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GEF IW Experience Notes

The GEF International Waters Experience Notes help the Transboundary Water Management (TWM) community share its practical experiences in promoting better TWM. Experiences include successful practices, approaches, strategies, lessons, and methodologies, that emerge in the context of TWM.

GEF IW projects are asked to prepare Experience notes at their mid-term evaluation and final evaluation.  Completed notes should be 3-7 pages long, and will be via GEF IW:LEARN and its iwlearn.net Web site, as well as at selected GEF IW events. Please note that the titles below are abbreviated and sorted in line with principle indicators drawn mainly from the GEF IW Tracking Tool. Additional guidance and a template on producing Notes is available here: Guidance template for GEF IW Experience Notes.

In addition, GEF IW:LEARN is now encouraging GEF projects to prepare Video Experience Notes in addition to written ones. The project hopes these will be a more compelling, engaging version of the written documents that will allow projects to show their experiences in addition to reporting them. Video notes as such are marked below. Please read this guidance document on the production of video notes for further advice. In addition, with great apprecitation to the GEF-UNDP Kura-Aras River project and its project manager Mary Matthews, we have a guidance video offering advice on the preparation of video notes.

Click here for the Experience Note Abstract Compendium, a handy collection of abstracts from all the Notes below.

A * indicates that the indicator is derived from the GEF IW Tracking Tool.

PROCESS INDICATORS

Establishment of country-specific inter-ministerial committees*

[No notes submitted yet]

Regional legal agreements and cooperation frameworks*

Regional Management Institutions*

[No notes submitted yet]

High-level political commitment to follow up joint actions

National/Local reforms* (Regulatory Frameworks)

[No notes submitted yet]

Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis: Agreement on transboundary priorities and root causes*

NAP development and approval

[No note submitted]

Development of Strategic Action Plan (SAP) *

[No notes submitted yet]

Adoption of a Science advisory panel, data and information sharing or other knowledge sharing agreement

[No notes submitted yet]

Adoption of an M&E Plan

[No notes submitted yet]

Development and tracking of indicators transboundary systems

[No notes submitted yet]

Financing mechanisms for TWM

[No notes submitted yet]

Public/private partnerships in TWM

Knowledge management database and IT for TWM

Other Process Indicators from the GEF IW Tracking Tool include:

  • Management measures in ABNJ incorporated in  Global/Regional Management Organizations (RMI) institutional/ management frameworks
  • Revised Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA)/Strategic Action Program (SAP) including Climatic Variability and Change considerations
  • TDA based on multi-national, interdisciplinary technical and scientific (MNITS) activities
  • Proportion of Countries that have adopted SAP
  • Proportion of countries that are implementing specific measures from the SAP (i.e. adopted national policies, laws, budgeted plans)
  • Incorporation of (SAP, etc.) priorities with clear commitments and time frames into CAS, PRSPs, UN Frameworks, UNDAF, key agency strategic documents including financial commitments and time frames, etc
STRESS REDUCTION INDICATORS

Point source pollution reduction

[No notes submitted]

Non-point source pollution programs implemented

Municipal wastewater pollution reduction*

[No notes submitted]

Industrial wastewater pollution reduction*

[No notes submitted]

Agriculture pollution reduction practices*

Restored habitat, including wetlands*

Conserved/protected wetland, MPAs, and fish refugia habitat*

[No notes submitted]

Reduced fishing pressure*

[No notes submitted]

Improved use of fish gear/techniques*

[No notes submitted]

Water use efficiency measures*

[No notes submitted]

Improved irrigation practices*

[No notes submitted]

Alternative livelihoods introduced*

[No notes submitted]

Catchment protection measures*

[No notes submitted]

Aquifer pumping reduction*

[No notes submitted]

Aquifer recharge area protection*

[No notes submitted]

Pollution reduction to aquifers*

[No notes submitted]

Invasive species reduction*

[No notes submitted]

Optimization of wetlands as nutrient sinks

Wetland restoration practices

Primary and secondary wastewater treatment

[No Note Submitted]

Tertiary wastewater treatment

[No Note Submitted]

PERFORMANCE & PARTICIPATION

Applied scientific research

Economic valuation of water-related environmental assets

[No note submitted]

Engineering/investment project completion

[No note submitted]

Economic instruments for water resources management (taxes, tradeable permits, pollution and water use tariffs)

[No note submitted]

Water quality monitoring program implementation

[No note submitted]

Demonstration Site Selection and Design

Project Management Structure 

National/regional/local participation

Leveraging of local funds (public and private)

Workshops, training and education programs

NGO participation

Public relations/outreach/visibility

Documentation of stakeholder involvement in stakeholder involvement plan

ENVIRONMENTAL STATUS INDICATORS

Improved (measurable) ecological or biological indices

[No notes submitted]

Improved (measurable) chemical, physical (including flow regimes), or biological parameters

[No notes submitted]

Demonstrable reduction of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the food chain

[No notes submitted]

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