Reports
on Outcomes of Meetings |
Alberto Gagliardi, Under-Secretary for Regional
Affairs, Italy, Outcome of the International Forum on
Partnerships for Sustainable Development, Rome, 4-6 March,
2004 |
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Officials
statements on key issues related to implementation |
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Ireland,
speaking on behalf of the EU,
said CSD-12 must focus and strengthen
activities to meet the MDGs and WSSD goals, and look at
progress, identify challenges, constraints and obstacles
encountered in implementation., |
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Thematic Discussion on Water |
--Status of
implementation of MDG/JPOI goals related to
water, from global to local levels
--Integrated water management and water
efficiency plans--integrating water management
into national sustainable development
strategies, including poverty reduction
strategies, action on the ground and
implications for water supply and sanitation |
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Thematic
Discussion on Water (left to right):
Conall O'Connell, Deputy Secretary,
Department of Environment and Heritage
Australia, Jerson Kelman,
Director-President, Agencia Nacional de Aguas
(ANA), Brazil, JoAnne DiSano, Director,
Division for Sustainable Development, CSD
Chair
Børge Brende,
Alexander Debaros (Secretariat)
Alvaro
Umaña,
Leader, Environmentally Sustainable Development
Group, UNDP, and Roberto Lenton,
Co-Chair, MDG Task Force on Water and Sanitation |
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Side Event: Good Governance: Challenges
of Achieving the Millennium Development
Goals--organized by the Stakeholder
Forum for Our Common Future
Stakeholder
Forum hosted a side-event: "Crisis in
Global Governance: Challenges in
Achieving the MDGs". The meeting sought
to explore the dilemmas and
contradictions inherent in achieving
coherence between international,
national and local governance issues,
with a particular focus on the review of
the Millennium Development Goals, and
the other international processes
converging in 2005. The meeting was
attended by over 40 representatives of
civil society and government
delegations. Three key issues were
raised for further consideration: The
need for coherence in policy and
decision making at the national level;
the need for equity and parity in
participation; NGO accountability and
transparency. |
Jan-Gustav Strandenaes, Georgina
Ayre, and Felix Dodds, Stakeholder
Forum |
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Special Event: Integrated Water
Resources Management Strategy (IWRM)
2005 Plans: Experiences, Status and
the Way Forward--organized by the
Global Water Partnership (GWP) | | |
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This event
was organized by the Global Water
Partnership with support from the
Governments of Denmark, Norway and
Sweden. The HRH Prince of Orange, GWP
Patron delivered introductory remarks
followed by a presentation on "Why is
IWRM Important" by Jerson Kelman,
President, ANA-National Agency for
Water, Brazil. Cases from countries
well underway with IWRM plans were heard
from Bhutan (Sonam Tshering, Director,
Department of Energy, Ministry of Trade
and Industry), Burkina Faso (Francis
Bougare, Director, Water Department),
Costa Rica (Allan Flores, Vice Minister,
Ministry of Environment) and Poland (Janusz
Kindler, Chair GWP Central and Eastern
Europe). GWP member Albert Wright, Per Bertilsson
and Roberto Lenton all spoke on
different aspects of the meeting the
IWRM 2005 Target.
Two
documents were presented at the event
- Guidance in Preparing a National
Integrated Water Resources and
Management and Efficiency Plan:
Advancing the WSSD Plan of
Implementation and the Informal
Stakeholder Baseline Survey: Current
Status of National Efforts to Move
Towards Sustainable Water Management
Using and IWRM Approach (and Annex).
Both publications were funded by the
Norwegian Ministry of Environment. To
obtain electronic copies please e-mail
leanneburney@nyc.rr.com
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