International Waters learning Exchange & Resource Network

Agenda

13 Sep 2017

Day One – Wednesday 7 May: WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS

0830-0900         Workshop Registration

0900-0930         Welcome Addresses/Meeting Plan

0930-0945         Tour le Table/Expectations

0945-1000         GEF IW Update

SESSION I. GOOD PRACTICES WITH REGIONAL/BASIN GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES FOR THE SUSTAINABILITY OF INTERNATIONAL WATER PROJECTS

Objectives:

  • This session will define the specifics of good practice in both governance structures policies and legal frameworks, based on past experience in the GEF IW project portfolio, that generally serve to sustain project outcomes

1000-1030         Update on Current Legal Frameworks applicable to International Waters Management in Africa (and Facilitated Discussion) Simon Thuo, International Union for the Conservation of Nature

1030-1045         Break

1045-1115          Good Practices with Transboundary Commissions: The Case of Lake Tanganyika Gabriel Hakizimana, Lake Tanganyika Authority

1115-1145           Good Practices with Legal Frameworks: Niger River Basin Collins Ihekire, Niger Basin Authority

1145-1230          Facilitated Discussion/Small Working Groups (Breakout Groups)

  1. Legal Frameworks – Regional, National Levels (Notes)
  2. Transboundary Management Institutions

1230-1330         Lunch

SESSION I. GOOD PRACTICES WITH NATIONAL GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES FOR THE SUSTAINABILITY OF INTERNATIONAL WATER PROJECTS

1130-1400         Good Practices in Intersectoral Collaboration: Lenka Thamae. Orange-Senqu River Commission

1400-1430       National Management Approaches in support of International Waters Management Osman Mustafa Ahmed Mohamed, Sudan Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources (Nubian Aquifer Project)

1430-1500          Facilitated Discussion

1500-1515           Break

SESSION II. MAKING GEF PROJECTS MORE EFFECTIVE IN CHANGING GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES

Objectives:

  • Define the role of GEF projects as change agents, or catalyst for changes in policy
  • Highlight specific cases where GEF project played a catalytic role in terms of policy change (global examples as well as regional examples), or played a role in consolidating the legal basis or institutions, or even building individual capacity
  • Generate list of management actions for making GEF IW project interventions more sustainable after project closure

1515-1545         Keynote Presentation: GEF’s Role as a Catalyst Akiko Yamamoto, United Nations Development Program

1545-1615         Presentation of Global Marine Case: Benguela Current Commission and Convention Hashali Hamukuaya, Benguela Current Commission

1615-1645         Good Practices with Regional Management Bodies: Case of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission Rondolph Payet, Southwest Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission

1645-1730         Small Group Work on Specific Actions 

Using the synthesis information provided at the inception of the workshop and the information and discussions from the first three sessions, Working Groups will provide summarised Guidelines for Specific Actions within IW Projects (especially SAP implementation) to develop Legal Frameworks and Policy Reforms in line with IW Management – A Knowledge & Guidance Product for IW LEARN dissemination

Day Two – Thursday 8 May

0900-0945        Recap of Sessions I and II

Presentation of Small-group work on Specific Actions from Session III

SESSION IV. KNOWLEDGE-TO-GOVERNANCE: THE ONGOING TRANSLATION OF IW MONITORING INTO ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT AND DECISION-MAKING.

Objectives

  • Review the overall concepts and requirements for the interpretation of scientific data as well as social and economic needs in terms of management practices and policy scenarios
  • Discuss approaches and methodologies of innovative frameworks and policies that facilitate the integration of the best available science into governance policies.

0945-1030        Opening Presentation: The Science-to-Governance Disconnect and a proposed Dynamic Management ApproachDavid Vousden, African Center for Ocean Governance

1030-1100         Break

1100-1130         Within and Beyond National Maritime Jurisdictions and the case for a Common Exclusive Maritime Zone of Africa Patrick Vrancken (SARChI Chair in the Law of the Sea and Development in Africa

1145-1215       Joint basin management institutions as articulation of international water law - a selection of African cases Anton Earle, Director, African Regional Centre, Stockholm International Water Institute

1230-1330         Lunch

1330-1400         Who are the Governance stakeholdersEngaging the various players into the Management Process. Richard Meissner, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

1415-1445        Industry and the evolution of Maritime and Freshwater Industry Clusters as Governance Partners Peter Myles. Nelson Mandela Bay Maritime Cluster

1500-1515         Break

1530-1600        Examples of Community Involvement in Artisanal Fisheries Management. What has worked and what is needed? Shankar Aswani, Rhodes University

1600-1700         Open Forum Discussion on Science-to-Governance Constraints and Possible Solutions

Specifically, this part of the session will consider some of the assumptions and disconnects between the TDA-SAP Process and the SAP Implementation process and how to maintain a sustainable delivery of information for effective governance

1900               Workshop Dinner

Day Three – Friday – 9 May

SESSION V: DEFINING BEST PRACTICES FOR BUILDING KNOWLEDGE-BASED GOVERNANCE INTO IW PROJECT DELIVERY

Objective:

  • Continue discussions of successful cases of actual science-to-governance mechanisms currently in place
  • Identify key barriers of scientific findings informing policy decisions, and how these can be overcome

0900-0930 Recap of Session IV

0930-1330      Facilitated Discussion (Groups)

  1. Any other project experiences in terms of best (or worst) lessons and examples of good practice.
  2. Using the synthesis information provided at the inception of the workshop, and from the discussions on day one and two, break-out Groups (e.g. Groundwater, Rivers and Lakes, LMEs) will discuss Guidelines for Project Components and Activities based on Knowledge-Based Governance Mechanisms and Scenarios.
  3. Feedback from break-out groups to plenary
  4. Discussion and agreement on summarised Guidelines for Specific Actions within IW Projects for Development and Adoption of KBM Mechanisms in line with IW Management – A Knowledge & Guidance Product for IW LEARN dissemination

1330-1430 Lunch

SESSION VI. GEF PORTFOLIO LEARNING FROM 2014-2018

Objective:

  • Introduce participants to plans for a new suite of GEF portfolio learning projects and the services they may offer to partners

1430-1530      IW:LEARN4, Global LME Governance and other Emerging Portfolio Learning GEF Projects Mish Hamid, GEF IW:LEARN Project

15:30-1600     Workshop Conclusions and Wrap-up