Previous webinars
- Accelerating the development of bankable projects for climate change adaptation in transboundary basins
- Capacity building: Vocational training to improve water management
- Enforcing regulations in the water sector: the necessity and functions of a water law enforcement
- City-basin dialogue for adaptation to climate change: French and Mexican approaches
- Participation of Stakeholders, Civil Society and Youth in the management of the basins of rivers, lakes & aquifers
- Cost of climate change adaptation at basin level vs cost of inaction
How to strengthen the sharing and pooling of data produced by the multiple actors of the water sector?
Program
Opening
- Dr. Eric Tardieu, Secretary General, International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO)
Introduction
- Mr. Paul Haener, Head of Water Information Systems,International Office for Water (OiEau), INBO technical secretariat
Panel 1 : framing the issue On the importance of sharing data between institutions for a more effective management of water resources and the environment:
Moderator:
- Ms. Maud Berthelot, Project manager, UNESCO-IHP
Speakers:
- Mr. Niokhor Ndour, Director of the Directorate of Water Resources Management and Planning, Ministry of Water and Sanitation (Senegal) & Mr. François Münger, Director, Geneva Water Hub (GWH),
- Mrs. Oriana Romano, Head of Unit “Water Governance and Circular Economy”, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),
- Mr. Dominique Berod, Head of the “Earth System Monitoring” Division, World Meteorological Organization (WMO),
- Mrs. Sonja Koeppel, Secretary of the Water Convention, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Poll and first section of questions & answers with the participants
Panel 2: intervention of great witnesses
Our key witnesses (names of the representatives To Be Determined -TBD) will share their professional experience on the sharing and pooling of data produced by the multiple actors in the water sector:
Moderator:
- Ms. Anaïs Charbonnier, Project manager, INBO Speakers:
Speakers:
- Mr. François Hissel, Director for Monitoring, assessment and data, French Biodiversity Office (OFB), France,
National schemes for sharing and using data across public policies - Mr. Juan José Díaz Nigenda, National Water Information System (SNIA), National Water Commission (CONAGUA), Mexico
See the paper - Mr. Ababacar Ndao, Secretary General, Organization for the Development of the Gambia river basin (OMVG)
Développement de la gestion intégrée des données sur les bassins de l’OMVG en collaboration avec les organismes nationaux - Dr. Nihat Zal, Project manager, Water resources, water scarcity and droughts,, European Environment Agency (EEA)
Shared Environmental Information System structure and functions
Second section of questions & answers with the participants
Conclusion
- Dr. Eric Tardieu, Secretary General, International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO)