Agenda
Date: Friday 14 June, 2013
Meeting Room: Conference Room 3
WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS
0900-0930 Workshop Registration
0930-0950 Welcome Addresses/Meeting Plan
0950-1010 Tour le Table/Expectations
1010-1025 GEF IW Update
SESSION I. GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES & POLICIES TO SUSTAIN INTERVENTIONS
Objectives:
- This session will define the specifics of good practice in both governance structures policies and legal frameworks, based on past experience in the GEF IW project portfolio, that generally serve to sustain project outcomes
1025-1045 Good Practices with Inter-Ministerial Committees: The Case of IWCAM - Chris Corbin, UNEP Caribbean Environmental Programme [Presentation]
1045-1115 Coffee Break
1135-1150 Good Practices with Legal Frameworks: The Amazon River Case - Maria Apostalova, Amazon River Project [Presentation]
1150-1210 Good Practices with Regional Management Bodies: Case of the Sixaola Commission - Alfonso Sanabria, Sixaola River Basin Project [Presentation]
1210-1300 Facilitated Discussion/Small Working Groups
- Inter-ministerial Committees
- Legal Frameworks – Regional, National Levels
- Transboundary Management Institutions
1300-1400 Lunch
SESSION II. MAKING GEF PROJECTS MORE EFFECTIVE IN CHANGING GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES
Objectives:
- Define the role of GEF projects as change agents, or catalyst for changes in policy
- Highlight specific cases where GEF project played a catalytic role in terms of policy change (global examples as well as regional examples), or played a role in consolidating the legal basis or institutions, or even building individual capacity
- Generate list of management actions for making GEF IW project interventions more sustainable after project closure
Session Facilitator: Mish Hamid, IW:LEARN
1430-1450 Presentation of Global Marine Case: Benguela Current Commission and Convention - Nico Willemse, Benguela Current LME Project [Presentation]
1450-1510 Presentation of a Freshwater Case: La Plata River Basin - Silvia Raffaeli, La Plata River Basin Project [Presentation]
1510-1530 Governance in the Caribbean - Robin Mahon, Transboundary Waters Assessment Programme
1530-1600 Break
1600-1700 Small Group Work on Specific Actions
1700-1730 Presentation of Small-group work on Specific Actions