2016 World Water Week programme

Migration and water management: Lessons for policy and practice
Introduction
Convenor: IWMI
Room: FH Little Theatre / Lilla teatern
While the unprecedented rise in global migration is often driven by water scarcity, migration itself can change how water and land is
used and managed, with implications for poverty alleviation, climate change adaptation and gender equity. This panel discussion will
develop a research and policy agenda on the migration-agriculture-water nexus.
16:00 Introduction: Migration,
agrarian transition and water
management in an era of
globalisation and climate change
Dr Fraser Sugden, IWMI
16:10 Migration, displacement and
environment in East Africa
Prof Gaim Kibreab, School of
Law and Social Sciences, London
South Bank University
16:20 Male/female out-migration
and the management of
irrigation systems in China
Prof Chen Fengbo, School of
Economics and Management,
South China Agricultural
University
16:30 The gender politics of water
access and water quality in
an era of male out migration in
south Asia
Prof Andrea Nightingale,
Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences
16:40 Policy questions on migration,
rural transformation and
water resource management in
sub-Saharan Africa
Dr Alan Nicol, IWMI
16:45 Interactive discussion: Key
policy issues and best
practices for water and land
management in an era of
demographic change
17:15 Panel response
17:25 Summing up
Farah Ahmed, IWMI
17:30 Close of event
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Room: NL 357
Nile Basin: Land and energy investments and changing hydropolitical landscapes
Convenors: IWMI, Nordic Africa Institute, SLU Global and SIWI
The Nile Basin is in a state-of-flux with several large-scale investments (hydropower, agriculture and biofuels) taking place with implications
for land management, water governance, and transboundary relations. This event is an opportunity to debate how a changing
hydropolitical landscape is both a cause and a result of these rapid changes.
Chair: Alan Nicol
16:00 New land and energy investments
– Challenges and
hydropolitics in the Nile Basin
Terje Østigård, Nordic Africa
Institute
Emil Sandström, Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciencies
16:10 Large-scale land investment in
Africa – The case of South Sudan
Victor Bol Dungu, South Sudan
Law Society
16:20 Large-scale irrigation in the
Lake Tana Basin, Ethiopia:
Challenges and opportunities
Atakilte Beyene, Nordic Africa
Institute
16:30 Sudan: Negotiating water and
hydraulic infrastructure to
expand large-scale irrigation
Ana Elisa Cascão, SIWI
16:40 Egypt and the political
economy of non-state actors’
large-scale land/water
investments in the Nile Basin
Ramy Lofty Hanna, Institute
of Development Studies,
University of Sussex, UK
16:50 Managing shared risks through
transboundary cooperative
investment planning: the Nile
Basin Initiative experience
Abulkarim Seid, Nile Basin
Initiative
Wubalem Fekade, Nile Basin
Initiative
17:00 Panel discussion
Dr Anders Jägerskog, Swedish
Embassy, Jordan
H. E. Seifeldin Abdalla, Minister
of Water Resources, Sudan
Fred Mwango, Intergovernemtal
Authority on Development
17:30 Close of event
18:00 – 19:00 (at SIWI booth)
Book launch: “Land and Hydropolitics
in the Nile River Basin: Challenges and
new investments” (Earthscan Routledge),
edited by Emil Sandström, Anders
Jägerskog and Terje Østigård
General info Friday
Thursday Wednesday
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