Minutes of Telephone meeting 2 March 2012

Minutes of 2 nd 2015 Water Working Group Teleconference
Friday 2 st March 2012 1400‐1500 (GMT)
Agenda
1. Minutes of previous meeting
2. Comments on circulated framing paper
3. Comments on Marseille Agenda
4. AOB
Present
Tom Slaymaker, Catarina Fonseca, Tim Brewer, Manuel Alvarinho, Neil Macleod, Andrew Trevett
Inga Winkler, Dominick De Waal, Philipp Peters, Maria Julia Bocco, Alexander Danilenko (Sasha)
Rifat Hossain, Didier Allély, Velma Lopez
Apologies
Guy Hutton, Alain Randriamaherisoa, Jamie Bartram, Graham P. Alabaster, Richard Johnston
Grace Bediako, Kerstin Danert, David Bradley, Jenna Davis, Dr Kamal Mazumdar, Dissan Ssozi
Pierre Studer
1. Minutes of previous meeting
Minutes approved
Background information is now available to be shared on the website
TB notified the group that an index of all work consulted (including work not made public) will go
up on the website next week, so please advise if there’s a problem with this.
Action points of previous meeting:
All WG members to forward key documents
o Initial round of documents received. Please keep sending them in.
All WG members to send brief summaries of relevant ongoing initiatives
o Ongoing initiatives flagged. Secretariat exploring opportunities to link.
Secretariat to propose date/time for regular teleconferences
o Monthly teleconferences to be held on/around 1 st of each month at 1400GMT
Secretariat to prepare short discussion paper
o Paper circulated. Please email if you have not received
Secretariat to contact individual members to negotiate specific inputs based on expertise,
experience and availability.
o Individuals already contacted re: Marseille. Subsequent inputs to be discussed and
agreed during face to face meeting.
Secretariat to take a decision re: feasibility of face to face at Marseille ASAP
o Majority of WG members will be in Marseille. Meeting going ahead on Thursday 15 th
March 08h30‐13h00 and Friday 16 th March 09h00‐17h00.
2. Framing paper
Purpose of the paper is to rapidly frame the issues to be addressed by the WG. It is by no means
comprehensive but rather intended as a starting point for further discussion in Marseille and
beyond. It seeks to clarify the purpose and mandate of the WG and to help members think

through how the ToRs will be operationalised and key steps in the process ahead. It is a live
document and we encourage suggestions and comments from members.
Discussion points
Section 2:
o Need to distinguish more clearly between the targets themselves and the indicators and
methods used to track progress. Clear and consistent use of different terms will be very
important to the success of this process.
o Otherwise a useful summary
Section 3:
o Broad agreement on the importance of these concepts and principles
o Importance of land tenure. Can this be addressed in the HR framework or elsewhere?
o Various different views on whether it is useful to try and disaggregate urban and rural.
WG should explore using proxies such as dwelling density or service level instead
o Importance of establishing a global target that is relevant to all national contexts.
Disaggregation of data relating to intra country disparities (beyond urban/rural) is key.
This will likely require integrating or overlaying data from multiple sources (i.e. beyond
hh surveys).
o Important to consider processes for verification and validation of data collected and
reported as well as more technical aspects of data collection.
Section 4:
o Agreement re: broad steps in the process. Expected that the meeting in Marseille will
take us through steps 2 and 3.
o Proposed that the group compiles a master list of existing indicators and data sources
for reference in working group discussions. This should be in the form of a table or grid
and posted online for easy reference.
o Understanding the political reality of trying to integrate new global goals and targets
within existing national plans is crucial. How far are new targets compatible with other
existing targets (e.g. 2025), what are the implications of recalibration and how would
they be phased in?
o Many of the issues highlighted overlap with other Working Groups and we need to
ensure coordination and avoid duplication of effort. GH has a key role to play here but
remains unclear when and how outputs from different WGs will be brought together.
3. Comments on Marseille agenda
Objectives of the meeting are to identify desired elements an enhanced goal and related targets,
to identify long list of indicators, to agree criteria for further evaluation and to agree roles and
responsibilities going forward
Immediate Next Steps and Action points:
WG members to send written comments on the framing paper to Secretariat
Secretariat to send out detailed information re: meeting venue.
Secretariat to liaise with presenters in preparation for Marseille. Presenters to submit a
draft presentations by 12 March
All attendees to prepare for detailed discussion re: enhanced goal, related targets and
indicators and suggestions re: possible sub‐groups and priorities for commissioned work
Non attendees to submit suggestions for consideration to the Secretariat in advance