IAP Water Programme
“The Status of the IAP Water Programme”
Improving Access to Safe Water:
Perspectives from Africa and the Americas
São Carlos – Brazil
September 13-16, 2010
InterAcademy Panel on International Issues (IAP)
• The InterAcademy Panel, launched in 1993, is a global network
of Science Academies.
• It currently has 104 members, representing virtually every
merit-based Science Academy in the world.
• IAP is headquartered under the administrative umbrella of the
secretariat of The Academy of Sciences for the Developing
World (TWAS), located in Trieste, Italy.
• Funded by the Italian Government.
• Provides advice on scientific aspects of critical global issues.
Objectives of the Water Programme
• Develop local capacity building in water management.
• Network water researchers and managers to enhance water
management capacity in the developing world.
• Address policy and decision makers on how to cope with the
challenge of assuring global access to safe-drinking water.
• Increase public awareness on emerging water crisis
• Call to the table major regional and international water
programmes to discuss complementary work and to avoid
duplication of efforts and funds.
IAP Water Network
 Africa (12 Academies)
Americas (15 Academies)
 Central Asia (7 Academies)
 East Asia & Pacific Region (9 Academies)
 Europe (20 Academies)
 Middle East & South Asia (10 Academies)
Regional Workshops:
East Asia & Pacific
Beijing, June 2006
Americas
Guarulhos, July 2006
Africa
Pretoria, August 2006
Europe
Lodz, September 2006
Middle East & South Asia
Jordan, March 2007
Regional Workshops
• June/06 (China): International East Asia & Pacific Region IAP Water Programme Workshop on “Water Security to
Climate Change and Human Activity”.
• July/06 (Brazil): IAP Water Programme Regional Workshop for the Americas on “Bridging Water Research and
Management: Enhancing Water Management Capacity in the Hemisphere”.
• Aug/06 (South Africa): IAP Water Programme Regional Workshop for Africa.
• Sept/06 (Poland): IAP Water Programme Regional Workshop for Europe on “Coupling Surface and Groundwater
Research and Management: a New Step Forward Towards Water Management”.
• Mar/07 (Jordan): IAP Water Programme Regional Workshop for the Middle East & South Asia on “Integrated Water
Resources Management”.
• July/07 (Russia): IAP Water Programme Workshop on “Water Resources and Water Use Problems in Central Asia and
the Caucasus”.
• Nov/07 (Jordan): IAP Water Programme Regional Training Course on “Water Resources Research and Management”.
• Mar/08 (China): IAP International Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop on “Water Security & Ground Water
Sustainability”.
• May/08 (Poland): European Regional Workshop of the IAP Water Programme.
• June/08 (South Africa): IAP Regional Water Workshop on “Hydrology and Hydropower Collaboration in Africa”.
• Aug/08 (Brazil): Regional Workshop and Capacity Building Training Course for the Americas on “Water, Environment
and Society: an Integrated Approach”.
• Mar/09 (South Africa): IAP Water Programme Regional Workshop for Africa. ,
• Oct/09 (Russia): "Strengthening the Collaboration between the AASA Clean Water Programme and the IAP
Water Programme"
Publications
East Asia & Pacific Region
Americas
Africa
Publications
Europe
Middle East & South Asia
Central Asia
Challenges
• Success of the Water Programme much depends on the ability to
decentralize actions;
• Challenge to engage Science Academies and to stimulate Regional
Networks of Science Academies to assume a leading role;
• IAP Water Programme can act as a platform to enhance the visibility of
Science Academies, thus strengthening their capacity to advise government
and society;
• Increasing global access to safe drinking water is most certainly a
paramount challenge where Science has a role to play and where the
Science Academies can transform into action their commitment of bridging
Science to the pressing problems facing society.
Regional Organization in Asia
• Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences leads the
AASA “Clean Water: a Step Forward” programme;
• Strong coordination effort with the Chinese Academy of Sciences
and the Royal Scientific Society - Jordan
• Workshop on "Strengthening the Collaboration between the AASA
Clean Water Programme and the IAP Water Programme” (Oct 2009);
• Discussed how to better integrate action in Asia, engaging AASA
and FASAS more effectively in the coordination of the programme.
• “Promoting the Water Programme in Asia as a Tool for the
Strengthening of the Advisory Role of Science Academies”
Workshop; Beijing, Sept 17-18, 2010.
Regional Organization in Europe
• EASAC and ALLEA will be approached to discuss the engagement of these
regional networks in the coordination of the Water Programme in Europe;
• Several Academies willing to participate more effectively;
• Strong Academies from developed countries in Europe can provide assistance
and Academies from scientifically lagging countries can benefit from a regional
water programme;
• Focus on developing countries in Eastern Europe.;
• “Towards Engineering Harmony Between Water, Ecosystem and Society.
Strengthening the Collaboration between European Academies of Science in the
IAP Water Programme” Workshop; Zakopane, Sept 10-11, 2010.
Regional Organization in Africa
• Leading role of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) in the effort
to structure the IAP Water Programme in Africa;
• Aug 2006 - the first regional IAP Water Programme Workshop assembled
experts from 7 African countries;
•Nov 2007- 3rd Annual Conference of the African Science Academy
Development Initiative (ASADI) on the value of evidence-based advice to
improve access to usable water;
• June 2008 - IAP Regional Water Workshop on “Hydrology and Hydropower
Collaboration in Africa”, bringing together participants from 10 African
countries;
• Mar 2009 – IAP Regional Water Programme Regional Workshop for Africa
• Aug 2010 - Workshop in Kenya launched the NASAC Water Programme.
Attendance to African IAP Water Workshops
Academy
2006
2008
2009
Cameroon
X
X
Egypt
Ghana
X
X
Kenya
X
X
X
Madagascar
Mauritius
X
Morocco
Nigeria
X
Senegal
X
X
South Africa
X
X
X
Sudan
X
Tanzania
X
X
X
Uganda
X
X
X
Zimbabwe
X
X
Observers
Botswana
X
Lesotho
X
Mozambique
X
Namibia
X
Zambia
X
X
Countries
7
10
12
Regional Organization in the Americas
• IANAS runs a water programme that works in close collaboration
with the IAP Water Programme;
• Academies were challenged to establish multidisciplinary Water
Committees to assist in the discussion of water related issues;
• White papers presenting a strategic view on national water resources;
• Water Programme as a mechanism for capacity building of water
managers and Academies.
• 7th biennial meeting of the Rosenberg International Forum on Water
Policy (Nov 2010, Buenos Aires).
Water becomes part of the Agenda of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
National Water Committee
Brazilian Academy of Sciences
Mudanças Climáticas e Recursos Hídricos
Gestão de Recursos Hídricos no Brasil:
problemas e perspectivas
Carlos Nobre
Água no Semi-Árido
José Almir Cirilo
Benedito Braga
Reuso de Água na Indústria
Agricultura e Recursos Hídricos
Marcos Vinicius Folegatti
Urbanização e Recursos Hídricos
Carlos Tucci
Água e Economia
Odete Rocha
Biodiversidade Aquática
Ivanildo Hespanhol
Antonio Eduardo Leão Lanna
Amazônia, Recursos Hídricos e
Sustentabilidade
Adalberto Luis Val
A água e o funcionamento dos
ecossistemas
Wolfgang Johannes Junk
Takako Matsumura-Tundisi
Recursos Hídricos e Saúde Humana
Serviços Ambientais e Recursos Hídricos
Ulisses Eugenio Cavalcanti
Confalonieri
Luiz Martinelli
Água e Mineração
Água e Indústria
Da Ciência à Inovação e Aplicação
Águas Subterrâneas: reserva estratégica
ou emergercial?
Disponibilidade, Poluição e Eutrofização
de Águas
Virgínia Ciminelli
Luiz Alexandre Kulay
José Galizia Tundisi
Educação para a Sustentabilidade dos
Recursos Hídricos
Myriam Krasilchik
Ricardo Cesar Aoki Hirata
Donato Seiji Abe
José Galizia Tundisi
O Plano Nacional de RH
João Bosco e Julio Tadeu
Water Meetings Organized by the Academy
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