Dr Håkan Tropp, Director of the UNDP Water Governance Facility (WGF) at SIWI, gave a key-note presentation on Water Integrity at the International Conference on Fresh Water Governance For Sustainable Development in Drakensberg, South Africa, this Monday September 5. Dr Tropp was also a panelist in the workshop on Promoting Water Integrity in the SADC-region that was held during the conference.

The international conference brings together policy makers, water managers, scientists and civil society, in a forum where new ideas be for the future can be shared, nurtured and developed in order to address the increasing pressure on freshwater resources across the globe. The conference is organised by the Water Research Commission and the Department of Water Affairs in South Africa, and WGF is part of the organising committee for the conference.

Click here to access Dr Tropp’s full presentation “Water Integrity – Where From and Where to?”

Contact
Dr. Håkan Tropp
Director, UNDP Water Governance Facility at SIWI
Phone: +46 8 121 360 40
Email: hakan.tropp@siwi.org

Funded by the Swedish Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), this current project will implement a Regional Capacity Building Programme over a 3 year period to promote and enhance water integrity in sub-Saharan Africa. It is expected that increasing water integrity will directly impact on socio-economic development and poverty reduction. Indeed, unethical practices reduce economic growth, discourage investments, violate human dignity, increase health risks and compromise efforts to reduce poverty. The implementing partners are (1) WGF (2) the Stockholm International Water Institute – SIWI, (3) the Water Integrity Network – WIN, and (4) Cap-Net in collaboration with WaterNet.

Through partnership with ECOWAS, EAC-Lake Victoria Basin Commission and SADC, the programme targets water sector stakeholders (those responsible for the management of water resources and for integrated water supply and sanitation services) at regional, basin and national levels who are responsible for regulation, controlling, planning, policy development and decision making. It also targets stakeholders that are less directly involved in water management, but have a key role in strengthening or demanding accountability, such as water users associations, advocacy organisations and the media.

Generally, ECOWAS, EAC and SADC countries have committed themselves to integrity and accountability through good governance and the promotion of transparency and accountability.  Their secretariats, together with the implementing partners of this programme, will reinforce the regional efforts to bolster integrity at all levels in the water management and service delivery chain.

Project info

• Link and resrouces: http://www.watergovernance.org/integrity/SSA
• Project team: James Leten, Maria Jacobson, Marianne Kjellen, Ana Cascao, Rami Abdel Rahman
• Client and partners: ECOWAS, EAC-Lake Victoria Basin Commission, and SADC. Implemented by Water Integrity Network  (WIN), Capnet and WaterNet
• Financed by Sida
• Timeline: July 2011-June 2014