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UNESCO-IHE Water Education Regional
Workshop Delft, 26-27 February 2009 Community
and stakeholder education Eva Csobod PhD,
Regional Environmental Center ecsobod_at_rec.org
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The Regional Environmental Center for Central and
Eastern Europe (REC)

• () The REC is a non-partisan, non-advocacy,
  not-for-profit international organisation with a
  mission to assist in solving environmental
  problems ()
• The REC is legally based on a charter signed by
  the governments of 28 countries and the European
  Commission
• 200 staff (some 30 nationalities)
• Over 300 running projects per year
• EUR 11 million annual turnover

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REC Network

• Head Office
• Szentendre,
• Hungary
• 17 Country Offices
• Operations
• beyond Central
• and Eastern
• Europe

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REC partners/beneficiaries
Government
Government
NGOs
The REC
Local Governments
Business
Local Governments
Business
Citizens
Citizens
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Community and stakeholder education- aim of this
focal area

• Capacity building of water scientists, managers,
  community, educators and NGOs
• to utilize the community education strategies
• in order
• to promote water conservation, sanitation and
  health practices and
• skills in local co-management of water resources
  community wide

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Water education characteristic

• Education is in transformation/reorientation from
  traditional towards learner focused, issue
  oriented, social learning in teams
• Topic water topics moving towards integration,
  based on complex environmental problems water
  conflicts, IWRM
• New challenges trans-boundary water pollution
  issues, climate change, flood, health, water
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• New topics water quality/quantity issues,
  sustainable development-recourse management
• New methods value orientation, capacity building
  in critical thinking, future orientation,
  searching for alternatives

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Community and stakeholder education- cases for
exchange

• New knowledge and competences in
• public participation-environmental decision
  making
• conflict resolution
• action learning
• practices in local water management
• environmental-health practices in sanitation
• Guideline for innovative water education

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Implementation of the WFD in a trans-boundary
context

• Case1 Hernad river basin in Slovakia and Hungary
  (2004-2006)
• Goal Achieve Good Ecological and Chemical Status
  for all surface waters in Europe in 2015
• New knowledge and competences in
• public participation- planning- m
• harmonisation-environmental decision making

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Implementation of the WFD in a trans-boundary
context

• Characteristics of river basin
• Pressures and impacts of human activity
• Protected areas
• Monitoring
• Environmental objectives
• Economic analysis
• Programme of measures
• Register of more detailed programmes and plans
• gtgtPublic information and consultation
• Competent authorities
• Contact points for background info

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Implementation of the WFD in a trans-boundary
context

• Description of the project area, the
  Hornad/Hernád river basin
• The Hernád river basin belongs to the Middle
  Danube Basin, covering 5436 km² spread over 2
  countries SK 4427 km² and HU 1013 km²
• Length of the river 294 km, Slovakia 186 km and
  Hungary 108 km
• Demography 687 709 inhabitants on the SK part
  and 80 875 on the HU part of the basin

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Implementation of the WFD in a trans-boundary
context

• Stakeholders participated on the meeting
• Ministry of Environment and Water
• National and regional authorities
• Center and Public Collections of Water Management
  in Hungary, Directorate of Water
• North Hungarian Environment and Water Directorate
• North Hungarian Inspectorate for Environment,
  Nature and Water
• National Park Directorates
• Water management and soil protection company for
  the Hernád region
• Settlement association for regional development
• Mayors, NGOs

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Implementation of the WFD in a trans-boundary
context

• Stakeholders participated on the meeting
  Strength
• Very good partnership among experts from the two
  countries
• Understanding the problem of the neighbor country
• Adequate institutional and legal frame for the
  cooperation (bilateral agreements)
• Qualified WFD experts on both side
• Lessons learned
• RBMP depends on WFD implementation in both
  countries project dependent on external factors
  
• Not all WFD-aspects can be harmonized
• Many organizations involved coordination
  important aspect
• Public participation!!

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ESD - development and implementation of the Green
Pack the partnership Case2

• Ministries and other key players responsible on
  education, environment and development - at
  national level
• Teacher training centres, NGOs, universities or
  scientific institutes, educational information
  centres, schools - at professional level
• Trainers, teachers, artists, editors, designers -
  at expert level
• Business organizations - at international,
  national and local level

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Water education in the Green Pack

• Focus on Teachers
• Pupils 11-16 years
• Various materials
• Relevance to curricula
• Interactive (games, discussions, brainstorming)
• 22 topics in 5 chapters

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22 topics on Environment and Development

• Environmental components air, water, soil,
  biodiversity
• Treats to the environment urbanization, noise,
  waste, chemicals
• Human activities and impacts on the environment
  energy, transport, industry, agriculture,
  forestry, tourism
• Global challenges climate change, ozone
  depletion, acidification, seas oceans
• Values consumer society, health environment,
  citizens rights, our Earth in the future

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Water topic- inter-disciplinary teaching

• Chapter Water
• The essence of life
• Seawater and freshwater
• How to save water at home
• Stages of wastewater
• Concept we all use the water, so each of us
  carries a responsibility to conserve it and
  protect it from contamination
• Integrationchemistry, biology, geography,
  physics, ecology, sustainable development

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Development of the Green Pack the process-
country specific

• Feasibility Study of education for sustainable
  development in the beneficiary country (relevance
  to the environmental challenges and the school
  curricula)
• Development of a country specific Green Pack and
  its promotion
• Training of teachers and Green Pack dissemination
• Green Pack up-grading, production of next
  edition(s), training

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Green Pack in CEE and beyond

• Poland 2001-03 (support Toyota)
• Hungary, Bulgaria 2002-04 (support Toyota)
• English version 2003 - Ministerial Conf. EfE in
  Kiev and Green Week in Brussels (support
  Toyota)
• Czech Republic, Slovakia 2003-05 (support
  Toyota)
• Albania 2004-06 (support the Dutch Ministry
  Foreign Affairs)
• Russia 2004-06 (support Toyota, Finnish
  Ministry of Environment, WB)
• Turkey 2005-07 (support EC LIFE Third
  Countries, Italian MET, Toyota)
• Azerbaijan 2004-06 (support OSCE, British
  Petroleum)
• Belarus, Central Asia 2005-06 (OSCE)
• Macedonia 2005-07 (Austrian Development Agency)

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Green Pack achievements and perspectives

• So far
• About 1,200,000 students educated
• Over 11,000 teachers trained
• In 8 language (3 other in progress).
• Next steps and plans
• projects in Balkans, Central Asia, Ukraine
• special interest expressed by France, India,
  Italy, Kuwait, Spain, UK
• language versions in Spanish, Chinese, French,
  Arabic.