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Title: The SEEAW in the context of Integrated Water Resource Management and the MDGs


1
The SEEAW in the context of Integrated Water
Resource Management and the MDGs
  • Roberto Lenton
  • Chair,
  • Technical Committee
  • Global Water Partnership

2
Outline
  • Context The challenges of monitoring and
    assessing water resources for the MDGs within an
    integrated approach
  • The role and value of SEEAW within this context
  • Issues for the future, and the proposed
    round-table mechanism

3
Context The challenges Monitoring and
assessing water resources for the MDGs within
an integrated approach
4
Water impacts both on Target 10 and
on the MDGs as a whole
  • Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • Goal 2 Achieve universal primary education
  • Goal 3 Promote gender equality and empower women
  • Goal 4 Reduce child mortality
  • Goal 5 Improve maternal health
  • Goal 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other
    diseases
  • Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability
  • Target 9 Integrate the principles of
    sustainable development into country policies and
    programmes and reverse the loss of environmental
    resources
  • Target 10 Halve, by 2015, the proportion of
    people without sustainable access to safe
    drinking water and basic sanitation
  • Target 11 By 2020, to have achieved a
    significant improvement in the lives of at least
    100 million slum dwellers
  • Goal 8 Develop a global partnership for
    development

5
Monitoring Frameworks for the MDGs
  • Target 10
  • Established Institutional Mechanism Joint
    Monitoring Programme of UNICEF/WHO
  • Agreed conceptual framework for defining and
    measuring access
  • Waters broader role for the MDGs as a whole
  • Institutional Mechanism the World Water
    Assessment Programme and the WWDRs
  • No agreed conceptual framework as yet

6
Why monitoring and assessing water for all the
MDGs is so much more complicated!
  • Overall development goals (MDGs translated at
    national levels)
  • Water and development objectives related to
    goals
  • Actions to address these objectives, within IWRM
    approach
  • Targets to make goals, objectives and actions
    specific -- with defined and measurable criteria
    for achievement and timetables
  • Indicators -- to assess progress towards the
    targets associated with goals and objectives and
    the accomplishment of actions
  • Process indicators, which monitor the basic
    progress of implementing agreed actions
  • Outcome indicators, which monitor the direct
    results of actions.
  • Impact indicators, which monitor progress towards
    achieving goals and objectives.

7
Integrated Water Resources Management Some core
features
  • Involves developing efficient, equitable and
    sustainable solutions to water and development
    problems
  • Involves aligning interests and activities that
    are traditionally seen as unrelated or not well
    coordinated (horizontally and vertically)
  • Needs knowledge from various disciplines as well
    as insights from diverse stakeholders
  • Not just water involves integrating water in
    overall sustainable development processes. Also
    requires coordinating the management of water
    with land and related resources

8
Timing is crucial
  • Recent establishment of SGs Advisory Board on
    Water and Sanitation to improve global strategic
    focus around water
  • 2005 was target date for completion of IWRM and
    Water Efficiency Strategies and Plans, an action
    target set at WSSD
  • 2006 is the first year of Water for Life decade
    of action to achieve the MDGs
  • 2006 saw launch of series of assessments by WWDR
    (2006, 2009, 2012, 2015)

9
The role and value of SEEAW
10
Value of SEEAW within MDG/IWRM context
  • Provides the much-needed conceptual framework for
    monitoring and assessment
  • Enables consideration and quantification of
    inter-linkages that are critical to an IWRM
    approach
  • By integrating water and economic accounts,
    facilitates the mainstreaming of water policy in
    economic decision making
  • Enables linkages with other natural resource
    accounts (e.g., land)
  • Enables different stakeholders to have a
    consistent and transparent frame of information
    from which to develop recommendations
  • Provides effective framework for considering
    specific issues (e.g., allocative efficiency)
  • Enables further specific indicators to be derived
    from it
  • Timing is exactly right!

11
Credibility and authority are critically
important too!
  • SEEAW has credibility and authority that comes
    with
  • Being based on established system of national
    accounts
  • Having been developed with expertise from the
    statistical community
  • Having been tested in several countries

12
My personal view
  • Would be a huge step forward if framework were
    accepted as an internationally agreed standard
    for integrating hydrologic and economic
    statistics
  • Nevertheless, several issues need further work
  • Need a mechanism to address them while promoting
    implementation and use of SEEAW

13
  • Issues
  • and
  • mechanisms
  • for the future

14
Issues to consider the other Es
  • How to address the social dimension
  • Supplementary accounts
  • Water Quality
  • Impact on other resources (e.g., salinity)
  • Uses of water for environmental goods and
    services
  • Valuation issues

15
Issues to consider Temporal and spatial
variability
  • Temporal variability
  • Hydrology and economy operate at different time
    scales
  • How to deal with extreme events, disaster risk
    reduction
  • Spatial variability
  • Hydrology and economy operate at different
    spatial scales

16
Need mechanism for continuing work
  • Focus on both advancing SEEAW and promoting
    implementation and use
  • Some desirable characteristics
  • Involve the key actors, including the WWAP and
    the Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation
  • Include both users and producers
  • Include members of both statistical and the water
    community
  • Bring in additional social, economic and
    environmental expertise
  • Enable continuing testing by participating
    countries
  • Proposed roundtable on water accounting would
    seem to be step in the right direction

17
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