Gef p acific iwrm gw integration dialogue pres

Third UNESCO/GEF IW:LEARNGroundwater Integration Dialogue

GEF Pacific IWRM Project 2009-2014

“IMPLEMENTING SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURCES AND WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT IN PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES”

GEF Pacific Project Area

Context

Additional Effort Required to Meet Post-2015 SDGs

http://www.pacific-iwrm.org

Project Objectives

• To improve water resource and wastewater management and water use efficiency in Pacific Island Countries

• To balance overuse and conflicting uses of scarce freshwater resources through policy and legislative reform and,

• To implement applicable and effective Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) and Water Use Efficiency (WUE) plans

Project Components

• Component 1: Demonstration, Capture, and Transfer of Best Practices

• Component 2: IWRM and WUE Indicator Framework

• Component 3: Policy, Legislative and Institutional Reform for IWRM and WUE

• Component 4:Regional and National Capacity Building and Sustainability Programme

http://www.pacific-iwrm.org

Demonstration Projects 1. Watershed Management

Federated States of Micronesia • Ridge to Reef: Protecting Water Quality from Source to Sea

in the FSM

Palau• Ngerikiil Watershed Restoration for the Improvement of

Water Quality

Samoa• Rehabilitation and Sustainable Management of Apia

Catchment

Vanuatu• Sustainable Management of Sarakata Watershed (GW)

http://www.pacific-iwrm.org

Demonstration Projects 2. Wastewater Management &

Sanitation

Marshall Islands• Integrated Water Management and Development Plan for

Laura Groundwater Lens, Majuro Atoll (GW)

Nauru• Enhancing water security for Nauru through better water

management and reduced contamination of groundwater

Tuvalu• Integrated Sustainable Wastewater Management (Ecosan)

for Tuvalu

http://www.pacific-iwrm.org

Demonstration Projects 3. Water Resources Assessment & Protection

Cooks Islands• Integrated freshwater and coastal management on

Rarotonga (GW)Fiji Islands• Environmental and Socio-Economic Protection in Fiji:

Integrated Flood Risk Management in the Nadi River BasinNiue• Using Integrated Land Use, Water Supply and Wastewater

Management as a Protection Model for Alofi Town Groundwater Supply and Nearshore Reef (GW)

http://www.pacific-iwrm.org

Demonstration Projects 4. Water Use Efficiency & Water Safety

Solomon Islands• Managing Honiara City Water Supply and Reducing

Pollution through IWRM Approaches

Tonga• Improvement and Sustainable Management of

Nieafu Aquifer Groundwater Resources in Vava'u Islands (GW)

http://www.pacific-iwrm.org

Key Messages – It’s the people thing!

• Community to Cabinet – building the connectivity between local action and primary governance structures both as formal and informal conduits.

• Doing is Seeing the Need – communities have traditional and experiential knowledge but the realisation that something is amiss is not always obvious. – Doing defines the needs and implements responses which heightens

awareness and the need for better information thereby enabling a role for scientific and technical knowledge.

– Doing also makes governance gaps obvious and provides a “real” reason for governance. Doing also demonstrates the benefits and thereby impetus for replication and upscaling.

– Doing helps converts the skeptical

Integration’s Role in Sustainable Development

• Integration is a tool within the overarching framework of sustainable development.

• Integrations higher objective is thus to support sustainable development.

• Integration seeks to improve responses to the degradation of PIC land and water ecosystems – Pressures of populations and demands on resource – Vulnerabilities expanded due to climate change

What is at stake? • Biodiversity – terrestrial and marine • Water – fresh and coastal • Land • Ecosystem Services

Gaps/Barriers to Implementation of Integrated, Cross-Sectoral Approaches in PICs• Fragmented, sectoral efforts– Across different landscapes and government levels

• Need to enhance capacity• Need to replicate and upscale good examples (such as

IWRM)• Need for enhanced civil society participation• Need to improve linkages between land/water/forest

and coastal area planning processes – “ridge to reef” approach

• Need for base level knowledge for informed decisions

Environmental Stress Reduction

Sustainable Development and

Environmental Stress Reduction

National and

Regional Replication

Local Action

The Elements• Buying Into Solutions

– Supporting local level action and capacity building– Appropriate and workable local solutions – Demonstrating tangible household and environmental benefits – Gaining household level action – Implement at local absorptive capacity.

• Sharing the View– Coordination and Cooperation Nationally and Regionally– Governance Facilitated through APEX Ctee– Effective and Efficient Project Management– Well Resourced and Delivered Communications– Demonstrating Benefits Through Tangible Results

• Building Capacity– Learning from Doing through Demonstrations and Training – Making it Stick through appropriate policy frameworks– Knowledge acquisition, synthesis, application and sharing

The Elements

• Sustainable Development and Environmental Stress Reduction– Informed Decision Making– Holistic approach to Biodiversity, Land and Water ie Integration– Climate Change Adaptations– Demonstrating Benefits– Monitoring and Reporting on Meaningful Indicators

• Global, Regional, National and Local Impacts– CC Mitigation– Equity in implementation of adaptations and development of

resiliency

PACIFIC R2R Program

“Pacific Islands Ridge-to-Reef National Priorities - Integrated Water, Land, Forest & Coastal Management to Preserve Biodiversity, Ecosystem

Services, Sequester Carbon, Improve Climate Resilience and Sustain

Livelihoods “

GEF IW Ridge 2 Reef Program Structure

• Program vs Project

• Program consists of ‘independent’ national R2R projects ‘linked’ by a regional program support project

• Overall Program Coordination

New GEF IW Ridge 2 Reef Project

• Pioneers integrated approaches, with opportunities to go further thematically and geographically • Through the follow-up IWRM project• Through direct links with the national R2R projects

• Leadership at the national and regional level• Opportunities for further upscaling and replication in GEF-6

and in Climate Change adaptation• Building and strengthening capacity in each PIC for integrated

approaches and keep that capacity• Better opportunities for cross country cooperation

GEFPACIFICR2R

• Component 1: National Multi-focal Area Ridge-to-Reef Demonstrations in all Pacific Island Countries

• Component 2: Improved Governance for Integrated, Climate resilient Land, Water, Forest and Coastal Management

• Component 3: Regional and National/Local Ridge-to-Reef Indicators, Monitoring and Evaluation and Knowledge Management

• Component 4: Regional Program Coordination

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