6th World Water Forum - Europe Region Preparatory Process

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The 6th World Water Forum (WWF), to be held in Marseille in 2012, intends to strengthen the role of the Regional process (one of the four preparatory processes of the Forum) in order to implement a participative bottom-up approach, where regional stakeholders will play a key role in setting their own Targets and finding their “Solutions for water”. During the 3rd International Forum Committee board (IFC) meeting on September 3rd, 2010, it was decided that a Regional Coordinator would be (...)

Information about the European Regional Process - Concept Note

A first European regional process Steering Committee meeting was held on 21 December 2010, in Brussels (Belgium). Its main objectives were to share information on the background and processes of preparation of the 6th World Water Forum, to identify a preliminary set of topics for “regional specificities”, to undertake the designation of ad hoc working groups and to forecast a framework of activities to be carried out under the regional process until the Forum in Marseille. A second meeting on (...)

Specific Europe Region Priority Targets

Introducing the 13 SERPT groups and Download the solution templates

Agenda of the Europe Region Process

More information about the agenda events All the papers and the pictures of past events Two first meetings were successfully organized on 21 December 2010, in Brussels and on 18 January in Paris, which have strongly involved the heads of the main European networks of the water sector and some of European official institutions. The General Secretaries of the international transboundary river Commissions of Europe have been approached earlier in Malines late August 2010. The (...)

Contact

Europe Region Preparatory Process Jean – François DONZIER Coordinator of the Europe Region Process - World Water Forum 2012 E-mail : jf.donzier[at]oieau.fr / jf.donzier[at]european-region-wwf2012.eu FAX = +33 1 40 08 01 45 - Phone = + 33 1 44 90 88 60 S/C International Office for Water It is in the tradition that the Host Country, which is organizing the next World Water Forum, coordinates the regional preparatory process in its own Region. On the proposal of the French (...)

Call for proposals

Here are the next five events to come. The whole list of events : click here

Commitment template

Following up with the Commitments session and discussion during the 2nd Coordination meeting, please find attached the Commitment template that shall help you collect commitments and prepare for the ‘Regional synthesis sessions’.

Hydro in Europe: Powering Renewables

The Union of the Electricity Industry–EURELECTRIC is the sector association representing the common interests of the electricity industry at pan-European level. In its recent report "Hydro in Europe. Powering Renewables", EURELECTRIC explores the untapped potential of hydropower generation in Europe. Hydropower is a well-established source of electricity generation, already representing 17% of the European electricity output. It plays a prime role in securing stable electricity (...)

Blueprint policy options and recommendations

The European Commission is preparing the Blueprint Communication to be ready by November 2012, which will offer a set of policy options and recommendations to tackle the challenges, gaps and barriers of current EU Water Policy. EWP is being supported by DG-Environment to carry out a series of stakeholders consultations that will contribute to concrete recommendations and input to the European Commission’s Blueprint stakeholders’ consultation process in 2012. In this respect, EWP (...)