danish Water Forum, and Mr. Andrea Leone, European Commission

16.45 Water Sector Outcomes from Rio+20 and Implications for the EUWI.
Ms. Karin Lexén, SWH

16.55 Comments and Reflections on the Future.
Panel:

• Mr. Henrik Dissing, China EU Water Platform
• Mr. Bai Mass Taal, AMCOW
• Ms. Karin Lexén, SWH
• Ms. Olga Romanyuk, National Commission of the State Public Utilities Regulation, Ukraine
• Ms. Ulrike Sapiro, Coca Cola Europe

17.25 Summary and Closure
Mr. Andre Liebaert, European Commission

17.30 EUWI cocktail reception SIWI exhibition stand

** Address from Mr. Franz Marré, BMZ Germany, either during the seminar or the reception.

Vegetation in the city helps to decrease the heat-island effect caused by climate change. Keeping the water within the city also makes urban agriculture possible. Urban agriculture may be part of the solution for food supply. Open systems and rainwater harvesting are two technologies that may be used. Any city carries large amounts of nutrients in its waste streams from both its food waste and wastewater, which can be a potentially valuable resource if it is re-used smartly.

Many cities around the world have introduced city planning and design along these lines. How efficient are they? Has the "greening" of the cities had measurable effects on the water balance, protection of the environment and mitigation of the impacts of climate change? To what extent can urban agriculture contribute to the food supply?

Programme
Chair: Dr. David Garman, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA

14.00 Introduction.
Mr. Paul Reiter, IWA

14.20 Introduction.
Mr. Michael Jacobsen, World Bank

14.35 Water Management in Tangshan Bay Eco City, China.
Prof. Ulf Ranhagen, SWECO, Sweden

14.50 Water Management in Malmö, Sweden.
Mr. Henrik Aspegren, VA-SYD, Sweden

15.05 Water Management in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
Ms. Rosa Maria Mancini, São Paulo State for the Environment, Brazil

15.20 Coffee break

15.50 Water Management in Durban, South Africa.
Dr. Neil Macleod, City of Durban, South Africa

16.05 Panel Discussion.
Moderator: Dr. David Garman, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA

17.20 Closing remarks.
Mr. Paul Reiter, IWA

17.30 Close of seminar

The International Water Resource Economics Consortium (IWREC) is the premiere global platform for water economists to share and debate new research on water economics. SIWI is proud to host the 10th Annual Meeting where you can learn from leading experts on the use of economics in water management and decision making.

Programme
Paper session F
Chair: Mr. Jinhua Zhao, Michigan State University, USA

14:00 Green with lawn envy: spatial variation of water demand in Kelowna, British Columbia.
Dr. John Janmaat, University of British Columbia, Canada

14:20 A longitudinal study of water recycling in manufacturing plants.
Dr. Steven Renzetti, Brock University, Canada

14:40 Thin and lumpy: an experimental investigation of water quality trading.
Dr. Jordan F. Suter, Oberlin College, USA

15:00 What are households willing to pay for better tap water quality? A cross-country valuation study.
Dr. Olivier Beaumais, University of Rouen, France

15:20 Water use and economic growth: Is there an EKC for water use?
Dr. David Katz, University of Haifa, Israel

15:40 Coffee Break

Paper session G
Chair: Dr. Henning Björnlund, University of South Australia, Australia and University of Lethbridge, Canada

16:00 Approximately optimal speculation and the value of groundwater storage.
Dr. David Sunding, University of California Berkeley, USA

16:25 Groundwater-dependent ecosystems: how does the type of ecosystem affect the optimal management strategy?
Dr. Ariel Dinar, University of California Riverside, USA

16:50 A partial equilibrium model of hydrologic externalities.
Dr. R. Garth Taylor, University of Idaho, USA

17:15 Closing remarks
Dr. Ariel Dinar, University of California Riverside, USA

17:30 Close of Seminar

Programme
14:00 Opening of the Day and Welcoming Remarks
Mr. José Luis Luege Tamargo, CONAGUA, and Mrs. Ania Grobicki, GWP

14:15 Signing of a Letter of Commitment on the Continuation of the Inventory for Water and Adaptation Actions in the Americas

• Mr. José Luis Luege Tamargo, CONAGUA
• Mr. Jürgen Mahlknecht, Water Center for Latin America and the Caribbean
• Mr. Vidal Garza, FEMSA Foundation
• Mrs. Ania Grobicki, GWP, Sweden, as a Witness of Honor

14:20 Keynote Speech on Water, Climate Change and Food Security in the Americas
Mr. Jürgen Mahlknecht, Water Center for Latin America and the Caribbean

14:40 Explanation of the Session by the Moderator
Mr. Colin Herron, CONAGUA

14:50 Impact of Extreme Hydro-meteorological Events on Food Security
Mr. Oscar Lara Aréchiga, Water Resources Commission, Chamber of Deputies Mexico

15:10 Climate Smart Sanitation for Improved Water and Food Security
Mrs. Maria Carola Cuba Terán, Ministry for Water and Environment, Bolivia

15:30 Coffee Break

Science, Technology & Innovation: Brazilian Investments in the Water & Agricultural Sectors
Dr. Sanderson A. Medeiros Leitão, Ph.D. Coordinator General for Global Climate Change, Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI)

16:00 Dealing with Climate Change-driven Water Management Challenges in Small Islands
Mrs. Patricia Aquing, Caribbean Environmental Health Institute (CEHI)

16:20 Implementation of Technologies in Irrigation Management to Improve Agricultural Water Productivity
Mr. Suat Irmak, University of Nebraska

16:40 Food Security and Water in Central America and Costa Rica in the Context of Climate Change. Reducing Vulnerability Through the Construction of Public Policies
Mrs. Maureen Ballestero, Global Water Partnership Costa Rica (GWP CR)

17:00 Comments and Debate
Mr. Colin Herron, CONAGUA

17:25 Final Words
Mr. Vidal Garza, FEMSA Foundation

Event Summary and Conclusions
As part of the Latin American and the Caribbean Focus, participants gathered to discuss the "Relationship between Climate Change, Water and Food Security in the Americas". The six presentations in this seminar, from the USA, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Central America and the Caribbean, clearly demonstrated that in most of the region, even without climate change, there is already significant potential for making a more efficient use of water in both rainfed and irrigated agriculture, with agriculture using around 70% of the region's water resources. The bad news is that, with some possible exceptions, the sustainable supply of water for different purposes is being affected by current climate variability and is expected to be further hindered as a result of future climate change, with the consequent impact on all uses of water, in particular agriculture. The good news however, is that reducing the use of water in agriculture in the Americas doesn't necessarily require any magical formula or panacea, but simply doing much better what we as a region already know we have to do, and fostering greater cooperation between different economic, social and environmental schemes.

Actively involving farmers in technifying their irrigation systems (the case of Nebraska, USA), increasing investments in research and development in the sector (Brazil), raising political awareness and using that to leverage financial resources (Mexico), building resilience (the Caribbean), converting productive activities (Chile) and downscaling regional mechanisms to the national and local levels (Costa Rica and Central America) were all put forward as highly valid efforts to take a proactive stance in dealing with this challenge. Perhaps the underlying message behind these presentations and the ensuing debate was that the region is far from being fatalistic about the challenges it faces, and is taking stringent steps to address its often natural vulnerability to changes in the hydrological cycle.

Furthermore, it was shown that agriculture is a major contributor to greenhouse gases, contributing around 13.5% of the region's total emissions. There is clearly great potential to both mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change through agriculture, making it a financial investment that can reap dual benefits in the long term. It was argued that designing and implementing appropriate crosscutting policies to deal with the water, food and energy nexus is perhaps the best means of advancing sustainable human development, especially if these policies are associated with good practices that have shown they reap multiple benefits.

This seminar was held under the umbrella of the Regional Policy Dialog (RPD) on Water and Climate Change Adaptation in the Americas (www.waterclimatechange.org), which seeks to share knowledge and generate understanding on these initiatives and upscale them to inform appropriate public policies. The RPD's two main activities are an online inventory of best practices (www.aguaaaa.org) and an effort to stimulate the inclusion of water variables in national and local climate change plans in the countries of the Americas.

Programme
Urgency of the Matter

14:00 Film on fertilizer industry in Malawi.
Shortly introduced by Mr. Gert de Bruijne, WASTE

14:10 The Importance of Nutrient Recycling and the Value of Nutrients in the Sanitation Sector.
Prof. Håkan Jönsson, SLU

14:20 Nutrient Flows and the Value of Excreta Nutrients in Niger.
Mr. Linus Dagerskog, SEI

14:30 Group discussion

Inspired by Practice

14:40 Big Problems Need Real Solutions - Organic Waste Recycling in Ghana.
Repr. from Zoom Lion Ltd, Ghana

14:55 Keys to Success when Introducing ECOSAN in Rural Communities in the Sahel.
Dr. Moussa Bonzi, INERA, Burkina Faso

15:10 Blackwater Treatment and Reuse in Practice in Södertälje, Sweden.

• Mrs. Sunita Hallgren, LRF, Sweden
• Mrs. Anna Calo, TelgeNät, Sweden
• Mr. Karl-Axel Reimer, Södertälje Municipality, Sweden

15:25 Group Discussions and Plenary Feedback
Moderated by Paul van Koppen

16:00 Coffee break

How to take Action!

16:30 Going Dutch!
Mr. Arnoud Passenier, Dutch Ministry of Infrastrucure and Environment, The Netherlands

16:40 Group Dicussions and Plenary Feedback
Moderated by Paul van Koppen

17:20 Wrap up and conclusions

This seminar will be conducted as a workshop where the use of water stewardship tools will be discussed among industry representatives, tool developers, tool users, and other participants. The format is intended to encourage discussion on how to best apply these tools in industrial settings. Desired outcomes include improved understanding of water stewardship tools by industry and stakeholders, discussion of potential improvements in application or elements of the tools themselves to better meet the needs of situations in which they are applied to ultimately enhance water resource sustainability. An invitation is extended to participants to report on or discuss additional industrial water stewardship related studies.

Programme
14:00 Welcome and description of seminar objectives
Ms. Kathryn A. Buckner, CGLI, USA

14:05 Applying Water Stewardship Tools to Aid Sustainability Planning
Ms. Anne-Leonore Boffi, WBCSD

14:15 Handling Sustainability and Water Issues in Fund Management
Mr. Peter Wiklof, Ålandsbanken, Finland

14:30 Impact of Water Management on Sustainability Analysis: A Practical Case
Ms. Carlota Garcia-Manas, EIRIS, UK

14:45 Applying Water Stewardship Tools in Industry: Overview of Available Water Stewardship Tools/Pilot Testing Water Stewardship Tools - Process and Results
Ms. Wendy Larson, LimnoTech Inc. USA

15:10 Applying Water Stewardship Tools in Industry: Benefits and Limitations of Existing Water Stewardship Tools/Recommendations for Applying Tools for Use in Industry
Mr. Dale Phenicie, CGLI, USA

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 Tool Developer Perspectives on Applying Water Stewardship Tools in Industrial Settings: WFN
Dr. Guoping Zhang, Water Footprint Network, The Netherlands

16:15 Tool Developer Perspectives on Applying Water Stewardship Tools in Industrial Settings: AWS
Mr. Alexis Morgan, Alliance for Water Stewardship, Canada

16:30 Tool Developer Perspectives on Applying Water Stewardship Tools in Industrial Settings: CEO Water Mandate
Mr. Jason Morrison, Pacific Institute, USA

16:45 Tool Developer/Tool User/Seminar Participant Workshop
Panelists:

• Ms. Jan Dell, CH2M Hill - GEMI Local Water Tool, USA
• Ms. Betsy Otto, World Resources Institute - Aquaduct, USA
• Mr. Alfio Mianzan, Royal Dutch Shell, The Netherlands
• Mr. Marco Mensink, Confederation of European Paper Industries, Belgium
• Mr. Jochem Verberne, WWF

17:30 Close of Seminar

During the first part of the session a dialogue on Sustainable Production and Consumption will be held. A panel debate will be held with representatives from international organizations, the research community, private sector among others. This will enable a vivid debate on the role and tools (improved technology, consumer awareness campaigns, codes of conduct etc.) that can be applied by different actors in addressing the issue of water savings and sustainable diets. Emphasis is on formulating innovative solutions to real-world problems and to have an action-oriented dialogue on how post-harvest losses, food waste and sustainable diets can be addressed. The floor will be opened for questions and all participants will contribute with their views and perspectives on how post harvest losses and food waste can be reduced.

Programme
Setting the Stage

14.00 Opening and Welcome Remarks.
Prof. Jan Lundqvist, SIWI, and Mr. Alexander Mueller, FAO

14.10 Global Food Waste across the Supply Chain - A Critical Review.
Dr. Julian Parfitt, Oakdene Hollins

14.25 European Resolution and Its Impact/Consequences.
Prof. Andrea Segré, University of Bologna, Italy

14.40 Food losses and food loss reduction programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Mr. Robert van Otterdijk, FAO

14.55 Dialogue on Sustainable Production and Consumption - A multiple win option?
Introduction: Mr. Alexander Mueller, FAO
Moderator: Dr. Margaret Catley-Carlson

15.30 Coffee Break

Country Examples and the Way Forward

16.00 Food waste across the supply chain in China: a wicked problem for water.
Prof. Junguo Liu, Beijing Forestry University
Introduction by Mr. Christoph Schatzmann, Nestlé China Ltd

16.15 Economic Analysis of Water Use and Wastes in Milk Production in China.
Dr. Junfei Bai, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences

16.30 Sustainable Diets and Water.
Dr. Florence Egal, FAO

16.45 Panel Discussion: The Way Forward - what needs to be done, how to do it and how to evaluate progress
Moderator: Dr. Margaret Catley-Carlson
Panelists:

• Prof. Jikun Huang, CCAP, CAS
• Mr. Christoph Schatzmann, Nestlé China Ltd
• Dr. Florence Egal, FAO
• Prof. Jan Lundqvist , SIWI
• Mr. Daniel Zimmer
• Mr. Luca F. Ruini, Barilla
• Dr. Brad Riddout, CSIRO
• Mr. Alexander Mueller, FAO

17.30 Close of Seminar

At the Poster Sessions the authors will be available at their posters in order to provide short introductions and comments. The chairs of the different workshops will provide an overview of the posters in their respective workshop sessions. Refreshments will be served.

Wednesday, August 29, at 17:30 and also Tuesday, August 28 at 17:30

Programme
17:45 Opening Remarks and Welcome Speech.
Mr Michael Ramaano, IWRM-WE Project, Botswana

17:50 Water Resources in Botswana: Challenges and Opportunities.
Mr George S. Thabeng, Department of Water Affairs, Botswana

18:00 Food Security issues in Botswana.
Mr D. Matoto, Department of Crop Production, Botswana

18:15 Water Sector Reforms and IWRM Planning in Botswana.
Mr Michael Ramaano, IWRM-WE Project, Botswana

18:25 Discussions

18:45 Close of the Side Event and Snacks

Refreshments provided by the organiser

Programme
Click Here to See All the Presentations
17:45 Opening Comments and Welcoming Remarks.
Marie-Anne Champoux-G., ONE DROP, Canada

17:50 ONE DROP’s Tripod Approach: Complementary Components to Fight Poverty.
Danielle Valiquette, ONE DROP, Canada

18:00 Water Management and Food Security: the Case of Haiti.
Yves Gattereau, OXFAM, Canada

18:10 Microfinance and Water: A Powerful Leveraging Effect.
Alejandro Benίtez, ADEL MORAZAN, El Salvador

18:25 Social Arts to Generate a Ripple Effect.
Danielle Valiquette, ONE DROP, Canada

18:35 Questions and discussion

Refreshments provided by the organiser

Reference Documents
For a better understanding of our vision of water as a catalyst for human development and of the different components of our approach in developing countries, dive in the following documents:

• Social Arts and Popular Education
• El Arte social y la educación popular
• L'eau au cœur du développement humain (only available in French)
• Vision stratégique du volet microfinance des projets de coopération (only available in French)
• Vision stratégique du volet technique des projets de coopération (only available in French)

For additional information about ONE DROP, our projects and our team, visit our website: www.onedrop.org.

Programme
17:45 Opening Comments and Introductions.
Dr Guy Howard, DFID. UK

17:50 Providing WASH Services Across South Sudan - A Country Level Perspective.
H.E. Paul Mayom Akec (tbc), Minister for Water Resources and Irrigation, South Sudan.

17:55 Mission Impossible? How Can Water and Sanitation Service Delivery Contribute to Peace and State Building?
Ms Sue Yardley, Tearfund. UK

18:00 Reality Checks: Reflections from South Sudan and DRC on Roles of WASH Services within Peace and State Building.
Ms Leni Wild and Mr Nat Mason, Overseas Development Institute. UK

18:10 The Liberia Compact - Consensus and Coordinating the Recovery.
Mr Momo Kamara, UNDP GoAL WASH, Liberia

18:20 Questions, Discussion and Conclusions.
Chair: Dr Guy Howard, DFID, UK

Refreshments provided by the organiser

Programme
17:45 Welcome and Introduction.
Mr. Aldo Ramirez, Water Center for Latin America and the Caribbean

17:50 Launch of New E-book: Water Resource Analysis in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Mr. Jürgen Mahlknecht, Water Center for Latin America and the Caribbean.

18:10 LATINAQUA Network of Experts in Latin America and the Caribbean and Results of the Symposium and Workshop on Climate Change and Water in Costa Rica.
Mrs. Andrea Suárez, HIDROCEC, Costa Rica.

18:25 Latin American Network of Knowledge Centres in the Water Sector - RALCEA.
Mr. Juan Arévalo, and Mr. César Carmona-Moreno, Joint Research Centre Ispra, Italy.

18:40 Final Comments and Closing.
Mr. Aldo Ramirez, Water Center for Latin America and the Caribbean

18:45 Cocktail

Event Summary and Conclusions
Cooperation is essential between research centers in the Latin American and Caribbean region. Today you cannot work in isolation when looking towards a common goal such as integrated water management. In 2011, the Latin American and Caribbean Water Centers Network (LatinAqua) was created to encourage the creation, integration and synergy of its members' capacities. LatinAqua works in promoting basic and applied research as well as building capacity for human resources. It is through these actions that the Network contributes to the solution of water issues in the region.

LatinAqua's main objectives are to integrate water projects and leaders, monitor and communicate research, gather and share regional water information, and encourage the integration of science and public policy. Today, LatinAqua brings together 15 Centers in 12 different countries of the region. The Network invites organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean dedicated to research, development, capacity building, and knowledge transfer, to search for high-level solutions to water-related problems in the region.

The network is directly focused on scientific development, application of innovative techniques, analysis of issues from global viewpoints and dissemination. During the meeting, the Water Center for Latin America and the Caribbean also introduced its new E-book: "The Analysis of Water Resources in Latin America and the Caribbean." The eBook is available for download from the website of the Centre: www.centrodelagua.org. LatinAqua also presented its progress and the need to continue working together with scientific institutions in the region.

The Network contributes to the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Latin America and the Caribbean, through excellence in research and development and strategic alliances with all key stakeholders. These collaborations also promise to bring great benefits to Latin American organizations that are interested in establishing research programs in subjects related to the use and management of water in the region, create training programs that respond to the specific water needs and capacity building, as well as integrate and consolidate information on the region's water resources. It is an invaluable platform for knowledge development and capacity building that brings us to a better management and use of water resources http://www.latinaqua.org.

• Will there be enough water, energy and nutrients to meet growing demand?
• What will be the impacts of future food production on the environment, globally and locally?
• How will people's health be affected?
• What actions are needed from our governance systems?
• Where will technical development be required?
• How can science help to answer the questions raised?

Programme
Moderator: Ms. Cecilia Chatterjee-Martinsen, Water Aid Sweden

08.45 Seats are taken

08.55 H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf Arrives

09.00 Introduction and Setting the Scene.
Ms. Cecilia Chatterjee-Martinsen, WaterAid Sweden

09.05 Welcome Addresses.
Mr. Per Bertilsson, SIWI and Prof. Stefan Claesson, KVA

09.15 Food and Water in a Global Context. Limits to Sustainable Growth.
Prof. Johan Rockström, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden

09.25 Delivering Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture and Food Security. How Future Farming Systems Have to Be in Harmony with the Environment.
Dr. Colin Charters, IWMI, Stockholm Water Prize Laureate 2012

09.35 Implications of Intensified Water Use and Reuse in Agriculture for the Health of Farm Workers and the Public. Need for Precautionary Countermeasures and Awareness Raising.
Prof. Rita Colwell, Stockholm Water Prize Laureate 2010

09.45 Short film "Taste the Waste of Water"

09.50 Trade and Trade-offs as Key Tools in Making Future Farming and Associated Water Use More Sustainable and Cost-effective. Is There a Political Will to Use These Tools?
Prof. Tony Allan, Stockholm Water Prize Laureate 2008

10:00 The Contribution of Business to a More Sustainable Water Use in Agriculture. Importance of Actions in the Entire Supply Chain. Influence from Consumers.
Mr. Paul Bulcke, Nestlé, Stockholm Industry Water Award Laureate 2011

10.10 Coffee break

10.30 Panel discussion

11.55 Closing Remarks.
Mr. Peter Forssman, SIWI

12.00 Close of Seminar

An international group of experts identified the microbial food safety concerns of significance to fresh produce in different regions of the world, with particular focus on pathogens derived from contaminated production and processing waters. The seminar aims to discuss the relationship between food and water safety and security, including its impact on crop production practices and microbial ecology, issues associated with use of wastewater as an alternative to potable water in fresh produce production and the global importance of providing safe and abundant water sources to support the production of adequate nutrition for a growing world population. The seminar will help in identifying gaps and guidances needed for practical implementation of existing guidance.

Programme
Chair: Mr. Peter McClure, Unilever 
Co-chair: Mr. Thor-Axel Stenström, SMI

09:00 Introduction and Welcome.
Dr. Peter McClure, Unilever, UK

09:10 ILSI Europe Water Initiative.
Dr. John Fawell, Consultant, UK

09:15 Fresh Produce and Microbial Safety Concerns.
Prof. Mieke Uyttendaele, Ghent University, Belgium

09:30 Microbial Hazards Linked to Irrigation Waters and Process Waters.
Dr. Lise Korsten, University of Pretoria, South Africa

09:45 Irrigation Waters and Waters Used for Fresh Produce Production.
Dr. Liesbeth Jacxsens, Ghent University, Belgium

10:00 Microbial Risk Assessment.
Prof. Gertjan Medema, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

10:15 Data Gaps and Conclusions.
Dr. John Fawell, Consultant, UK

10:30 Discussion

10:45 Coffee Break

11:15 Bottling and Water Re-use.
Dr. Lise Korsten, University of Pretoria, South Africa

11:25 ILSI Research Foundation Global Guidelines for Efficient Water Use in the Food and Beverage Industry.
Dr. Steve Froggett, Consultant, USA

11:35 ILSI Europe's New Activity on Water Sustainability.
Dr. John Fawell, Consultant, UK

11:45 Panel Discussion with Speakers and Invited Experts

12:30 Close of Seminar

Programme
09:00 Welcoming Remarks and Introduction.
Ms. Lakshmi Puri, UN Women

09:05 Gender Equality, Development and the Water Sector.
Ms. Rosemary Rop, World Bank Water and Sanitation Program, Kenya.

09:20 Gender Mainstreaming in Water Governance Programmes: Review of Plans and Practice.
Ms. Moa Cortobius, WGF - UNDP Water Governance Facility at SIWI, Sweden.

09:35 Regional Monitoring Indicators for the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) Policy and Strategy for Mainstreaming Gender in Africa's Water Sector.
Ms. Phoebe Luwum, AMCOW Secretariat, Nigeria

09:50 Using Incentives and Boundaries to Promote Accountability to Gender Commitments at National Level.
Ms. Theresa Wasike, Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Kenya.

10:05 Q&A and Plenary Discussion

11:15 Collecting and Analyzing Sex Disaggregated Data on Agriculture, Water and Food Security; Lessons from the Kenya Agricultural Productivity and Agribusiness Program (KAPAP) 2012. 
Dr. Asa Torkelsson, World Bank, Kenya

11:30 Gender Integration in Water Policies and Regulation - The Experience of Ecuador.
Mr. Jordi Sanchez-Cuenca, National Program Coordinator, Water and Sanitation Sector Governance, Ecuador.

11:45 Linking Local Water Management with Gender Focus to Public Policies in Mexico.
Mr. Eloy Aróstico, Chiapas Regional Coordinator, Democratic Economic Governance in the Water and Sanitation Sector, Mexico.

12:00 Q&A

12:25 Session Summary on Promoting Gender Equality in the Water Sector
Ms. Lakshmi Puri, UN Women

12:30 Close of Seminar

This seminar explores aspects that are central to joint land and water management for meeting prospective food, materials and bioenergy demands. It will examine to what extent current assessment frameworks and governance measures - including criteria, indicators, regulatory policies, and market-based instruments - can describe and address water implications of bioenergy expansion. The seminar will also include concrete examples of land use systems that represent attractive solutions on local and regional scale.

Programme
09.00 Welcome and Introduction
Dr. Louise Karlberg, SEI, Sweden, and Dr. Göran Berndes, IEA Bioenergy Task 43 and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

09.15 Governance Challenges and Institutional Responses at the Water/Biofuel Nexus: Lessons from Ongoing Work at FAO
Dr. Kevin Fingerman, Global Bioenergy Partnership

09.35 Addressing Water Related Aspects in Certification Systems and Standards
Ms. Victoria Junquera, Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels

09.55 Best Management Practices for Managing Water in Bioenergy Feedstock Production
Dr. Daniel Neary, IEA Bioenergy Task 43 and US Forest Service.

10.15 Options for Rehabilitation of Degraded Lands and Food Security
Mr. Sergio A. Zelaya-Bonilla, UNCCD.

10.30 Coffee Break

11.00 Quantitative Assessment of Global Bioenergy-Water Linkages
Dr. Tim Beringer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany

11.15 Jatropha for Rehabilitation of Wastelands, Improving Livelihoods and Downstream Consequences
Dr. Suhas P. Wani, ICRISAT

11.30 Competing Water Claims in Biofuel Feedstock Operations in Central Kalimantan: Community Grievances and Pathways to Improved Governance of Oil Palm Concessions
Dr. Rasmus Klocker Larsen, SEI, Sweden

11.45 Panel Discussion: Input to The World Water Forum: Assessments, Policies, and Tools to Support Improved Governance at the Water-Bioenergy Nexus
Moderator: Dr. Göran Berndes, IEA Bioenergy Task 43 and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

12.20 Summary and Conclusions
Dr. Louise Karlberg, SEI, Sweden

12.30 Close of Seminar

• Introduction to MUS: What is MUS, and how has it developed?
• Latest research findings: What are the costs, risks, and benefits of MUS, focusing on food security, health, women's empowerment and livelihoods, as well as those of increased service sustainability?
• The practice of MUS: What does implementation look like, and what are the guidelines in planning and providing MUS services?
• Institutional barriers to adopting MUS: What are the opportunities and pathways for scale?

Inputs will be sourced from researchers, implementing organisations, donors and government agencies from the WASH, irrigation, and participatory development sectors, thereby seeking to strengthen cross-sectoral networks and commitments to embark on the identified pathways.

Programme
09.00 Introductory Video: "Keeping the Water Flowing: Multiple-Use Water Services"

09.05 Words of welcome by chair Dr. Gao Zhanyi, President of ICID, China, and by the moderator, Dr. Patrick Moriarty, IRC, the Netherlands

09.10 Background to MUS.
Dr. Barbara van Koppen, Coordinator MUS Group/IWMI, South Africa

09.25 The Productive Use of Rural Domestic Water in Senegal and Kenya and Its Relationship to Sustainability.
Mr. Ralph Hall, Virginia Tech, USA

09.40 MUS Practices and Scaling Pathways for Food Security in Ethiopia.
Mr. Deres Abdulkadir, RiPPLE, Ethiopia

09.55 What does MUS Look Like? Moving from Concept to Practice in 7 Countries.
Dr. Mary Renwick, Winrock International, USA

10.10 Guidelines for Providing and Implementing MUS.
Mr. Stef Smits, Secretary MUS Group/IRC, the Netherlands

10.25 If it is such a Good Idea, Why doesn't Is Scale Up? Opportunities and Barriers for Scaling MUS.
Dr. Barbara van Koppen, coordinator MUS Group/IWMI, South Africa

10.40 Coffee break

11.10 Panel discussion with:

• Mr. Jeremy Bird, future DG of IWMI, Sri Lanka
• Mr. Ato Abiti, Director Research & Development, Ministry of Water and Energy, Ethiopia
• Honorable Minister Stanislas Kamanzi, Minister of Natural Resources, Rwanda
• Mr. Abraham Asmare, World Vision East Africa Regional WASH Learning Center
• Ms. Sharon Murray, USAID, USA

11.40 Room Discussion

12.10 Panel Discussion on Way Forward

12.20 Conclusions by Chair

12.30 Close of Seminar

To address these issues, the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) and partners have initiated an inclusive process to identify and prepare the next generation of global targets and related indicators regarding drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, addressing all aspects of the human right to drinking water and sanitation, especially equity and non-discrimination issues. This seminar will give an overview on the current status and progress made in each area. It will offer an opportunity to discuss and exchange views on the process and the first outcomes in identifying a new generation of practical and comprehensive global targets and indicators.

Programme
Chairs: Mr. Franz Marré, BMZ, Germany and Mr. Gerard Payen, UNSGAB
 
Preparing the Next Generation of Targets and Indicators: Overview on the Current Status and Progress Made

9:00 Opening remarks: Objectives and Overview.
Chair: Mr. Franz Marré, BMZ, Germany

09:10 Introductory Presentation: The JMP Post-2015 Process: Plans, Progress and Links with the Broader Political Context.
Mr. Guy Hutton, JMP

09:20 Monitoring Sanitation - Overview and Proposals.
Mr. Eduardo A. Perez, WSP

09:35 Monitoring Hygiene - Overview and Proposals.
Mr. Merri Weinger, USAID

09:50 Question and Answers

10:10 Monitoring Drinking-Water - Overview and Proposals.
Mr. Tom Slaymaker, WaterAid

10:25 Overview and Proposals for Addressing Equity and Non-discrimination in Monitoring Drinking-Water, Ssanitation and Hygiene.
Ms. Catarina de Albuquerque, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Water and Sanitation

10:40 Question and Answers

11:00 Coffee Break

Addressing Global Monitoring Challenges in the Preparation of the Next Generation of Targets and Indicators

11:15 Introductory Remarks.
Chair: Gerard Payen, UNSGAB

11:20 Roundtable discussions on four themes:

• Feasibility and measurability of a realistic and operational new generation of indicators
• Architecture of the post-2015 global monitoring landscape: roles, responsibilities and gaps at all levels
• Transition from the technical to the political process to ensure validation and commitments
• Integration of different aspects of the Human Right to drinking water and sanitation in monitoring at different levels

11:50 Reporting back on the Main Questions and Issues Raised by the Roundtable Discussions

12.10 Addressing the Challenges and Defining the Necessary Next Steps.
Mr. Robert Bos, WHO, and Sanjay Wijesekera, UNICEF

12:20 Conclusion of the Session and Closure.
Mr. Franz Marré, BMZ, Germany, and Gerard Payen, UNSGAB

12:30 Close of Seminar

By inviting you to this seminar we want to challenge you to think with us and look at the opportunities of upscaling - combining water technologies and management options in a larger area (catchment), to improve water availability for agriculture. Supporting the discussions will be the launch of a new 3R book, regarding the costs and benefits of managing water buffers.

Programme
09:00 Opening and Welcome Speech with Introduction to Water Retention, Recharge and Reuse (3R)
3R - Core Team Partners

09:30 Collective Storage (Small Dams) - Rethinking the Design and Management of Small Dams in West-Africa
Mr. Jean-Marc Faurès, FAO

09:45 RWS and Up-scaling of Micro-finance Models
Mrs. Indira Shakya, BSP-Nepal, Nepal

10:00 Cost and Benefits of Catchment Management and Regreening in Tigray
Dr. Kifle Woldearagay, Mekelle University, Ethiopia

10:15 Questions and Discussion
Moderator: Mr. Jan Willem Vosmeer, Heineken, The Netherlands

10:30 Roundtables on Institutions, Tools and Financing for Upscaling 3R for food security
3R - Core Team Partners

11:15 Coffee Break and Roundtables

11:45 Roundtables Outcomes Presentation and Plenary Discussion
Moderator: Mr. Jan Willem Vosmeer, Heineken, The Netherlands

12:20 Book Launch

12:25 Closing Statement, Joint Message with the Multiple Use Group

This workshop will focus on the interactions between water for food and water for cities.  The conceptual frameworks of the urban water and food nexus will be investigated, cities as sources of water and nutrients for agriculture analysed, food security and the role of water and nutrients from urban areas illustrated and synergies, optimisation and efficiency discussed. Aspects on financing, regulation and the institutional landscape needed to stimulate the optimization of the city - agriculture links will be discussed.

Programme
Chairs and Moderators:

• Mr. Paul Reiter, IWA
• Prof. Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, PSGS University of South Florida
• Prof. Håkan Jönsson, SLU, Sweden

Rapporteurs:

• Dr. Gunilla Brattberg, SIWI
• Mr. Tom Williams, IWA
• Dr. Adrian Alcayde, Manila Water, Phillippines

09:00 Welcome and Introduction.
Dr. Gunilla Brattberg, SIWI, and Prof. Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, PSGS

Conceptual Framework - City Metabolism, Interdependencies between Water, Cities and Agriculture. The Water and Food Nexus in Urban Areas

09:03 Opening of the Workshop and Introduction to Session.
Mr. Paul Reiter, IWA

09:10 Keynote: The Water and Food Nexus in Urban Areas - Conceptual Framework.
Mr. Albert Diphoorn, UN-HABITAT

09:30 Opportunities and Constraints for Resource Efficient Environmental Management in Rapidly Developing Urban Areas.
Dr. Marcus Starkl, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria

09:42 Wastewater - A Gold Mine for Energy and Agriculture.
Mr. Bengt Hansen, Kemira, Sweden

09:54 High Level Panel Discussion.

Panelists:

• Dr. Blanca Jimenez, UNAM, Mexico
• Dr. Pay Drechsel, IWMI
• Dr. Pasquale Steduto, FAO
• Prof. Håkan Jönsson, SLU, Sweden

10:30 Coffee Break

Cities as Source of Water and Nutrients for Agriculture. Food Security and the Role of Water and Nutrients from Urban Areas. Treatment Systems to Help Closing the Urban Nutrient Cycle. Synergies, Optimization of Efficiency

11:00 Introduction to Session.
Dr. Daniel Adom, UN-HABITAT

11:05 Keynote: The Role of Water and Nutrients from Urban Areas for Agriculture in a Food Security Perspective.
Dr. Liqa Rashid, IWMI

11:25 Sanitation without Pipes - The 'Honeysucker' Approach to Human Waste Management Using Vacuum Trucks.
Mr. Vishwnat Srikantaiah, Biome Environmental Trust, Ind.

11:37 Sustaining Peri-urban Agriculture through Polyculture Systems - An IWRM Perspective (A Case Study) in Urban Areas.
Ms. Amanda Jaydas, Centre for Water Resources, India

11:49 Sri Lanka - Focus on Food Security and Water Use Efficiency.
Ms. Lekha Upul Nayana Sumanasekera, Ministry of Agriculture, Sri Lanka

12:01 Discussion

12:30 Lunch Financing and Regulation for Optimization of City - Agriculture Links. What Kind of Institutional Landscape do We Need to Stimulate Support the Optimization of Sustainable Water Allocations across Multiple Users Including the Reuse of Nutrients, Role of Industry to Increase Water Reuse Between Industry and Agriculture?

14:00 Introduction to Session.
Prof. Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, PSGS, USA

14:05 Making the Case for a Yellow Economy: Costing Urine Diversion for a New Urban Area in Vietnam.
Ms. Naomi Carrard, Institute for Sustainable Future University of Technology, Australia

14:17 Ecosan and Urban Sanitation Business Models.
Ms. Lucia Henry, Water and Sanitation for Africa, Burkina Faso

14:30 Panel Discussion.
Panelists:

• Dr. Rudolf Cleveringa, IFAD
• Dr. Akissa Bahri, African Water Facility, Tunisia
• Dr. Mark Smith, IUCN
• Dr. Joppe Cramwinckel, WBCSD
• Dr. Arno Rosemarin, SEI and speakers

15:20 Conclusions and Close of the Workshop

The need and rational for an expansion of trade will be scrutinised with reference to differences in water resources, but also the variation between countries in terms of technologies, and governance capacity to produce, process and market agricultural commodities.

The roles of national and local governments, private companies and civil society and the local implications from this trade, including the acquisition of land and water in other countries, will be addressed.

Chair
Dr. Susanne Scheierling, WB

Moderator
Mr. Dominic Waughray, World Economic Forum

Rapporteurs

• Prof. Pieter van der Zaag, UNESCO-IHE
• Prof. Jan Lundqvist, SIWI
• Mr. Ertag Ercin, University of Twente, the Netherlands

Programme
09:00 Welcome and Introduction by Chairs

09:05 Including Water in an Analysis of Trade and Food Security in MENA.
Dr. Don Larson, WB

09:25 Food Security and Water Deficits: How the Private Sector Helps.
Mr. Carl Hausmann, Bunge Limited

09:45 Water and Food Trade, from Challenges to Opportunities.
Dr. Charlotte de Fraiture, UNESCO-IHE

10:05 Questions & Answers
Moderator: Mr. Dominic Waughray, World Economic Forum

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 The Water-Agriculture and Trade Nexus - When Self-sufficiency is not an Option.
Dr. Mohamed Ait Kadi, GWP

11:20 Panel Discussion.
Moderator: Mr. Dominic Waughray, WEF

Panellists:

• Dr. Don Larson, WB
• Mr. Carl Hausmann, Bunge Limited
• Dr. Charlotte de Fraiture, UNESCO-IHE
• Dr. Mohamed Ait Kadi, GWP
• Prof. Joachim von Braun, ZEF  
• Prof. Erik Gawel, UFZ

12:25 Summing Up by Chairs

12:30 End of Workshop

Programme
12:45 Setting the Agenda
Ryan Flaherty - BSR

12:50

• Creating Visibility at the Farm Level - Farm Verification
  Ian Hope-Johnstone - PepsiCo
• Success, Challenges and Learnings of Farm Verification
• Unilever: Sustainable Living Plan
  Donna Jefferies - Unilever
• PepsiCo: Sustainable Farming Initiative
  Ian Hope-Johnstone - PepsiCo
• Pulling it together - Relevance and application
  Ryan Flaherty - BSR

13:15 Questions and dialogue 

Lunch provided by the organiser.

Programme
Presentations 1
Presentations 2
12:45 Lunch served

12:55 Welcome and Introduction.
Dr. David Purkey, SEI, USA

13:00 Introduction to LEAP.
Dr. Charlie Heaps, SEI, USA

13:05 Introduction to WEAP.
Mr. Jack Sieber, SEI, USA

13:10 LEAP/WEAP integration. Film

13:20 California Water-Energy  Context.
Dr. David Purkey, SEI, USA

13:25  LEAP/WEAP Pilot in California.
Dr. David Yates, NCAR, USA, and Dr. Vishal Mehta, SEI, USA

13:35 Comments.
Mr. Diego Rodriguez, World Bank

13:40 Q & A

Lunch provided by the organiser

Programme
12:45 Opening Comments.
Dr. Vladimir Smakhtin, IWMI

12:50 Global Flooding Issues and Impact.
Dr. Bharat Sharma, IWMI

13:05 Subsurface Harvesting of Floodwaters: Concepts and Case Study.
Dr. Paul Pavelic, IWMI

13:25 Open Discussion on the Topic and Ways forward

Programme
The session will begin promptly at 12:45.

Our speakers are:

• Diana Betancourt, Water For People (www.waterforpeople.org):
  The impact of advocacy at municipal and national levels in Honduras and beyond.
• Yiga Baker, ANEW (www.anewafrica.org):
  3-4 mini case studies about how WASH civil society networks have influenced public policy and budgets for WASH throughout Africa.
• John Oldfield, WASH Advocates (www.WASHadvocates.org, speaker and moderator):
  Best and emerging practices for advocacy in WASH and other sectors.

After brief remarks (seven minutes) from each of the speakers, we will have 30 minutes left in our sixty minute session to engage with the audience.

We are asking the audience to prepare in advance for this session, and during the session offer brief remarks on:

• What WASH advocacy successes and/or failures have you had in your country?
• Of those successes and failures, what do you think might work (or not) in other parts of the world?
• What do you hope to accomplish in the next months/years in your country for advocacy for WASH?

Programme
12.45 Recent Developments in the Work of the 2030 Water Resources Group
Anders Berntell, WRG

13.00 Remarks about experiences:

• Mr. José Luis Luege Tamargo, Director General of the National Water Commission of Mexico (CONAGUA)
• Mr. Trevor Balzer, Chief Operating Officer, Department of Water Affairs, South Africa
• Mr. Andre Fourie, Head of the Sustainable Development, The South African Breweries (Pty) Ltd

13.30 Q&A

13.45 Closing

This seminar will analyse how the water-food nexus is being affected by climate change in two of the more important mountain regions of the world: the Andes and the Himalayas. The seminar will review concepts, discuss relevant cases that address different dimensions of the water-food nexus and innovative approaches for dealing with depleting resources, as well as provide guidance to mitigate the impact of the vulnerable water-food nexus in developing regions.

Programme

Concepts
14:00 Introduction
Mr. Glenn Pearce-Oroz, WSP/World Bank, Peru

14:05 Exploring the Dimensions of the Water-Food Nexus. 
Dr. Marcus Moench, ISET, USA

14:25 Growing Impact of Climate Change for Mountain Regions.
Dr. Eklabya Sharma, ICIMOD, Nepal.

14:45 Plenary Discussion

Cases
15:00 Impact of Climate Change on Water Stress Situations in the Yellow River Basin.
Dr. Jianxin Mu, Chinese National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage, China

15:15 Innovative Financial Mechanisms for Improving Environment and Sanitation in Watersheds.
Mr. Juan José Rodriguez, The Nature Conservancy, Peru

15:30 Working through Institutional Constraints.
Mr. Ajaya Dixit, ISET, Nepal

15:45 Plenary Discussion

16:15 Coffee Break

Moving Forward
16:30 Moderated Panel Discussion of Experts to Discuss Guidance to Mitigate the Impact of the Vulnerable Water-Food Nexus.

• Ms. Jaehyang So, WSP/World Bank, USA
• Mr. Fawad Khan, ISET, Pakistan
• Dr. Eklabya Sharma, ICIMOD, Nepal

17:00 Plenary Discussion

17:20 Concluding Remarks.
Mr. Glenn Pearce-Oroz, WSP/World Bank, Peru

17:30 Close of Seminar

Participants will contribute to scenario building and case studies will be presented from projects in South Asia supported by the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund as well as research in the Baltic Sea Region by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics.

Programme
14:00 Welcome and Introduction.
Prof. Carl-Gustaf Thulin, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

14:05 How will Aquaculture Contribute to the Future World Food System? Introduction to Participatory Scenario Building

14:15 Challenges and Prospects for a Sustainable Aquaculture Trajectory.
Prof. Max Troell, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics and Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden

14:35 The Last Mile: Mobilizing Farmers at the Front Line.
Dr. Tim DeJager, University of Calgary, Canada

14:50 Moving from Generic to Actionable Policy for Sustainable Aquaculture.
Ms. Jennifer Dawson, Centre for Coastal Health, Canada

15:05 Fish Farming as an Eco-service and Net Contributor to the Human Food Base.
Prof. Anders Kiessling, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

15:35 Coffee Break

16:05 The Future Role of Fish as Source of Marine Lipids in the Human Diet.
Prof. Jana Pickova, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

16:25 Networks and Social Learning in Aquaculture: Bridging the Information to Implementation Gap.
Dr. Theresa Burns, University of Calgary, Canada

16:40 Safeguarding Water to Sustain Food Security Contributions of Aquaculture: The Shrimp Culture Case.
Dr. Sevvandi Jayakody, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka

16:55 Future Prospects of Culture-based Fisheries as an Enhancement Strategy in Developing Countries: The Sri Lankan Case.
Dr. Kelum Wiejenayake, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka

17:10 How will Aquaculture Contribute to the Future World Food System? Participant Scenario-Building.
Prof. Carl-Gustaf Thulin, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

Event Summary and Conclusions
Today nearly half of global seafood is farmed rather than fished, but with increasing consumption and demand, production must double by 2030. Aquaculture supports the livelihood of 300-400 million people and over 1.5 billion people rely on fish as their primary source of protein, but aquaculture faces a significant sustainability challenge. Facilitated by Carl Gustaf-Thulin, session participants were invited to consider future scenarios of aquaculture development in the context of food security and sustainability.

Max Troell showed that aquaculture expansion will take place in a time when humanity are approaching various global limits with respect to loss of biodiversity, climate change, nitrogen cycle, ocean acidification, etc. However, aquaculture has still the potential to grow sustainably, with a smaller environmental footprint and higher resource efficiencies compared to most other animal farming systems. In a diversity of systems, common traits for sustainability are possible, such as the utilization of low food chain species, new feeds sourced from e.g. agriculture, microorganisms and algae, and integrated cultivation systems.

Kelum Wiejenayake described how lower trophic level species and integrated approaches can be achieved through culture-based fisheries in which fingerlings are produced by culture and reared without feeding in reservoirs or lakes with community ownership of stocked fish providing food security and income. Asia has 66 million hectares that could be utilized in this manner.

Anders Kiessling (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) demonstrated that aquaculture must be a transparent part of nutrient recycling. Sweden, for example, has unnaturally oligotrophic lakes created by hydropower dams, ideal for open fish farming systems where nutrient effluence will function as an environmental service by supporting the  restoration of a functional ecosystem.

Jana Pickova and Prof. Anders Kiessling considered the issue of feed inputs and alternatives for aquaculture. Fish feeds with Omega3 fatty acids beneficial to human health and high quality protein could be developed from algae and microbial crops such as yeast cells, reducing demand from fish meal and agricultural crops.

Jennifer Dawson described how policy for sustainable aquaculture falls short in many countries, often lacking appropriate goals, implementation strategies, and mechanisms for monitoring and enforcement. A policy planning tool, Multi Criteria Decision Analysis was used in Sri Lanka to plan for preferred systems of production in culture-based fisheries. It is participatory, incorporates stakeholders’ preferences, and compares systematically along environmental, socio-cultural, economic objectives – improving decision transparency.

Sevvandi Jayakody revealed how shrimp farmers in Sri Lanka are faced with disease problems, high risk, and challenging environmental and social conditions. Social, environmental and production strategies converge in shrimp farming communities as sustainability takes root.

Tim DeJager showed that farmers face a significant knowledge deficit when it comes to sustainable practices, especially in developing countries. Trusted and reliable information that can be directly integrated into management decision making is needed. 

Theresa Burns found that farmers rely heavily on feed suppliers and other farmers and are relatively isolated from other experts. Social network analysis revealed both gaps and strengths in network knowledge flows, enabling interventions to be more precisely and effectively targeted. Dr. DeJager conducted a trial delivering information via SMS on mobile phones that helped to increase farmers’ connectivity to knowledge flows and providing a positive experience of improved production cycle outcomes.

Programme
Chair: Dr. Abraham Mehari Haile, UNESCO-IHE and Mr. Albert Engel, GIZ, Germany

14:00 Opening Comments and Welcome Speech.
Mr. Stefan Opitz, GIZ, Germany

14:05 Opening Comments and Welcome Speech.
Dr. Frank Van Steenbergen, Spate Irrigation Network (UNESCO-IHE and MeMeta)

14:10 Movie: Introducing Spate Irrigation Systems

14:15 Local Knowledge in Action: Closing Unfairness Gap in Spate Flow Distribution.
Mr. Mugahed Sabier (Irrigation Practitioner), Gash River Training Unit, Sudan (Brief Presentation Followed by 12 Minute Movie)

14:35 Mitigating Unpredictability: Optimizing Conjunctive Use of Spate Flow and Direct Rainfall.
Mr. Abebe Demissie Chukalla, (young professional), ArbaMinch University, Ethiopia (Power Point Presentation)

14:50: Traditional Spate Irrigation Practices in Raya Valley, Tigray, Ethiopia: The Guguf and Wejig wadis.
Mr. Gabir Siyum Hagos, (Farmer, Water Master), Meagel Guguf Water Users Association (Brief Presentation Followed by 20 Minute Movie).

15:15: Establishing Viable WUAs in Spate Irrigation Systems: Experiences from Pakistan.
Mr. Fahim Khan

15:30 Discussion

15:50 Coffee Break

16:15 Innovative Watershed Managament in Semi-arid Valley Systems in the Sahel: Ecosystem Management and Flood Based Agriculture to Secure Rural Livelihoods.
Mrs. Martina Wegner, GIZ, Germany

16:30 Water Spreading Weirs in Abeché / Tchad  - Film by GIZ

16:45 Water Spreading Weirs and Its Impact in Niger.
Mr. Abdourahmane Hamidou, BETIFOR Engineering Consultancy, Niger

17:00 Discussion

17:20 Wrap-up.
Mr. Albert Engel, GIZ, Germany

17:30 Close of Seminar

Programme
The Water Futures Approach to Mitigating Shared Water Risks

14:00 Chair's Opening and Introduction.
Mr. Franz Marré, BMZ, Germany

14:10 Water as a Business Risk and the Corporate Case for Action.
Mr. David Grant, SABMiller, UK

14:15 Shared Water Risks from the Conservation Perspective.
Dr. Dave Tickner, WWF, UK

14:20 The Water Futures Partnership - The Global-local Approach to Addressing Water Risk.
Mr. Robin Farrington, GIZ, Germany

14:25 Q&A

Water Stewardship in Action: Short Case Studies

14:35 Galvanising Collective Action for Aquifer Sustainability in Peru.
Mr. Michael Rosenauer, GIZ, Germany

14:45 Supply Chains and Ecosystems: Shared Resilience in the Face of Water Scarcity in the Western Cape.
Ms. Christine Colvin, WWF, South Africa and Mr. Andre Fourie, SAB Ltd, South Africa

14:55 Partnerships for Shared Water Security - Experiences from the Mining sector.
Ms. Samantha Hoe-Richardson, Anglo-American, UK

15:05 The Water-Energy Nexus and Business Case for Investing in Public Infrastructure.
Mr. Bob Kleynjan, Sasol and Mr. Lenka Thamae, ORASECOM (tbc), South Africa

15:15 Discussion with panel

15:45 Coffee Break

Distilling Lessons from Implementation

16:10 A Critical Look at Lessons from the Water Futures Partnership and Other Water Stewardship Approaches.
Mr. Ken Caplan, Building Partnerships for Development in Water and Sanitation, UK

16:20 Launch of the CEO Water Mandate Guide to Collective Action.
Mr. Jason Morrison, CEO Water Mandate, USA, and Mr. Rob Greenwood, Ross Strategic, USA

16:30 Q&A 

Looking Forward: Water Stewardship's Role in Water Security and Opportunities to Engage

16:40 Getting More Effective: A Vision for Partnerships to Address Shared Water Risks.
Mr. Greg Koch, The Coca-Cola Company, USA

16:45 What Role Can Water Stewardship Play in Southern Africa's Water Security?
Mr. Phera Ramoeli, SADC Water, Botswana (tbc)

16:55 Opportunities to Engage: The Water Futures Initiative.
Mr. Robin Farrington, GIZ, Germany and Mr. David Grant, SABMiller, UK

17:05 Discussion with Panel

17:25 Concluding Remarks and Close.
Mr. Franz Marré, BMZ, Germany

Programme
14:00 Opening Comments and Introduction to the Seminar.
Mr. Thilo Panzerbieter, German WASH Network, Germany

14:15 The WASH - Nutrition Link: The Potential of a Professional Blind Spot.
Mr. Oliver Cumming, LSHTM, UK and Mr. Robert Chambers (IDS), UK

14:45 Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT): Case Studies from Peru and Indonesia.
Ms. Almud Weitz, WSP East Asia, Indonesia and Mr. Juan Costain, WSP South Asia, India

15:00 Contribution of Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) to Food and Nutrition Security.
Mr. Kamal Kar, CLTS Foundation, Bangladesh

15:15 Productive Sanitation - Reuse as a Driver to take Sanitation to Scale in the Sahel.
Mr. Linus Dagerskog, SEI, Stockholm and Mr. Moussa Bonzi, INERA Burkina Faso

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 Break out Session
Experts:

• Ms. Almud Weitz, WSP
• Mr. Juan Costain, WSP 
• Mr. Arno Rosemarin, SEI
• Mrs. Claudia Wendland, WECF
• Mr. Rene van Veenhuizen, RUAF Foundation
• Mr. Kamal Kar, CLTS Foundation  
• Mr. Robert Chambers (IDS)
• Mr. Arno Coerver, Malteser Int.

16:45 Panel Discussion
Chair: Mr. Sanjay Wijesekera, UNICEF
Panelists:

• Ms. Almud Weitz, WSP
• Mr. Juan Costain, WSP 
• Mr. Arno Rosemarin, SEI
• Mr. Rene van Veenhuizen, RUAF Foundation
• Mr. Robert Chambers (IDS)
• Mr. Oliver Cumming (LSHTM)

17:15 Conclusion and Next Steps.
Chair: Mr. Sanjay Wijesekera, UNICEF

17:30 End of the Seminar

Two main aspects of diffuse pollution will be examined:

1. State of the art regarding pollution management tools and their implementation at different scales - from the river basin scale to the drinking water abstraction scale.
2. Smart and sustainable solutions to improve agricultural practices.

Welcome!

Programme
Moderators: Ms. Anna Jöborn, Science Affairs Department, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, and Mr. François Lacroix, French National Agency for Water and Aquatic Environments (ONEMA)

14:00 Welcome and General Introduction.
Mr. François Lacroix, ONEMA, France and Ms. Anna Jöborn, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management

14:10 Tools and Techniques for Pollution Management at Different Scales.
Mr. Nicolas Domange, ONEMA, France

14:30 Reducing Nutrient Load to the Baltic Sea from the Field to Coast.
Ms. Karin Blombäck, SLU, Sweden

14:50 Group Discussions on "Challenging Pollution Management Tools and Associated Research Topics".

15:05 Evaluation of Diffuse Agricultural Pollution in Poland.
Dr. Marek Gielczewski, Warzaw University of Life Sciences, Poland

15:25 Action Plans in Targeted Territories and Associated Funding in Order to Recover Water Quality.
Ms. Gaëlle Prouvost, Loire Brittany Water Agency, France

15:45 Coffee Break

16:00 Group Discussion on "Smart Solutions for Agricultural Practices and Associated Research Topics"

16:15 Promoting Voluntary Measures in Agriculture through Advice - Opportunities and Challenges.
Dr. Anuschka Heeb, Baltic COMPASS and Focus on Nutrients, Swedish Board of Agriculture, Sweden

16:35 Policies for Good Agricultural Practices in Poland.
Prof. Waldemar Mioduszewski, Institute of Technology and Natural Sciences in Falenty, Poland

16:55 Results from Beehive Discussions.
Ms. Frédérique Martini, ONEMA, France, and Ms. Ann-Mari Karlsson, SWH, Sweden

17:05 General Discussion on Priority Research Gaps

17:25 Concluding Remarks by Moderators

17:30 Close of Seminar

The private sector has developed sophisticated risk and opportunity management approaches to water management in recent years. Most assume the water cycle is relatively stable and fixed. Connections between water and climate change remain much less explored by companies and discussions of climate change in the private sector have largely been restricted to mitigation rather than adaptation. This seminar explores trends in diagnosing and responding to the shifting role of water in a changing climate.

Programme
14:00 Welcome.
Dr. Fred Boltz, CI

14:05 Opening Remarks.
Mr. Thierry Berthoud, WBCSD

14:20 Water, Climate Change, and Business Implications.
Dr. John Matthews, AGWA, and Ms. Marielle Canter Weikel, CI

14:45 Finance & Banking Panel: Capturing Water Risks in a Changing Climate.
Moderator: Mr. Ivo Mulder, UNEP-FI

Panelists:

• Ms. Berkley Adrio, CERES
• Mr. Jens Hoenerhoff, DEG
• Mr. Sasja Beslik, Nordea
• Mr. Deane M. Dray, CFA

15:30 Break

16:00 Infrastructure & Energy Panel: Water-related Energy Shortages and Infrastructure Failure, and Approaches to Address.
Moderator: Mr. Thierry Berthoud, WBCSD

Panelists: Ms. Anne Bolle, Statkraft AS, and Mr. Edwin Pinero, Veolia Water North America.

16:40 Food & Beverages Panel: Value Chain and Efforts to Address Water-related Climate Change Risks and Opportunities from Field to Market.
Moderator: Mr. John Buchanan, CI

Panelists:

• Mr. Christian Frutiger, Nestlé
• Ms. Beth Sauerhaft, PepsiCo
• Ms. Ulrike Sapiro, The Coca-Cola Company

17:20 Closing Remarks.
Dr. Fred Boltz, CI

H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden will present the prize to International Water Management Institute (IWMI), at the Royal Award Ceremony for their pioneering research that has served to improve agriculture water management, enhance food security, protect environmental health and alleviate poverty in developing countries. 

Founders of the Stockholm Water Prize

The Founders of the Stockholm Water Prize are Swedish and international companies in collaboration with the City of Stockholm. They are: Bacardi, Borealis & Borouge, DuPont, ERV, Fujitsu, Grundfos Management, Hewlett Packard, Xylem, Kemira, KPMG Sweden, Läckeby Water, P&G, Ragn-Sells, Saab Automobile AB, Scandic, Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), Siemens AG, SJ (Swedish Railways), Snecma/Safran, Uponor, Water Environment Federation and Ålandsbanken Sverige.

The reporting back session presents the major conclusions and findings from the week's events as well as looking forward to the next year's meeting.

Join us for a stimulating session towards a water and food secure world!

Programme
09:00 Welcome by Chair
Mr. Torgny Holmgren, Incoming Executive Director, Stockholm International Water Institute

09:05 Best Workshop Poster Award
Presented by Prof. Ing-Marie Gren, Scientific Programme Committee

09:10 Gender Perspectives on Water and Food Security
Ms. Lakshmi Puri, Deputy Executive Director, UN Women

09:30 Business Perspectives on Water and Food Security
Mr. Peter Bakker, President of World Business Council for Sustainable Development

09:40 Young Perspectives on Water and Food Security
Mind Map 1 - Mind Map 2
Mr. Luca di Mario and Ms. Olimar Maisonet-Guzmán

10:05 WASH Media Award

10:30 Coffee Break

Reporting Back Session

11:00 Welcome by Moderators
Ms. Karin Lexén and Mr. Jens Berggren, SIWI

11:05 Overarching Conclusions
Prof. Malin Falkenmark Senior Scientific Advisor, Stockholm International Water Institute

11:15 Reporting Back from Rapporteurs Teams

• Building a Water Wise Economy
• Ensuring Human and Environmental Health
• Achieving Good Water and Food Governance
• Establishing Water and Food Equity

12:45 Closing Remarks
Prof. Torkil Jønch Clausen, Chair, Scientific Programme Committee and Mr. Alexander Müller, FAO

12:50 World Water Week 2012 in Pictures

Event Summary and Conclusions
The closing plenary of the World Water Week 2012 synthesised the outcomes of intensive discussions taken place during the Week. The speakers representing the various stakeholders called for action and change to solve this pressing issue. Ms. Lakshmi Puri, Deputy Executive Director, UN Women, addressed the importance of the role of gender in food security, for example, women farmers are the most important food producers globally. She emphasised that targets and indicators in monitoring and evaluating gender must be included as a qualification of projects and activities rather than the 'low-performing' among other indicators. Mr. Peter Bakker, President of world Business Council for Sustainable Development, called for action to meet the current challenges. Mr. Luca di Mario and Ms. Olimar Maisonet-Guzmán presented the young people's vision on water management in 2050 which is a result of Young Professional Seminar during the World Water Week 2012. Mr. Mario and Ms. Maisonet-Guzmán introduced the visionary young water professionals as "adaptive idealists" to achieve water and food secure world.

WASH Media Awards 2009-2010 was given to 7 journalists from India, Venezuela, Mozambique, Togo, Moldova, Colombia and Finland who have reported water, sanitation and hygiene-related issues and played an important role in bringing the spotlight to the water and sanitation.

The Overarching Conclusion was presented by Prof. Malin Falkenmark.

Reporting back by the rapporteurs about the selected themes are governance, ensuring human and environmental health, establishing water and food equity and building a water-wise economy. Under the governance theme, prioritised investment in water and WASH sector seems to be new this year's World Water Week.

This workshop will address the following questions: How do we improve co-operation to promote synergies between mitigation and adaption to climate change? How do we mainstream climate change resilience in the green economy through improved cooperation between water, agriculture and energy management. What are the constraints, and what are some good examples of synergies and cooperation? How do we secure recognition of these linkages in the international climate change agreements?

This workshop will address issues such as: What are the keys to real, effective and equitable cooperation? What are the economic, social and environmental implications of cooperation, unilateralism or conflict over a transboundary resource? What benefits and costs can be accrued from sustained cooperation? How will land deals in transboundary basins affect prospects for cooperation? Can opportunities be found for better cooperation in the water, food and energy nexus? What role can water law and institutions play in facilitating cooperation, within and between countries, especially in a changing climate?

The workshop will analyse core problems involved. Catchment and regional scale examples of both successes and failures are welcome. What are the primary barriers delaying constructive approaches, and how can ecosystem services approaches help in understanding and bridging the divides? What would be the benefits for water providers of working together with land use planners and ecosystem management specialists? Contributions analysing socio political and economic interests and their impacts are encouraged.

This workshop will explore the social, economic, institutional and political dimensions of cooperation from the micro-scale - e.g. the rural community or village, through the municipal, urban, regional, national, transboundary and even global levels. What does the principle of subsidiarity really mean? How can we determine the lowest and most appropriate level for good water governance resulting in mutually beneficial management and development? Are there common principles that apply across all levels? How can we enable effective cooperation between administrative boundaries, levels and across sectors - also engaging stakeholders from non-water sectors? What formal and informal institutional and organisational arrangements are most effective in delivering results?

This workshop will bring together researchers, practitioners and policy-makers to explore how to improve their mutual communication, to overcome obstacles and seek new and innovative ways of communicating, from basic data sharing to the development and application of decision-support systems and policy instruments. The discussion will be supported by cases and suggested new approaches to be presented and discussed among participants, including in high-level panels composed of the various stakeholder groups.

This workshop will address topics on mechanisms for matching payers and beneficiaries in order to ensure stainable implementation and operation of water programmes. This involves questions: Who needs to cooperate? What are the blockages? How to overcome them? Who should pay for the water programme: the users (which are not always easy to identify), tax payers (eventually reluctant to raising taxes), or voluntary financiers (who might require return with low risk)? What is a fair allocation of financial burden? How to ensure well-functioning programmes in the long run? What is the role of political will and discretion?

Advances in the science of cooperation will be highlighted - understanding the drivers and social, economic and environmental payoffs of water cooperation and, equally relevant, how the risk of conflict can be minimised. These aspects need to be complemented with the art of cooperation, the skills of mediation and fostering dialogues. How best can the science and art be translated into effective training, education and institutional development? Graduates of course programmes will be invited to contribute "Novel ideas to sparking water cooperation".

The purpose of the workshop is to bridge the gap between the science and art of cooperation. Questions to chart the way forward include: What advances have been made in our understanding of drivers of water cooperation and conflict avoidance? How is this knowledge translated into concrete interventions? How can successful examples be up-scaled and applied in other climatic and cultural contexts? Can conflicts be mitigated by outside interventions? What training methods and tools have proven to work? How can modern communication technologies contribute?

This workshop will explore these opportunities in all their dimensions and create a platform for the human rights and water/sanitation professionals to enter into a productive dialogue leading to increased cooperation. A new impulse to monitoring a range of water and sanitation indicators will require cooperation with existing national, regional and global monitoring systems - and this will need to be mainstreamed into the follow-up process to "Rio+20". The right to water and sanitation also creates a new basis for strengthened cooperation between public and private sector entities. Other, longer-established human rights, such as the right to health, may provide insights into stories of success and failure in cooperation and lessons learned from these experiences.

The purpose of the workshop will be to address a number of questions that include: How can scientific and legal evidence bases be productively harmonised? What are the institutional dimensions of cooperation between the human rights and the WASH development communities? How can the outcomes of research into availability, access, quality, acceptability and affordability of water and sanitation be translated in regulatory and legislative instruments to support the human right and its progressive realisation, with no discrimination?