Aiming to explore innovative ways to tackle the global water crisis, World Water Week 2023 was housed for the first time in Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre. World Water Week welcomed participants from all over the world to join hands for a better water future.
Co-convened by the Center for International Forestry Research, Food, Agriculture and Natural
Resources Policy Analysis Network, Stockholm International Water Institute, World Agroforestry Centre and Zambezi Watercourse Commission, this session highlighted the partnership of non-governmental organizations/ knowledge tanks with the Zambezi Water Course Commission, an intergovernmental panel of eight member states that share the Zambezi river.
The Koga Reservoir supports 10,000 smallholder-farmers in Ethiopia. The reservoir faces siltation related to upstream catchment degradation. Establishing a PES scheme between the upstream and downstream communities is critical. However, in-country experience to implement PES is limited. The session covered lessons learned to develop the foundation of the scheme.
A large proportion of global investments in NbS target strategies which are not relevant to Africa’s diverse environmental, climate, cultural and political contexts. This session brought together key actors to explore how south-south and north-south learning can effectively build a transformative, African approach to NbS for climate resilience.
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This session disseminated the findings of a study on sanitation and hygiene policy environment in Africa. It highlighted areas of the enabling environment that require strengthening during policy reform process. Critical elements of the policy environment that requires prioritisation in policies and implementation strategies were discussed.- View the full programme.
- Sunday, August 20
- Monday, August 21
- Tuesday, August 22
- Wednesday, August 23
- Thursday, August 24
Extracts of the programme
Throughout Africa, several groundwater strategies are currently being simultaneously developed. This happens at regional, transboundary and national scales. This session explored key governance points that strategies need to include to foster an aligned, innovative and enabling space that can strengthen Africa's water security solutions and climate resilience.View the recoding here.
The integrated landscape-based approach in the sub-basin addresses the linkages between land, rivers and lakes ecosystems in support of holistic natural resources management and economic development through livelihood activities. In this session, the practical implementation of the landscape-based restoration approaches linked with livelihood activities were presented and discussed.
New approaches of cooperation are needed to address drought risk proactively at all levels, through holistic approaches that include early warning, prevention, response and ultimately building drought resilience. The session will deal with understanding the full complexity and managing the risk in a horizontally and vertically integrated way across scales.
The agenda for the next ten years of Integrated Drought Management at the Drought Resilience +10 across all its workstreams includes:
- Jenny Grönwall Sida Programme Specialist
- Seifu Kebede The University Of KwaZulu Natal Centre For Water Resources Research
- Michael Ramaano Orange Senqu River Commission Environment & Water Quality Manager
- Phera Ramoeli Okavango River Basin Water Commission Executive Secretary
- Klaudia Schachtschneider OneWorld Programme Manager
- Staci Warrington OneWorld Sustainable Investments
20/08 Integrated landscape development approach in the Central Rift Valley Sub-basin
The integrated landscape-based approach in the sub-basin addresses the linkages between land, rivers and lakes ecosystems in support of holistic natural resources management and economic development through livelihood activities. In this session, the practical implementation of the landscape-based restoration approaches linked with livelihood activities were presented and discussed.
The agenda for the next ten years of Integrated Drought Management at the Drought Resilience +10 across all its workstreams includes:
- Drought resilience and global mechanisms
- Drought risk governance: The regional, national, and local challenges
- Drought Impact monitoring, assessment and forecasting
- The need to turn drought policies into action
- Ecosystems and Drought
- Social inclusion, climate justice and drought
- Drought risk finance / Insurance
- Public-Private-Civil Society Partnerships for integrated drought risk management
- Drought and Health
Resources Policy Analysis Network, Stockholm International Water Institute, World Agroforestry Centre and Zambezi Watercourse Commission, this session highlighted the partnership of non-governmental organizations/ knowledge tanks with the Zambezi Water Course Commission, an intergovernmental panel of eight member states that share the Zambezi river.
- Facilitator – Xanani Baloyi, SIWI
- Anton Earle, SIWI
- Felix Ngamlagosi, Zambezi Watercourse Commission (ZAMCOM)
- Dr. Tshilidzi Madzivhandila, The Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) - The case for investment in African small-holder farmers and rain in the face of climate change
- Monica A. Altamirano, WaterEquity - Private Sector Financier Perspectives -
- Sithembile Mwamakamba, FANRPAN
- Maimbo Malesu, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
- Kasonde Mulenga, SIWI
- Felix Ngamlagosi, ZAMCOM
- Monica A. Altamirano, WaterEquity
- Anna Tengberg, SIWI & Lund University
- Moderator: Xanani Baloyi, Programme Officer, SIWI
21/08 Developing a payment-for-ecosystem services framework in Ethiopia
21/08 Launch of Africa’s Voice on Water (AVOW) Magazine
This session unveiled and launched a new magazine – the African Voice on Water (AVOW) as an anthology of water and sanitation stories from AU Member States. It presented AVOW’s value to the sector for information, knowledge, awareness, policy advocacy, dialogue promotion and the showcase of good.
- HANI ATEF NABHAN SEWILAM Ministry Of Water And Irrigation, Egypt AMCOW President/Minister For Water And Irrigation
- TAHANY MOSTAFA YOUSSEF SELIT Ministry Of Water And Irrigation, Egypt / AMCOW TAC Chair
- Obinna Richfield Anah African Ministers' Council On Water (AMCOW) Knowledge Management
- Sylvester Anthony MATEMU (picture) NILE BASIN INITIATIVE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- HANI ATEF NABHAN SEWILAM Ministry Of Water And Irrigation, Egypt AMCOW President/Minister For Water And Irrigation
- Sareen Malik ANEW Executive Secretary
- Patrick Moriarty IRC CEO
- Alexandra Dubois GIZ
- Nelson Austin Kamphinda Gomonda African Ministers' Council On Water (AMCOW) Director Of Programmes
- Belynda Petrie OneWorld Sustainable Investments CEO
- Luke Borain OneWorld Sustainable Investments
- Christine Colvin WWF International Head Of Freshwater Policy - Best practice and examples for NbS
- Gareth James LLOYD UNEP-DHI Centre Deputy Chief Manager - Systems Approach to making NbS work
- Maria Eduarda Gouvea Berto Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) Senior Water And Sanitation Specialist - Financial innovation for NbS
- Joakim Harlin UNEP Chief, Freshwater Unit
22/08 Mobilizing investments to build resilience in the Zambezi River Basin
This session brought together political leaders, and technical and financing partners to explore financing opportunities for scaling up the Programme for Integrated Development and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Zambezi River Basin aiming to strengthen regional cooperation and to build community resilience to climatic and economic shocks.
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- HASTINGS CHIBUYE ZAMBEZI WATERCOURSE COMMISSION Manager
- FELIX NGAMLAGOSI ZAMBEZI WATERCOURSE COMMISSION (ZAMCOM) EXECUTIVE SECREATARY
- Xanani Baloyi SIWI Transboundary Water/ Gender Equality Focal Point
22/08 State of Sanitation and Hygiene Policy Environment: A Situation Analysis of Africa
- Comfort Kanshio African Ministers' Council On Water (AMCOW)
- TAHANY MOSTAFA YOUSSEF SELIT Ministry Of Water And Irrigation, Egypt AMCOW TAC Chair
- Alex Manyasi APHRC POLICY ENGAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION
- Eric Momanyi Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Senior Program Officer
- Judith Tshabalala Department Of Water And Sanitation Deputy Minister
- Bisi Agberemi UNICEF WASH
22/08 Innovation for Food Security, Water and #zerohunger
WFP's IGNITE Innovation Hub for East Africa helps identify and scale innovative solutions in the region. The Hub nurtures and scales local, market-based innovations to increase food security, enable climate resilient communities and strengthen food systems in East Africa by leveraging WFP’s public and private partners, field experience and expertise. This includes innovations related to water for productive use. This session: (a) Spotlighted the food security challenges faced in East Africa, especially due to the prolonged drought; (b) Amplified the launch of an innovation challenge supporting innovation across the East Africa region, including water related innovation; (c) Encouraged partners and innovators in the ecosystem to support innovations by expressions of interest to partner.View the recording here
- Legal and Institutional requirements for a successful and sustainable financing mobilization for the water sector.
- Financing water, challenges, and current trends (includes State of readiness to mobilize commercial
- Experiences sharing of some of the financiers and investors.
- Concessional green and climate related funds and facilities.
- Project preparation opportunities in Africa.
- Accelerating action on financing water in Africa to achieve SDG6 by 2030.
- Sibi Lawson-Marriott WFP Food Systems
- Eric Oyare WORLD WIDE FUND FOR NATURE (WWF) BLUE HEART OF AFRICA INITIATIVE
- Bedan Mukoma WFP Regional Bureau Of Nairobi Partnerships And Innovation
- James Thuch Madhier The Rainmaker Enterprise
22/08 AFDB/AMCOW Innovative Financing Mechanisms Toward Achieving SDG 6 in Africa
This session delved into the challenges encountered by African member states in implementing water and sanitation-related targets and reporting progress to the African Union Assembly.- Legal and Institutional requirements for a successful and sustainable financing mobilization for the water sector.
- Financing water, challenges, and current trends (includes State of readiness to mobilize commercial
- Experiences sharing of some of the financiers and investors.
- Concessional green and climate related funds and facilities.
- Project preparation opportunities in Africa.
- Accelerating action on financing water in Africa to achieve SDG6 by 2030.
- HANI ATEF NABHAN SEWILAM Ministry Of Water And Irrigation, Egypt AMCOW President/Minister For Water And Irrigation
- TAHANY MOSTAFA YOUSSEF SELIT Ministry Of Water And Irrigation, Egypt AMCOW TAC Chair
- CARL HERMANN GUSTAV SCHLETTWEIN Hon. Minister Ministry Of Agriculture, Water And Land Reform
- Joel Kolker World Bank Global Lead
- Osward CHANDA AFDB DIRECTOR
- HANI ATEF NABHAN SEWILAM Ministry Of Water And Irrigation, Egypt AMCOW President/Minister For Water And Irrigation
- Aude Farnault OECD Water Policy Analyst
- Brian Arbogast Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Director
22/08 Paddies for the Planet: Tackling water-climate challenges through low-carbon rice
Paddies for the Planet presents an innovative financing and institutional model that reduce agricultural emissions and water use, benefitting small farmers. This session put a spotlight on incentives for different stakeholders to practice efficient irrigation management, discussed new ways to carry out irrigation practices; and showcased perspectives on innovations and financing (water, irrigation, carbon) to scale practical solutions.View the recording here
- Jessica Christiansen Bayer CropScience Ag VP, Sustainability & Business Stewardship
- Saroj Kumar Jha WORLD BANK GROUP WATER GLOBAL DIRECTOR
- Richard Colback IFC Senior Operations Officer
- Michael Webster World Bank Program Manager
- Carolina Garcia Arbelaez AB InBev Global Sustainability And Innovation Director
22/08 Harnessing Earth Observation Data to Solve Africa’s Greatest Water Challenges
This talk show discussed Digital Earth Africa, the DIWASA initiative’s Open Data Cube, and the decision-ready data from Earth Observation Satellites that it offers. DEA and IWMI are developing a range of additional analysis tools to help users address water monitoring and management issues at a regional scale. Potential applications of DEA resources include: flood hazard mapping; flood and drought warning systems using weather forecast and hydrological model; vulnerability and impact sectoral analysis of floods and drought; data visualization and analytics tools; and capacity building and technology transfer.View the recording here
- Walter Panzirer The Helmsley Charitable Trust
- Lena Scherman Deep Sea Productions Reporter/Editor In Chief
22/08 Water Productivity to Improve Water Sustainability In Agricultural Production
The session and panel explored the use of local, regional, and global scale data such as crop yield, applied irrigation water, soil water content, crop canopy parameters, as well as the use of crop modeling and remote sensing, for estimating spatial and temporal variation of crop water productivity. The presentations covered novel approaches in estimating crop water productivity and developing water productivity scores at local and global scale. The presentations will also address approaches and challenges of assessing livestock water productivity.View the recording here
Presentation of the draft roadmap to formulate the post-2025 Africa Water Vision and implementation of the Dakar Declaration.- Livia Peiser FAO Land And Water Officer - Monitoring land and water productivity using remote sensing data, the FAO WaPOR open access database
- Abdulkarim Seid Mesfin Mekonnen The University Of Alabama Assistant Professor - Monitoring water productivity: Pathways for scaling use of advanced data acquisition systems across rainfed – irrigation continuum
- Dr. Christopher M. U. Neale, Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute, University of Nebraska - Increases in Water Productivity of Irrigated and Rainfed Crops in Nebraska, United States
- Dr. Mesfin Mekonnen, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering University of Alabama - Trends in the Water Productivity of Livestock Products in the United States
22/08 AFRICA FOCUS DAY! High-Level Ministerial Panel for a Water-wise Africa through Innovations and Shared Experiences
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To highlight the urgency of our priorities related to terrestrial water stewardship and foster collaboration and investment, this session convened diverse partners from around the world to share successes and barriers to advancing agricultural water stewardship initiatives.- HANI ATEF NABHAN SEWILAM Ministry Of Water And Irrigation, Egypt AMCOW President/Minister For Water And Irrigation
- TAHANY MOSTAFA YOUSSEF SELIT Ministry Of Water And Irrigation, Egypt AMCOW TAC Chair
- CARL HERMANN GUSTAV SCHLETTWEIN Ministry Of Agriculture, Water And Land Reform
- Hon. Minister FREDA PREMPEH MINISTRY OF SANITATION AND WATER RESOURCES Ghana
- MINISTER Judith Tshabalala Department Of Water And Sanitation South Africa
- Deputy Minister Osward CHANDA AFDB DIRECTOR
22/08 Multi-stakeholder Collaboration in Agricultural Water Stewardship: Solutions to Advance SDGs
- Moshi Berenstein NETAFIM & European Irrigation Association MD NETAFIM FRANCE & EIA PRESIDENT
- Sasha Koo-Oshima UN FAO Land And Water Division
- Shama Perveen Ceres
- Nick Brozovic Daugherty Water For Food Global Institute Director Of Policy
- Nora Van Cauwenbergh IHE Delft Associate Professor Water And Societal Transition
- Madhu Rajesh Coca-Cola Senior Director - Water & Agriculture
- Jessica Christiansen Bayer CropScience Ag VP, Sustainability & Business Stewardship
22/08 Water Pricing: valuing and allocating water in Awash Basin Ethiopia
In the Awash basin in Ethiopia, water is available but scarce and highly polluted. Stakeholders from federal and regional governments find each other in a water agreement, facilitating a catchment approach. By registration of all users and allocating water against a price, a fair distribution of the water is pursued.
- Gerdien Van Genderen - De Kloe Woord En Daad Sustainable Water
- Joy Pengel Waterschap Zuiderzeeland Consultant Blue Deal Awash River Basin
23/08 Challenging Paradigms Through Solar Powered Water Systems Planning in Ethiopia
- Chris Cope Water Mission Director Of Engineering Design And Support
- Ruth Haile Plan International Ethiopia SUNWASH
- Mandy Goksu Water Mission Partnerships Director, Institutions
- Anne Smith Petersen
- Iben Rasmine Østergaard Marcussen Plan Børnefonden Team Lead - ECD - WASH
23/08 Incorporating inclusive water management and aquatic food in agroecological transitions
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East African wetlands are crucial for supporting various economic activities and livelihoods but are threatened by human activities like land-use changes, pollution, and climate change. To restore and safeguard these ecosystems, upscaling of often fragmented pilots in catchment restoration is needed. In this session, integrated landscape-based restoration approaches, and its challenges were discussed.- Fergus Sinclair (Moderator) ICRAF
- Sarah Freed (World Fish)
- Michaela Lo (IWMI)
- Matthew McCartney (IWMI)
- Genna Tesdall (YPARD) Youth perspective on agroecology and aquatic food from DRC
- Rada Kong CIRAD, ASSET project in association with HE CASIC, Cambodia - Dealing with too much water: flooding in Cambodia
- Mohamed Yahya Lafdal (adviser to the Mauritanian Minister of Environment) - Dealing with too little water: drought in Mauritania
- Swati Renduchintala RySS and CIFOR-ICRAF, India - Agroecological practices perform best in drier conditions In Andhra Pradesh: implications for scaling through womens’ self-help groups
- Prasanthi Gunawardena, University of Sri Jayewardenepura - Redirecting value from stored water to protect watersheds in Sri Lanka
23/08 Upscaling landscape restoration to safeguard East African Wetlands
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- Soledad Pinero Part Of More CEO
- Julie Mulonga Wetlands International Director Eastern Africa
- Michael Nelemans Wetlands International Technical Officer IWRM
23/08 Harnessing the digital revolution for water innovation
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- Satoshi Ishii Asian Development Bank Director, Water And Urban Development
- Kelly Trott Imagine H2O Senior Vice President
- Dickson Ndungu Wonderkid Multimedia Limited Managing Director
- Chloe Poulin Aquaya Senior Research And Program Manager - Machine-learning proxy-means test for targeting pro-poor water subsidies in Ghana
- Parag Agarwal JanaJal Founder & CEO
23/08 Launch of Africa Source Water Protection Partnership
During the 9th World Water Forum held in Dakar Senegal (March, 2022) key stakeholders in the water sector committed to increase investments into source water protection in Africa. An important element is to learn from some of the successful earlier initiatives implemented in the region like the Nairobi and Greater Cape Town Water Fund in order to accelerate the formation of new funds. Innovative approaches are needed for this, such as SIWI’s Source to Sea initiative that has supported development of modules on public-private partnerships for water management in Africa Continued learning and knowledge exchange is needed to address the underinvestment in source water protection in Africa as a adaptation measure to climate change and rapid urban water use increase.View the recording here
Panel Session 1: Unpacking the problem and its impact
- Moderator: Anton Earle (SIWI)
- Dr. Simeon Kenfack – Director of programs, AfWASA Côte d'Ivoire
- Marijn Zwinkels- Conservation Director, Commonlands South Africa
- Eng. Joseph Kamau- Athi Water Works Development Agency: Kenya
- Elizabeth Wathuti – Youth Climate Advocate and 2023 winner of Global Human Rights Award, Kenya
- David Onyango – Sustainability Manager Diageo London
- Madhu Rajesh – Senior Director for Water & Agriculture, TCCC
- Phera Ramoeli – Executive Secretary IFAD/OKACOM
- Kate Harawa -Water for People
- Moderator: Fredrick Kihara (TNC)
23/08 Uganda Water Services to Refugees: from humanitarian support to development
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23/08 Private Sector Innovations: A Zambia Case Study
The online session showcased the process of establishing the first small-scale WASH transactions in Zambia, expected to be implemented this year.View the recording here
24/08 Innovative water data solutions for water and food security
The session presented the benefits of integrating geospatial data in water statistics but also the barriers and main challenges for the uptake of geospatial tools, including technical, financial and governance issues. The session also highlighted current and emerging innovative approaches that integrate geospatial data in water statistics and information.View the recording here
- Towards a Global Water Data Portal – Patricia Mejias-Moreno, AQUASTAT coordinator, FAO
- Generating data and information to consistently assess the state of water resources across scales, Dr. Stefan Uhlenbrook, Director Hydrology, World Meteorological Organization
- Global hydrological data for better water management worldwide, Bertrand Richaud, Project Manager and focal point for River Basin Organisations at DHI
- Global monitoring of water productivity in agriculture with FAO WaPOR: introducing the new open access portal and data, Livia Peiser, Land and Water Officer, FAO
- The use of geospatial data in irrigation management information systems in Ethiopia, Elias Awol Mohammed, Lead Executive Officer Small Holder Irrigation, Ministry of Agriculture
- Innovations in water information systems in Jordan, Thair Al Momani, Assistant Secretary General for Technical Affairs, Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Jordan
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