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Water and Poverty
Water, the MDGs and PRSPs: Mainstreaming Poverty Reduction in Water Management

Description

This session will place issues of poverty and water security within the perspective of international and national development targets and processes, in particular with the millennium development goals and the national poverty reduction strategies.

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Key Issues

  • Defining the role of water management in achieving national and international development objectives
  • Identifying approaches to target poverty reduction in integrated water resources management
  • Establishing targets and indicators for pro-poor water management

Date and Venue

19 March 2003; 15:45 - 18:30
Room D, Kyoto International Conference Hall
Kyoto, Japan

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Program

ActivityPresenter
Introduction to session - Reaching the Poorest of the Poor Dirk Frans
Water and Poverty Initiative
Report from UN Task Force on the MDGsRobert Lenton
Director, Sustainable Energy and Environment
World Bank/Water Aid Poverty Reduction StrategiesBelinda Calaguas
WaterAid
Water, Sanitation, Hygiene Campaign/ Sanitation MDG Target for Water and PovertyGourisankar Ghosh
Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council

Rene Coulomb
Academie de l'Eau Francaise
Zambian Initiatives in Serving the low-Income Urban AreasEusebuis Katai
National Water Supply and Sanitation Council, Zambia
Water Supply and Sanitation in Informal Settlement Areas, Dhaka Rokeya Ahmed
Dushtha Sasthya Kendra and WaterAid
Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Improvement in Lao PDR Dr. Keooudom and
Ms. Keodokmay Phouipaseuth
Japan International Cooperation Agency

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