DAY2 - Tuesday 22nd of March

This session will address the issue of integrated natural resource management, with a focus on shared transboundary groundwater and its interaction with surface water. Relevant results obtained in the context of land restoration will be highlighted. It will also comprehensively address the challenges of integrating ecosystem accounting into countries' planning processes.
It will bring together representatives of basin organizations working in these areas, national or regional cooperation and/or development agencies and national partners.
The specific objectives are :

Sustainable groundwater management to increase community climate resilience represents an opportunity for innovative investments and management choices that can also contribute to improved household livelihoods and poverty reduction among dryland communities. Since 2018, the World Food Program has been implementing an integrated resilience package across the 5 G5 sahel countries + Senegal under BMZ funding.

On Tuesday, 22nd of March, from 5 pm to 6 pm.
1. Opening by Mr. Nizar Baraka, Minister of Equipment and Water of the Kingdom of Morocco, President of INBO
2. Presentation of the 2019-2021 activity report
3. Extension of the Presidency of the Kingdom of Morocco until the General Assembly of 2024
4. Presentation of the 2019-2021 budget report
5. Renewal of the mandate of the INBO Auditor
6. Presentation of the candidacy of the host country of the general assembly of 2024
7. Conclusions by the Presidency (Morocco)

Water is a cross-cutting issue. The 20 targets of the 2030 Agenda related to water illustrate this transversality: target 4 of the MDG 1 on poverty, target 3 of the MDG 3 on health, target a of the MDG 4 on education...

The objective of the session is to showcase possibilities of conflict-sensitive decision-making that is based on thorough analysis of the ground-level conditions – from political level to small communities. This session is complementary to another session organised by the FREXUS partners, the Water Peace and Security Partnership (WPS), that will tackle the complex interconnections between Water, Conflicts and Peace at a broader level.

The project to build a School of Ecohealth was decided between the inhabitants of the village of Ngothie (Senegal) and an international team of researchers who propose to build sustainable and durable solutions to the current climatic challenges that lead to soil depletion and risk of famine in the coming years.

The session is designed as a space for exchange between participants on the impacts of climate change on sanitation systems and the contribution of the sub-sector to GHG emissions. It will also be an opportunity to share with stakeholders the Senegalese standard NS-017-074 on non-collective sanitation facilities.
The first step will be to present the subject and the issues it covers, then to discuss climate change and its effects on sanitation systems and its consideration in sanitation projects, while encouraging discussions among participants and contributions from the floor.

This side event aims at bringing together in a very casual way water professionals and stakeholders in order to open discussions to find axes for collaboration. The objectives are to:
1-Offer African Center of Excellence working in the water field to showcase their expertise
2-In a B2B meeting style in a casual and concrete way spark discussions for potential partnerships
3-introduce african research of excellence in sustainable water resources to the world

The Ecological Water Initiative aims to build relationships with national and international institutions working in the field of water resources management,
to generate scientific evidence to support national and local policy reforms in favor of ecological water. Because of its transversality, ecological water management requires a multi-stakeholder and multi-level partnership.

Aligned with the ambition of the WWF, UNICEF RO for West and Central Africa propose t a dialogue between young people from the Sahel, who are deeply affected by water issues and policy makers, as part of the 9th World Water Forum.This dialogue could be one of the panels on Day 3 o water and climate or Day 4 on water, sanitation and gender.From 2021, UNICEF has successfully engaged young people of the 10 countries in the Sahel in inclusive public debates on key issues affecting the region.