Side Event on UN-Water Global Assessment Reports at Africa Water Week

 

Providing the knowledge-base to address Africa’s Water Challenges:

UN Global Assessments on Water Resources,  Drinking Water and Sanitation

2nd Africa Water Week – Monday, November 9, 2009 - 18.00 -19.30

AFRICA and WATER MEDIA : Walking on Water

 

    UN-Water supports co-ordination among UN agencies’ efforts to monitor the state and utilization of the world’s water resources. Associated assessment reports focus on status, trends, and progress against international development targets, on responses and their impact, as well as on challenges and emerging issues. The side-event will present these three UN-Water assessment reports and stimulate a discussion on how these reports respond to specific water and sanitation related challenges facing Africa.

UN Global Assessments on Water Resources, Drinking Water and Sanitation

UN Global Assessments on Water Resources, Drinking Water and Sanitation
 UN-Water supports co-ordination among UN agencies’ efforts to monitor the state and utilization of the world’s water resources. Associated assessment reports focus on status, trends, and progress against international development targets, on responses and their impact, as well as on challenges and emerging issues.
 

There are three reporting mechanisms within UN-Water; the triennial World Water Assessment Programme  presenting the World Water Development Report (WWDR)  on the status and management of water resources, the WHO/UNICEF   Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP)  presenting a biennial global coverage report,and the Global Annual Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) that  monitors the inputs to the sanitation and drinking-water sector.

    These three reporting mechanisms together represent a comprehensive and complementary set of information on water and development and are part of the UN-Water effort to rationalize, harmonize and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of monitoring and reporting.
 
 
  
 
 UN-Water Presents Key Messages on Water & Climate Change for COP 15
 

 

Global conference says that water must be included in COP-15 climate negotiations

 

    Water is the primary medium through which climate change influences the Earth’s ecosystems and therefore people’s livelihoods and well-being. Climate change adaptation, therefore, is mainly about water. On November 3 UN-Water presented its key messages on water & climate change as a contribution to COP 15 in Copenhagen this December.  

 

COP15 - Copenhagen

        Water is the primary medium through which climate change influences the Earth’s ecosystems and therefore people’s livelihoods and well-being.

    Already, water-related climate change impacts are being experienced in the form of more severe and more frequent droughts and floods. Higher average temperatures and changes in precipitation and temperature extremes are projected to affect the availability of water resources through changes in rainfall distribution, soil moisture, glacier and ice/snow melt, and river and groundwater flows; these factors are expected to lead to further deterioration of water quality as well. The poor, who are the most vulnerable, are also likely to be affected the most.

 

Global Framework for Action on Sanitation and Water Supply (GF4A)

READ THE FULL ARTICLE : UN-Water Key Messages on Climate Change and Water 

    Refugees at water point

 

~ by werievents on November 9, 2009.

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2 Responses to “Side Event on UN-Water Global Assessment Reports at Africa Water Week”

  1. Water For Africa

    werievents said this on November 9, 2009 at 3:54 am | Reply

  2. UN-Water supports UN General Assembly Special Event on Water Governance

    READ THE REPORT :
    http://www.unwater.org/downloads/BackgroundNote2ndCommittee.pdf

    UN-Water is supporting the Special Event of the United Nations General Assembly Economic and Financial Committee on “Enhancing Governance on Water” on 06 November at the United Nations Headquarter in New York. This special event will feature among others Dr Colin Chartres, Director General of the International Water Management Institute, Professor Aaron Wolf of Oregon State University and Programme Director in Water Conflict Management and Transformation; and Dr. Nikhil Chandavarkar, Secretary to UN-Water. They will enter into a dialogue with the delegates of the UN’s 192 member states on key issues related to the current and emerging challenges in governing scarce water resources.

    werievents said this on November 9, 2009 at 4:39 am | Reply

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