"Localizing Multi-stakeholders partnership for sustainable, resilient, andinclusive water resources management in Africa and Asia"
Action Group: 3F Enhance multi-stakeholder dialogue and partnerships, including withoutside sectors

Session Code: AG: 3F2. Enhance multi-stakeholder dialogue and partnerships, including
with outside sectors by Political Dialogue

23 March 2022 13:30-15:00 Senegal Time
Room 10 Expo
Session Overview
Both Africa and the Asian region are the global hot spot for water insecurity. Countries
with varying water endowments depend on their prosperity. However, the COVID-19
Pandemic has severely impacted countries' socio-economics, disrupting efforts toachieve water-related SDGs. Water security challenges in these regions are complex,
and there is no one-size-fits-all solution. The actions and measures thus need to be
tailored to local conditions of countries and communities through localizing partnerships
for knowledge/experience sharing and mobilizing the human and financial resources toimplement integrated water resources management from upper to lower basins. The
goal can be effectively achieved through political will and committed leadership. It isthus necessary to provide a platform to promote political engagement andendorsements through political dialogue and declarations to share expected benefits.
This session aims to organize political dialogue to achieve water-related SDGs andwater security in Africa and Asia among multi-sectors and actors to enhance the urgency
and political commitment for sustainable, inclusive, and climate-resilient water
resource management. Focusing on "policy coherence" and "stakeholders
engagement," it will discuss what we need to do and how to mainstream water
resilience into political and development agendas towards quality growth in post-Covid19 communities in Africa and Asia.
AgendaSession overview (3 minutes)
Ms. Yumiko Asayama, Manager, Japan Water Forum c/o APWF Secretariat1

(3F Action Group Member)
Water Governance in Africa and Asia (10 minutes)
Ms. Maria Salvetti Policy Analyst, Organisation for Economic Co-operation andDevelopment (OECD) Water Governance Programme, OECD
Presentations from government representatives in Africa and Asia, about their
IWRM and the institutional architecture toward water-related SDGs and sustainable,inclusive, and climate-resilient water resource management (each 8 minutes – 16minutes)
 Sylvain Guebanda, in charge of Hydraulic Resources, Ministry of energy andhydraulic resources, and Chair GWP Central Africa


Mr. Abdul Malik Sadat, Director of Water Resources and Irrigation, Ministry ofNational Development Planning Indonesia

Panel Discussion and interaction with the audience (50 minutes)
Questions

What are the challenges, and what improvement in governance is needed inconducting effective and efficient actions to achieve sustainable, resilient andinclusive societies?
Please give compile examples and lessons focused, in particular, on policy
coherence and stakeholder engagement (including the private sector and localcommunities).

Panelists:
 Mr. Mtchera Chirwa, Coordinator, African Water Facility, Water Department
and Sanitation Department, Africa Water Development Bank (AFDB)
Mr. Sulton Rahimzoda, Chair of the Executive Committee, ExecutiveCommittee, International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (EC-IFAS)
Dr. Arvind Kumar, President, India Water Foundation (3F Action GroupMember)Dr. Giriraj Amarnath, Principal Researcher – Disaster Risk Management andClimate Resilience Research Group Leader: Water Risks to Development andResilience, International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
M. Sylvain Guebanda, in charge of Hydraulic Resources, Ministry of Energy andhydraulic resources, and Chair of GWP Central Africa
2Mr. Abdul Malik Sadat, Director of Water Resources and Irrigation, Ministry of
National Development Planning Indonesia

Moderator: Dr. Jon Marco Church, UNDP Consultant
Wrap up (5 minutes)

About Speakers
Ms. Yumiko Asayama, Manager, Japan Water Forum c/o
APWF Secretariat (3F Action Group Member)Ms. Yumiko Asayama has conducted the thematic
Coordinator and network development of Asia-Pacific Water
Forum (APWF) as the Secretariat since July 2015. Her ongoingachievement of thematic coordination include:4th Asia-Pacific Water Summit (APWS) held on 23-24
April 2022 in Kumamoto, Japan, 3rd APWS in Dec 2017,

Stockholm World Water Week Asia Focus Session 20182021 and for 2022.

Asia-Pacific Regional Process Co-Coordinator of the 8thWorld Water Forum

Ms. Maria Salvetti Policy Analyst, Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD) Water Governance
Programme.
Maria Salvetti is Water Economist and Policy Analysist for theOECD "Water Governance Programme" since 2019. That year,
she took part in a Water Policy Dialogue in Argentina focusingher work on the governance of water and sanitation services.
She also produced a regional survey on water governance in
Asia-Pacific as part of the Asian Water Development Outlook
2020 in partnership with the Asian Development Bank. In
2021, she produced two reports: Water governance in Cape
Town and Water governance in African cities. From 2014 to2019, she worked as an expert for the World Bank (Danube3

Water Program, Analysis of water and sanitation services inCentral Asia, Financial sustainability of the water sector inHaiti, Subsidy reform in the water sector in Algeria, Mid-term
Review of the Portugal Water & Sanitation Strategy, Financialand Implementation Strategy for the Urban Wastewater
Treatment Directive in Romania).
M. Sylvain Guebanda, in charge of Hydraulic Resources,
Ministry of energy and hydraulic resources, and Chair GWP
Central Africa
Mr Sylvain GUEBANDA, from the Central African Republic,
was appointed President of the GWP-CAf during the GWP-CAfSteering Committee on 31 October 2019. Mr Sylvain
GUEBANDA is a rural engineering engineer specializing inwater resources management. He currently holds theposition of Project Manager in the field of HydraulicResources and Chairman of the Steering Committee in chargeof implementing the process of drafting the CAR National
Water Policy document. He was Vice-President - Central
Africa of the African Ministers' Council on Water (AMCOW),in charge of coordinating and leading AMCOW's activities inCentral Africa was from 2016 to 2019. From 2017 to thepresent day, he has been in charge of supporting theimplementation of the Central African Regional Water Policyof ECCAS in CAR as a Focal Point. He was for a long time
President of the CAR Country Water Partnership and amember of the GWP-CAf Steering Committee (2009/2017).

4Mr. Abdul Malik Sadat Idris : Director of Water Resources
and Irrigation, Indonesia Ministry of National Development
Planning (BAPPENAS)
where he supports in developing national policies and plansfor water development. Holding a bachelor's degree in civilengineering and Magister in civil engineering, also joinorganization activity such as The Management of Nasional
Committee Of Irrigation And Drainage for the period 20212024 as Chair IV, The Indonesian Association of HydraulicEngineers (HATHI) management for the period 2021-2033 as
Chair IX and vice-chairman of the Indonesian Water
Partnership (KAI). Mr Abdul has over 15 years experience
working in Water resources management. He seeks forinnovative approaches in managing Indonesia's water sector,
especially on how to spur the involvement of the private sector
in the management of multipurpose dam, water supply, andflood risk management.

Mr. Mtchera Johannes CHIRWA: Coordinator, African Water
Facility
Mr. Chirwa is the Coordinator of the African Development
Bank hosted African Water Facility (AWF), which provides
grants and technical assistance to support the preparation andimplementation of water infrastructure projects throughout
Africa. He has over 25 years' work experience in infrastructuredevelopment with project experience from nearly twenty
African countries.
Mr. Sulton Rahimzoda, Chairman of the Executive Committeeof the International Fund for Saving Aral Sea (EC IFAS)
Since January 2021, Mr. Rahimzoda has been assigned as a CoChair of the International Advisory Committee of the5Dushanbe Water Process tasked to facilitate the preparationof the Dushanbe Process (bi-annual Conferences under theframework of the International Decade for Action, Water for
Sustainable Development ", 2018-2028). Since May 2021 hehas been leading the preparatory process of the UN 2023
Water Conference on behalf of Tajik side.
Mr. Rahimzoda held several prominent positions in theGovernment of Tajikistan, including the position of the Headof Environment and Emergency Situation Department at thePresident Executive Office, the First Deputy Minister of Land
Reclamation and Water Resources in 2010-2013, and the First
Deputy Minister of Energy and Water Resources in 2013-2019,at the same time representing Tajikistan as a member of theInterstate Commission for Water Coordination of the Central
Asia. From May 2019 to September 2020, he served as theAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republicof Tajikistan to the Republic of India.
Dr. Arvind Kumar, President, Founder of India Water
Foundation More than 26 years of experience in the sector,author, water activist, specializes in eco-system-based
adaptation and water-energy-food nexus, emphasizing interlinkages between water, environment, and SDGs. He
published over 400+ research articles, the latest publication
with Elsevier on ecosystem-based adaptation. He is 3F Action
Group Member.

Dr. Giriraj Amarnath, Principal Researcher – Disaster Risk
Management and Climate Resilience

Research Group

Leader: Water Risks to Development and Resilience, IWMI
Dr. Giriraj’s expertise is Disaster risk management, floods anddrought, satellite-based monitoring and early warning,
6emergency response, climate risk insurance, Big Data, climateand food security. Before IWMI, Dr. Giriraj previously worked
at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain
Development (ICIMOD) to understand disaster risks formountain ecosystems (2008-2011).

Dr. Jon Marco Church, Consultant, UNDP
Jon Marco Church is a consultant and scholar. He has been
providing technical assistance on behalf of UNDP to theDushanbe Water Process since 2013. He has been supporting
the secretariat of the Asia-Pacific Water Summit since 2017.
More recently, he joined the EU Water Facility as Senior
Policy Expert, providing support on water-related issues tothe European Commission’s Directorate General forInternational Partnerships. Jon Marco is associate professor
at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, currently
seconded to the CNRS. His research focuses on thegovernance of socio-ecological systems. He is a former
member of Harvard University’s Sustainability Science
Program and obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science from theUniversity of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. Before joining
university and working as a consultant, Jon Marco was acollaborator of the Italian Ministry for the Environment.

Expected outcomes, impacts, and follow-up linkages with events and initiatives
after the Forum

to identify different expectations and objectives (political or operational)7

to mobilize research and technical tools of citizen science to enhance the practiceof public participation and collaborationin academic scientific research to increase usable scientific knowledge forsustainable, resilient, and inclusive water resource management; and

to promote Meaningful engagement of youth for inter-generational collaboration
for sustainable basin management

Reference: OECD Water Governance Principle- Policy Coherence and Stakeholders
Engagement
https://www.oecd.org/cfe/regionaldevelopment/OECD-Principles-on-WaterGovernance-en.pdf
Principle 3. Encourage policy coherence through effective cross-sectoral coordination,
especially between policies for water and the environment, health, energy, agriculture,industry, spatial planning, and land use througha) Encouraging coordination mechanisms to facilitate coherent policies across ministries,
public agencies, and levels of government, including cross-sectoral plans;b) Fostering coordinated management of use, protection and clean-up of water resources,
taking into account policies that affect water availability, quality and demand (e.g.
agriculture, forestry, mining, energy, fisheries, transportation, recreation, and navigation)
as well as risk prevention;c) Identifying, assessing, and addressing the barriers to policy coherence from practices,
policies, and regulations within and beyond the water sector, using monitoring, reporting,and reviews; andd) Providing incentives and regulations to mitigate conflicts among sectoral strategies,
bringing these strategies into line with water management needs, and finding solutions
that fit with local governance and norms.

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Principle 10. Promote stakeholder engagement for informed and outcome-oriented
contributions to water policy design and implementation through:a) Mapping public, private and non-profit actors who have a stake in the outcome or who
are likely to be affected by water-related decisions, as well as their responsibilities, core
motivations and interactions;b) Paying special attention to under-represented categories (youth, the poor, women,indigenous people, domestic users) newcomers (property developers, institutionalinvestors) and other waterrelated stakeholders and institutions;c) Defining the line of decision-making and the expected use of stakeholders' inputs, andmitigating power imbalances and risks of consultation capture from over-represented oroverly vocal categories, as well as between expert and non-expert voices;d) Encouraging capacity development of relevant stakeholders as well as accurate, timelyand reliable information, as appropriate; e) Assessing the process and outcomes of
stakeholder engagement to learn, adjust and improve accordingly, including theevaluation of costs and benefits of engagement processes;f) Promoting legal and institutional frameworks, organisational structures and responsible
authorities that are conducive to stakeholder engagement, taking account of local
circumstances, needs and capacities; andg) Customising the type and level of stakeholder engagement to the needs and keeping
the process flexible to adapt to changing circumstances9