Room 5

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.

New models and mechanisms that inspire and reward utilities for thinking outside of their government budget need to be implemented alongside new methods for financing water and sanitation service provision

Effective transboundary water cooperation can only be achieved through a solid and coherent institutional framework. Adequate financing, public participation and transparency are some of the key building blocks that sustain transboundary water institutions. This session aims to explore the ways in which governance frameworks can help to provide sustainably financed institutions, foster cooperation and deliver shared benefits to water users across basins.

This session aims to share experiences, techniques and methodological tools for capacity building in the design and implementation of IWRM at all levels. To this end, several initiatives from different contexts – both from the South and the North – and carried out by a variety of stakeholders will be presented. As this is a participatory session, public will also be invited to take part in exchanges in order to feed reflections related to the initiatives presented.

Cross sectoral governance without boundaries at all levels, with the presentation of handbooks/guidebooks, shared lessons, and methodologies about decision processes, implementation, good practices, and innovative methodologies of IWRM.

The overall objective is to empower smallholder farmers through a better involvement of women group within irrigation systems and water management. The session will document the challenges facing rural producers and women arena in terms of access and control of irrigation water for the sustainability of agricultural activities and market gardening.

Identifying innovative solutions to improve agricultural water productivity and efficiency include technologies such as remote sensing and include resilience engineering, as well as new social approaches. How these diverse solutions can be combined to improve agricultural water productivity and increase food security?

Access to basic WASH services and facilities in public institutional settings such as healthcare facilities (HCFs) and schools are critical to ensuring people’s health and well-being. Despite the global efforts by a multitude of actors to meet this need, the lack of access to WASH in schools and healthcare facilities remains widespread. Large-scale implementation of WASH in institutions is often under-funded and disconnected from other key national programmes.

This session aims to share best practices, technologies and visionary strategies of related countries and regions in building resilience to water-related disasters, and to emphasize how data and knowledge-based decision-making, approaches or products can better tackle the issue.

The response to meeting the need for sanitation systems is limited by their adaptability and may not meet environmental sustainability requirements. Many solutions are being shared around the world to address this situation, despite the intensity of the advocacy. Communities are eager to see, at long last, this conundrum properly addressed. During this World Water Forum, several answers including, among others expected at this World Water Forum, the best technologies responding to the site constraints will be made available by the world's experts.