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Promote and support integrated water resources management at different scales: from the management of local water and sanitation services to basin governance

French Water Agencies (
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Description
Description

The aim is to promote the creation of drinking water and sanitation infrastructures with sustainable management services, meeting the needs of the populations, in basins or sub-basins applying Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM): involvement and consultation with the stakeholders, governance at the appropriate territorial scale, planning of policies and investments, production of knowledge, information systems, etc. The support to public organizations in charge of IWRM, concentrated today on so-called "pilot" basins in which the agencies are developing institutional links with foreign partners, is intended to be extended to new territories and basins to support the emergence phases of IWRM, at the basin or more local scale. The approach mixes top-down and bottom-up to improve water governance.
One of the main means consists in a call for projects launched by the French water agencies to local authorities and NGOs to bring out solidarity projects in targeted basins outside Europe.

Expected Impact

About twenty partnerships are active today, mainly between French basins and African, Asian and South American basins. New basins of the South are the object of proactive approaches to help the emergence of local and/or basin IWRM. Moreover, partnerships between basins of the South are also encouraged (Colombia/Ecuador for example). Following the Paris Agreements, the French water agencies have planned to support the incubation of 20 projects under the "100 water and climate projects for Africa".

Partners

Basin authorities, local authorities, national and local administrations, governments, NGOs, elected officials, civil society associations, water management committees

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Timeline
01 January 2019 (start date)
31 December 2024 (date of completion)
Entity
French Water Agencies
SDGs
Region
  1. Africa
  2. Europe
  3. Asia and Pacific
  4. Global
Other beneficiaries

Managers of water services - Populations using water and sanitation services - Elected officials and technicians of local authorities

Countries
Armenia
Armenia
Benin
Benin
Brazil
Brazil
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
Cabo Verde
Cabo Verde
Cambodia
Cambodia
Cameroon
Cameroon
China
China
Colombia
Colombia
Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire
Cuba
Cuba
Ecuador
Ecuador
France
France
Georgia
Georgia
Germany
Germany
Guinea
Guinea
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Madagascar
Madagascar
Mauritania
Mauritania
Morocco
Morocco
Myanmar
Myanmar
Republic of Moldova
Republic of Moldova
Senegal
Senegal
Togo
Togo
Vietnam
Vietnam
Contact Information

Sandrine, Director General of the Seine-Normandy Water Agency