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Sharing ideas and research findings for solving water scarcity. Goal of today and tomorrow’s sessions. Prioritization of challenges regarding scaling-up, transferability and interdisciplinary for integration of solutions/approaches into a comprehensive water s carcity strategy.
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Sharing ideas and research findings for solving water scarcity
Goal of today and tomorrow’s sessions • Prioritization of challenges regarding scaling-up, transferability and interdisciplinary for integration of solutions/approaches into a comprehensive water scarcity strategy. • Exchange and integration of lessons learned and challenges within and beyond existing projects / programmes. • List of advice and focus areas for furthering integrated strategies for water scarcity in the MENA region.
Solutions and Contributions to address Water Scarcity (15 min)
ChallengestowardsIntegratedStrategiesfor Water Scarcity Scalability • Capacity for a solution/contribution to be adapted at a different magnitude (greater or lower), e.g. moving from country to region or from city to small town. Transferability • Capacity for a solution/contribution to be applicable across different contexts (biophysical, social, environmental, etc.) and timeframes (emergency vs development) in the MENA region. Interdisciplinarity • Capacity for a solution/contribution toinclude/support or exclude/difficultaddressing concerns from different disciplines, e.g. socialvsenvironmental goals.
Priorization of challenges • Gap between Research and National needs/priorities (and transfer to effective policy) • Effectively including or considering the socio-economic context. • Actively involving the end users in the research process • Absence of a business model to take research towards implementation, and integrated water strategies. • Communication across partners on research projects to address gap and avoid overlaps.
Exchange of LessonsLearnedandOpportunities Absence of Business models: • Create business model via targeting different funding groups at different stages: pilot small-scale large-scale. • Actively involving end users as it considers the socio-economic situation and can address an existing need. • Actively involve private sector in the project • Enable the creation of supportive legislation and enforcement. Actively involving end-users: • End users involved through out research: in inception phase, in measuring and data collection, and in the end results (transdisciplinary research)
Exchange of LessonsLearnedandOpportunities Projects work in isolation: • Creating a registration system for all on-going (research) projects in a country/region for access. • “Centres of Excellence” bringing know-how together, and involving users + private sector Gap between research and national priorities: • Processes need to involve key decision makers from both sectors. • Seek and foster Champions with vision, time and resources • Build dialogue capacity (technical, socio, etc.) in government and academia • Donors should be flexible to changing project outcomes in response to changing priorities and circumstances. • Require involvement of local universities/research centres to ensure continuity.
TowardsIntegrated Water ScarcityStrategies Develop 3 to 5 key messages/advice for the MENA water sector (policy, research, development cooperation and/or professionals) to focus/further creating integrated strategies for water scarcity.
