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AguaJaring:South East Asia Network

for Capacity Buildingin IWRM

Dr. Ma. Cecilia G. SorianoFounding Member, AguaJaring Steering

CommitteeTreasurer, PhilCapNet

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Land Area ~4.5 million km2

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*ASEAN population is approx. 4.2 times that of Japan and 1.8 that of the United States.

500 million (8% of world population)

high growth rates (2 – 3% per year)

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Challenges faced on water issues - 1

• Flooding • Water Shortages• Water Pollution • River Sedimentation • Water rights, demand and

allocation• Sanitation

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Challenges faced on water issues - 2

• Governance•Numerous Ministries, Depts &

Agencies•duplication of efforts; gaps•competition and conflict

•Poor integration & coordination among implementing agencies

• Lack of integrated institutional frameworks for water and land development and management

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Challenges on water issues - 3

• Capital expenditures insufficient to meet estimated investment requirements

• Lack of effective cost recovery mechanism for sustainable water resources development

• Inadequate skills & resources • Lack of data & access• Lack of effective mechanism for

stakeholder consultation, participation & representation in decision making

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Background - 1

• SEACAPNET 1st established in 2002, with representatives from the 8 countries, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippine, Thailand and Vietnam. Most are also members of the SC GWPSEA

• Networks from 2002-2006– MyCAPNET – Malaysia, 2002– INACAPNET – Indonesia, 2003– CK-NET – Indonesia, 2005– VietCAPNET - , 2004??

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Background-2• 2nd SEAWF,Bali, Nov 2005, consensus of

capacity builders in the region to revitalize SEACAPNET. The new set up should be– all inclusive and flexible, ie open to any

interested resource persons and resource centres within the region

• Regional Financial Dialogue, Manila, May 2006, capacity builders met and agreed – To rotate the position of SEACAPNET regional

Manager– Malaysia bid for the position and was accepted– Salmah Zakaria, the Director of NAHRIM

(National Hydraulics Research Institute of Malaysia) accepted to facilitate the network as the regional network manager.

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Background – 3 In Kinderdijk, Holland, 18th October 2006

…..seeking inspiration from a millennium ago………….………for the current millennium.

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Founding of AguaJaring• Meeting in Kuala Lumpur in January 2007.• Founding Members of Steering Committee:

Malaysia (4)Philippines (2)Indonesia (1) Vietnam (1)

• New members by invitation:Myanmar (1)Thailand (1)Malaysia (1)

• Observers in Steering Committee Meetings:

Laos (1)

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Objectives of AguaJaring

• To strengthen the overall human and institutional capacity of IWRM in the region;

• To stimulate regional capacity building and promote international cooperation in the field of education, training and research at all levels in IWRM;

• To promote opportunities in training and education in the region;

• To stimulate and strengthen collaborative research in the field of IWRM;

• To promote the generation of resources to support capacity building in IWRM;

• To promote sharing and dissemination of experiences of IWRM.

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Network Governance

Organisational Set-upSC

Coordinator/Facilitator

Network Manager

Secretariat

ThaiCapNet MyCapNet PhilCapNet CKNet

MyanmarCambodiaLaosVietnam

Project Manager

Project Manager

Project Manager

Project Manager

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Regional Training of Trainors

• Legislation and Institutional Arrangements for IWRM (KL, July 2007)

• Capacity Building Needs Assessment (Indonesia, August 2007)

• IWRM and Climate Change (Davao City, Oct 2007)

• IWRM and Gender (Cambodia, Nov 2007)• Economic and Financial Instruments for IWRM

(Bangkok, June 2008)• Capacity Building Network Development and

Management (Bandung, August 2008) • Rainwater Harvesting in IWRM (Davao City,

Nov 2008)

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Global Training of Trainors

• Economic and Financial Instruments for IWRM (Mexico City, May 2007)

• Climate Change and IWRM (Panama City, Aug 2008 and KL, Nov 2008)

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Upcoming Regional Training of Trainors

• Developing Partnerships for Water and Climate Change Adaptation (KL, Dec 2008)

• Rainwater Harvesting (KL, 2009)• Management of Transboundary

Waters (Davao City, Oct 2009)

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Upcoming National and Local TOTsin the Philippines

• Localizing Actions to Adapt to Climate Change (Cordillera, Region 7 and Mindanao, April-June 2009)

• National Workshop on Adaptation to Climate Change (Davao City, Aug 2009)

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AguaJaring Website

• www.aguajaring.org– Resource centres (8)– Resource persons (161)– Training courses (1)– Courses Organized (4)– Digital library (37)– Donors– Countries– Network members (164)– GWP IWRM Tools– IWRM Themes– New submissions– Help– Doc filing system

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Thank You

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