Entebbe, Uganda, 30 November 2017. TRANSBOUNDARY WATER GOVERNANCE FOR INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY F.C. Oweyegha-Afunaduula, Principal Consultant, Knowledge Exchange, Governance and Development, Career Skills, Governance and management Consult, Mukkono, Seeta, Kob Road, off Justus Drive. Email: oweyeghaafunaduula@gmail.com Entebbe, Uganda, 30 November 2017.
Inclusiveness: What to Rethink Hydropolitics How we do things
Rethinking Transboundary Water Governance (TWG) in Nile Basin Knowledge exchange systems for TWG predominantly disciplinary and multidisciplinary
Rethinking Development Degrowth development for meaningful inclusion and integration in TWG
Rethinking Development Contin… Reframe cooperative framework for inclusive and integrative development
Rethinking Sustainable Development and Sustainability If there is no environmental sustainability, there can no sustainable infrastructure or society
What Sustainability Means Expanding future action through meaningful and effective environmental stewardship
Rethinking the Precautionary Principle (PP) PP simply requires precaution in decision making. Issues in the tansboundary basin are largely ecological and environmental
Precautionary Principle Cont... PP creates avenues for wisdom to be resorted to rather than power and knowledge
Climate Change Risk in Water, Food and Energy Policies Explore policy opportunities to deal with uncertainties
Climate Change Risk Cont… Expand range of knowledge for learning, knowledge exchange and problem-solving
Adaptation to Climate Change Rethink Adaptation in view of alternative innovative approaches
Rethinking Science Predominantly disciplinary; to a an extent multidisciplinary knowledge exchange
Rethinking Research Sensitive to Inclusive Development and Environmental Sustainability
Rethinking Hydropolitics and Biopolitics of Nile Basin Need for a new hydropolitics of inclusiveness and integration
Rethinking Gender Inclusion Regional Gender Action Plans and Gender Action Network
Innovative Approaches to TWG All sensitive to environmental sustainability
Rethinking Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Need to rethink usefulness, and inclusive and integrative value of EIA
Rethinking EIA Cont... Measures ability of a parameter to respond to a loss in Environmental quality
Rethinking EIA Cont... Need to give it a chance. It is less manipulable by political and corporate interests
What Lessons Learned Sustainability is sustainable development
What Lessons Learned? Contn... Replace EIA with ESA to enhance inclusiveness and integration
Best Practices Inclusive Regional Climate Change Impact and Adaptation Research Framework
What are the Challenges? Existing policies are for financialisation of water
Conclusions Innavate regional climate impact and adaptation research framework Adopt and popularise the new innovative approaches to TWG END