Towards inclusive water and sanitation –Integrating ecosystem and watershed management

Thursday, August 29, 9 to 10:30 am

• Welcome - Carolina Wennerholm, SIDA

• Introduction - James Leten, SIWI

• Gustavo Heredia, Aguatuya Foundation

• Janet Edmond, Conservation International

• Christian Steiner, Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation

• Kelly Latham, Water for People

• Adriana Soto, Stockholm Environment Institute

WELCOME

Carolina Wennerholm, SIDA

AUDIENCE QUIZ

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INTRODUCTION

James Leten, SIWI

Towards inclusive water and sanitation:Integrating ecosystem and watershed management

• Gustavo Heredia · August 29th, 2019 · World Water Week 2019

¿How to start?

Drop costs by using appropriate technologies

4.10 + 1.90 = 6.00 USD/capita*year

Effective wastewater treatment with simple tech

201420182025

Integrated approach

Water · sanitation · solid waste · drainage

1. From infrastructure projects to service provision?

2. From waste to resources?

What kind of policies can you think of that would incentivize a shift:

CONSERVATION SOUTH AFRICA: INTEGRATING FRESHWATER CONSERVATION AND WASH IN THE EASTERN CAPE

JANET EDMOND, CI

Cape Floral Kingdom

Maputaland-Pondoland

Succulent Karoo

Mzimvubu Watershed

Project sites in the Upper Catchment

One health

• Conservation South Africa partnering with local government Alfred Nzo District Municipality and communities

• Implementing WASH and Freshwater guidelines• Improve water quality

• Decrease pollution

• Improve health

Learning from Partners

Challenges

* Identifying and addressing landscape and watershed threats* Filling gaps in water service delivery expressed by communities* Building partnerships with government

Opportunities

• Increased awareness and social mobilization for community action

• Gender analysis led to recommendations for gender sensitive programming

• Replication of model in other CI watersheds

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QUESTION FOR THE AUDIENCE

How can we build trust among conservation and development groups and increase collaboration?

TOWARDS INCLUSIVE WASH - …

LESSONS LEARNT FROM THE COCOA MARKET SYSTEM IN MADAGASCAR

Stockholm, August 29th, 2019

CEO HELVETAS USA

Christian Steiner

Ambanja

District,

Northern

Madagascar

…INTEGRATING

ECOSYSTEM AND

WATERSHED

MANAGEMENTCyclone

ENAWO,

March 2017,

Madagascar

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Applying participatory tools developed by HELVETAS Nepal:

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Opportunities

1. Integration of WASH and IWRM in a

market systems approach

2. Increased resource mobilization

from local and international private

sector to engage in watershed

management and conservation

3. Inclusive Private-Public

Partnerships with already existing

actors

1. Time-consuming planning process

because of its focus on

participation and empowerment

2. Need to develop financially viable

business models that cover

externalities

3. Policies creating new entities (e.g.

river basin agencies) that are not

functional

Challenges

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Question for the audience

What are your

success stories

creating

financial

incentives and

mechanisms to

fund IWRM

measures?

WETLAND RESTORATION TO

SUSTAIN WASH SERVICESBiguli Subcounty, Kamwenge District, Uganda

Health

• Universal WASH services is our goal which has direct impact on health

Environment

• Services are supplied by unconfined groundwater sources in the Lake Victoria Basin, where wetlands have degraded by 53.8%

Economics

• Families near wetlands depend on land for tree harvesting, sand mining, and farming for income

AN INCLUSIVE AND INTEGRATED APPROACH

LESSONS LEARNED

• It is possible to impact health, environment, and

economics with one integrated project

• Wetlands rehabilitated in 1 year!

• Preliminary data suggest groundwater sources are

improving

• Farmers are diversifying agricultural activities

• The involvement of multilevel and multisector

stakeholders was key – diversity of expertise and

experience

• Government leadership was essential, especially with

enforcement

• Thoughtful planning and sensitization, starting from water

resources assessment that was shared broadly, and

learning visit to nearby catchment were integral

• Inclusion of alternative regulated activities to compensate

for loss in farmland was necessary

OPPORTUNITIES

• Ministry WRM Zones have same goals and visions, which

we could reinforce with additional technical capacity

• The work is replicable and scalable based on needs and

characteristics in the other 15 sub counties and 20

additional wetlands in the district

• Climate and land conditions are perfect for amazing

results

CHALLENGES

• Resistant landowners

• Need for more monitoring equipment and quantitative

impact measure

• Need for on-going capacity building of diverse

stakeholders

QUESTIONS FOR THE AUDIENCE

Social inequalities in water resources planning: A case study in rural Cochabamba, Bolivia

August 2019

Laura Forni, Lina Terrazas, Marisa Escobar.

WHY INCLUSIVE WATER MANAGEMENT?

• Stress on resources.

• Lack of access to and the existence of poverty are often interlinked.

• Water management analyses operate at a scale that cannot capture socio-economic differences between groups.

• Water planning analysisAggregated model (typical watershed)

Dissaggregated model( location of irrigation systems and water rights)

LESSONS LEARNED

Aggregated model → 60% of the water demand satisfied.

Disaggregated model: several groups < than 20% of their water demand, while others receive almost 100%.

Water rights and location in the distribution systemare causes of unequal access to water.

Land ownership and leadership are mainly of men.

OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

Future climate change scenarios showed a decline in water demand coverage by 15% in the dry season.

However, planned strategies could raise water demand coverage up to 80% for some groups.

Despite this improvement, other groups would still face shortages.

By showing inequalities in a disaggregated model, decision-makers can test policies to ensure they are fair and effective.

Further examine social inequalities in waterplanning and WASH

How can we ensure that policies are not reinforcing existing inequalities by not looking at them?

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