2016 World Water Week programme

Drivers for achieving the SDGs: Financing and innovation
Introduction
Convenors: K-water and OECD
Room: NL Pillar Hall / Pelarsalen
Room: NL Music Hall / Musiksalen
The event will host a discussion and concrete illustrations of how economic instruments and innovative approaches to water management
combine to facilitate the achievement of water-related SDGs. Participants will share about case studies in specific regions, and explore opportunities
for further dissemination and replication.
16:00 Welcoming address
16:05 Economic instrument for
sustainable water
management
Dr Xavier Leflaive, OECD
16:15 A case study: How to address
severe drought
Jung Eun Min, K-water
16:25 Water management in
Australia
Prof Jane Doolan, AWP (tbc)
16:35 Smart Water Management
Initiative
Dr Kwang Suop Lim, K-water
Enabling investment in irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa
Convenors: International Development Enterprises, International Food Policy Research Institute, IWMI,
Norman E. Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture and USAID
This session will identify the actions needed to create the enabling conditions for improved water management and greater investment in irrigation
at multiple scales. The discussion will address the potential for public-private partnerships, collective action, policies, institutions, and rural
services to achieve these objectives in sub-Saharan Africa.
Chair and moderator: Biniam Iyob,
USAID
16:00 Welcome by chair
16:05 Small-scale irrigation: How to
ensure equity and nutrition
benefits – Insights from ILSSI
and beyond
Dawit Mekonnen, IFPRI
16:20 Assessing models of public
private partnerships for
irrigation development in
Africa
Ruth Meinzen-Dick, IFPRI
16:55 Panel discussion
Moderator: Prof Doğan
Altinbilek, Vice president,
WWC
Panelists:
Dr Xavier Leflaive, OECD
Prof Jane Doolan, AWP
17:25 Closing remarks
Prof Doğan Altinbilek, Vice
president, WWC
17:30 Close of event
16:35 Insights and opportunities
from new field studies with
small-scale irrigation in
Tanzania, Malawi, Ethiopia,
and Ghana
Jennie Barron, IWMI
16:50 Key investments and
opportunities for private
sector-led smallholder
irrigation in sub-Saharan
Africa: lessons from the front
lines (and drip lines)
Stuart Taylor/Tim Prewitt, iDE
17:05 Discussion
17:25 Summary and wrap-up
Biniam Iyob, USAID
17:30 Close of event
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