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UNEP-MAP
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Mediterranean union water conference called off indefinitely
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Regular monitoring of Horizon 2020 process
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Greater efforts needed to provide safe water for more than 1 billion people - UN
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Invitation for comments on the proposed Environment Watch strategy
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Can Africa Afford to Miss the MDG for sanitation?
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Mediterranean Civil Society Meeting on the occasion of the Euro-Mediterranean Ministerial Conference on Water
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Capacity Building Workshop on Integrated Management of Shared Lakes Basins, Ohrid Lake, 16-19 July 2008
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World Environment Day - 5 June 2008
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Union for the Mediterranean: Ministerial Conference on Water, December 29, 2008 (Jordan)
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Coupling Sustainable Sanitation and Groundwater Protection: Symposium to the International Year of Sanitation (IYS) 2008
Synergy between objectives & priority field of action
Synergy between objectives & priority field of action (Water) - Implementation actions
| Released | 06/04/2006 |
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| Four main objectives | Essential issue: Water |
| Economic development: Enhance Mediterranean assets | Increase agricultural added value of cubic meter of water |
| Reduce social disparities | Halve the population (2015/1990) without access to safe drinking water and sanitation |
| Change unsustaiable production and consumption patterns: | Stabilize water demand (reduce losses and wasteful use), |
| Ensure the sustainable management of natura resources | Protect water resources (quantity and quality), Prevent natural risks |
| Improve governance | Water demand policies: global and sectoral targets (agriculture, urban water, industries), |
| Integrated water resource management, promote local participation and partnerships |
Implementation
1- Solidarity, Commitment and Financing
- Strengthen reciprocal
commitment and financial support for MSSD goals/Med developing
countries.
• Official Development Aid
• UE net public financial flows (Type 2 initiatives, Synergies EMP/ MAP)
- Systems to fund productive and innovative activities by SMEs
- Strengthen capacities of local authorities
- Reinforce territorial cohesion Financial tools
2- Human Capital and Participation
- Ensure primary education for all
- Gender equality. Eliminate gender disparities in education
- Education in sustainable development
- Increase public/private spending on research and development
- Access to information. Participatory approach.
3- National Strategies
- National and sectoral sustainable development strategies.
- Institutional frameworks for sustainable development.