WWF-6

The final list of targets in the field of Governance

The next WWF (Marseille, 12-17 March 2012) aims at developing concrete solutions that illustrate how water can contribute to tackle the challenges currently faced by our planet. Based on the outcomes of the June 2010 Kick-Off meeting, the International Forum Committee (IFC) Board adopted a thematic framework organised around 12 Priorities for Action and 3 Conditions for Success, one of them being "Good Governance".

The 2nd Stakeholder Consultation Meeting – held on 17-18 January 2011 in Paris – formulated a series of targets and yielded a list of volunteer organisations willing to contribute to the preparation of the Forum and of key organisations to be involved in the future steps. The final list of targets in the field of governance is following.

The Governance Core Group seeks to propose concrete, measurable and achievable solutions in terms of (i) effective public governance and institutions, (ii) integrated water resources management and (iii) better integrity and transparency in the water sector. To do so, it is building on existing evidence, tools, methodologies, experimentations, and good practices worldwide to design realistic roadmaps and action plans:

• including diagnostic tools to identify institutional, legislative and regulatory bottlenecks and adopt relevant place-based policy responses;

• encouraging decision-making that integrate actors at international, national, local, basin and sub-basin levels;

• fostering the adoption of relevant mechanisms capacity building, monitoring and evaluation;

• enhancing IWRM based on national frameworks, implemented at different hydrological levels, and integrating a clear vision of water resources uses, evolutions, quantity and quality;

• promoting relevant instruments for water security diagnoses in view of demographic, geographic and urbanisation challenges;

• supporting the promotion of integrity while mapping potential corruption risks and sharing nation-specific experience in tackling them.

Given the broadness of your respective institutions’ expertise and their demonstrated capacity to mobilize partners in the process of implementing actions, I think it is essential to count you as key players in the preparatory process. Therefore, I would like to invite you to join the good governance group as contributors to the targets below described. Your role would consist in participating in ongoing discussions within the multi-stakeholder group, and share your knowledge/practices to enrich them until the WWF takes place (design of action plans) and beyond the Forum (implementation of action plans).

To participate in the governance preparatory process: contact directly the target solution group coordinators as referred to below with copy to Cet e-mail est protégé contre les robots collecteurs de mails, votre navigateur doit accepter le Javascript pour le voir – Core Group on Good Governance