DAY2 - Tuesday 22nd of March

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.

The Special session on the Global Observatory for Water and Peace will facilitate dialogue between politicians, diplomats, actors from the water as well as from the peace and security sector, and will present the Pole Eau Dakar- the West-African regional partner to the Global Observatory for Water and Peace.

What are the new perspectives on drought in a time of climate change? Drought is often compared with other natural hazards such as floods, storms, and wildfires. However, unlike these hazards, drought is often a so-called hidden risk, meaning that its onset is not perceived until drought conditions are already having an impact.

"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.

Background
- As the world faces deteriorating environmental conditions, dense populations, and rapid economic growth, Africa and Asia are highly vulnerable to climate change. They must be considered as strategically important locations in responding to global climate change.

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.

The panel seeks to address the need to include adaptation to climate change in the formulation of public policies and strategies by governments and water and sewage operating companies.
The resilience of water supply systems play a fundamental role in the strategic planning of those responsible for the sanitation sector to permanently serve the various water users, especially the supply for inhabitants of urban and rural areas where the resources are no longer available in abundance

This High Level Panel focused on financing water will contribute to the preparation of the UN 2023 Water Conference. It will highlight key guiding questions that can contribute to advancing the global discussion on water economics and financing that will be explored in a major forthcoming review to be prepared for the UN 2023 Water Conference.