IRC hot topics at fifth World Water Forum sessions
Updated - Thursday 19 March 2009
Various IRC staff members together with partners will have inputs in sessions at the fifth World Water Forum in Turkey from 16-22 March 2009. These inputs include various co-organised sessions on most of IRC’s hot topics:
- pro-poor financing policies,
- strengthening multiple uses and functions of water,
- achieving greater use and impact of research through the learning alliance approach and other multi-stakeholder approaches,
- capacity development for improved local WASH governance: KM strategies and sector learning.
Partners
Partners involved in Istanbul include:
Expert from BRAC (Bangladesh), CINARA (Colombia), CREPA (Burkina Faso and West Africa) IWMI (South Africa), FAO, MUS group members, Netwas (Uganda), RAS-Hon (Honduras), RCNN (Nepal), RiPPLE project (Ethiopia), Trend (Ghana) and the global SWITCH and WASHCost projects.
IRC will showcase some of these topics also at the NWP NGO stand on the Dutch Water Pavillion, and on the RiPPLE stand.
Details of sessions
1. Pro-poor Financing Policies and Strategies
Session 5.3.2: Microfinance: how to build up the case for microfinance in sanitation
Date of the session 3/19/2009
Time of the session 08:30-10:30
Main convening organization(s) IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
Contact person/people, Christelle Pezon, Catarina Fonseca
2. IRC is one of the contributors to the Topic 2.4 Multiple Uses and Functions of Water Services session. This includes sessions:
2.4.1. Water multi-tasking: how to obtain more benefits per drop from multiple uses and functions
2.4.2. Bridging sectors to strengthen multiple uses and functions of water services. Use Governance and institutional support for enabling Multiple Uses and Functions of water services,
Date of the session 3/19/2009
Time of the session 8:30 - 13:00
Co-organizers: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
Audrey Nepveu De Villemarceau, Stef Smits
2.4.3. Multiple-use services for more MDGs per drop: how to make it happen?
3. Collaborative and problem-solving research in the WASH sector. Achieving greater use and impact of research through the learning alliance approach and other multi-stakeholder approaches
Session 6.2.2 .
Co-organized by IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Bullikian Foundation, RIPPLE Project/ODI (Overseas Development Institute), SWITCH Project, WASHCost Project/IRC, Water Research Commission
Ewen Le Borgne, John Butterworth
4. Get involved! Whose and what empowerment will ensure the provision of sustainable water services? Strengthening the Capacities of Local Organisations and People
Session 6.1.3.
Co-organized by UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Women for Water Partnership Secretariat, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre.
Main paper: Setting the Scene: Capacity Development for Improved Local Water Governance which is part of a compilation of papers on Strengthening the capacities of local organisations and people
Maarten Blokland , Erma Uytewaal
5. Knowledge for all, all for knowledge, Knowledge development and management
Session 6.1.1.
Co-organizers: Korea Water Forum, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, Norwegian Institute for Water Research, African Development Bank-HQ, Global Water Partnership, Global Water Partnership West Africa, VEOLIA Water, Ministry of Health – Turkey, ONEMA, IWRM-Net/ERA-Net/IOW, UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, CIHEAM, International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies, EMWIS Euro-Mediterranean Information System on know-how in the Water sector, African Water Information System/IOW.
Other sessions with IRC contributions include:
- Climate Change & Adaptation: Think beyond the Water Box, session 1.1.3, organized by the International Water Association. Stressing the water and sanitation for the rural and urban poor perspective, Stef Smits. See our "Climate change and WASH services: Is improved WASH governance the key to effective mitigation and adaptation?" perspective paper.
- Beyond Water Bribes: How to build a corruption-resistant water, Building an ethical water sector: integrity, accountability and preventing corruption, session 4.3.3. organized by Transparency International, Ben Lamoree
Look for more details on the WWF 5 portal and click on sessions in the left-hand column.
