Global governance of water: A practitioner's perspective

Global Governance

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 409-417

  Ünver, Olcay ^a,b,c  

^a UN World Water Assessment Programme

^b Global Water Assessment Unit of UNESCO

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 58649115198     PISSN: 10752846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/19426720-01404002     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. World Water Assessment Programme, World Water Development Report 3: Water in a Changing World (expected early 2009).
2. The first two of these reports, Water for People, Water for Life, and Water: A Shared Responsibility, were published by UNESCO in 2003 and 2006, respectively.
3. Peter Rogers and Alan W. Hall, "Effective Water Governance," Background Papers No. 7, Global Water Partnership Technical Advisory Committee (Sweden: Elanders Novum, February 2003).
4. This is a major theme of the Camdessus Report; see James Winpenny, Financing Water for All, Report of the World Panel on Financing Water Infrastructure (Camdessus Panel), GWP/WWC, 2003, available at www.gwpforum.org.
5. Alan Nicol, Transboundary Water Governance, an Issues Paper produced for DFID, Overseas Development Institute, 2007.
6. Global Water Partnership Technical Advisory Committee, Background Paper No. 4, Integrated Water Resources Management (Stockholm, 2000), p. 22.
7. Jan Hassing et al., IWRM in Action, Working Document (version 20 June 2008), UNEP-DHI Centre for Water and Environment.
8. D. Gyawali, et al., EU-INCO Water Research from FP4 to FP6 (1994-2006): A Critical Review, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 2006.
9. "General Comment no. 15, 'The Right to Water,'" Substantive Issues Arising in the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, 29th session, Geneva, 11-29 November 2002, para 3. E/C.12/2002/11 of 20 January 2003.
10. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Human Development Report 2006: Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis, 2006, pp. 60-61.
11. World Resources Institute, www.accessinitiative.org.
12. World Water Assessment Programme, UNESCO, World Water Development Report 2: Water: A Shared Responsibility, pp. 77-79.
13. G. K. Thampi, "Community Voice as an Aid to Accountability: Experience with Citizen Report Cards in Bangalore," presentation at Stockholm World Water Week, August 2005.
14. Janelle Plummer and Piers Cross, "Tackling Corruption in the Water and Sanitation Sector in Africa: Starating the Dialogue," in E. Campos and S. Pradhan, eds., The Many Faces of Corruption (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2007).
15. See for example, Winpenny, "Financing Water for All"; Paul van Hofwegen, "Task Force on Financing Water for All, Report 1," World Water Council and the Global Water Partnership, 2006, available at www.worldwatercouncil.org.
16. Scott Barrrett, "Making International Cooperation Pay: Financing as a Strategic Incentive," in Inge Kaul and Pedro Conceição, eds., The New Public Finance: Responding to Global Challenges (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).
17. Alan Nicol cites problems in the sharing of water-related data between Jordan and Israel; see Nicol, Transboundary Water Governance, an Issues Paper produced for DFID, Overseas Development Institute, 2007.
18. Nancy Birdsall, "Overcoming Coordination and Attribution Problems: Meeting the Challenge of Underfunded Regionalism," in Inge Kaul and Pedro Conceição, eds., The New Public Finance: Responding to Global Challenges (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).