PANAFRICAN IMPLEMENTATION AND PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCE ON WATER

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PAN-AFRICAN IMPLEMENTATION AND PARTNERSHIP
CONFERENCE ON WATER Addis Ababa, 8th December
2003 THEME 9 GOVERNING WATER WISELY

• EFFICIENT WATER GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT
• Management of water as a natural resource
• Improving water services
•  UNDP AND GWP Coordination
• Theme 9 participation and facilitation
• Four points discussed
•   Institutional arrangements
• Monitoring and assessment
• Participation
• Sustainability of financing.
• Lessons and recommendations

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PAN-AFRICAN IMPLEMENTATION AND PARTNERSHIP
CONFERENCE ON WATER Addis Ababa, 8th December
2003 THEME 9 GOVERNING WATER WISELY
Chairman His Excellency Mohamed DOUIHASNI
Algerian Minister   Facilitator/Rapporteur
Cyriaque G. Adjinacou, PNE Benin
Jean-Baptiste Laffitte, UNDP Ethiopia   2
Introductory statements A conceptual framework
for good water governance by Arnaud Comolet,
ECA-SURF Ghanas recent example of good water
governance, by Ben YAMPOMAH, WRC, Ghana.
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PAN-AFRICAN IMPLEMENTATION AND PARTNERSHIP
CONFERENCE ON WATER Addis Ababa, 8th December
2003 THEME 9 GOVERNING WATER WISELY

• INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS Challenges and
  opportunities
• Good water governance entails
• Efficient coordination of the institutions
  responsible for water management
• Strong political will giving a clear mandate
  to the coordinating body
• The mandate and institutional basis of the
  coordinating body are decisive factors in
  ensuring the efficiency of its activities
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• Governance is a repeated learning process which
  develops over time.
•   It is a process which gains strength by drawing
  on both its failures and its successes

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PAN-AFRICAN IMPLEMENTATION AND PARTNERSHIP
CONFERENCE ON WATER Addis Ababa, 8th December
2003 THEME 9 GOVERNING WATER WISELY

• INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS Challenges and
  opportunities (contd )
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• The following issues were emphasized
• The importance of adapting good governance to
  specific local conditions
• The need for coordinated decentralization of
  institutions, preferably at the scale of the
  basin or basins
• The need to define tools and procedures which
  will enable harmonious implementation
• Consideration of the environment as a
  fully-fledged element, from the integrated water
  resources management (IWRM) approach.

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PAN-AFRICAN IMPLEMENTATION AND PARTNERSHIP
CONFERENCE ON WATER Addis Ababa, 8th December
2003 THEME 9 GOVERNING WATER WISELY
MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT OF GOOD WATER
GOVERNANCE Vital component in the steering of
the dynamic and continuous process towards good
water governance. Three levels of monitoring
and assessment were identified 1.  Monitoring of
the resource Quantity, quality and
ecosystems 2. Monitoring the efficiency of
policy and institutional arrangements 3. 
Monitoring user satisfaction (focusing
particularly on the gender and minorities
dimension)
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PAN-AFRICAN IMPLEMENTATION AND PARTNERSHIP
CONFERENCE ON WATER Addis Ababa, 8th December
2003 THEME 9 GOVERNING WATER WISELY
MONITORING ( contd )   Apart from the usual
monitoring and assessment system and the whole
range of well-known criteria, A mechanism for
fostering social and public accountability must
be set in motion So that monitoring and
assessment will be based on indicators which can
measure the level and quality of
participation   From the technical viewpoint,
The integrated management approach entails a
mechanism that cuts across the various existing
sectoral and primary monitoring systems.
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PAN-AFRICAN IMPLEMENTATION AND PARTNERSHIP
CONFERENCE ON WATER Addis Ababa, 8th December
2003 THEME 9 GOVERNING WATER WISELY
PARTICIPATORY PROCESS OF GOOD WATER
GOVERNANCE   This entails qualitative
participation in the decision-making process by
the major stakeholders and partners At all
levels Political and management National
and decentralized Decentralized, local,
basin and sub-basin. Taking into account the
high cost of true participation entails
guaranteeing its efficiency to ensure a positive
cost-efficiency ratio The need to ensure in an
objectively verifiable manner that the requests,
perceptions and aspirations of actors are taken
into account in the decisions, options and
directions to be taken.
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PAN-AFRICAN IMPLEMENTATION AND PARTNERSHIP
CONFERENCE ON WATER Addis Ababa, 8th December
2003 THEME 9 GOVERNING WATER WISELY
SUSTAINABLE FINANCING OF GOOD GOVERNANCE   Two
preferred intervention areas were
identified    Financing of water by water,
including through private capital
mobilization Involving the Ministry of
Finance in the search for appropriate
internal financial mechanisms.
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PAN-AFRICAN IMPLEMENTATION AND PARTNERSHIP
CONFERENCE ON WATER Addis Ababa, 8th December
2003 THEME 9 GOVERNING WATER WISELY
RECOMMENDATIONS i.  Communication, advocacy and
awareness-raising activities at the highest
political level ii.    Clarifying
coordination responsibilities and allocating
appropriate resources
iii.      Adapting strategies to specific
problems identified and updating them
accordingly iv.      A pragmatic and
non-dogmatic approach, taking into account
potential constraints related to
existing mandates  v.     Developing
opportunities in decentralization and best
practices and knowledge existing within
community-level management systems.
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PAN-AFRICAN IMPLEMENTATION AND PARTNERSHIP
CONFERENCE ON WATER Addis Ababa, 8th December
2003 THEME 9 GOVERNING WATER WISELY

• Monitoring and assessment mechanisms should be
  participatory and transparent
• identifying actors and enhancing their ability to
  influence the decision-making system
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• the cost of participation should be included in
  the funding of good water governance
• Encouraging economically efficient water systems
  to improve internal financing
• Implementing the polluter-payer and user-payer
  principles in coordination with existing
  self-financing mechanisms.

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PAN-AFRICAN IMPLEMENTATION AND PARTNERSHIP
CONFERENCE ON WATER Addis Ababa, 8th December
2003 THEME 9 GOVERNING WATER WISELY
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