久々アフリカのIWRM記事である。ご参考まで。インターネットアクセスが悪くコメントを書くのは先になりそうである。世界各地でいろいろな動きがあるようだ。
The Daily Observer (Banjul)
Gambia: National IWRM Road Map Validated
Alhagie Jobe
6 May 2009
The Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Roadmap report was yesterday validated by stakeholders at the Paradise Suites Hotel.
Organised by the Department of State for the Fisheries, Water Resources and National Assembly Matters, the project is funded by the European Union through the EU-water facility, UNEP's collaboration center for water, ECOWAS water resources coordinating center and other partners. The project is being implemented in seven other ECOWAS member states namely Guinea Conakry, Liberia, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Togo and Sierra Leone.
Declaring the validation process opened, Lamin Nyabally, permanent secretary, Department of State for Fisheries, Water Resources and National Assembly Matters, said in the last three decades, the need for new approaches to the assessment, development and management of water particularly the fresh water resources have been advocated for at various global meetings. According to him, the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI), which set out the global agenda after the world summit on sustainable development, equally reiterated the critical role of water in economic and social development and in environment protection.
He added that the JPOI called on countries to develop integrated water resource management and water efficiency plans by 2005, which countries are trying to meet. "The Copenhagan conference in April 2007 deliberated on the previous processes with a view to developing a general global roadmap for implementation of the WSSD Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) target and for meeting the MDGs. It is for these reasons that a number of West Africa countries, including The Gambia, have participated in the West Africa IWRM process at its launching in 1998 in Ouagadougou and the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) Head of States and government meeting in 2000 in Bamako which paved the way for the adoption of an IWRM regional action plan and the establishment of the organizations Water Resources Coordinating Centre (WRCC) in Ouagadougou," he said.
PS Nyabally maintained that the government of The Gambia recognizes that water is an indispensible commodity and it is a right for every Gambian to have access to safe drinking water. He further confirmed the government of The Gambia's commitment to the global and regional agenda to move from traditional (mostly sectoral) to an integrated approach to water resource management, including the need to change strategy and adopt the processes of IWRM in all national development policies.
He, on behalf of the Gambian leader and the Department of State for Fisheries, Water Resources and National Assembly Matters, thanked the EU, who funded the project through the EU-water facility, the UNEP's collaboration center for water, ECOWAS water resources coordinating center and all others who contributed to the project. For his part, Dr Babagana Ahmadu, the FAO representative in The Gambia urged all to recognise that with present investment in the control of water for agriculture, the objective of the World Food Summit (WFS) of halving the number of hungry people in the world by 2015 will not be achieved before 2150.
According to him, most encouraging in this regard, was the commitment made by African countries at the meeting of African Union Heads of State and Government, in Maputo in July 2003, to raise to 10 percent, by 2007, the share of national budget allocated to agriculture and rural development. "FAO launched its Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS) in 1994 to help deal with food insecurity in low-income, food-deficit countries. The main purpose of this programme is to help countries improve their food security at national level - thanks to a rapid increase in food productivity and production and reducing inter-annual viability of harvest - in an economically and environmentally sustainable way.
The water control component of the SPFS seeks to promote the use of low-cost, effective technologies that are adapted to local conditions: water harvesting techniques, treadle pumps, etc. IWRM is now considered the most appropriate framework for "good water governance." Indeed, the water policy of many development partners and development financing institutions, including the World Bank, African Development Bank (ADB) and European Union, now stress the need for a global water policy framework, the decentralised management of services, the pricing of water and greater participation of stakeholders" he said.
The FAO boss then urged governments to put an organisation structure in place, with institutional, juridical and regulatory measures that will provide for the involvement of civil society, the private sector and local populations in the process of water resource planning and the re-organization of public water utilities so that they have a regulatory role.
Relevant Links
• West Africa
• Gambia
• Water and Sanitation
• Sustainable Development
Gorm Jeppesen, senior programme adviser, UNEP DHI Center on Water and Environment (UDC-water) said such a national IWRM Roadmap describes the road to follow with milestones and timetables in order to accomplish the objectives and achieve the targets which have been set out. He expressed hope that the IWRM Roadmap for The Gambia will be an important instrument in addressing funding for the IWRM Action Plan process and will also be a key document to approach development partners with the view of mobilising the necessary financing for the IWRM Action Plan.
Francis Bogari, Global Water Partnership/West Africa also thanked The Gambia government for the commitment in attaining the set goals for this project. H assured the gathering that the secretariate will assist The Gambia to establish its national water partnership project. Pa Ousman Jarjue, director, Department of Water Resources, chaired the ceremony.
0 件のコメント:
コメントを投稿