Boosting Sustainable, Inclusive andResilience Water Governance in Asia
through Integrated Water Security OpenProgram
AWCI Session for the 15th AOGEO Symposium
21 September 2022
Fany Wedahuditama
Regional Coordinator

Global Water Partnership for Southeast Asia

GWP Theory of change and result chain

Water Governance is the foundation ofWater Security and Sustainable Development
Water Security

Sustainable
Development
Infrastructure Investments forall sectors (energy, agriculture,tourism, economy, etc.)

Water-related
infrastructure
Investments

Water GovernanceIntegrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is a processthat promotes the coordinated development andmanagement of water, land and related resources in order tomaximize economic and social welfare in an equitable mannerwithout compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems.

Key message from Asia Pacific Water
Summit (APWS) 2022
Science & Technology
Promote Open Science policy, particularly
focusing on observation, modeling, and data
integration

Governance(i) Creating trans-sectoral, stakeholder-inclusiveand fully transparent governance; (ii)Strengthen legal, institutional, and financial
frameworks at all level

Finance
Encourage cost sharing and pooled resources,
support water security actions from multiple
funding sources, and ensure that investment andmanagement of water-related infrastructure andtechnologies are designed to be multi-purpose

Overall key message
The water sector should
transform itself in the three
key areas of governance,
finance, as well as science andtechnology if we hope toachieve SDGs

Insights from 2020 SDG 6.5.1 (IWRMImplementation) Global Survey on
Policy and regulations
Governance
Ensure that there is a law(s) that mandates anauthority to coordinate water resourcesmanagement, planning and financing, andmore generally that obligates authorities tocooperate.

01

Political commitment
Strong political commitment across sectors isessential for effective coordination

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02

Institutionalarrangement
Ensure that there is an authority, or some form ofintersectoral structure, with a clear mandate andresources to coordinate the work of otherauthorities across sectors, including establishingand maintaining formal coordination mechanisms.

Resourced coordination
Ensure that there are resourced coordination
mechanisms for both development of policies,
strategies and plans, and their implementation

Stakeholder engagement
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03

Identify all government and non-government institutions
with an interest in or likely impact on water resources, andtheir roles, to ensure that relevant parties are included incoordination mechanisms, with the aim of identifying andconsolidating institutional responsibilities, and avoiding
overlaps and gaps

Insights from Asia Water Development
Outlook 2020 on Governance
Prioritize governancefinancingpromoting governance arrangementsthat help water institutions acrossgovernment levels raise the necessary
revenues to meet their mandates,
including conducting sector reviews andstrategic financial planning to assess
short-, medium-, and long-term
investment and operational needs andtake measures to help ensure availability
and sustainability of such finance

Promote integrity
promote legal and institutional frameworks
that hold decision-makers
and stakeholders accountable, such as theright to information and investigation ofwater-related issues and law enforcement byindependentauthorities

Promote monitoring andevaluation
Promote dedicate institutions formonitoring and evaluation with
sufficient capacity, an appropriate
degree of independence, resources,
and the necessary instruments toassess to what extent water policyfulfills intended outcomes.

Address trade-offs
encouraging evidencebased assessment of
the distributional consequences of waterrelated policies on citizens, water users, andrural and urban places to guide decisionmaking

Prioritize, map, and customize
stakeholder engagement
Priority should be given to mapping public, private,and nonprofit actors who have a stake in waterrelated decisions and outcomes. Efforts should bemade to put in place the needed formal andinformal consultation mechanisms, and tocustomize the type and level of stakeholder
engagementGoing deeper on water governanceIntegrated Water GovernanceGood governanceprinciples

IWRM principles

Source-to-Sea
ApproachSendai Framework

Regulatory
InstitutionalFinanceTechnology &Infrastructure
Knowledge
Management &Communication

Regulatory
Institutional
FinanceTechnology &Infrastructure
Knowledge
Management &Communication

Regulatory
InstitutionalFinanceTechnology &Infrastructure
Knowledge
Management &Communication

Regulatory
InstitutionalFinanceTechnology &Infrastructure
Knowledge
Management &Communication

Water forEnvironment

Water forPeople (WASH)

Water for
Economy andDevelopment

Water relatedDRR

Wicked problem of water governance
Problem statement• Long overdue problem of working in silos• Actions (policy formulation, institutionalsetting, financial mechanism development,etc.) are often undertaken in an unintegrated
and unaligned way• Full picture is not able to be established interms of investment in water security, and thus
future planning to implement actions at local,provincial, national, or regional levels is
disparate, lacks synergy and results induplication• Absence of engagement and coordination
mechanism to enable actions alignment, andthus investments, in the water security spaceof all water actors

Working insilos

Proposed solution:Integrated Water Security Open Program
A multi-stakeholder program that aims to mobilize actions in support of achieving
water security goals through the implementation of IWRM principles, Sendai
Framework, Source-to-Sea approach by providing a space for alignment of actions(component #1) and dedicated support facility (component #2)

Action Mapping & Alignment Platform• Component #1
Actions mapping &Alignment

Coordination &Alignment

Action registration based onthemes and linked toindicators of water security

Development ofmultistakeholders
coordination & alignment
mechanism

Learning exchange
Tailored learning exchange
between actions

Consolidated Water
Security Program (plan& budget)
Development ofmultistakeholder water
security program

Multistakeholder
Contribution Report
Annual multistakeholder
contribution report on water
security achievements

Water Security Support Facility• Component #2
Water Security
Indicators

National &Catchment Level
Assessment

Professional
Credential list

Support
DeliverySupportrequestWater Security
Readiness Capacity
Assessment

Water
Security
AcademyWater Security ReadinessSupport Menu
(Water Governance &Infrastructure Investment)
Improved Readiness
Capacity &performance
Monitoring processes
Water Security
Monitoring(AWDO – SDG)

Water Security
Accredited DeliveryPartners(GWP Partners)

In-Country Partners

Open Program progress update• Beta version of Action Alignment Platform development is completed• User trial test (March) – Internal GWP SEA Regional Office – Completed• Share information on Open Program to 22nd ASEAN Working Group on
Water Resources Management (AWGWRM) – Completed (Vietnam andSingapore request to discuss further)• Regional Workshop on Open Program - Southeast Asia Region with CWPs &selected GWP Partners – 14 Sept 2022 – Completed• Expression of interest from countries (Sept – onwards)• Country Roadshow – in preparation (Indonesia - 19 October – IndonesiaCollaboration Summit)• Join us by registering your action at: www.gwp-sea.org/openprogramThank you