{"id":2430,"date":"2013-05-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/cacena\/news\/gwp-cacena-attended-49th-meeting-of-board-of-governors-of-the-world-water-council\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:22:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:22:37","slug":"gwp-cacena-attended-49th-meeting-of-board-of-governors-of-the-world-water-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/cacena\/news\/gwp-cacena-attended-49th-meeting-of-board-of-governors-of-the-world-water-council\/","title":{"rendered":"GWP CACENA attended 49th meeting of Board of Governors of the World Water Council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first part of the BoG meeting was addressed to the administrative  and governance issues of the WWC. The WWC President, Mr. Ben Braga  presented the Activities Report for February-May 2013, which was  approved by BoG. Mr. Henk Sterk was adopted by BoG for the position of  Executive Director of the World Water Council.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hydropolitics: At the 65th Session of the UN General Assembly, held  in New York in September 2010, governments called for accelerating  progress towards achieving the MDGs, and for thinking about ways to  advance the UN development agenda beyond 2015. In response, the UN  undertook several initiatives aimed at developing a Post-2015  Development Agenda and invited WWC to contribute to this process. The  WWC BoG agreed to form a Task Force on Water for Inclusion in Post-2015  Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was agreed that Task Force will conduct global consultations using a number of incoming events in 2013:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The WWC has been invited to be part of the High-level Conference on  Water Cooperation organized in August 2013 by the Government of  Tajikistan jointly with UN institutions. The BoG appointed Mr. Jerome  Delli-Priscoli to represent WWC at this conference and highlight issues  towards SDGs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The WWC has engaged in organizing the Budapest Water Summit together  with the United Nations System, which will be held in October 2013. It  was agreed that Task Force will submit in Budapest concept on Water for  Inclusion in Post-2015 SDGs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Exploring New Ideas and Concepts: The BoG agreed to conduct the following Programmes under umbrella of WWC:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Water and Green Growth &#8211; will be led by Dogan Altinbek. <strong>Dr.  Hong Il Pyo suggested and BoG agreed to include the Aral Sea  Basin  project initiated by GGGI and GWP CACENA as a case study to the  programme.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Water, Food and Energy &#8211; will be led by Xavier Ursat<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Water and Food Security &#8211; will be led by Ricardo Andrade<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; IIASA Future Water Scenarios &#8211; will be led by Bill Cosgrove<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>IWRM &#8211; will be led by Torkil Jonch-Clausen. Torkil and  Vadim Sokolov have suggested and BoG agreed to invite GWP to lead this  programme.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BoG agreed to start consultations on the above-listed programmes  during coming events &#8211; the 1st&nbsp; World Irrigation Summit in Turkey and  Stockholm Water Week<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Following up The 6th World Water Forum. The Governors&nbsp; discussed the  projects financed with remaining funds from the 6th Forum as well as on  what type of investment and follow-up is needed for the Platform of  Solutions and Commitments.&nbsp; It was agreed&nbsp; that&nbsp; the&nbsp; Council&nbsp; analyze&nbsp;  the&nbsp; existing&nbsp; solutions&nbsp; and&nbsp; investigate&nbsp; the&nbsp; ones&nbsp; proposed&nbsp; from&nbsp; a  technical viewpoint as well as a political one. The Task Force was  created and will report back at the next Board meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 8th WORLD WATER FORUM The Board of Governors had previously  approved the following four candidate countries to 8th Forum: Brazil,  Denmark, Qatar, and the Russian Federation. On 5 March the Secretariat  received a note from the representative of Qatar about withdrawing their  candidacy, therefore the Selection Commission conducted the  informational sessions with the representatives of Brazil (1  representative), Denmark (5 representatives) and the Russian Federation  (3 representatives). The Commission is tentatively planning to conduct  the site evaluations in July and report back to the next BoG meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 7th WORLD WATER FORUM: The International&nbsp; Steering&nbsp; Committee&nbsp;  (ISC) was formed including 16 persons. Four commissions for the 7th WWF  preparations were formed under umbrella of WWC:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Political Process Commission&nbsp; Co-Chairman: Andr\u00e1s Sz\u00f6ll\u00f6si-Nagy &#8211; UNESCO- IHE<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Thematic Process Commission Co-Chairman: Mark Smith &#8211; IUCN.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Regional Process Commission Co-Chairman: Torkil Jonch-Clausen &#8211; Danish Hydraulic Institute<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Science and Technology Commission Co-Chairman: Glen Daigger &#8211; International Water Association.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The next Board meeting is planned to be held in October jointly with the Budapest Water Summit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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