Place: Alterra, Lumen Building, Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, 6708PB Wageningen
Date and time: from 12h00 on 17th December 2012
Moderator: Henk van Schaik, Board Member Water Integrity Foundation
Registration: Please register for the Open Lunch Seminar by mail with your name and contact details.
Invitation
Delta Alliance and the Water Integrity Network are jointly organizing an informal lunch seminar on ‘Integrity issues in relation to water and food’.
The lunch seminar will be followed by a more restricted dialogue meeting with interested persons and institutional partners with a view to discussing the concept and preparations for the Water Integrity Forum which will take place in June 2013.
Background
The Water Integrity Network (WIN) in partnership with UNESCO-IHE and the Water Governance Centre are developing a concept and programme for a Water Integrity Forum that is expected to take place during the first or second week of June 2013. UNESCO-IHE has offered the use of its conference facilities for the purpose. Several other organizations such as the GWP, SIWI, IRC-International Water and Sanitation Centre, and OECD have indicated their interest to support this initiative.
As part of engagement of WIN in a number of countries and support for this from DGIS/DME, BMZ, SDC and Sida, WIN has initially focused more strongly on integrity and corruption in drinking water provision. WIN has recently started to work more in the important area of integrity in water management and food, which is also related to the nexus of water, food and energy, or water and the green economy. Deltas and river basins where urban and economic growth are strongest are spaces where the drivers of corruption are strong, the priority to contain the phenomenon should be highest, and where water integrity can make the greatest difference.
It is in this context that the Delta Alliance and the Water Integrity Network are jointly organizing the informal open lunch seminar and the more restricted dialogue meeting with interested persons and institutional partners with a view to discussing the concept and preparations for the Water Integrity Forum.
Programme:
First part: Open lunch seminar (Room Lumen 1)
12h00 Opening statements on relevance of the topic from participants, Wim v Driel, Jeroen Warner, Rutger Boelens
12h10 Presenting WIN – Ravi Narayan (Chair) and Teun Bastemeijer (Director)
12h25 Integrity issues in the water for food: The supply chain – Dr. Håkan Tropp, Member WIN International Steering Committee and Director UNDP Water Governance Facility at SIWI
12h40 Moderated discussion; respondents Maarten Gischler, Petra Hellegers, Cees van den Guchte, Kathy Shordt, Maarten Hofstra, Sjef IJzermans plus audience.
13h00 Break
Second part: Dialogue meeting with interested partners (Wolterson Room) Chair: Ravi Narayanan
13h30 State of preparation of the Water Integrity Forum: Concept and process
• Introduction of the concept of the Forum(Summary: Power Point)
• Brainstorming regarding about sector and sub-sector integrity issues and challenges, experiences, scale and scope of future engagement, guidance on engagement through networks and other partnerships (Dutch based initiatives combined with international engagement), tools, communications, capacity building
14h30 Capitalizing on knowledge and practices: Exploring interest and roles of interested partners (Delta Alliance-GWP, WGC, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, UNESCO-IHE)
15h00 Summary and conclusions
Registration
Please register for the Open Lunch Seminar by mail with your name and contact details.
