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Water and Poverty
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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.
The objective of the session is to define policies and approaches that can increase the resilience of poor people to water-related hazards.
20 March 2003; 8:45-11:30
Room D, Kyoto International Conference Hall
Kyoto, Japan
| Activity | Presenter |
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| Introduction: Poverty and the Environment | John Soussan Water and Poverty Initiative |
| Introduction: Health, Water and the Poor | Robert Bos World Health Organization |
| Introduction: Disasters, Flood Management and the Poor | Ian Fox Asian Development Bank |
| Coastal Zone Policies and Livelihoods in Bangladesh | Shamsul Huda |
| Pro-Poor Water Harvesting Systems in Drought Prone areas: Case Study of the Karez in Balochistan, Pakistan | Virginia Appel and Saleem Baluch |
| Task Force on Adaptation Strategies | Brett Orlando World Conservation Union |
| Water and Poverty Index | Carolyn Sullivan Center for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford |
| Mountain Lake and River Water Resources Management Project, People's Republic of China | Dajun Shen Global Water Partnership |
| Panel Discussion | Robert Bos Ian Fox Maiodio Niasse, (IUCN) Hasna Moudad Dajun Shen |
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