Stockholm International Water Institute » Gunilla Björklund http://www.siwi.org Water Wise World Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 The Human Right to Water and Sanitation http://www.siwi.org/publication/the-human-right-to-water-and-sanitation/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/the-human-right-to-water-and-sanitation/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:48:38 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/the-human-right-to-water-and-sanitation/ Access to water and sanitation as human rights has gained growing attention over the last few years at a global level, increasingly engaging the water sector and the international community in discussions regarding its content and implications. Human rights standards help orient policy-making towards focusing on the poorest and most marginalised groups in society and towards ensuring fair and equal access to water. By establishing a legal framework, defining who is responsible for fulfilling the right, and promoting pro-poor and non-discriminatory service provision, human rights standards can effectively strengthen poverty reduction efforts.

This Policy Brief aims to identify basic challenges in implementing the human right to water and sanitation, and to guide decision-makers in some of the priorities that need to be agreed to secure safe, acceptable and accessible water for domestic purposes for everyone.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/the-human-right-to-water-and-sanitation/feed/ 0 Water Management in Developing Countries: SIWI Recommendation for EU Development Co-operation http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-management-in-developing-countries-siwi-recommendation-for-eu-development-co-operation/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-management-in-developing-countries-siwi-recommendation-for-eu-development-co-operation/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:29:49 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-management-in-developing-countries-siwi-recommendation-for-eu-development-co-operation/ The European Commission, in preparing a communication to the Council and the Parliament on Water and Development, is using this report prepared by SIWI in 2001 as background documentation. Topics covered include amongst many: water resources challenges, EC development cooperation in water resources, water in the development policies of EU member states and international organisations.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-management-in-developing-countries-siwi-recommendation-for-eu-development-co-operation/feed/ 0 Water Security: Opportunity for Development and Co-operation in the Aral Sea Area http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-security-opportunity-for-development-and-co-operation-in-the-aral-sea-area/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-security-opportunity-for-development-and-co-operation-in-the-aral-sea-area/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:29:43 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-security-opportunity-for-development-and-co-operation-in-the-aral-sea-area/ Co-convened by the Swedish section of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the Stockholm International Water Institute, this seminar held in August 2000 presented ongoing framework programs, research work and future-looking methodologies to reach water security in the Aral Sea region.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-security-opportunity-for-development-and-co-operation-in-the-aral-sea-area/feed/ 0 Water and Development in Developing Countries http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-and-development-in-developing-countries/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-and-development-in-developing-countries/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:27:20 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-and-development-in-developing-countries/ This report offered the European Parliament background information and recommendations for formulating long term strategies and short term policies to aid developing countries to prepare and implement policies. The key message is that policy and strategy must be possible to translate into feasible programmes and projects that can be executed and lead to efficient, equitable and ecologically sound water resources management.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-and-development-in-developing-countries/feed/ 0 Water Security for Multi-National Water Systems http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-security-for-multi-national-water-systems/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-security-for-multi-national-water-systems/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:27:11 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-security-for-multi-national-water-systems/ “Equitable utilisation” between upstream and downstream users in international river basins was discussed during the SIWI Seminar in August 2000. The proceedings contain presentations addressing foreseeable changes in water demands, water resources development, and land use conversions driven by aspects such as population growth, urbanisation, industrialisation and income generation needs.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-security-for-multi-national-water-systems/feed/ 0 Water for the Next 30 Years: Averting the Looming Water Crisis http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-for-the-next-30-years-averting-the-looming-water-crisis/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-for-the-next-30-years-averting-the-looming-water-crisis/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:23:45 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-for-the-next-30-years-averting-the-looming-water-crisis/ The Mar del Plata Anniversary Seminar aimed at analysing the impact that the Mar del Plata Conference in 1977 has had on improving water management, and in what way ensuing thinking has continued to change our water perception, and to address the main issues of the next 30 years. The Seminar was to build a bridge between on the one hand successes and failures of past decades, and on the other the conceptual development, efforts and strategies needed for the next thirty years, and policy options available to avert the looming water crisis.

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