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| WEPA
Database presented at CSD13 |
 During
the CSD session, the Japanese government held
the side event "Challenge of PWA" at
UN headquarters on 19 April with approximately
90 participants. From the IGES Freshwater Resources
Management Project, Mr. Yoshiaki Asano, Principal
Research Fellow, made a presentation on the
outlines and current situation of the Water
Environment Partnership in Asia (WEPA) as its
co-organiser. As an actual example of Portfolio
of Water Actions (PWA), WEPA has been
conducted since last year by an initiative
of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan.
This side event was aimed at promoting PWA for the
4th World Water Forum scheduled to be held in
Mexico in March 2006. In succession to the message from
Mexico and the presentation of the Ministry of Land Infrastructure
and Transport of Japan on the current progress and future
possibility of PWA, various kinds of topics such as the
challenges of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries of Japan, the EU Water Initiative and actions
for Small Island Developing States were discussed. On
this occasion, a newly made brochure on WEPA (2.7MB) was
distributed.
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| WEPA:
Water Environment Partnership in Asia |
| WEPA,
as a program in the "Portfolio of Water Actions (PWA)",
aims to strengthen governance and capacity building in
water environmental management in Asia by providing an
information platform on water environment conservation.
The Ministry of the Environment of Japan, which proposed
WEPA on the occasion of the 3rd World Water Forum in 2003,
is taking a leading role in its implementation. IGES has
also contributed to WEPA as its secretariat, with close
collaboration with ten partner countries in the region. |
 Previous
activities of WEPA |
| WEPA
database |
| As a common information
platform on water environment conservation, the WEPA
database is now being developed. The prototype of
the database will be open to the public by the 4th
World Water Forum in March 2006, and its development
completed by March 2009. |
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WEPA Database (Prototype)
http://www.wepa-db.net |
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| Consists
of four Databases: |
| - Policy-related
Information Database |
| - Technologies
for Water Environment Conservation Database |
| - Activities
by NGOs and Community Based Organisations (CBOs)
Database |
| - Information
Sources Database |
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| Towards
WWF4: IGES Freshwater Resources Management Project |
The
IGES Freshwater Resources Management Project carries
out strategic studies with a view to proposing
better policy options for the sustainable management
of water resources in the Asia - Pacific region,
in close collaboration with relevant organisations.
The project consists of two main components:
1) Research on Sustainable Water Management Policy
(SWMP) and 2) Water Environment
Partnership in Asia (WEPA).
Research results of the Freshwater Resources Management Project
will be actively disseminated in regional and international
arenas, including the 4th World Water Forum to be held in Mexico
in March 2006 . |
| Research on
Sustainable Water Management Policy
(SWMP) |
 SWMP
conducts research through case studies
to come up with policy options for sustainable
water resource management, targeting
the Asia-Pacific region. The current
research focus is on groundwater in urban
and peri-urban areas, and will be expanded
to include alternative water resources
such as surface water during this year.
More
about SWMP
Previous
activities of SWMP |
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WEPA
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