Improving the management of water resources could often prevent from water crises that arise in many countries from a chronic lack of governance capacities. As a consequence, actions in the field of capacity building and transfer of know-how have emerged to be appropriate measures for improving water management in the developing world. The Session aim to persuade that additional international support must be provided to capacity-building initiatives. It is also essential to disseminate and share the lessons learned by the best and worst practices. Water-related capacity building should support the entire process of water management transformation in developing countries.
The Session will also address the problems arising from the transfer of water services from public entities to private companies. The objective is to explore the possibility of finding a right balance between managing water as an economic and a social good. Comprehensive proposals for public-private partnerships, based on the experiences disseminated in Italy, are likely to be more sustainable solutions in developing countries, then those based on opposite market ideologies. This combined solution can only be achieved through a direct involvement of both public and private entities into the management of national water systems.
[Agenda]
|15.45 - 16.00|
Welcome and presentation of the Session
|16.00 - 16.30|
First thematic issue: water-related capacity building and transfer of know-how from Italian training pursuits
|16.30 - 17.00|
Second thematic issue: lessons learned from Italian public-private partnerships in water systems
|17.00 - 18.00|
Discussion: how to implement best practices in developing countries
|18.00 - 18.30|
Conclusions: launch of projects and type II partnerships
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issued out of the 3rd World Water Forum are a reflection of the open
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