Daily Updates - 14 November 2013

Report of the Day 4

Joakim Harlin:

Explained the process of SDG consultation and why SDG required. There is a positive correlation among Enabling environmental policies and low and the water resources management actions. So it shows the main need of having enabling environment. Improving water quality and waste water management probably expand the sustainable management. Three aspect of aspirations for sustainable sanitation for all: Universal access to safe water supply and sanitation and hygiene, Sustainable use and development of water resources, Improved water quality and wastewater management. Under three aspect, the targets has been formulated to achieve by 2030. Cross cutting Area of water related disaster apart from that. SDG paper further discussion, and finalizing is planned, and also decided to launch in New York.

Cap-Net is specially mentioned in some other background reports to be involved in capacity development aspects. BUDAPEST summit concluded that there is a urgent consensus for dedicated water goal and also need the looking at climate change and disaster cross cutting areas together with IWRM. It is important to work on how to work on indicators and capacity development within the Cap-Net perspective. Damian suggested that it is good if it can be defined what role and how Cap-Net can be involved in this process, and information passing mechanism on what going on, then as networks they can involve.

National consultation is planned already and GWP is involved. Linking up water people at the national level; and statistical department at the national level is important for Cap-Net. There is a need to be built the capacity in reporting of some of the target areas mentioned in the SDG framework. Some kind of inter-governmental mechanism in regular basis should be established in order to take the monitoring and reporting forward like IPCC.

Neena presentation on How can this be taken into Cap-Net area of work.  Questions were given to discuss in group. Potential areas of interest are;

Questions

1) What is being done in your region?

2) What can your network can do?

3) What can Cap-Net do collectively?

Asia Group

Cap-Net can work with GWP in their region and country offices. Cap-Net has to identify country level needs. Work on all the areas that

Africa Group

Sanitation and sustainable goals, improved water quality are the areas mainly that can be focused. Strong focus on groundwater resources, sustainability. Sanitation in terms of capacity development in SDG, is a strong focus. Issue of determination of outreach has not be addressed. Try work jointly in Africa network level.

Latin America

Working in the relevant thematic areas of the networks and involving in developing indicators

Discussion:

To make formal link, Joakim commented that we have to looking to the ways and means that Cap-Net cooperate while in the process and the cooperation with GWP as mandatory in partnership in consultation process.

Neena suggested the need of formal interactions between GWP and Cap-Net networks to be involved in national and regional level in consultation workshops etc,  If Specifically states in the SDG document, the role of Cap-Net that would help to work in regional and national level.

Themba Gumbo Cap-Net Director presentation on 2014-2017 Cap-Net strategy

Content wise, WOGP and obvereaching UNDP strategy. Concise document provide strategic directions. Details in annual work plan, focus is on network strengthening rather than the delivery, communication framework. Themed as “water knowledge for all” with three strategic goals within the water and ocean governance framework within the UNDP.

Thematic areas included the coastal management strategy as a new theme, and cross cutting areas gender, HRBA, integrity and leadership and diplomacy). Primary and secondary educational programs incorporation is paid attention. 2014-2017 USD14M is allocated excluding the leverage funding.

Discussion: There is a much overlapping of each thematic areas and missing of the specific areas like water supply and sanitation. Since climate change adaptation is presecenecin different themes that can be taken as one theme and subthemes likes disaster risk all, included, and the missing themes needs to be taken in. Question was raised whether we need to look at water energy and nexus.

Water energy food nexus is already we address as IWRM, transboundary issues etc. It also can be look at under Agriculture and water management thematic area.

Group 1: Risk Analysis and Mitigation

• ·      Legitimacy and the relevance of networks required
• ·      Poor communication is a threat to network
• ·      Governance issues
• ·      Funding, governance structure improvement, leadership can address this issues. Network sharing and learning from each other governance mechanisms. (need of resources for sharing among networks)

Group 2: Communication and Results Framework

• ·      Have to be define who are the target group and communication means that should fit to bring the Cap-Net brand in dev elopement agenda and process of its implementation.
• ·      Updated websites.
• ·      Evaluating what happened in the past and how to take the lessons from those.
• ·      Videos production and posting them, sharing.
• ·      Improved communication skills internally and to the outside audience

Group 3: Results and Framework

• ·      Based on outcomes and impacts, rethink the framework, track accomplishment of each theme,
• ·      Dissemination of own forums and in the outline forums,
• ·      Rethink about the MELP – comment was from Lilliana “this is a something new and challenging”.

Group 4: Strengthening networks and fostering partnership

• ·      Funding strategy
• ·      More efficient fund releases
• ·      Key staff and resources for the particular networks for efficient delivery

Working Group presentation

-          Discussions after the 2012 meeting, and meetings continued, and ready for the comments from the networks

-          Core support : specific cost of their own management, improve network visibility, cover meetings, 2500 MELP, network to attend regional or country event,

-          Support for delivery going as it is.

-          Cap-Net strategy allocating Core support is helps to give ownership and increased collaboration.

Recommendation: 

15% is recommended as a core support to the networks. So this should be requested at the end of previous year, for the next year, and also should ensure the deliverables from the network at least 4-5 activities. This 15% remain the same in fluctuation of the total budget. 20% of the total network strengthening is allocated in the strategy to cover the other activities for network strengthening. Network will have their own way of allocating the core-support based on what they going to do.

Comments aroused that there should be some flexibility on 50% percentage for delivery, sometimes it is difficult to provide the leverage funding, so there should be a flexibility. Tamiru has also confirmed the same point that there should be a flexibility of addressing these limitation in getting funding for deliverables.

Damian commented that we have to get work this, because it is the rasing funds for the network, since we are not a funding organization or program, but we are a network. Kees mentioned that we have to show the leverage funding for the funding agent/ donors

Joakim mentioned that there is a real need to show demand driven and sustainable strategy in terms of getting Cap-Net funded and to ensure the local ownership is established.

Callist commented that it sometimes end up in over costing some items to leverage the required funding to get the course done.  Wangai suggested the situation we are having now is acceptable because we manage and demanding from the partners to collaborate.

Engagement with the Private Sector

-          Private sector as recipient of Capacity development

-          Private sector as a  financing partner

-          As a partner for capacity development

-          Private sector as a driver of demand for capacity development

Discussion

Neena commented that there are private sector companies that engage in water sector works, which has the capacity to do training and support  at local level in terms of organizing and financing the courses.

Incentives in the country level for companies to contribute these social works (reduced tax for these social investments) is working to motivate of private sector.  There are some guidelines in UNDP to engaged with private sector.

Low Kwai Sim commented that “I am from the private sector. Big multilateral companies has their part of CSR that use for some other activities, motivate them and negotiation but they might expect many return back to the company indirectly.”

As Cap-Net we need a national legal framework and guidelines to engage in the private sector. And also we should identify as a two level of collaboration, private sector with network and private sector with cap-net

Tandiwe presented on the SSWM toolbox and its use for capacity development in sustainable sanitation and water management . SSWM for prtugeese, and french speaking countries and a development of Beta version. Optimizing business model to incorporate water integrity aspects.

Happy to partner up, create your own SSWM STEP, and own training.

Comments from LA, it is important to have some adaptation to the local level, when we plan the training to be relevant to the local. In Sri Lanka, Galagedara has extensively used this for training and teaching. Water safety plan is also implementing separately, so how this relevance to the water safety plan implementation and use of toolbox for it. The business model is a strong tool for that.

Discussion moderator Kees

We have to think working Group suggestions to incorporate into the work plans and strategy. Continuation of the working group members and if there are new members to be taken, it was asked form the all audience. All agreed to remain to the same working groups. 

Themba suggested that there should be a process of affiliation and disaffiliation. 

Valeria suggested the need of working group for reviewing material and organizing ToTs. Another addition to that was for quality controlling, peer reviewing and all.   Accreditation needs to be done with quality control, before issuing Cap-Net certified certificates for the courses. 

We cannot really reach it within a year, but needs to have the ToR first and to see how we going to do it. Then it was agreed to have a group to initiate it Golam, Jean Marrie, Valeria, 

Dato Lim and Carlos.

Suggestion for a group for Publication/ editorial board, peer review of papers/ etc. Joakim suggested an alternate to hire a consultant to do it, but then Kees suggested even though we hire a person there should be someone engaged in that from the networks to keep the relevance. Amel suggested there is a room to collect and publish a book for case studies on the themes concerning. And also it is possible and useful to support the trainings. Then Low Kwai Sim commented that we should have a virtual library as well. Dora, Low Kwai Sim, Martin