Third UNESCO/GEF IW:LEARN Groundwater Integration Dialogue GEF Pacific IWRM Project 2009-2014 “IMPLEMENTING SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURCES AND WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT IN PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES”
May 18, 2015
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
Vinaka vakalevuMalo aupitoFa’afetai lavaTank yu tumas Kommol tataSulangKinisouTubwa korKam rabaTagio tumasMeitaki maataFakafetai lasi
Thank you