Title: The SEEAW in the context of Integrated Water Resource Management and the MDGs
1The SEEAW in the context of Integrated Water
Resource Management and the MDGs
- Roberto Lenton
- Chair,
- Technical Committee
- Global Water Partnership
2Outline
- 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
3Context 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
5Monitoring 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
6Why 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.
7Integrated 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
8Timing 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
10Value 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!
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11Credibility 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
12My 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
14Issues 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
15Issues 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
16Need 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
17Thank you