1. UN-Water mapping of members’ mandates and key activity areas Falk Schmidt
UN-Water Work programme : Mapping
Guidance: Chair’s Office and UNW-DPC
Timeline: work started July, 1st, finishes end of October; work in progress
Main deliverables
Report for SPM (end of September)
Draft report for public use (end of October)
Difficulty: Members’ contributions differ in length and level of detail

2. UN-Water mapping of members’ mandates and key activity areas
About the mapping
To provide a base-line analysis
To serve as a basis for discussions and identification of concrete actions and activities
To serve as a basis for improved communication to non-UN actors
Foci on analysis
The overall mandate of the member
The overall mandate of the water related work of the member
Key activity areas covered by the member
Key data and information resources managed by the member

6. Mandates and key activities: overlaps, layers, complementarities
Mandates and key activity areas
Different kinds of key activity areas (thematic focus areas, cross-cutting functions)
Sub-themes under thematic focus areas
Different functions/roles performed by members
Scale matters

7. UN-Water members operate under very different overall mandates
Children’s rights and developments
Health
Earth's atmosphere
Safe use of nuclear technologies
Generation and transfer of knowledge
Human settlements
Environment
International cooperation to achieve development for all
Global forum for tourism
Focal point for coordination of disaster reduction activities
Integration of developing countries into the world economy
Global development network
Protection, assistance and solutions for refugees
Promoting industrial development
Cooperation in education, science, culture and communication to achieve peace building, poverty eradication, promotion of sustainable development
Combating desertification
Conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity
Financial and technical assistance for global poverty reduction
Eradicating rural poverty and hunger in developing country
Defeating hunger
Regional economic and social development

8. Thematic focus areas and cross-cutting functions
WASH (MDG 10)
Other MDGs and related topics relevant for water (including food&agriculture)
Water resources management, incl. IWRM
Climate Change and Disasters
Policy advice, advocacy, coordination
Capacity building, technology transfer
Science, research, assessments
Financing

9. Members’ mandates and key activity areas -thematic focus areas-

10. Specific thematic focus areas -WRM-

11. Specific thematic focus areas -WSS-

12. Performing different roles/functions (Considerable general misunderstanding as to what the agencies/programmes actually do)
1.) Providing a place where national experts can meet to discuss common problems 2.) Compiling and distributing information provided by countries
3.) Presenting reports, conducting assessments
4.) Promoting a certain approach to water resource management 5.) Advising national experts and governments 6.) Setting standards for countries to follow 7.) Co-ordinating activities between countries
8.) Making decisions at national level
9.) Making decisions at regional level 10.) Making decisions at international level 11.) Lending money to countries 12.) Implementing projects in countries with loans to be repaid by the countries 13.) Implementing projects in countries with funds donated by others 14.) Implementing projects in countries with the countries' own funds 15.) Implementing projects in countries with the agencies' own funds …

13. Emerging insights
Hardly any real overlaps (duplication) at the level of mandates and activity areas, since
members implement their own overall mandate
fulfill different functions (e.g. assessments vs. project implementation) and/or have their own regional focus
specialization at the level of key activity areas
Variety of activities under UN-Water is rather an asset than a problem
Coordination seems to be key to achieve cooperation, synergies, value added
UN-Water activities can be seen/assessed in front of these findings (e.g. focus areas, thematic task forces, programmes), bi-directional relationship between the members and UN-Water
Reminder: mapping not at the project level

14. Feedback on “master data”, please! Gap analysis
Questions
Feedback on “master data”, please!
Gap analysis
Extend analysis into the work of the Partners on the basis of this mapping???
On the final reports
How progressive should the internal report be?
Issue the public report with comparable documents from the members (e.g. 3 pages long)?