Information & Consultation Services
- Offer useful information and consultation services for sustainable TW management for countries
- Engineering and technical advising
- Environmental consultation
- “Opening” information
- Encouraging the sharing of information
- Facilitating “informed” water management
- COLLECTING INFORMATION
- Scientific facts
- Mutual facts
- Rumours
- Beliefs
- Attitudes
- Assumptions
- ORGANIZING INFORMATION
- Cultural & religious traditions
- Area & boarders
- Political ideologies
- Conflicts & history
- Media
- Relationship between national & global
- CONNECTING INFORMATION
- Inter-linkages between different aspects
- Understanding the whole picture
EXAMPLES OF DIFFERENT ASPECTS
SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT: INFO & ASPECTS
- Experiences on transboundary issues
- Peoples’ needs
- Reasons for opposition and resistance (not always environmental!)
CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT: INFO & ASPECTS
- Behavior
- Political culture (getting support by joining people’s opinions)
- Media: sensational or objective?
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL: INFO & ASPECTS
- Synergy between industry & community
- BAT and beyond that
- Monitoring
- Scenarios
- Biological & geographical background
ECONOMICAL BACKGROUND: INFO & ASPECTS
- Who uses water and for what?
- Municipal
- Industry
- Agriculture & food production
- Navigation
POLITICAL: INFO & ASPECTS
- Institutions in transboundary area: weak or strong; i.e. courruption rate
- Political culture
- Geopolitics
- Relations between different institutions in the riparian countries (both national and transboundary level) -> How well different stakeholders communicate? Is the lack of communication due to cultural behavior? Hierarchies? I.e. governmental officials & private sector do not communicate or cooperate in some cultures.
Promotion
- Promoting fair TW usage
- Publish a journal on TW matters
Education & Research
- Scientific research
- Assisting with education (in Universities): courses, seminars, theses (bachelor, master, doctoral)
- Offering and education programme on TW issues: doctoral theses, post grad school?
Crisis Management
- Suggesting dispute resolving strategy
- Work with riparian countries to preserve culture & environment in TW areas
- Offer conflict-solving services for countries: CMI provides?
Legislations & Governance
- Promoting UN Water Convention as a framework for regional agreements?
- Give advice to river basin organizations about TW agreements
- Assist in creating sustainable water policies & technical policies
- Legal advicing: How to update and implement the environmental laws? How to intergrate the UN Convention into local legislation?
- Assist in institutional strengthening
- Basin commissions?
- “Water bodies”
Here, also an active part could be implemented:
- Initiating states to ratify UN Water Convention
- Organizing a governmental summit creating proceedings around TW issues; creating a TW protocol (compare with climate change issues and global activity there!)
Platform
All above-mentioned actions are necessary for a global platform. TWC would work as a connecting platform in different TW issues:
- Helping the exchange of ideas and views: governmental level decision making (politics, science)
- Organizing seminars, meetings, events for different TW actors (countries, industry…)
- Facilitating participation on a local and regional level
- Organizing negotiations between riparian states in TW areas (especially due to conflicts)
- Meetings between (TW-) riparian countries’ governments (this could be the summit mentioned under Governance-topic)
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