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Leadership Perspectives in a Global Context

Presented by:

Dr Mark Dent

University of KwaZulu-Natal Extended Learning

Umgeni Water Senior Leadership Development Programme

8 September 2016

Water plays a central role in all 17 UN Sustainable Development

Goals

World Economic Forum’s 2015 report on Global Risks placed water

at No. 1.

What does it mean to lead in such a complex space?

What strategic game changers are leaders creating, particularly in

the uMngeni catchment?

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2015

RESPONSES

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Two parts to RISK

Event

Response

Systemic

event

Governance Unit Water Rights according to

Multiple National Governments Common Property

National Government State property

River basin commission Delegated authority

Sub-national governments State property

Community or Association Common Property

Individual Private Property

Legal Response

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− Seen from space, there are no boundaries in the earth’s system

− Boundaries exist only in our minds

− Our individual rationality is bounded by our cognitive space

− We address a water issue in our cognitive space and the consequences flow beyond our cognitive space

− Most problems related to water are created by other peoples “solutions”

− Supply chains … risk

− Land grabs ……………….water grabs

Respond by putting in boundaries & structures

It is somebody elses responsibility .... !!

• It is “the water sector’s” business

• There is no such thing as “the water sector”

• Water is everyone’s business

• UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Water in the UN Water in the UN Water in the UN Water in the UN Sustainable Development GoalsSustainable Development GoalsSustainable Development GoalsSustainable Development Goals

Global Responses

• World Economic Forum Global Risks Report

• Reporting; disclosure; risk tools

• UN SDGs

• 2030 Water Resources Group

• 100 Resilient Cities

• Alliance for Water Stewardship International Standard

• Google Earth Outreach

• Making All Voices Count

• Citizen Science

• The Gold Standard 3.0

IS BUSINESS “GETTING IT”?IS BUSINESS “GETTING IT”?IS BUSINESS “GETTING IT”?IS BUSINESS “GETTING IT”?15

In 2014

68% reported water as a

substantive business risk

75% reported opportunities

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Global Responses

• World Economic Forum Global Risks Report

• Reporting; disclosure; risk tools• UN SDGs

• 2030 Water Resources Group

• 100 Resilient Cities

• Alliance for Water Stewardship International Standard

• Google Earth Outreach

• Making All Voices Count

• Citizen Science

• The Gold Standard 3.0

Global Responses

• World Economic Forum Global Risks Report

• Reporting; disclosure; risk tools

• UN SDGs• 2030 Water Resources Group

• Alliance for Water Stewardship International Standard

• Google Earth Outreach

• Making All Voices Count

• Citizen Science

• The Gold Standard 3.0

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Water in the UN Water in the UN Water in the UN Water in the UN Sustainable Development GoalsSustainable Development GoalsSustainable Development GoalsSustainable Development Goals

Global Responses

• World Economic Forum Global Risks Report

• Reporting; disclosure; risk tools

• UN SDGs

• 2030 Water Resources Group• 100 Resilient Cities

• Alliance for Water Stewardship International Standard

• Google Earth Outreach

• Making All Voices Count

• Citizen Science

• The Gold Standard 3.0

2030 Water Resources Group is a unique public-private-civil society collaboration.

Facilitates open, trust-based dialogue processes to drive action on water resources

reform in water stressed countries in developing economies.

Global partners include:-

• bilateral agencies (Sida and SDC),

• private companies (Nestlé, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Grundfos, Dow, SABMiller),

• development banks (IFC, the World Bank, African Development Bank, Inter-American

Development Bank),

• INGOs and IGPs (UNDP, GGGI, GWP, the Forum, BRAC and IUCN).

2030 WRG launched in 2008 at the World Economic Forum

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Global Responses

• World Economic Forum Global Risks Report

• Reporting; disclosure; risk tools

• UN SDGs

• 2030 Water Resources Group

• 100 Resilient Cities• Alliance for Water Stewardship International Standard

• Google Earth Outreach

• Making All Voices Count

• Citizen Science

• The Gold Standard 3.0

Cape Town

Durban

Global Responses

• World Economic Forum Global Risks Report

• Reporting; disclosure; risk tools

• UN SDGs

• 2030 Water Resources Group

• Alliance for Water Stewardship International Standard• Google Earth Outreach

• Making All Voices Count

• Citizen Science

• The Gold Standard 3.0

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FOUNDING PARTNERS

Mission is to promote responsible use of freshwater that is :-

• socially and economically beneficial;• environmentally sustainable

• The AWS Standard is the result of an international, four-year, ISEAL compliant, multi-stakeholder process which responded to the growing need for evidence of robust water risk and impact mitigation efforts.

Two parts to RISK

Event

Response

Systemic

event

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Global Responses

• World Economic Forum Global Risks Report

• Reporting; disclosure; risk tools

• UN SDGs

• 2030 Water Resources Group - World Bank Group

• 100 Resilient Cities

• Alliance for Water Stewardship International Standard

• Google Earth Outreach• Making All Voices Count

• Citizen Science

• The Gold Standard 3.0

http://www.google.co.za/earth/outreach/

Global Responses

• World Economic Forum Global Risks Report

• Reporting; disclosure; risk tools

• UN SDGs

• 2030 Water Resources Group

• Alliance for Water Stewardship International Standard

• Google Earth Outreach

• Making All Voices Count• Citizen Science

• The Gold Standard 3.0

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• DFID

• USAID

• SIDA

• Open Society Foundation

• Others

Global Responses

• World Economic Forum Global Risks Report

• Reporting; disclosure; risk tools

• UN SDGs

• 2030 Water Resources Group

• Alliance for Water Stewardship International Standard

• Google Earth Outreach

• Making All Voices Count

• Citizen Science• The Gold Standard 3.0

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Global Responses

• World Economic Forum Global Risks Report

• Reporting; disclosure; risk tools

• UN SDGs

• 2030 Water Resources Group

• Alliance for Water Stewardship International Standard

• Google Earth Outreach

• Making All Voices Count

• Citizen Science

• The Gold Standard 3.0

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South African Responses

Rainfall in the

1998 NWA

DWS

Rest of the water

is everybody’s business

1960

1980

2004

DWAF

DWAF

DWAF

Stakeholder skills

Knowledge power balance ?

Issues

Truncated by terms of reference

New LawOld law

Sector focus Inter-sectoral focus

Connect it !

Player/ policeman Coach/ facilitator / referee

Oversimplify Acknowledge complexity

IsolationNeighbourly

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All

Sectors

engaging each

other

over water ,

under DWS’s

oversight

1998 NWA started movement to collective engagement by all sectors of society

CMAs

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All Sectors

engaging each other

over water, under

DWA’s oversight

DWANational Water Resources Strategy NWRS

CMABoard

Sector

advisors

Sector

advisors

Sector

advisorsSector

advisors

Sector

advisors

Sector

advisors

Sector

advisors

2005

Incomati Catchment Management Agency formed

2011

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Chair

DWS

New members joined

Strategic Water Partners Network

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Power relations map for stakeholders

Strategic Water Partners Network

members supporting CMA stakeholders

DWS

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Local Responses

So where is the game changer that I promised ?

Why is the uMngeni catchment important ?

Cannot manage water per se, ….. can only

influence people’s behaviour in relation to water.

Hydro-social territories

Ecosystem services

50% of uMngeni ecosystem services are lost

urban greening could substantially improve many of the water-based

ecosystem services, …. catchment management needs to

engage in greening urban infrastructure, particularly in the uMngeni catchment,

where some 22% of the land cover is either urban or rural settlement.

This fraction is set to increase.

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To restore ecosystem services

will require new behaviours

…… who will these cost & who

benefit & who will pay

How well are we equipped for what is needed

in this “cloud” of activity ?

Your businesses

• Know the system of actions & connections

• Evaluate the actions

• Monitor the actions

• Reward the actions fairly

• Transaction costs of carrying out the above

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Present Waste wash off

Spilling sewer

Future

Cycle path

Job Creation • Water harvesting --- urban

agriculture

• Cycle pathway and stream

servitude greening & maintenance

• Sewer monitoring

Mpophomeni Enviro-Champs

Note sewer manholes along

stream banks

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Local Responses

urban runoff water seen as a nuisance rather than a resource

Turning our city around to face its streams

• Job creation – cycle paths and clearing & maintenance along stream banks

• Jobs in urban food systems –WATER HARVESTING

• Jobs in Safety - policing stream paths on cycles

• Jobs in Health – monitoring pollution—sewage & storm trash

• Youth energy – cycling; monitoring; social media learning; sport

• Job creation

• Youth

Public Sector –potential involvement

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DUCT

WESSA

MIDI

Eco-schools

GroundTruth ..mini SASS

Taxi -Wi-Fi

Taxi TV

INR

Water Harvesting

Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems

Agriculture at UKZN

LIMA

Chamber of Business

Insurance Xenophobia

Dusi Canoe Marathon

DFID –Making all Voice

Google Outreach

Cycling.. Mountain Bikes

Pick N Pay

Edendale Mall

Hulamin

Illovo

Belgotex

Trail Running

Comrades ..Youth Outreach

Food Security

Wildlands Cons Trust

Re-cycling and Bike making

Indigenous Veg

Private Sector & NGO –potential involvement

Edendale Mall

Artificial Wetland -- harvest to harvest

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Problematic

manholes

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Surcharging sewer at mPophomeni –

30/10/2013 – 5 months plus – near Baba

Cele’s house (DUCT Enviro-Champion

Foam on Midmar Eastern Shores 26th February 2013 Eutrophication - 26th October 2013 – Where mThinzima stream enters Midmar

Hartebeestpoort dam after the collapse

2013

Algae at Midmar today after the rain. At the slipway. Any suggestions?

It looks very much like Microcystis, (blue green algae), and what we regularly encounter on the top end of Inanda Dam.

A classic indicator of eutrophication !!

What to do ?

Fix up the problems in the catchment especially around nutrient sources.

The Enviro-champs work becomes even more important

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Deeper Learning and TransformationsDeeper Learning and TransformationsDeeper Learning and TransformationsDeeper Learning and Transformations

• Connections

• Self Identity change ……& learning follows identity

• Self image

• Tap into emotions

• Generate a sense of … “US” and “we” • Create HOPE

• Reveal DIRECTION

• Business

• Government

• Civil Society

LEADERSHIP

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Final Checklist

• Know the system of actions & connections

• Evaluate the actions

• Monitor the actions

• Reward the actions fairly

•Transaction costs of carrying out the above