Ordinary Thematic Session

This session focuses on the key role of endogenous knowledge for water management and governance, including current initiatives in terms of water education, ancestral knowledges, capacity development and water museums.

Progressing on the World Water Challenge and Leveraging Knowledge Sharing Platforms

Climate change has profund direct implications for water quality and quantity, including droughts and floods, and indirect implications, for instance via forest fires and hurricanes impact on surface and groundwater resources, This session will focus on water-sector adaptation to climate change, with an emphasis on sustainable approaches in Africa, Latin America and Asia.

This session focuses on examples of platforms and practices fostering the exchange of experiences and knowledge among local actors, and with the support of experts. Those include current initiatives related to water education, citizen science, local knowledge systems and water information centres, both online and physical.

Showcasing actions that identify and address the most challenging global water issues. By promoting action-oriented cases of pragmatic solutions!

Financing innovation: novel means and tools, technical and non-technical solutions to leverage knowledge, education, science and innovation required for solving water challenges

This session will bring evidence of the necessity to embed scientific knowledge and innovative solutions into governance mechanisms.

In Africa, the governance of several transboundary aquifers was enhanced through the application of innovative approaches to legal settings.

The session will call for a strong political will and commitment from decision makers to support science in the UN Global Accelerator Framework for SDG 6.

There is a growing consensus of the importance of the role of parliaments in the realization of WASH goals, and this role involves parliamentary engagement with CSOs. However to date, the relationship between these two parties have been largely uncoordinated.

Setting up a multi-stakeholders platform at local level for :
? Stakeholders engagement
? CWIS planning, implementation and monitoring
? Fund raising, budget allocation, accountability and integrity in the WASH services

Conversations on water issues are often dominated by water sector, water experts and specialised civil society organisations. Our session aims to change this. We need to hear new voices. With young leaders emerging all over of the planet in business, media, technology, civil society, and governments, if they turn their leadership to water, it would be a powerful way of approaching, understanding problem and addressing causes of inequalities. We want to help the water community by bring in new leaders in an exciting way.