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