What does the UNDP Water Governance
Facility at SIWI provide?
Water governance is fundamental to the achievement of all the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Prudent water management is crucial for reaching national development objectives and for improving the livelihoods of poor people. It is also a vital component of actions to improve environmental sustainability, by maintaining the integrity of ecosystems, and by bringing together stakeholders around a key resource that could either unite or divide societies.
The UNDP Water Governance Facility at SIWI provides
strategic support to achieve:
- Improved water governance to advance socially equitable, environmentally sustainable and economically efficient management of water resources, including water and sanitation services
- Implementation of IWRM at local, national, and regional
levels, and
- MDG and World Summit on Sustainable Development
(WSSD) targets for water supply and sanitation.
Who benefits?
The Facility benefits water governance-related work
of governments, civil society and other stakeholders
in developing countries.
What are the Facility's main services?
- Providing policy support and advice on water governance to developing countries to meet demands at local, national and river basin levels.
- Applying and disseminating good practices from local to country and river basin levels to enhance water governance work
- Advocating effective water governance as a requirement
to reach the water-related MDG and WSSD water and
sanitation targets
- Participating in the work of the World Water Assessment Programme and contributing on water governance issues to the World Water Development Report.
How does the Facility work?
The UNDP Water Governance Facility at SIWI responds
to requests from developing countries for policy and
institutional support to address the array of water
governance issues. It works through existing UNDP organisational
networks, whereby developing country demand will be
expressed to UNDP and SIWI. The Facility complements
ongoing interventions, and facilitates leveraging of
additional in-country funding.
The programme is funded jointly by the Swedish Agency
for International Development Cooperation (Sida) and
UNDP. The programme is housed and implemented in collaboration
with SIWI.
How to contact the Facility?
Please contact us for more information and to access the services of the UNDP Water Governance Facility at SIWI!
Contact Person: Håkan Tropp, Project Director
watergovernance@siwi.org
Joakim Harlin, Water Resources Specialist, EEG, BDP, UNDP
joakim.harlin@undp.org
What is water governance?
Increasing water scarcity, water services shortfalls
and escalating pollution are socially and politically
induced challenges. The water crisis is increasingly
about how we, as individuals, and as parts of a collective
society, govern the access to and control over water
resources and their benefits. Poor people are disproportionately
at disadvantaged in their access to safe potable water
and basic sanitation as well as water for productive
uses in agriculture and other economic sectors.
UNDP defines water governance as the range of political, social, economic and administrative systems that are in place to develop and manage water resources and the delivery of water services, at different levels of society.
Water governance addresses, among other things:
- the formulation and adoption of sustainable legislation,
policies and institutions,
- the way legislation, institutions and policies are
being established, enforced and implemented, and
- the clarification of the roles and responsibilities
of all involved stakeholders - local and national
government, private sector, civil society - regarding
ownership, administration and management of water
resources.
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