Water and Ocean Governance

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A Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability

"A Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability", jointly prepared by UNDP’s Water & Ocean Governance Programme, IOC/UNESCO, FAO and IMO, contextualizes and sets forth a series of ten tangible proposals to shift the oceans management paradigm towards sustainability, and is more

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A Green Economy in a Blue World

The objective of ‘Green Economy in a Blue World’ is to analyse the challenges and opportunities of a potential transition towards a green economy in key sectors heavily linked to the marine and coastal environment – the blue world.  The report will also analyse the necessary policy and more

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A Human Rights-Based Approach to Water Supply and Sanitation: Background Paper

The background paper explains the main concepts related to the Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA) to development and its application in the water sector as well as the human right to water and sanitation. The paper also identifies some of the challenges in applying an HRBA in the water and more

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A Human Rights-Based Approach to Water Supply and Sanitation: Workshop Report

The report provides a summary of the presentations and the outcomes from a workshop that was held to explore how a human rights-based approach and the human right to water and sanitation can be translated into practice. The workshop sought to exchange experiences and to provide a first step to more

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A Success Story: Kenya - Bondo villagers preserve water as a human right

A project to enhance water governance using a "Human Rights Based Approach", funded by UNDP Kenya and by the UNDP Water Governance Facility at the Stockholm International Water Institute, was piloted in the Nyanza province of Kenya. The project is a success story as villagers in the more

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Beyond Water Bribes: How to Build a Corruption Resistant Water Sector - Poverty Reduction at Risk

Hakan Tropp, UNDP Water Governance Facility and Chair of the Water Integrity Network, delivered the key note speech on Corruption: The Missing Link in Water Governance at the 5th World Water Forum. He stressed that corruption drains development effort, threatens the ability to reach the Millennium more

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CWI: Fostering Water Security and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

The Community Water Initiative (CWI) has funded successful projects in some of the most vulnerable communities in Africa, South Asia, and Central America. The publication highlights case studies that represent the types of projects funded through CWI that have helped foster water security in local more

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Catalysing Ocean Finance

The world’s oceans and coastal areas are an integral part of life on earth. They are under significant threat, whether that be from pollution, overexploita­tion, habitat loss, invasive species, or climate change.   Catalysing Ocean Finance demonstrates that, far from being an intractable more

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Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources in the Pungwe Drainage Basin

This report presents the use a combination of climate and hydrological models to assess the possible consequences of future global warming on the water resources in the Pungwe catchment up until 2050. By generating on information on future trends in water resource availability in the basin the more

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Closing The Loop: Ecological Sanitation for Food Security

This publication presents a shift in the way people think about and act upon human excreta. It notes that Human excreta are a resource not a waste. Ecological sanitation is a "closed loop" approach preventing pollution by recycling nutrients and organic matter. Ecological sanitation is more

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Toward Ocean Recovery

Stress, Sustainability and Development of Large Marine Ecosystems During Climate Change