WEPA Activity Plan in 2020-2021
Noriaki Murase
Program Manager, WEPA Secretariat
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

Framework of the WEPA Activities
Identifying and addressing critical issues
through sharing experiences and providing
technical support

Facilitating knowledge exchange anddialogues, thereby building capacity
Group workshops

Annual Meetings

Bilateral Dialogues
Action Program

Facilitating cooperation with international organizations and donor agencies

Outreach
Webdatabase

WEPA Outlook+ Other Publications

2Inputs to international conferencessuch as the World Water Forum2

Main Activities in 2020-20211. Workshop and Meeting under WEPA framework(1) WEPA International Workshop and the 16th Annual Meeting(October, 2020, Kumamoto, Japan)
2. Action Program
3. Questionnaire Survey
Update the progress of the water governance of WEPA countries
4. Outreach(1) Improve WEPA website(2) Create WEPA Outlook 2021
(3) Inputs to the international conferences-The 4th Asia-Pacific Water Summit(19-20 October, 2020, Kumamoto, Japan)-The 9th World Water Forum (WWF)(March, 2021, Dakar, Senegal)33

1. (1) The next WEPA annual meeting Propose the WEPA partner countries to focus on efforts to comply withregulations from now on
 Share the issues and the following examples of measures regarding
compliance with regulations at the next annual meeting
Examples of measures required for complete compliance with regulations
 Clarification of roles and authorities of central and local governments
 Complete regulations for businesses (notification, measure and log pollution status ofeffluent, on-site inspections), penalties, order remedy, administrative directions, etc.
 Appropriate enforcement and operation of the effluent standards• Enforcement and application of more stringent effluent standards in cases, where nationaleffluent standards and their scope are insufficient due to natural and social conditions• Application of temporary effluent standards when compliance with effluent standards istechnically difficult
 Review of appropriateness of existing effluent standards and improvement
 Introduction of TPLC, when conventional water quality control measures through effluent
standards alone is insufficient.

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3. (1) Improve WEPA website
The existing website
URL: http://www.wepa-db.net/en/index.html

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3. (1) Improve WEPA website
 Propose to collect advanced guidelines, technologies, andreference case examples with the cooperation of WEPA
partner countries, and to post them on the WEPA website,
so that each country can make independent efforts(assessment of compliance with regulations, complete
implementation of measures to comply with regulations,review of appropriateness of the standards, etc.)
 Improve the structure of the WEPA website so that it iseasier for WEPA partner countries to access theinformation mentioned above.

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3. (2) Create WEPA Outlook 2021
Objectives
Provide the most up-to-date and useful information on the waterenvironment and its management in Asia through WWF and otheroccasions
Contents(1) Outlook on water environmental management in WEPA countries
 Update status of water pollution and its control including status ofcompliance with regulations in WEPA partner countries(2) Country profiles of water environmental managementin WEPA countries
 Update country profiles in WEPA partner countries Add challenges to comply with regulations (if possible)773. (3) Inputs to the international conferences-The 4th Asia-Pacific Water Summit(19-20 October, 2020, Kumamoto, Japan)-The 9th World Water Forum (WWF)(March, 2021, Dakar, Senegal)
 WEPA partner countries are also invited to the 4th AsiaPacific Water Summit.
 Organize a thematic session at the Asia-Pacific Water
Summit to disseminate WEPA activities
 Showcase at the Japan Pavilion of WWF
 Distribute WEPA outlook 2021 at WWF

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Thank you for your attention.

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