The Pacific IWRM Programme

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The Pacific IWRM Programme

• Component 1 Demonstration, Capture and Transfer
  of Best Practices in IWRM and WUE
• Component 2 IWRM and WUE Regional Indicator
  Framework
• Component 3 Policy, Legislative and
  Institutional Reform for Integrated Water
  Resources Management (IWRM) and Water Use
  Efficiency (WUE)
• Component 4 Regional and National Capacity
  Building and Sustainability Programme for IWRM
  and WUE, including Knowledge Exchange and
  Learning and Replication

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• Funded by the European Union Water Facility from
  2008 to 2010
• Support to Cook Islands, Fiji, Federated States
  of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru,
  Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Palau, Papua New
  Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
• Executed by SOPAC specifically supported by three
  project advisers Rhonda Bower (bower_at_sopac.org),
  James Dalton (jamesd_at_sopac.org), and Ulrika
  Gunnartz (ulrika_at_sopac.org)
• Links closely to and will provide an enabling
  environment for on-the-ground activities
  (initiatives, projects, etc.) to improve the
  management of water resources

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What are we expecting to achieve by the end of
the IWRM programme?

• National IWRM plans and WUE strategies
• developed and endorsed by governments
• approaches implementation agreed across national,
  community and regional organisations
• appropriate resources allocated for
  implementation and monitoring and national
  budgeting and financial planning for
  cross-sectoral IWRM approaches included within
  Treasuries/Financial Ministries
• linked to an integrated into NSDS and related
  sectoral national strategies and action plans
• including institutional and technical
  interventions required for scaling-up
  demonstration projects (GEF)

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What are we expecting to achieve by the end of
the IWRM programme?

• Strengthened and sustainable APEX water bodies
  (national water committees)
• endorsed and appointed by government to support
  implementation, monitoring and adaptation of
  national IWRM and WUE plans and coordination of
  IWRM activities
• meeting regularly
• Wide membership from all relevant sectors with
  mechanisms for consultation and participation of
  non-governmental actors
• Raised awareness and understanding of IWRM across
  civil society, government, education systems and
  the private sector, with IWRM mainstreamed into
  national working practices (including e.g.
  national school curricula)

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So how can the IWRM Planning Programme help?

• To complement existing processes and initiatives
• Adapted to the specific situation and needs of
  each country
• In the form of, for example
• technical advise (resource centre, experts)
• regional exchange and linkages (meetings and
  networking)
• communications and information management
  (national resource base)
• staff support (to IWRM planning process and water
  committees)

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Implementation arrangements
Cabinet/Parliament
Related nationally funded initiatives and
policy processes
Info/proposals/reporting
Endorsement/support
High level champion
National Water Committees
Other externally funded projects
Support staff
HYCOS
IWRM FP
GEF funded IWRM project/demos
SOPAC IWRM National planning programme