third groundwater integration dialogue

1. Third UNESCO/GEF IW:LEARN
Groundwater Integration Dialogue
GEF Pacific IWRM Project
2009-2014
“IMPLEMENTING SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURCES AND
WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT IN PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES”

2. GEF Pacific Project Area

5. Context
1000 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
Figure 1: Percentage of Population with Access to Safe Drinking Water (2011)
Pacific SIDS
East Asia & Pacific
World Average
Caribbean SIDS
AIMS SIDS
53%
89%
91%
93%
95%
1000 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
Figure 2 : Percentage of Population with Access to Safe Sanitation (2 0 1 1 )
Pacific SIDS
East Asia & Pacific
World Average
Caribbean SIDS
AIMS SIDS
3 0 %
6 4 %
6 7 %
7 4 %
8 3 %

6. Additional Effort Required to Meet Post-2015 SDGs
20301990 2015
15
2
4
6
8
10
12
Population(millions)
Population Using Improved Water Supply
2 .7 M
actual 1 9 9 0
projected 2 0 1 5
required to meet SDG
5 .4 M
1 2 .8 M
(total Pacific SIDS)
20401990 2015
15
2
4
6
8
10
12
Population(millions)
Population Using Improved Sanitation
1 .7 M
actual 1 9 9 0
projected 2 0 1 5
required
to meet SDG
(total Pacific SIDS)
3 .0 M
1 4 .7 M

7. http://www.pacific-iwrm.org
Project Objectives
• To improve water resource and wastewater
management and water use efficiency in
Pacific Island Countries
• To balance overuse and conflicting uses of
scarce freshwater resources through policy
and legislative reform and,
• To implement applicable and effective
Integrated Water Resource Management
(IWRM) and Water Use Efficiency (WUE) plans

8. Project Components
• Component 1: Demonstration, Capture, and
Transfer of Best Practices
• Component 2: IWRM and WUE Indicator
Framework
• Component 3: Policy, Legislative and
Institutional Reform for IWRM and WUE
• Component 4:Regional and National Capacity
Building and Sustainability Programme

9. http://www.pacific-iwrm.org
Demonstration Projects
1. Watershed Management
Federated States of Micronesia
• Ridge to Reef: Protecting Water Quality from Source to Sea
in the FSM
Palau
• Ngerikiil Watershed Restoration for the Improvement of
Water Quality
Samoa
• Rehabilitation and Sustainable Management of Apia
Catchment
Vanuatu
• Sustainable Management of Sarakata Watershed (GW)

10. http://www.pacific-iwrm.org
Demonstration Projects
2. Wastewater Management &
Sanitation
Marshall Islands
• Integrated Water Management and Development Plan for
Laura Groundwater Lens, Majuro Atoll (GW)
Nauru
• Enhancing water security for Nauru through better water
management and reduced contamination of groundwater
Tuvalu
• Integrated Sustainable Wastewater Management (Ecosan)
for Tuvalu

11. http://www.pacific-iwrm.org
Demonstration Projects
3. Water Resources Assessment & Protection
Cooks Islands
• Integrated freshwater and coastal management on
Rarotonga (GW)
Fiji Islands
• Environmental and Socio-Economic Protection in Fiji:
Integrated Flood Risk Management in the Nadi River Basin
Niue
• Using Integrated Land Use, Water Supply and Wastewater
Management as a Protection Model for Alofi Town
Groundwater Supply and Nearshore Reef (GW)

12. http://www.pacific-iwrm.org
Demonstration Projects
4. Water Use Efficiency & Water Safety
Solomon Islands
• Managing Honiara City Water Supply and Reducing
Pollution through IWRM Approaches
Tonga
• Improvement and Sustainable Management of
Nieafu Aquifer Groundwater Resources in Vava'u
Islands (GW)

13. http://www.pacific-iwrm.org

14. Key Messages – It’s the people thing!
• Community to Cabinet – building the connectivity between
local action and primary governance structures both as
formal and informal conduits.
• Doing is Seeing the Need – communities have traditional
and experiential knowledge but the realisation that
something is amiss is not always obvious.
– Doing defines the needs and implements responses which
heightens awareness and the need for better information
thereby enabling a role for scientific and technical knowledge.
– Doing also makes governance gaps obvious and provides a
“real” reason for governance. Doing also demonstrates the
benefits and thereby impetus for replication and upscaling.
– Doing helps converts the skeptical

16. Integration’s Role in Sustainable
Development
• Integration is a tool within the overarching framework of
sustainable development.
• Integrations higher objective is thus to support sustainable
development.
• Integration seeks to improve responses to the degradation of PIC
land and water ecosystems
– Pressures of populations and demands on resource
– Vulnerabilities expanded due to climate change
What is at stake?
• Biodiversity – terrestrial and marine
• Water – fresh and coastal
• Land
• Ecosystem Services

17. Gaps/Barriers to Implementation of
Integrated, Cross-Sectoral Approaches in PICs
• Fragmented, sectoral efforts
– Across different landscapes and government levels
• Need to enhance capacity
• Need to replicate and upscale good examples (such as
IWRM)
• Need for enhanced civil society participation
• Need to improve linkages between land/water/forest
and coastal area planning processes – “ridge to reef”
approach
• Need for base level knowledge for informed decisions

18. Environmental Stress Reduction
Sustainable
Development and
Environmental
Stress Reduction
National
and
Regional
Replication
Local Action

19. The Elements
• Buying Into Solutions
– Supporting local level action and capacity building
– Appropriate and workable local solutions
– Demonstrating tangible household and environmental benefits
– Gaining household level action
– Implement at local absorptive capacity.
• Sharing the View
– Coordination and Cooperation Nationally and Regionally
– Governance Facilitated through APEX Ctee
– Effective and Efficient Project Management
– Well Resourced and Delivered Communications
– Demonstrating Benefits Through Tangible Results
• Building Capacity
– Learning from Doing through Demonstrations and Training
– Making it Stick through appropriate policy frameworks
– Knowledge acquisition, synthesis, application and sharing

20. The Elements
• Sustainable Development and Environmental Stress
Reduction
– Informed Decision Making
– Holistic approach to Biodiversity, Land and Water ie
Integration
– Climate Change Adaptations
– Demonstrating Benefits
– Monitoring and Reporting on Meaningful Indicators
• Global, Regional, National and Local Impacts
– CC Mitigation
– Equity in implementation of adaptations and development
of resiliency

21. PACIFIC R2R Program
“Pacific Islands Ridge-to-Reef National
Priorities - Integrated Water, Land,
Forest & Coastal Management to
Preserve Biodiversity, Ecosystem
Services, Sequester Carbon, Improve
Climate Resilience and Sustain
Livelihoods “

22. GEF IW Ridge 2 Reef Program Structure
• Program vs Project
• Program consists of ‘independent’ national R2R projects
‘linked’ by a regional program support project
• Overall Program Coordination

23. New GEF IW Ridge 2 Reef Project
• Pioneers integrated approaches, with opportunities to go
further thematically and geographically
• Through the follow-up IWRM project
• Through direct links with the national R2R projects
• Leadership at the national and regional level
• Opportunities for further upscaling and replication in GEF-6
and in Climate Change adaptation
• Building and strengthening capacity in each PIC for integrated
approaches and keep that capacity
• Better opportunities for cross country cooperation

24. GEFPACIFICR2R
• Component 1: National Multi-focal Area Ridge-
to-Reef Demonstrations in all Pacific Island
Countries
• Component 2: Improved Governance for
Integrated, Climate resilient Land, Water, Forest
and Coastal Management
• Component 3: Regional and National/Local
Ridge-to-Reef Indicators, Monitoring and
Evaluation and Knowledge Management
• Component 4: Regional Program Coordination

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