Portfolio 2016 Global Programme Water 2 Table of Contents About the Global Programme Water 4 Objective 1: Water Security in the Global Agenda 6 1.1 Strategic Networks 1.1.1 Initiative for a UN Intergovernmental Body on Water .............................. 7 1.1.2 Contribution to UN-Water ..................................................10 1.1.3 Global Expanded Monitoring Initiative (GEMI), Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP), Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking Water (GLAAS) ...................11 Objective 2: Water Governance 12 2.1 Strategic Networks 2.1.1 Global Water Partnership (GWP) .............................................13 2.1.2 Women for Water Partnership (WfWP) ........................................14 2.1.3 International Secretariat for Water (ISW) - Solidarity Water Europe (SWE) ..............15 2.2 Water Diplomacy Cluster 2.2.1 Blue Peace Global ........................................................16 2.2.2 Blue Peace in the Middle East ...............................................18 2.2.3 Water Diplomacy & Governance in Key Transboundary Hot Spots . .21 2.2.4 Establishment of a Global Hydrometry Support Facility and Innovation Hub ........... 25 2.3 Water Economics Cluster 2.3.1 SuizAgua Colombia...................................................... 26 2.3.2 SuizAgua Andina.........................................................27 2.3.3 Vietnam to produce more coffee with less water................................ 28 2.3.4 Scaling Up Payments and Investments in Watershed Services ...................... 29 2.3.5 2030 Water Resources Group .............................................. 30 2.3.6 Resource Recovery and safe Reuse (RR&R) ..................................... 31 Objective 3: Equitable Access 34 3.1 Strategic Networks 3.1.1 Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC)....................... 35 3.1.2 World Bank Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) ............................... 36 3.2 Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) Cluster 3.2.1 Research for action ...................................................... 37 3.2.2 Water, sanitation & irrigation services in Africa and Asia . 39 3.2.3 Hand washing in Africa ................................................... 40 3.2.4 Contribution to WaterLex ..................................................41 3.2.5 Information management system on geogenic contaminants . 42 3.2.6 Swiss Bluetec Bridge: Swiss start-ups benefit disadvantaged populations.............. 43 3.2.7 Scaling up safe water .................................................... 44 3.3 Water for Family Agriculture Cluster 3.3.1 Scaling up productive water (small irrigation) . 45 3.3.2 Strengthening Agricultural Water Efficiency and Productivity....................... 46 Objective 4: Swiss Voice 48 4.1 Swiss Voice 4.1.1 Solidarit’eau suisse ...................................................... 49 4.1.2 The Swiss Water Partnership . 50 3 About the Global Programme Water Commitment A water-secure world as defined by “the capacity of a population to safeguard sustainable access to adequate quantities of and acceptable quality water for sustaining livelihoods, human well-being, and socio-economic development, for ensuring protection against water-borne pollution and water-rela- ted disasters, and for preserving ecosystems in a climate of peace and political stability” (UN-Water). Water is at the core of sustainable development and the looming water crisis is of global con- cern. The endeavours of the Global Programme Water meet key global challenges related to the management of water resources, including access to drinking water and the produc- tive use of water in agriculture, industry and households. By focusing on inequity and pover- ty, they contribute to the reduction of global risks and the realization of a water-secure world. form on IWRM for Central Asia countries is set up. • Transboundary water management: Instituti- onal frameworks and capacities for transbound- ary cooperation are strengthened in 14 basins (Andes, Mesoamerica, Mekong and Africa), the Water and Land Resource Centres in Ethiopia and Kenya develop knowledge products and conflict resolution mechanisms, and at least one trans- boundary aquifer commission gets in place. • Data and information management: The Glo- bal Hydromet Support Facility has developed its core business and the innovative Monitoring and Modelling services centres are performing in Tan- zania and Central Asia. • Water economics: The knowledge on Water Footprint application expands in Latin America and advocacy on Payment and Investment for Watershed Services impacts policies at country and global levels based on evidence from Peru and the Blue Nile. Resource Recovery and Reu- se businesses in Kampala and Lima foster private sector engagement in the cities’ sanitation sector. • Water Resources Platform: The 2030 Water Resources Group makes key policy contributions in particular to the Peruvian water sector moder- nisation, whilst engaging in the areas of water valuation and financing. • Advocacy and partnerships for WASH: The Priorities in 2016 Ministerial and the High-Level meetings of Sani- • 2030 Agenda in the water sector: Switzerland tation and Water for All (SWA) yield important continues to be influential in advancing an effec- commitments of high-level policy makers, where- tive global institutional architecture and mecha- as the 7th Forum of the Rural Water Supply Net- nisms to meet the political ambition of the 2030 work (RWSN) performs on “Reaching the SDGs Agenda in the water sector. Complementing the for rural water supply”. Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) on WASH, the • Access to WASH: The Swiss Water and Sanitati- integrated monitoring of water and sanitation re- on NGO Consortium meets its ambitious targets lated SDG targets (GEMI) under the umbrella of and develops innovative means of results’ com- UN-Water is tested in pilot countries. munication, whilst through large scaling-up in • Blue Peace initiatives: The Global High-Level Peru more than 700’000 people gain access to Panel for Water and Peace presents its first re- water and 280’000 to sanitation. Furthermore, commendations in a UN General Assembly side the proven business models delivering safe wa- event and the Geneva Water Hub gets fully ope- ter to the poorest and most vulnerable are do- rational. In the regions, the Blue Peace Middle cumented for replication, and two handwashing East community continues to harness collabora- campaigns are conducted in urban and rural con- tive solutions, while a High-Level Dialogue Plat- texts of Africa. 4 • Water for agriculture: Value chains and busi- World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations ness models for small-scale irrigation kits are Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Uni- consolidated, whereas water audits in Burkina ted Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), UN Secretary Faso, Morocco and Uganda pave the way for in- General›s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation vestment projects on water efficiency and pro- (UNSGAB), Food and Agriculture Organization of ductivity. Moreover, a profound reflection on the the United Nations (FAO), World Meteorological thematic cluster is conducted. Organization (WMO), Joint Monitoring Program- • Swiss Voice: The RésEAU is boosted (strategy, me WHO-UNICEF (JMP), Water and Sanitation Pro- core group and tools) and its African chapter gram (WSP), International Finance Corporation (IFC), launched. The AGUASAN Workshop series rede- Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council signed and the Swiss Water Partnership leverage (WSSCC) influence in joint initiatives, collaboration with the WB Water Practice and performances at ma- International institutions and platforms: jor national and international events.Further, a Global Water Partnership (GWP), Water Integri- longer-term vision for Solidarit’eau Switzerland ty Network (WIN), Rural Water Supply Network formulated. (RWSN), International Union for the Conservation • Cross-cutting issues: Evidence-based commu- of Nature (IUCN), Strategic Foresight Group India nication on achievements results in four highly (SFG), World Water Council (WWC), Water Footprint relevant success stories being published, accom- Network (WFN), International Secretariat for Water panied by strong advocacy for the realization of (ISW), Women for Water Partnership (WfWP), 2030 the Human Right to Water and Sanitation and Water Resources Group (WRG), World Economic Fo- gender mainstreaming. Also, the high-quality as- rum (WEF), Earth Security Group (ESG), Global Sani- surance and peer review mechanism across the tation Fund (GSF) entire GPWI portfolio is consolidated. Switzerland: Key partners IDANE Wasser, Swiss Water Partnership (SWP), Multilateral organisations: AGUASAN Community of Practice, Eawag/Sandec, UN-Water, United Nations Economic Commission Swiss Water and Sanitation NGOs Consortium, Swiss for Europe (UNECE), United Nations Educational, start-ups and SMEs, Swiss universities and universi- Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), ties of applied sciences 5 Objective 1: Water Security in the Global Agenda Attain that water security (as defined by the UN) is in the frontline of the priorities of the international global development agenda. Strategic Networks • Initiative for a UN Intergovernmental Body on Water • Contribution to UN-Water • Global Expanded Monitoring Initiative (GEMI), Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP), Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking Water (GLAAS) 6 A more effective Global Water