WATER ACTION AGENDA SYMPOSIUM
On 24 April, the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education organized in cooperation with the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management the Water Action Agenda Symposium to drive progress in the implementation of the commitments that form the agenda. The event was in Hybrid format (in presence and online).
The Water Action Agenda is one of the main outcomes of the UN 2023 Water Conference which took place last year in New York. The agenda consists of 842 voluntary commitments (as of March 2024), submitted by the international water community with the ambition to define and implement game-changing initiatives to accelerate efforts in view of achieving SDG 6.
The symposium presented an analysis of voluntary commitments based on the survey sent to commitment holders. According to the analysis' results, half of all the commitments are global, cover mostly SDG6 and SDG13, NGOs are the most involved in the commitments (66%), and their thematic areas focus on (in decreasing order) WASH, IWRM, climate change adaptation, water quality and pollution, and climate change mitigation. Different perspectives of implementation and progress on selected voluntary commitments were presented and a way to improve monitoring of implementation of the Water Action Agenda, including tracking and presentation of progress at large global events, such as 10 WWF, COP and 3rd Dushanbe Water Action Decade Conference was discussed.
Ms Oygul Usmanova took part in the Symposium on behalf of SIC ICWC.
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