09.00 to 10.30

This session looks at cross cutting solutions that cuts across the thematic areas and generates a multidisciplinary dialogue across disciplinary areas surrounding water

With a steady increase in climate finance flow from developed to developing countries, there is a growing need to rigorously measure the real-term additionality, the consistency and ultimately the impacts on final beneficiaries in real terms. Increasing the effectiveness of drought finance is of vital interest for both financing partners and communities, whose inherent heterogeneity and diverse needs put a constraint on harmonizing the financing mechanisms and call for more flexible and innovative approaches.

The session will bring together stakeholders from both water and security sectors and scientists working on analyzing water-security linkages, with the objective of sharing insights and identifying next steps in actions to tackle water-related security risks based on a shared understanding of water-security linkages. With examples from ongoing work in Mali, Niger and Chad.

Develop a global cooperation among governments (local authorities/mayors, parliamentarians, ministers, heads of governments/state), intergovernmental, bilateral and multilateral organizations, financial institutions and non-governmental organizations, water professionals, scientists, policy and decision makers, representatives of water-related sectors and draw attention for protection, prevention and preparation in water and wastewater management and services during pandemic situation to ensure access to safe water, to establish a platform encouraging WASH related entrepreneurial and ope

The session will present the application used by the Dakar 2022 Jury to evaluate the contributions of water projects to all 17 SDGs and will conclude with it being made available online for free use by all water stakeholders worldwide.

Rural maldevelopment, rising climate problems, degradation of natural resources, water, food and socio-political insecurity... The 2020-2030 decade will be decisive (MDGs, climate action...). We need to change our way of thinking, we need to build differently.
Building differently means moving from not doing (neglecting the rural world) or "doing" (top-down, silo-based, technocratic actions and policies) to "doing with": with people, with nature and with territories.

"SDG 6 of the 2030 Agenda wants to "Ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation", but the importance of water is also evident for the success of the other goals marked by the 2030 Agenda. Moreover, in the current global context of a health pandemic, water plays a central role in the economic and health recovery of states, promoting resilience, employment opportunities and health benefits and access to innovative financing.

The Session intends to reflect on the role of international cooperation to the achievement of SDG6 taking into consideration concrete projects existing in Portuguese speaking countries. This session will try to identify the main successes achieved, but also the main challenges ahead. Shared experiences allow the diffusion of solutions to be adapted to each country’s reality.

The Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI) organized the second H.L. Segment in a series of international meetings to develop water scare countries' messages to be submitted to the U.N. Conference on the Midterm Comprehensive Review of the Water Action Decade, March 2023. Regional and International partners support the roadmap for the Policy dialogues in water-scarce countries to achieve SDGs.

Despite the progress made in recent years, more than 2 billion people in the world still lack access to water safely managed, and almost half of the world population do not have access to safe sanitation. The Covid-19 pandemic has evidenced even more the imperative need for such basic services and the insufficiency of funds committed to that matter. Finance is a decisive mean to increase Water Security and to provide water services to all.