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Legal Policy and Development. Jakarta's Water Future (World Water Week) - UPDATE

Sunday, September 12, 2010

This is the full version of Dr. Riant Nugroho’s Presentation at the World Water Week. The presentation is packed with the latest statistics on Indonesia’s water supply/sanitation and resources. A true reference indeed. Enjoy!

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Millennium Development Goals Report 2010

Saturday, September 11, 2010

The UN General Assembly will hold a two day summit from September 20 to 22 this year in New York. Download the 2010 MDG Report here. Click here for the Summit’s website.



 

Monitoring, Oversight, Accountability: the role of human rights (World Water Week)

Thursday, September 9, 2010

This session on Human Rights is chaired by an official from the German's BMZ. The Indepent Expert on Human Right to Water explains the role of accountability in delivering Human Rights. Without accountability/oversight, human rights will not be served. If information on coverage and information on water quality is not available, citizens will not be able to ask for the state's accountability in securing Human Rights. Join at room T3. Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone

 

Legal Policy and Development. Jakarta's Water Future (World Water Week)

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Dr. Riant Nugroho's Presentation at the World Water Week is extremely interesting. The presentation unveils the condition of Jakarta's ailing water resources and services.

Dr. Riant will present at room T3 at 14.00. Enjoy.

 

MDG Monitoring (World Water Week)

Participants of a session on MDG at the world water week discusses the importance to develop additional indicators to monitor the MDG. Gerard Payen of Aquafed chairs the session.


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Leader's Dialogue (World Water Week)

Wednesday, September 8, 2010


Moderator: Margaret Catley-Coxon

Thai minister Suwit Khunkitte explains the condition of Thai's water resources. They tried to implement Water Grid System and introduce capacity building. The minister considers that more water does not lead to more productivity. Efficiency is more relevant.

Thai is focusing on participation programs. The King talked to the farmers that forest are important to them. One million questionnaires are sent to water users.

Interesting comment from the minister: ADB is pushing Thailand to charge its water. Ramesh Vaidya elaborate that the use of water for agriculture is high. Charging water for irrigation may not work if the institution is not set up. He refers to the work of Elinor Ostrom that there could be other ways: e.g. taxes, community participation and management.

Ravi Narayanan pointed the problem of information in water resources management. Margaret responds that it may be a good idea to crowdsource information gathering in WRM.

Highlights:

*Pricing

Uniform water pricing is difficult to implement. However, variety of prices may impact competitiveness on the food market.

*Tradeoff
1 percent saving in agriculture is 30 percent saving for drinking water

 

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Indolawreport goes to World Water Week

Monday, September 6, 2010

 

World Water Week

 

Packing for Stockholm: BothEnds and several other NGOs/IGOs are planning to hold a side event on this September’s Stockholm world water week. The topic: Human Rights Based Approach to Improving Water Quality. 

 


Chair: Mr. Jean-Benoit Charrin, WaterLex, Switzerland

14:00

Welcome and Introduction. Ms. Lucinda O'Hanlon, Special Procedures Division, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
14:10

Concepts I - "Legal and policy development, water quality & the right to water". Dr. Riant Nugroho, Board Member the Jakarta Water Regulatory Body, Indonesia
14:30

Concepts II - "The Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) and the right to water", Ms. Natalia Uribe, UNESCO Etxea, Spain
14:50

Concepts III - "A Human Rights Based Approach to IWRM - a new initiative", Ms. Susanne Schmidt, Water Governance Specialist, UNDP
15:10

Break
15:20

Case Study I - Ecuador. Ms. Sara Caria, ACRA, Ecuador
15:40

Case Study II - Indonesia. Mr. Mova Al’Afghani, UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Dundee University, United Kingdom
16:00

Case Study III - Tanzania. Mr. Alejandro Jiménez, Ingeniería Sin Fronteras - ISF (Engineers Without Borders), Spain
16:20

Case Study IV - BiH & Tajikistan. Ms. Katy Norman, junior independent consultant working with UNDP
16:40

Panel Discussion. Chair: Dr. Tobias Schmitz, Both ENDS, Netherlands
17:20

Closing Remarks. Dr. Tobias Schmitz, Both ENDS, Netherlands
17:30

Close of Seminar

If I can find some wi-fi there,  Indolawreport may hold a series of live-blogging. More details to follow. If you happens to be in the World Water Week, join us.