Share your experience, contribute to the development of the WATER INTEGRITY Global Outlook 2015 Evidence, Trends, & Best Practices for policy, advocacy and collective action The Water Integrity Global Outlook 2015 will be an authoritative survey of issues and best practices in water integrity supporting evidence-based advocacy, policy-making and collective action. Coordinated by 8 international partners, the Global Outlook is a collaborative platform to exchange experiences in promoting water integrity worldwide. It will focus on key topics debated in the sector today, including: river basin management, integrity in water and sanitation, policy, tools and ICT developments, advocacy campaigns, and capacity development. The results of this international collaboration will be published in the second half of 2015. The Water Integrity Global Outlook will show that water integrity is essential to improving effectiveness, equity and impact of water sector projects and developments. Help us make the case. Share evidence of the impact of lack of integrity and the potential of more integrity. Share your best practices to promote and strengthen water integrity. [email protected] @WaterIntegrityN www.waterintegritynetwork.net 2 OUTLINE Section I Chapter 1 Context This chapter will include Share your experience Chapter 2 Context This chapter will include Share your experience 3 Water Integrity ~ Where do stand? Post GCR 2008, Where Do We Stand Now? The Global Corruption Report (GCR) on water, published in 2008 by Transparency International and WIN, was a major milestone for water integrity. It decisively helped publicize the devastating impact of corruption and put water integrity on the international agenda. • • Impact of the GCR for water integrity Lessons learned from the publication of the GCR What was the impact of the GCR on the water sector? In your experience, has corruption increased since its publication? Integrity Terminologies ~ Definitions and Debates The term water integrity has been the object of a lively debate over the past years. Water integrity has been established as one element of good water governance, and there is wide agreement that it refers to the way people and institutions govern and manage scarce water resources. The chapter is a contribution to an emerging common understanding of water integrity. • • Definitions and debates Development of common ground to enable collective action How should we define water integrity? Chapter 3 Context This chapter will include Share your experience Main Water Integrity Concerns The water sector is particularly vulnerable to corruption and lack of integrity, for instance because of dispersed decision-making, monopolistic structures, and the large-scale investments it requires. Corruption and lack of integrity can take on many forms and tend to be the least systematically addressed governance challenges. Their effect is nonetheless pervasive on all aspects of the water sector, with dire consequences for the poorest. • • Modus operandi of corrupt practices in water Key integrity risks, challenges and related priorities What are the biggest water integrity concerns and why? 4 Section II Enhancing Water Integrity ~ What do we know? Chapter 4 Context This chapter will include Policy Coordination, River Basin Management and IWRM One challenge of river basin governance is to conciliate numerous competing water demands. This requires high-level planning processes as well as international coordination in some cases. Improving integrity often requires improving coordination between policy areas and jurisdictions. • • • Share your experience Chapter 5 Context This chapter will include How can we enhance integrity in the complex interplay of institutions and stakeholders involved in river basin governance? Urban Water Management By 2025, half of the world’s population is expected to live in cities of one million or more inhabitants. This is bound to deepen or spark the development of integrity issues related to availability and quality of drinking water and sanitation services, pollution and overextraction of surface and ground-water, disaster management, and waste water management. • • • • Share your experience 5 River Basin Management and IWRM as approaches to improve integrity Water diplomacy as a means to improve integrity The potential of environmental policy to enhance integrity Integrity in urban water and sanitation services (public and private utilities), including Human Rights based approaches Integrity and urban water infrastructure Cities and pollution: waste, waste water, and water integrity City dynamics: maintaining integrity in urbanization How can integrity be ensured in urban water management? Chapter 6 Context This chapter will include WRM and Access to Water and Sanitation in Rural Areas Even today, hundreds of millions of people do not have access to water and sanitation services, including in rural areas and conflict zones. Projects aimed at achieving universal access to water and sanitation as well as water resource management (WRM) processes in such contexts are often characterized by significant involvement of donor agencies and charities. • • • Share your experience Chapter 7 Context This chapter will include What contributes most to increasing water integrity in rural contexts? Sectoral approaches Over the last years, approaches have been developed to address integrity challenges in relation to big water users and economic sectors with a major stake in or impact on water resources and water governance. • • • • Share your experience Integrity in water access and water and sanitation services in rural areas, including Human Rights based approaches Integrity in rural water resource management, including infrastructure and integrity of water resources Integrity in the context of humanitarian interventions and disaster relief operations Protocols and approaches for development agencies, development banks and financial institutions Integrity for hydropower and multi-purpose dams Integrity and extractive industries Integrity and agriculture, licensing for irrigation Do you have examples of ways to enhance water integrity through sectoral approaches? 6 Section III Chapter 8 Context This chapter will include Enhancing Water Integrity ~ What can we do? Integrity Tools A rich suite of tools have been developed over the past decade, equipping integrity ambassadors and change agents to assess water integrity and reduce integrity risks. • • • • Share your experience Chapter 9 Context This chapter will include Share your experience 7 Tools to assess integrity and map integrity risks in the public and private sector Building integrity into organizational structures and procedures Codes of conduct and integrity charters Improvement paths and strategies for tool promotion Which tools exist and what is their impact? What kind of tools are most needed? Capacity Development In many cases, a lack of integrity reflects a multi-dimensional capacity gap for different stakeholders: gaps in basic skills for participation, in technical and professional skills for decision-making and service delivery, and in institutional capacity. • • • Capacity development in and for water integrity Targets and prioritization of capacity development activities Development of capacity building programs for wider impact in water governance How can capacity development be scaled-up for most impact? Chapter 10 Context This chapter will include Integrity Monitoring and Assessment Water sector performance monitoring and benchmarking have so far been used only to a limited extent as ways to evaluate integrity in the sector. However, various approaches for monitoring and assessment of water integrity have been or are in development. These, and ways of ensuring their implementation require evaluation. • • • • The role of monitoring for water integrity Indicators and benchmarks to monitor water integrity Monitoring systems for indicators of water integrity ICT capabilities for integrity monitoring Share your experience What kind of monitoring tools exist and what is their impact? Chapter 11 Advocacy Initiatives and Strategies Context This chapter will include Advocacy initiatives are essential to increasing awareness of integrity concerns and influencing policies and practices. The complex stakeholder relationships and sensitivities surrounding the issue of integrity require careful campaign planning in addition to strong networks to carry them. • • • Share your experience Advocacy strategies and challenges in the context of water integrity Successful and unsuccessful cases or strategies Roles and responsibilities of integrity campaigners How can advocacy campaigns influence policies and practices in the sector? How can we improve their reach and effectiveness? 8 Chapter 12 Context This chapter will include Policies, Laws, and Institutions to Enhance Integrity Legal frameworks are a core element of corruption prevention and promotion of integrity. Improving integrity in the water sector through policy, laws and institutions involves the integration of both national and international frameworks for transparency, accountability and anti-corruption, and the implementation of sectorspecific measures at various levels. • • • • • Share your experience 9 Essential legal provisions and sanctions Integration of sector-specific and general integrity legal frameworks The role of the Human Right to Water Bodies for independent auditing and oversight in the water sector Challenges and opportunities for implementation and enforcement How can policy and legal frameworks be made more effective to enhance water integrity? Section IV Conclusion and Next Steps Chapter 13 Milestones Achieved This chapter will summarize the most significant developments and achievements in understanding and promoting water integrity since 2008. This chapter will include • • • Core improvements in our understanding of water integrity issues Core achievements and lessons learned in addressing water integrity issues Core advances in the development of tools Share your experience What are the major milestones reached for water integrity? Chapter 14 Ways Ahead The final chapter will focus on how to address the core integrity challenges emerging from the report, and provide entry points to scale up integrity initiatives and fill gaps in the suite of existing integrity instruments. This chapter will include Share your experience • • Priorities and ways forward Water Integrity and Sustainable Development: links to the post-2015 agenda What are the best practices to address water integrity and how can we move forward from here, especially to expand the reach and effectiveness of initiatives to promote integrity? 10 To contribute to the Water Integrity Global Outlook 2015, contact us: [email protected] @WaterIntegrityN www.waterintegritynetwork.net 2014 © Water Integrity Network Association e.V. Water Integrity Network Association e.V. Alt Moabit 91b, 10559 Berlin Germany +49 30 809 246 130