Past activities, achievements and lessons learned

1. GWP CEE Strategy 2009-2013
implementation
Past activities, achievements and lessons learned
Kiev Council meeting 9-10 April 2013
Milan Matuska

2. Past activities related to outcome challenges of
the GWP CEE Strategy 2009-2013
Cooperation with strategic partners
EU Regional strategies
Sustainable sanitation
Public awareness
Challenges, lessons learned, recommendations
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3. UN ECE Water Convention/Protocol on Water
and Health
Co-organization of the working meetings of the national experts in
development of the report on Second Assessment of
Transboundary Rivers and Groundwaters for the Ministerial
Conference on Environment for Europe, Astana, Kazakhstan, in
2011
Co-organization of the side event of the Astana Ministerial Conference
on “Economic growth and water; integrated approach helps”. Two
speakers came on behalf of GWP CEE region – Laszlo Miklos
(Spatial planning as an integrating tool for IWRM plans: experiences
from an EU member state), and Lucka Kajfez Bogataj (Climate
change as a problem of national and international security rather
than an environmental issue)
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4. UN ECE Water Convention/Protocol on Water
and Health
Participation in the work of Expert group on equitable access to water
and sanitation (for marginal ethnics and groups of the population)
Publications:
Brochure on the Protocol on Water and Health: Ensuring Equitable
access to water and sanitation
No one left behind: Good practices to ensure equitable access to
water and sanitation in the pan-European region (February 2012)
Participation in the work of the Expert Group on Small Scale Water
Supply and Sanitation
Publication:
Policy Paper on Small Scale Water Supply and Sanitation for the
pan European Region
Input: Case studies from Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine
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5. UN ECE Water Convention/Protocol on Water
and Health
Participation in the work of Expert Group on monitoring progress in
achieving equitable access to water and sanitation (ongoing
programme)
The first meeting in September 2012
The main task of the members of the Expert Group was to provide
advice through the development and finalization of the scorecard, by
providing comments and inputs to drafts of the scorecard
One of the pilot projects is running in Ukraine
Guarantor of the project: MAMA-86, partner to GWP Ukraine
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6. ICPDR
GWP CEE observer status in ICPDR – regular participation in experts
and Plenary meetings
Yearly celebrations of the Danube Day on 29 June, CWPs participate in
national events – national ministries are guarantors, under the
auspices of ICPDR
Organization of the Danube Stakeholders Forum on 29-30 June in
Bratislava dedicated to the Draft Danube River Basin District
Management Plan
GWP Executive Secretary Ania Grobicki – welcome speech,
moderation of the second day
08910 Letter_Ania Grobicki.pdf
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7. ICPDR
Danube Art Master Competition – creation of artworks related to “water”
or to the Danube River (Basin)
Since 2010, GWP CEE Secretariat (Com. Officer) responsible for
organizing yearly school competitions in the 15 Danube countries
CWPs take part in national committees responsible for selection of the
national winners
At international level the pictures of artworks are collected for
assessment them and selection of the 3 best of them
International winners are determined by ICPDR and consequently
invited to its Plenary meeting for Award Ceremony and handed over
the prizes
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8. WMO
GWP CEE IDMP – Inception report in 2011
Based on Inception report recommendation, the seminar in cooperation
of TEC, WMO and GWPO/GWP CEE organized in Bratislava,
October 2011
Recommendations of the seminar used in development of GWP CEE
IDMP for 2013-2015
Officially declared its launching at High Level Meeting, held in Geneva,
March 2013
Broad discussion on project proposal is expected at the next GWP CEE
Council meeting in Kiev, 9-10 April 2013
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9. EU Regional strategies
Extra attention is paid to the EU Danube Strategy to fill the gaps in
programmes and projects proposed to achieve the Strategy goals –
in cooperation with ICPDR, main partner of GWP CEE in the
Danube region
Priority Area 4 of the EUSDR "To restore and maintain the quality of
waters" – coordinated by Hungary and Slovakia
Priority Area 05 of the EUSDR "To manage environmental risks" –
coordinated by Hungary and Romania
GWP CEE Danube Strategy Task Force (DSTF) works as a host
member in Steering Committee for Pillar 4 (SCP4) and the same is
planned for Pillar 5
At the working meeting at ICPDR Secretariat in Vienna held on 29-30
October, cooperation between ICPDR (observer to SCP4 and
SCP5) agreed
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10. Sustainable sanitation
Questionnaire study – Natural processes for wastewater treatment –
actual status in CEE countries
Main topics of the study:
Geographical information of the country,
General wastewater management questions,
Natural treatment system presence and type in the country,
Policy and legal aspects of natural treatment systems in the country,
Actual country problems (education, planning, financing...) of natural
treatment systems.
Guidebook “Extensive technologies of wastewater treatment”
It is in-process, completion is expected by the end of June 2013
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11. Public awareness
Participation GWP/CWPS in:
World water Days – seminars, workshops, exhibitions (organized
mainly by GWP partners)
Danube Days, cooperation with national ministries responsible for
water management and stakeholders involved
In July 2012, GWP-Ukraine co-organized the Dnieper Public Forum.
Stakeholders’ comments and amendments were included into the
Draft of the Agreement on Dnieper on the river transboundary
cooperation between Belarus, Russia and Ukraine
National/CWPs initiatives focused also on youth generation, e.g.
supported young detectives watching pollution sources of waters,
competitions on the best results to keep clean surrounding areas of
water streams
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12. Challenges, lessons learned, recommendations:
At regional level:
‒ In the course of the year the new aspects arrive which can influence
direction and intensity of the work (new proposals for cooperation,
participation in the programmes, projects)
‒ Flexibility is influenced by capabilities at national/regional levels. How to
improve this, the new regional strategy 2014-2019 could bring relevant
amendments governance in comparison with existing practice and
conditions
‒ This could be partly enhanced if GWP CEE would be granted by legal entity
‒ GWP CEE and GWP TEC have found the way how to cooperate for
achieving synergy effect which can eventuate into the product of
significantly higher quality and broader impact, e.g. in editing and issuing
the Technical Focus paper on sustainable sanitation – this could be a
challenge for both of them
‒ Seek for opportunity for interregional cooperation, especially with CACENA
region
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