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Elaboration of a methodology for monitoring water policies
The desire to
improve the performance of development programmes and
policies has imposed to devote greater attention to the
collection and treatment of information on ongoing
advancement and obtained results. Governments and the donor
community are increasingly called to put in place a uniform
and consistent system to monitor the impacts of
water-related policies and investments. Moreover, the
decision- and policy-making bodies need to expand the
sources from which to draw information on the results of the
water strategies. Overall figures are also required for
advocacy and awareness purpose. Measuring the impact and
performance of water policies is then
essential, in order to track their implementation and
promote the integration of various initiatives into
comprehensive development frameworks.
Since several organisations
have been asked to provide this kind of data at different
degree of aggregation, conflicts among objectives and
methodologies have arisen.
There is the need to comply with
expectations at each level of implementation that are so
diverse that monitoring efforts have to consider different
levels of data collection and aggregation. IPALMO is being
promoting with FAO a project that will explicitly address
such issues.
The project will develop a methodology that would be adapted to the needs of monitoring policies and projects in
developing countries and can be implemented to evaluate
advancements towards MDGs and WSSD targets in the field of
water. This process is aimed at both guaranteeing greater
support to the initiatives being implemented, and improving
the formulation of the subsequent policies and strategies,
through a “learning circle” informed by the lessons drawn
from previous and ongoing activities.
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Leadership of the EUWI Monitoring and Reporting Working Group
 Since September 2004, IPALMO has assumed,on behalf of the European Commission and the Italian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, the leadership of the Monitoring and Reporting
Working Group of the EU
Water Initiative (EUWI). The objective of the project is
to outline an effective M/R s\ystem for monitoring progress
made in implementing the EUWI’s set objectives and measuring
the contribution of the EUWI towards the water-related MGDs.
Existing international systems for monitoring and reporting
on the MDGs and WSSD targets provide information on overall
progress and are an input to the EUWI M/R system as one
measure to ensure that the EU contribution goes in the right
direction.
The M/R WG is open to all those having expressed their
interest in the M/R field and who like to actively
contribute to the working group. Representatives of donors,
recipients and international organisations leading M/R
systems with which the EUWI M/R system interfaces take part
actively to the WG. Among them,
Denmark, Greece,
Japan, Spain,
United Kingdom,
UNDESA, WHO, UNICEF, WWC, WWF, IRC,
EU Water Facility.
Membership is open to interested parties who choose to actively
participate and
commit time and effort to attend meetings, perform tasks and
contribute to the activities of the WG.
See the official web page of the EUWI Monitoring
and Reporting
Download the
2005 Stockholm
presentation
Download the 2006 Stockholm presentation
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Organisation of an Italian Session at the 4th
World Water Forum
 Building on the brillant exercise carried out at the
Third World Water
Forum in Kyoto, IPALMO manages, on behalf of the Italian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a project for launching and
coordinating a national partnership for organising an
Italian Session at the
Fourth World Water Forum, to be held in Mexico City in
March 2003.
The baseline document “Environmental Vulnerability,
Monitoring and Governance of Risk Prevention Systems in the
Water Sector”, realised under the
supervision of IPALMO, will be presented during the Italian
Session.
The interest towards monitoring water policies comes, most
of all, by its high potential as an instrument of water
risks reduction : difficult access, bad quality of water,
scarcity, environmental disasters. Since vulnerability, as
recognised by international literature, comes from the
combination of risk exposure and coping capacity, an
attentive monitoring of forward looking policies, aiming at
risks reduction in the long period, doubtless represents a
fundamental best practice of a more effective risk
management in the field of water, seen as a determinant
resource for the future vulnerability of the weakest local
systems.
The creation of new instruments for a more rational
management of water resources represents, then, a
fundamental condition not only for the achievement of
sustainable water systems, but also for the enforcement of
the necessary “good governance” without which all the
problems relating with water management and, more in general,
with environmental problems, will keep on representing a
serious threat to the stability of most developing countries.
In this sense, the reflection on the exportability and
transferability of such models and tools for a more
efficient management of water resources represents a
fundamental crossroad on which a deeper reflection cannot be
avoided.
New!
Official
Italian Document presented at Mexico City
New!
List of
Italian Local Actions
New!
Analytical
framework of vulnerability and risk management
New!
Flyer of the
Italian session
New!
Executive
summary of the Italian document
New!
Picture gallery of the Italian
session
Official page of the
Umbrella Local Action
MAE – MATT
Official page of the Local Action MAE – IPALMO
Concept Paper
of the Umbrella Local Action
Road Map of the Initiative
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