Integrated Water Resources Management and the SEEAW

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Integrated Water Resources Management and the
SEEAW

• Ivo Havinga
• United Nations Statistics Division
• on behalf of
• Manuel Dengo
• Division for Sustainable Development

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Outline

• What IWRM is
• Calls for IWRM
• The SEEAWs contributions to IWRM
• UN efforts in water UN-Water,
• Possible way forward

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Definition of IWRM

• A process which promotes the coordinated
  development and management of water, land and
  other resources, in order to maximize the
  resultant economic and social welfare in an
  equitable manner without compromising the
  sustainability of vital ecosystems GWP, 2000

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Advantages of IWRM

• Coordinated activities rather than amalgamated
  programs
• Top-down meeting bottom-up management
• Strategic planning targeting and prioritizing
• Integrating goals rather than planning for single
  goals.
• Proactive identify problems before they occur
• Cooperative work environment , inclusiveness
• Encouraging commitment Empowering local decision
  making rather than centralizing decisions
• Providing appropriate and relevant information
• Using equitable management methods sensitive to
  cultural needs, gender issues, poverty
  eradication

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IWRM (Contd)

• JPoI designing and implementing IWRM and water
  uses efficiency plans.
• In practice , IWRM must bring together a diverse
  array of people who have a stake in a system to
  collaboratively manage the activities and
  impacts
• Government entities municipalities community
  organizations business and industry
  organizations and other users associations and
  individuals

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The SEEAWs contributions to IWRM

1. Standard
2. Monitoring and reporting
3. Indicators
4. Financing
5. Mainstreaming water policies in economic policies
6. Integration of local, national and global
   policies
7. Participatory process

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1. Standard

• The SEEAW, by being firmly anchored to the System
  of National Accounts, the internationally
  accepted standard for economic statistics, allows
  for
• consistent and integrated hydrological and
  economic analyses (enterprise, government
  households, rest of the world)
• consistent comparisons across time and space
• improvements in data quality

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2. Monitoring and reporting

• The SEEAW, by integrating hydrological and
  economic information on water into a common
  framework, allows for
• the formulation and evaluation of integrated
  policies
• as far as social and societal aspects are
  included in data
• the integration and harmonization of existing
  monitoring mechanisms and the enhancement of
  their effectiveness by identifying data gaps,
  overlaps and inconsistencies

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3. Indicators

• The SEEAW allows for the derivation of precisely
  defined, consistent and interlinked
  hydrologicaleconomic indicators, which can be
  used for
• monitoring
• analyses of possible causes of changes
• (spatial, time, stakeholders)

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4. Financing

• The SEEAW provides basic information by
  explicitly identifying
• Environmental protection expenditures
• Investment expenditures on water including public
  and private investments in infrastructures
• the cost recovery of water supply and sanitation
  services and through which mechanisms (taxes,
  fees, water rights, etc.)

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5. Mainstreaming water policies in economic policy

• The SEEAW, by linking to hydrological information
  to the standard for economic and social
  information, allows for
• the evaluation of priority and trade-offs between
  different policies
• mainstreaming water issues into policy decision
  making

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6. Convergence of local, national and
international policies

• The adoption of the SEEAW at local, national and
  international level leads to
• the convergence of local, national and
  international policies
• the harmonization of water-related decisions made
  at local and river basin levels with the
  achievement of broader national objectives

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7. Participatory approach

• The SEEAW, by integrating information collected
  from different sources,
• adds values to independent data sets compiled to
  meet specific policy needs
• encourages the creation of or strengthens the
  inter-institutional organizational framework
• ensures a transparent and rigorous data sharing
  system

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UN international arena in water

• UN-Water inter-agency mechanism formed by 26
  UN entities
• UNSGAB on water and sanitation an independent
  advisory/advocacy board for the UN
  Secretary-General (Not a formal UN body or
  institution)

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UN-Water

• In 2003, UN-Water was endorsed as the United
  Nations inter-agency mechanism for follow-up of
  the water-related decisions reached at the 2002
  World Summit on Sustainable Development and the
  Millennium Development Goals.
• It will support Member States in their efforts to
  achieve water and sanitation goals and
  targets.

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UN-Water Scope of Work

• UN Water's work encompasses all aspects of
  freshwater, including surface and groundwater
  resources and the interface between fresh and sea
  water. It includes freshwater resources, both in
  terms of their quality and quantity, their
  development, assessment, management, monitoring
  and use (including, for example, domestic uses,
  agriculture and ecosystems requirements).

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UN-Water scope 2

• The scope of the work of UN-Water also includes
  sanitation - encompassing both access to and use
  of sanitation by populations and the interactions
  between sanitation and freshwater.
• It further includes water-related disasters,
  emergencies and other extreme events and their
  impact on human security.

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Possible way forward

• UN Agencies and other regional agencies endorse
  the SEEAW as a strong conceptual framework for
  hydrological-socio-economic national and basin
  information in support of IWRM
• UN Agencies and other regional agencies establish
  a mechanism to promote the implementation and use
  of the SEEAW, at the national level, with active
  participation of DESA, especially for
  water-stressed / developing countries
• DESA-DSD develops an operational manual for
  physical water accounting (hydrological part of
  water resources and of water infrastructures)
  according to the SEEAW standard as part of a tool
  kit for promotion and implementation
• DESA-DSD proposes to create a sub-group under
  UNCEEA in support of the SEEA