TOGETHERWE MAKE WATER A GLOBAL PRIORITY

OUR WORLD RIGHT NOW

• Water and sanitation crisis and progress

• Food, energy, urbanization, finances, development

• Need for collaboration, understanding, solutions and commitments

TOGETHER WE MAKE WATER A GLOBAL PRIORITY

SECURING WATER ENSURES A BETTER FUTURE FOR THE GENERATIONS TO COME

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A worldwide network with wide-ranging competencies that facilitates water policy dialogues and motivates actions

THE COUNCIL TODAY TOGETHER WE MAKE WATER A GLOBAL PRIORITY

OUR AMBITIONTOGETHER WE MAKE WATER A GLOBAL PRIORITY

EXPLORE

DISCUSS

BRING TOGETHER

Identify future challenges

Raise political awareness

Provide a platform for the water community

Catalyzing collective action during and in between each

World Water Forum

Bringing people together through active hydro-politics

Exploring new ideas

and concepts

FOCUS FOR 2013-2015TOGETHER WE MAKE WATER A GLOBAL PRIORITY

• The United Nations system• National Governments • Parliaments• Local Authorities

Active hydro-politics

A STRATEGIC APPROACH

TOGETHER WE MAKE WATER A GLOBAL PRIORITY

• The Right to Water • Water, Food and Energy • Water for Health and Nature • Climate and water-related disasters • Water, demography and urban development • Water and Green Growth • IWRM

A STRATEGIC APPROACHTOGETHER WE MAKE WATER A GLOBAL PRIORITY

New ideas and concepts

TOGETHER WE MAKE WATER A GLOBAL PRIORITY

The World Water Forum is the largest international event in the field of water.

20,000 registered participants from over 170 countries attended the last edition in

Marseille.

THE WORLD WATER FORUM

THE WORLD WATER FORUMSTOGETHER WE MAKE WATER A GLOBAL PRIORITY

500 (63 countries)

5700 (114 countries)

24,000 (130 coun-tries)

20,000 (150 coun-tries)

25,000 (192 countries)

35,000 (173 countries)

TOGETHER WE MAKE WATER A GLOBAL PRIORITY

THE WORLD WATER FORUMObjectives:

• Gather all stakeholders together to debate questions related to water, its management and access

• Formulate concrete proposals and encourage action and solutions • Solicit true and lasting political commitment

A platform for debates and exchange on questions that are relevant for improved water management and access to water supply and sanitation

An open and constructive place for discusssion

Connecting Political -Technical – NGOs –

Citizens – SH’s

TOGETHER WE MAKE WATER A GLOBAL PRIORITY

THE WORLD WATER FORUMThe Forum is not just a week long event. It necessitates years of preparation to achieve balanced and useful interaction.

Thematic ProcessPolitical processes

Regional Process Science and TechnologyProcess

NEW

TOGETHER WE MAKE WATER A GLOBAL PRIORITY

THE WORLD WATER FORUMChanges are first and foremost of a political nature and must be found by reinforcing dialogue between:

Governments

Parliamentarians Local Authorities

Intergovernmental Organisations / United

Nations

NGOs / Civil Society / Users

Public and Private Companies

Professionals / Scientists / Experts

THE WORLD WATER FORUMTOGETHER WE MAKE WATER A GLOBAL PRIORITY

Thematic Process Commission

Regional Process Commission

Political Process Commission

Science & Technology Process Commission

7th World Water Forum

Secretariat

National Committee(NC)

World Water Council(WWC)

International Steering Committee (ISC)

7th World Water Forum Organizational Structure

Process Commissions

Citizens & Youth ForumExpo & Fair

Water prizes

Side Events

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Political Process: A multi-level approach

Ministerial Process

Parliamentarians Process

Local Authorities Process

Thematic ProcessInput

Regional Process

Input

Declarations & Outputs

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Political Process: Local and Regional Authorities

• Statement from the Budapest Water Summit will provide a sound starting point

• Focus on the post-2015 Development Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals

• Preparation will be carried out through a series of PrepComs

Political Process: Ministerial Conference

Political Process: Parliamentarian Process• Will depend on Regional synergies• Development of a Parliamentarian HelpDesk Mechanism

• Will depend on Regional synergies• Further Development of the Istanbul Water Consensus

ProgressThematic Framework

• Hierarchy

• Theme Progress

• Working Group

• Slogan → Theme → Issue → Session

• Design Group: Theme• Session Group: Issue and Session• Special Group: Special Program

Slogan

Action Goals

Water security for allWater for development and prosper-

ityWater for sustainability : hamoniz-ing humans and nature

Action Tools

Constructing feasible implementa-tion mechanisms

WWF7 Regional Process: Americas

South AmericaNorth AmericaCentral America & Caribbean

Sub Groups

To WWF7: Milestone Americas Meetings

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2013 2014 2015

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

Kick-off Meeting (13-15 May 2013)

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Roadmap

Request for Water Expo and other events

2nd SCM (27-28 Feb. 2014)

7th World Water Forum (12-17 April 2015)

Registration

Call for Side-Events

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2nd SCM (Stakeholders Consultation Meeting)

• Date 27-28 Feb. 2014

• Location Gyeongju, Gyeongbuk Province / Korea

• Objective

• To further detail the current framework and its components

• To identify working groups for content development, program

development, operation & session operation

→ Everyone can get involved.

Program available at https://worldwaterforum7.org/en/Scm/About/Program

worldwaterforum7.org

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