Title: Partnerships for Water and Environmental Sanitation Integrity, Accountability and Transparency
Event type: Seminar
Date: 16/08/2009
Time: 14:00 - 17:30
Convenor: Water Integrity Network (WIN)
Co-convenor: Global Water Partnership (GWP), Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), UNDP Water Governance Facility at SIWI (WGF) and International Water Association (IWA)
Room: T6

Event Description
This event follows last year’s seminar on the Global Corruption Report 2008: A Call to Action. The aim is to launch a global strategic partnership for Water Integrity action and to identify or announce new partnerships for country or regional based action programmes. The seminar will be used as a platform to discuss the implementation of WIN’s Strategic Framework for Action 2009-2015, the results so far and synergies with other international networks and organizations.


Programme

Chair: Mr. Akere Tabeng Muna, Cameroon, Vice-Chair of Transparency International
Co-chair: Dr. Håkan Tropp, Chair, WIN, Director, UNDP Water Governance Facility, SIWI, Sweden

13:30

Registration

14:00

Welcome and Introduction by the Chairs

14:10

Three Years of WIN: WINs Strategic Framework for Action 2009-2015. Dr. Håkan Tropp

14:25

Uganda: Status of Water Integrity Studies. Dr. Donal O’Leary, International Steering Committee (ISC) Member, WIN, Senior Adviser, Transparency International, Germany, and Ms. Maria Jacobsson, Bilateral Associate Expert in Water & Governance, Water and Sanitation Program - Africa, Uganda

14:40

Promoting Integrity and Accountability in Water: Experiences from a Pilot Training Workshop in South Africa. Mr. Kees Leendertsee, HRD Specialist, CAP-NET, South Africa

14:55

Efforts, Results and Next Steps: Paving the Way for Water Integrity Action (Panel Debate with WIN Members and Partners)

Moderator: Dr. Grit Martinez, Senior Adviser, WIN, Germany
Panellists:

  • Ms. Kusum Athukorala (tbc), Deputy Chair, Sri Lanka Water Partnership, Sri Lanka
  • Dr. John Butterworth, Senior Programme Officer, IRC, The Netherlands
  • Mr. Andre Dzikus, Chief, Water and Sanitation Section II, UN-HABITAT, Kenya
  • Mr. Martin Rivera, Adviser to RAS-HON and Co-ordinator of Resource Centre, Peace Corps, Honduras
  • Dr. Darren Saywell, Development Director, IWA, The Netherlands
  • Ms. Noma Neseni, Executive Director, Institute of Water and Sanitation Development and WSSCC National Coordinator for Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
16:00

Coffee and Break-Out into Working Groups

16:45

Feedback from Working Groups to the Plenum

17:05

Partnerships for Water Integrity: Moving Towards Action. Dr. Ania Grobicki, Executive Secretary, GWP

17:15

Wrap-up. Ambassador Muhammad Zamir, Bangladesh, Centre for Democracy & Bangladesh Water Partnership

17:25

Closing Note by the Chairs. Mr. Akere Tabeng Muna and Dr. Håkan Tropp

17:30

Close of Seminar


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