Final Programme Beyond the River - World Water Week
Final Programme Beyond the River - World Water Week
Final Programme Beyond the River - World Water Week
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Photos: Michael Moore, SIWI and Jan Lundqvist, SIWI<br />
Promoting IWRM <strong>Beyond</strong> Borders:<br />
Transboundary <strong>Water</strong>s and Human Development<br />
Convenors: UNDP Human Development Report Office and Stockholm International <strong>Water</strong> Institute (SIWI)<br />
Thursday<br />
24 August<br />
Much progress has been made to promote Integrated <strong>Water</strong><br />
Resources Management (IWRM) at <strong>the</strong> national level.<br />
However, a large and growing proportion of <strong>the</strong> world’s<br />
population lives in transboundary water basins. Countries<br />
will face both increasing competition for shared waters as<br />
well as suffer <strong>the</strong> negative externalities of basin mismanagement.<br />
Despite instances of inter-state cooperation, <strong>the</strong><br />
institutional framework to manage growing competition<br />
in a manner that is consistent with human development<br />
is missing. <strong>River</strong> basins are ecosystems and <strong>the</strong> most appropriate<br />
level of water management is at <strong>the</strong> basin level.<br />
This seminar will probe how IWRM can be extended<br />
beyond borders. It will propose and discuss how institutional<br />
mandates can be extended and deepened and <strong>the</strong><br />
changes needed in institutional design. It will also investigate<br />
<strong>the</strong> extent to which basin-level management can<br />
be a source of regional human development. The issues<br />
discussed in this seminar form an integral part of <strong>the</strong> upcoming<br />
UNDP Human Development Report.<br />
<strong>Programme</strong> Thursday 24 August, 13:30–15:00<br />
Folkets Hus, Room 307<br />
Chair: Dr. Anders Jägerskog, SIWI<br />
13:30 Welcome. Mr. Anders Berntell, SIWI<br />
13:35 Address. Ms. Carin Jämtin, Minister for International<br />
Development Cooperation, Deputy Minister for Foreign<br />
Affairs, Sweden<br />
13:45 Introduction and Overview of HDR 2006.<br />
Mr. Kevin Watkins, Director, Human Development<br />
Report Office, UNDP<br />
14:00 Projecting IWRM <strong>Beyond</strong> Borders. Mr. Arunabha Ghosh,<br />
Co-author, Human Development Report 2006<br />
14:15 Substantive Comment: Challenges of Harnessing<br />
Hydrological Interdependence for Human Development.<br />
Prof. Malin Falkenmark, SIWI<br />
14:30 Substantive Comment: Challenges of Building Effective<br />
<strong>River</strong> Basin Institutions. Dr. David Phillips, Consultant,<br />
France<br />
14:45 General Discussion: Focus on Specific Cases; Agenda<br />
for Policy Change<br />
15:05 Conclusions: Mr. Kevin Watkins, UNDP and<br />
Mr. Anders Berntell, SIWI<br />
15:15 Close<br />
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Friday<br />
25 August<br />
Saturday<br />
26 August<br />
Special Sessions Poster Sessions General<br />
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