Webinar: Policy Briefs on Partnership and Cooperation Enhancement in Water Management in Asia Pacific
Seminar Description
A major factor in being able to achieve SDG 6 will be the capacity of the world’s organizations and research institutions both within and outside the water community to come together in partnerships and cooperation to accelerate progress.
 
Acceleration of change will require innovation, and while successful formulas for partnership exist and can be improved, new methods should also be examined. Different ways of engaging with South-South and North-South cooperation, with the private sector, with local communities and the public-at-large, with collaboration around science, gathering and sharing data and with holders of traditional knowledge, can offer solutions to achieving water- and sanitation-related goals, from local to global. Partnerships, especially multistakeholder ones, need to understand and be mindful of the context in which they are designed and implemented, helping to ensure a level playing field.
 
Utilizing networks and platforms, bringing together lessons learned and best practices, partnerships can harness their cumulative reach to disseminate knowledge, information and data beyond what an entity could accomplish on its own. This has the potential to increase public awareness at the local and national levels, extend beyond the traditional water management and supply and sanitation communities into other sectors and policy domains and engage a different set of stakeholders that may not have water and sanitation at the center of their priorities.
 
Complementing this monumental framework, the planned policy briefs on Public- Private Partnerships (PPP) for water management, which is a collaboration between UNESCO, ONWR and Chulalongkorn University, will focus on examining how building partnerships and enhancing cooperation are essential for the Asia Pacific region to reach its goals for water management in the broader sustainable development context.

The seminar aims to present PPP concept and roles, actual case studies in the Asia-Pacific countries, policy support on partnership and cooperation enhancement in water management and future possible collaborations to reach SDG 6 on the occasion of World Water Day 2023 and in line with UN World Water Development Report (UN-WWDR2023).
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This webinar is co-organized by
UNESCO, Office of National Water Resources in Thailand, and Faculty of Engineering at Chulalongkorn University
Partnership and Cooperation Enhancement in Water Management
Program 
Webinar: Partnership and Cooperation Enhancement in Water Management in Asia Pacific
Part I: Status and policy support (80 mins)
14.00 – 14.20     Opening remarks
                              Mr. Shigeru Aoyagi, Director, UNESCO Bangkok
                              Ms. Chawee Wongprasittiporn, Expert on Strategy and Acting Executive Advisor 
                              on Water Strategy (on behalf of Dr. Surasee Kittimonthon, Secretary-General), 
                              Office of the National Water Resources, Thailand
                              Professor Supot Teachavorasinskun, Dean, 
                              Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University
                              Master of Ceremony: Assoc.Prof. Sucharit Koontanakulvong, 
                              UNESCO Chair in Water, 
                              Disaster Management and Climate Change, Chulalongkorn University
14.20 – 14.35     SDG6 status and Policy support on PPP from Indonesia Government
                              Mr. Fandi Prasetyo Nurzaman, Senior Planner on Water Resources, 
                              Ministry of National Development Planning – Bappenas, Republic of Indonesia
14.35 – 14.50     SDG6 status and Policy support on PPP from Malaysia Government
                              Dr. Safuwan Samah, Deputy Undersecretary, Water Services Regulatory Section, 
                              Water and Sewerage Services Division, Ministry of Natural Resources, Environment 
                              and Climate Change, Malaysia
14.50 – 15.05     SDG6 status and Policy support on PPP from Thailand Government
                              Ms. Chawee Wongprasittiporn, Expert on Strategy and Acting Executive Advisor on 
                              Water Strategy, Office of the National Water Resources, Thailand
15.05 – 15.20     Q&A with participants
                              Moderator: Asst. Prof. Pongsak Suttinon, D.Eng.
                              Department of Water Resources Engineering, 
                              Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University
Part II: Selected case studies (65 mins)
15.25 – 15.35     Rural water solutions (Indonesia)
                              Prof. Dr. Muhammad Syahril Badri Kusuma, 
                              Water Resources Engineering Research Group, 
                              Faculty of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung, 
                              Republic of Indonesia
15.35 – 15.45     Rural water funding scheme (Malaysia)
                              Mr. Ahmad Nor Izwan bin Ahmad Daniel, 
                              Chief Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Natural Resources, 
                              Environment and Climate Change, Malaysia.
15.45 – 15.55     Flood and Drought via retention (Thailand)
                              Dr. Chakaphon Singto, Engineering Division, 
                              Bureau of Project Management, 
                              Royal Irrigation Department, Thailand.
15.55 – 16.05     Innovation in flood control (Japan)
                              Professor Yasuto Tachikawa, 
                              Department of Civil and Earth Resources Engineering, 
                              Kyoto University, Japan.
16.05 – 16.15     Innovation in water quality sensor (UK)
                              Dr. Chris Bradley, Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, 
                              Earth and Environmental Sciences, 
                              University of Birmingham, UK.
16.15 – 16.30     Q&A with participants
                              Moderator: Asst. Prof. Piyatida Ruangrassamee, Ph.D.
                              Department of Water Resources Engineering, 
                              Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University
Part III: Future possible collaborations on water partnership and cooperation (55 mins)
16.35 – 16.50     View on future collaboration from Thai Senate member
                              Mr. Panthep Klanarongran, the Senate Standing Committee member on 
                              Poverty and Inequality Reduction, Secretariat of the Senate, Thailand
16.50 – 17.00     View on future collaboration from UNESCO water family
                              Dr. Chris Bradley, Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, 
                              Earth and Environmental Sciences, 
                              University of Birmingham, UK.
17.00 – 17.10     View on future collaboration from UNESCO water family
                              Professor Yasuto Tachikawa, Department of Civil and Earth Resources Engineering, 
                              Kyoto University, Japan.
17.10 – 17.25     Discussions with participants
                              Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Sucharit Koontanakulvong, D.Eng.
                              Department of Water Resources Engineering, 
                              Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University.
17.25 – 17.30     Closing remarks by Ahmed Fahmi, Unit Chief, UNESCO Bangkok

Expected outputs
  • Fine tuning the draft policy briefs on PPP in water management
  • Expounding on existing status and policy on water partnership in the context of accelerating implementation of SDG 6
  • Networking and building new partnerships
  • Actual case studies on water partnership in the Asia-Pacific countries
  • Potential collaborations among countries in the region and UNESCO
This webinar and the policy briefs preparation are managed by UNESCO Chair in Water, Disaster Management and Climate Change at the Chulalongkorn University, Thailand with collaborations from Birmingham Institute for Sustainability & Climate Action and UNESCO Chair in Water Science, United Kingdom, UNESCO Chair in Water, Energy and Disaster Management for Sustainable Development, (WENDI) at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) Kyoto University, Japan, the Regional Humid Tropics Hydrology and Water Resources Centre for South-East Asia and the Pacific (Humid Tropics Centre Kuala Lumpur), Malaysia, , and UNESCO Chair in Capacity Development in Hydrology and Meteorology, National University of Laos, Lao PDR (as of March 9, 2023).
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