23-27 August 2021- Online World Water Week 2021
World Water Week 2021 took place under the theme Building Resilience Faster. It will be held entirely online, in a new, digital format designed to ensure that people across the world can collaborate to find solutions to the world's greatest water-related challenges.Watch the recording of all sessions: (271 sessions) World Water Week - YouTube
How do we achieve change?
Opening ceremony
- Alok Jha, Science and technology correspondent,The Economist
- Torgny Holmgren, Executive Director, SIWI Ministerial Conversation
- Per Olsson Fridh, Minister for International Development Cooperation of Sweden
- Jennifer Jun, Senior Manager of International Policy, SIWI Why do we need water to build resilience faster?
- Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Introduction to World Water Week
- Henrika Thomasson, Director of World Water Week and Communications, SIWI Setting the scene: Why is the climate crisis a water crisis?
- Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
- Artistic Performance Arcadia Hugosson-Miller, artist Clara Hedås Schmidt, artist
- Kumi Naidoo, Sanitation and Water for All, Global Leader; former Executive Director of Greenpeace International and Secretary-General of Amnesty International
- Nicki Becker, Co-founder, Fridays for Future Argentina; Sanitation and Water for All, Youth Champion How do we achieve change?
- Mark Feierstein, Principal Advisor to Administrator, USAID
- Alok Jha, Science and technology correspondent, The Economist
- Sandra Postel, 2021 Stockholm Water Prize laureate; Director of the Global Water Policy Project
- Concluding Remarks Torgny Holmgren, Executive Director, SIWI
23/08 Efficiency Is Not Enough: Food Security Versus Water Resilience SDGs
23/08 SIWI Seminar: Water for inclusive health and food security (1/3)
24/08 SIWI Seminar: Water for inclusive health and food security (2/3)
By FAO, CRS
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25/08 SIWI Seminar: Water for inclusive health and food security (3/3)
23/08 Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area: Creating Value Chains for All
The Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA), the largest transfrontier conservation area in the world, spanning immense nature reserves and resources in southern Africa, is supporting the sustenance of critical value chains related to natural resources as well as governance structures across two major river basins and five states
23/08 The role of water in transforming Africa’s agricultural value chains.
By CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
Using the World Bank-funded AICCRA (Accelerating the impact of the CGIAR’s climate research in Africa) project, this interactive session provided an opportunity for participants to unpack the role of water in food systems transformation in Africa. Guest speaker presentations, and a two-part panel discussion from research for development (R4D), private sector and development partners working in different African countries in various value chains provided an overview of how water is accessed, used, and managed in several food systems. Through breakout discussions, participants were able to discuss and unpack the value of a water systems approach in understanding agricultural value chains, and the value of a value chain approach and what a water lens provides.
Using the World Bank-funded AICCRA (Accelerating the impact of the CGIAR’s climate research in Africa) project, this interactive session provided an opportunity for participants to unpack the role of water in food systems transformation in Africa. Guest speaker presentations, and a two-part panel discussion from research for development (R4D), private sector and development partners working in different African countries in various value chains provided an overview of how water is accessed, used, and managed in several food systems. Through breakout discussions, participants were able to discuss and unpack the value of a water systems approach in understanding agricultural value chains, and the value of a value chain approach and what a water lens provides.
23/08 Irrigation and socio-environmental resilience: Finding confluence between strategy and disaster
By Feed the Future/USAID, IFPRI
The session presented new knowledge and tools that contribute to innovative small-scale irrigation approaches that can be developed without increasing risk to water and other natural resources.
The session presented new knowledge and tools that contribute to innovative small-scale irrigation approaches that can be developed without increasing risk to water and other natural resources.
24/08 24/08 Accelerating Food and Water Security: Role of the UNFSS
The WASAG Water-Nutrition Partnership advances progress toward international food and water goals through sharing research findings, practical tools, and policy dialogue. This session showcasesed new insights into the multiple and synergistic roles of water in food systems and for nutrition that were deliberated during the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit.- Stineke Oenema, UN Nutrition
- Namukolo Covic, IFPRI, advisor to Ethiopia national UNFSS Strategy
- Sera Young and Joshua Miller, Northwestern University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Giriraj Amarnath, IWMI and CGIAR WLE
- Jennie Barron, Stockholm University of Agricultural Sciences
- Jan Lundqvist, Stockholm International Water Institute
- Moffat Ngugi, USAID and POC, Innovation Laboratory for Small-Scale Irrigation
24/08 Fish friendly irrigation: Enhancing production, livelihoods and health
By Practical Action
By Nestle and SIWIBy European Union, USAID, GIZ
Water and Energy for Food works to sustainably scale water- and energy-efficient innovations operating in the water-energy-food nexus while increasing food production, reducing poverty and increasing incomes, improving gender equality, integrating the youth, and promoting climate and environmental resilience and biodiversity through the sustainable, holistic management of natural resources and ecosystems.
WE4F implements program activities through Regional Innovation Hubs (RIHs). RIHs scale localized solutions by providing grants, technical assistance, developing local and regional partnerships, improving enabling environments, using technical experts to disseminate local knowledge and lessons learned, and facilitating investment opportunities.
The panel featured experts from the WE4F Regional Innovation Hubs around the world - East Africa, West Africa, Southern and Central Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.
26/08 Back to the future: integrating rice-fish systems for building resilience
By IRRI, World Fish. Integrated rice-fish approaches at farm and land-scape level, supported by a new set of decision support tools can help policy makers and investors in tailoring, targeting, and ultimately, in wide-scale investment in integrated systems, contributing to improved resilience to climate change and a sustainable and healthy food system.By European Commission, GIZ, WRI
High-level panelists from the Sahel Region as well as the international 4D-community discussed what role early warning systems can play at which stages of the decision-making process and how they can facilitate truly preventive action. This will include discussions on how to design such systems in a way that ensures policy-uptake. The audience will be asked to actively contribute with their experience and engage in the discussion, ensuring a broad regional coverage and gathering the insights from various affected locations around the world. A specific emphasis was put on designing effective policy responses to water, food and energy insecurity related conflict risks, investigating what forecasting capacities and decision support policy makers need at different times in order to act.
- Susanne Schmeier, IHE Delft - moderator
- Opening Words - Hilde Hardeman, European Commission's Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI)
- Key Note - Kitty van der Heijden, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands
- Presenting the Global Early Warning Tool - Charles Iceland, WRI
- Sharon Burke, New America
- Abdou Moumouni Moussa, Niger Basin Authority
- Modibo Sacko, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Mali
- Nouradine Zakaria Toure, CRUBN
- Summary and wrap-up - Alexandre Mesnil, GIZ
26/08 Water tenure and governance: Keys to water and food security
By FAOBy SIANI
27/08. World Water Week Closing Plenary
- Cate Lamb, UNFCCC COP26 High-Level Climate Action Champions Lead - Water
- Ertharin Cousin, Fellow, Stanford University; former Executive Director of the World Food Programme and United States Ambassador to the UN Agencies for Food and Agriculture in Rome
- Tom de Bruijn, Minister for International Trade and Development Cooperation of the Netherlands
- Svenja Schulze, German Minister of Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety
- Usha Rao-Monari, Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator of the UNDP
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