Title: Session 3.2 Water Governance Applying a Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA) to Water Governance A brand-new UNDP programme for Europe
1Session 3.2 Water Governance Applying a Human
Rights-Based Approach (HRBA) to Water Governance
A brand-new UNDP programme for Europe CIS
- Juerg Staudenmann, Water Governance Advisor
- Louise Nylin, Human Rights Advisor
- EE CoP-Meeting 2008 Tue 14 Oct 2008
2Scope / outline
- Why applying a HRBA to Water Governance ?
- WSS matters (for Human Development)
- but Water Governance is the key !
- What means taking a Human Rights-based Approach
(HRBA) Louise Nylin - How A new programme for Europe CIS
- Objective approach
- The 4 thematic areas of concern
- Link to (HQ-supported) WSS assessment
- Summary conclusions
3Access to Water Supply Sanitation matters !
- Human Development strongly linked to WSS
The successfully tackling of the WSS crises
could trigger the next leap forward in human
development! (UNDP HDR 2006)
4Why a HRBA to Water Governance ?
- Fact
- 1.1 billion people without water, 2.6 billion
without sanitation - WSS a key driver to achieve the MDGs (child
mortality / maternal health poverty food
security healthy work force education ) - The growing Water Crisis is foremost a problem
of Water Governance, not of lacking water
resources - A crisis of the poor and marginalized (incl.
ethnic, gender or rural-urban disparities) - Low political commitment to sanitation and
hygiene - Climate Change will add more complexity
additional burden - The way forward
- Focus on support to countries to develop national
strategies plans towards integrated water
resources management (IWRM) - Promote international aid financing
- But also make water a human right and mean it !
(UNDP HDR 2006)
5Whats HRBA (Human Rights-based Approach)?
- See separate ppt by Louise Nylin
6Applying a HRBA to Water Governance What it
may imply
- Prioritizing human and/or household
allocation/consumption over all other uses
(especially in crisis situations) - Ensuring guaranteeing allocation of a minimum
volume of (affordable) drinking water for
everyone - Providing (legal) instruments, e.g. for
inhabitants to - Claim their water rights
- Get access to info and political decisions
- BUT Choosing an integrated approach to Water
Resources management (e.g. IWRM) - not focusing on WSS only (pipes and pumps)
- To ensure sustainability !
7Linking HRBA to Water Governance
- Opportunities
- Promoting (increased) state budget allocations
towards WSS - Possibility to hold state accountable /
responsible for - prioritizing implementing WSS
- Participatory, non-discriminatory, inclusive
approach - Sensible prioritization while balancing between
different water users (incl. the natural
environment!)
- Challenges
- Other user groups (industry, energy sector,
agricultural industry) often have stronger
influence (financially, politically, socially) - Finding the right balance between WSS and other
development priorities like - food security (irrigation / agriculture),
- livelihoods (production / industry), energy
(e.g. hydropower for heating), - environment
8How A new UNDP programme
- The UNECE Protocol on Water and Health A
unique opportunity for Europe CIS - Parties shall take all appropriate measures
for ensuring (a) adequate supplies of
wholesome drinking water (b) adequate
sanitation... - principles and approaches equitable access
to water, adequate in terms of both quantity and
of quality, should be provided for all members of
the population, especially those who suffer a
disadvantage or social exclusion.
9UNDP regional HRBA-to-Water Governance Programme
for Europe CIS
- Motivation / objective
- Use momentum to develop concrete new projects (at
national and local level) - Mobilize partnerships and funds for projects and
(mainstreamed) interventions - Approach
- Phase 1 Analyze specific country situation, gaps
and opportunities (BRC) - Phase 2 Verify needs with stakeholders set
priorities develop concrete projects (CO with
BRC support) - Phase 3 Launch and implement national projects
or mainstreamed interventions (COs)
104 Thematic Areas of Concern
- Accessibility Infrastructure
- Physical accessibility, primary focus on quality
of the (WSS) services - Dev. priority provide access to poor,
marginalised and vulnerable groups - Affordability Water Pricing
- Economic accessibility, water tariff system that
provides standard volume of water to everyone at
affordable prices (or free if necessary) - Special consideration to poor, marginalised and
vulnerable groups - Allocation Quality Water Resources Management
- Supplied water needs to be safe and suitable for
all different uses - Balance among competing needs (incl. natural
environment) while prioritizing human consumption
- Transboundary Cooperation Joint management of
the resource - Adequate cooperation between neighbour countries
/ communities sharing water resource/body (at
national, basin or local level) - HRBA to prioritize human water consumption
11Accessibility Infrastructure (connectivity and
service provision)
- Potential priority action
- Ensuring accessibility for vulnerable groups,
including rural areas - Prioritisation and targeting of vulnerable and
marginalised groups in water policy including
service provision - Avoiding negative impacts of WSS infrastructure
and facilities design on vulnerable and
marginalised groups - Ensuring public participation of vulnerable and
marginalised groups in decision-making
12Affordability Water Pricing (water tariffs and
ability to pay)
- Potential priority action
- Integrating affordability into planning for
financing water services - Ensuring equitable pricing policies (and
cross-subsidies as needed) - Ensuring affordability of services in WSS
concessions - Public participation, transparency and
accountability (redress mechanisms and
procurement)
13Allocation Quality Water Resources Management
(production, supply, demand management)
- Potential priority action
- Prioritising water for domestic uses
- Managing natural water resources to ensure water
quality and quantity (and sustainability) - Monitoring water quality safe for use
- Responding to climate change and natural
disasters - Public participation and transparency
14Transboundary Cooperation (equal opportunities
and shared benefits)
- Potential priority action
- Promoting and facilitating transboundary
cooperation on water resource management - Enabling dialogue towards conflict resolution
- Public participation
15Link to (HQ-supported) WSS assessment
- Follow-up on HDR 2006 (Water)
- IN-depth assessment in 5x2 countries
- WSS situation gap analysis / capacity
development needs - Status of national programming (UNDAF Co.)
opportunity analysis - Identification of concrete entry-points for
projects - RBEC
- Start early 2009
- Potential target countries BiH / Moldova /
Tajikistan - Full alignment with HRBA-Water Governance
programme (joint assessments, joint stakeholder
meetings, joint partner resource mobilization
strategy, concerted WSS project portfolio)
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17Budget
- Budget 2009 (Phase 12) USD 100-160,000
- BRC 2 x 10,000
- Global Human Rights Programme 40,000
- Global Water Governance Programme 40,000
- COs (for Phase 2) 10-20,000
18Summary
- Overall aim to utilize momentum identify
opportunities to design new programmes - To promote the Right to Water
- To implement it
- Focus / prioritize / mainstream Access to
sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically
accessible and affordable water, and basic
sanitation in(to) the national development
agenda
19Summary approach
- Support countries
- Identifying national needs and opportunities
(entry-points) for concrete interventions - Advocate for WSS as priority area (towards
achieving the MDGs) - Taking a comprehensive approach (IWRM) to ensure
long-term sustainability - Mobilize partners and financial resources to
prioritize and implement concrete new WSS, RtW
and Water Governance activities
20Summary UNDPs opportunity
- External perspective Support EECCA-countries
- Recipient signatory states implementing the
Protocol on Water Health provisions (national
analysis, gap assessments, target setting,
strategy project development) - Donor signatory states identifying needs and
priorities, and direct their ODA/investment
towards interventions in the sense of the
Protocol on Water Health - UNDP-perspective Taking a pan-regional,
programmatic, practice approach - Development of a coherent methodological approach
on HRBA-Water nexus - Utilizing building on the regional legal
context - Building HRBA-Water capacity for the region, at
disposal of COs - Overall Provide technically support for concrete
development and implement of concrete projects
and interventions to improve peoples life!
21Next steps
- Programme launch 2009
- Phase 1 Assessments / selections of target
countries (1st tier / 2nd tier) - Phase 2 In-depth Analysis stakeholder
consultations for 2-3 selected Countries - Oslo Conference on Right to Water
- 26-28 Nov
- 3rd day hosted by UNDP ? UN-guidance note
22Thank you!
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