#SDGAction37039
Description of Acceleration Action
Objectives:
- Promoting Water as a socio-economic connector in everyday lives, utilization of science and nature as a key indicator to disseminate awareness and temper and raise capacity building of the people
- Catalyst for developing a common strategic action and practices to facilitate judicious and sustainable realization of SDG 6 targets
- ‘Call for action’ to adopt trans-sectoral management of natural resources via integrated approach and address the barriers around national interests, security concerns and upstream-downstream trade-offs can be overcome through the nexus approach.
- Emphasis on exploring the opportunities of coordinated and integrated actions between climate change and aim to do away with the ‘silo’ thinking between the inter-connected targets
- Address marine plastic debris and micro-plastics, priority area of actions to reduce plastics both on ‘production’ and ‘consumption’ side.
- Devolving cross-cutting practices and technological interventions with focus on Adaptation measures than Mitigation to engulf the gap between social, economic and environmental pillars of sustainable development
- Aim for capacity building support towards Localisation and Customisation of SDGs and shift from short-term gains to long-lasting services, beyond 2030
Implementation methodologies:
- Extensive outreach through social media like posters, graphics, write-ups involving facets of water conservation and cross-thematic issues like plastic pollution and waste management, public health aspects, gender and conservation of our natural resources.
- Webinars/online events and training programs shall be conducted towards capacity building of communities
- Sustainable strategies towards leveraging ‘Global to Local’ approach and showcasing 30 best practices of natural resource conservation and practicing effective climate change adaptation strategies.
- Communication letters and write-ups at national, local and global level in realms of environment policies/regulations/standards/guidelines on water management
- Involving schools and local communities towards plantation drives with a target of 500 plant saplings towards promoting carbon sinks and preserving the natural capital
- Leveraging a platform for opportunity to create awareness to foster sharing best practices, innovations to bring transformational behavioral change towards discarding plastics in any form, especially single.
Follow-up mechanisms: IWF shall facilitate collection of experiences/information as a result of aforesaid activities and prepare a report so as to ascertain the qualitative outcomes against the objectives. The Foundation, with the help of Ambassadors of Climate Change will facilitate collection of information from communities and individuals with the help of a questionnaire and survey so as to gauge the outcomes of our activities as per objectives. The findings based on this information will be incorporated in a report which will be sent to the designated authority. The information thus garnered will be collated, scrutinized and compiled before it is analyzed. The outcomes shall be widely circulated and publicized through social media handles and print media. IWF will maintain records of the reports sent to the designated from time to time. If resources allow, feedback shall be monitored through feedback from common citizens, key influencers at the every level and from citizens using the personal visits & direct observations, webinars, Group Meetings, etc.
Expected impact
Post 2015, with the introduction of SDGs constituting the raison d’être of human security are sine qua-non in any water-linked strategy but also to safeguard against the vagaries of climate change. Water is a cross-cutting issue both within and beyond the scope of Agenda 2030. Campaign will ignite cultures of sharing and collaboration, as a way to create sustainable access for more people, collaborating with virtual communities and disseminating best practices shall bring attitudinal shifts and behavioural change.
Awareness and Capacity building of the people shall facilitate:
- Sensitizing and incentivizing communities on water-related issues
- Identifying interconnections between water sectors and actors at various levels
- Promoting learning, networking and knowledge sharing across sectors and regions
- Narrowing the gap between the availability of solutions and skills and means to use them (e.g. technology),
- Facilitate convergence so that cross-cutting sectors are highlighted alongside community-led natural resource management initiatives.
It shall step up measures for integrated water resources management (SDG 6.5) and for universal access to drinking water (SDG 6.1). Dissemination of awareness on hygienic behavior and Practices, generate awareness on social issues like literacy, health & hygiene, sanitation, safe drinking water, livelihood options etc. It shall aim to realise sanitation provision (SDG 6.2). Disseminating models based on science and nature based solutions like location specific innovative initiatives for actionable learning and building field capacity for adopting environment friendly practices and technologies shall be successful in bringing behavioral change amongst communities (SDG 6.2 and 6.b). Facilitating implementation of these deliverables assist to bring smarter decision-making based on the best knowledge available and commitment towards action through working partnerships and shared responsibilities. It shall provide insights to improve water quality by reducing pollution of surface and groundwater and minimizing release of hazardous materials into water along with making moderate progress in reducing proportion of wastewater and treating wastewater for reuse (SDG 6.3). Case studies showcasing improved water-use efficiency by shall promote sustainable water use (SDG 6-4)
The nexus focus is on system efficiency, rather than on productivity of isolated sectors, and the benefits and efficiencies it produces for society as a whole through integrated policy-making and decision-making. The barriers around national interests, security concerns and upstream-downstream trade-offs can be overcome through the nexus approach. Impacts are directed towards addressing holistic water management through identification, conservation and preservation via SENSITIZE, INCENTIVIZE AND GALVANIZE model that shall assist realization of SDGs with ‘No One Left Behind’.
Website : https://www.indiawaterfoundation.org/
SDGs & Targets:
Goal 6
Resources Mobilized:
Staff / Technical expertise
Culture of awareness on green endeavors to be communicated and valuable contributions towards realizing inter-linked SDGs by 2030
In-kind contribution
Plant saplings shall be distributed among communities to raise awareness on green issues
Basic Information:
Start: 2 October 2020 Completion: 02 October 2030
Entity: India Water Foundation (Non-governmental organization (NGO))
Partners:
IWF is accredited with Special Consultative Status with United Nations Economic and Social Council (UN-ECOSOC), Observer Status Governing Body of United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), Observer Status organisation with United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Observer Status with United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). IWF has Memberships with International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) and Global Compact Network India (GCN-India) at National level and Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN: operational arm of UNFCCC) membership for Southern Asia and Member with World Water Council (Governor in Board of Members in WWC) at international level.\r\n\r\nIWF has partnerships with Meghalaya Basin Development Authority (MBDA), Shillong, Government of Meghalaya; Water Security and Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), Government of Sikkim; Institute For Management Studies, Thimphu, Bhutan; The Meghalaya Water Foundation, Shillong, Meghalaya; IIT Delhi as Institutional Partner; Centre for Skill Development & Engineering Consultancy (CSDEC), Institution of Engineers Shimla, H.P.; Himalayan Institute for Environment, Ecology & Development (HIFEED), Dehradun, Uttarakhand; ACWIFER, Pune; Alternative Global and India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.\r\nIndia Water Foundation is empanelled as Key Resource Centre, Department of Drinking water and Sanitation, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of India, Key Resource Hub of Networking, National Council for Science and Technology Communication (NCSTC), Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. Empanelled with ‘Catch the Rain’ initiative of National Water Mission, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of India, social media campaigns are expected to promote an integrated way towards water management and conservation of every drop of rain. Our Jal Mitra (Friends of Water) campaign to turn ‘Water Conservation into Public Movement’ has enhanced public awareness on understanding of water, environment and climate change issues inspiring more than 50,000 Jal Mitras. Having a regular interface with them, these ‘Champions/Ambassadors of Climate Change’ shall act as messengers of climate change to deliver and disseminate climate-related information in their vicinity.
Initiative focused on covid-19 pandemic response, prevention and recovery efforts: Yes
Geographical Coverage: Asia & Pacific
Beneficiary Countries:
Other Beneficiaries:
Beneficiaries shall also account from the academia, water practitioners and professionals, experts and resource persons from the field of biodiversity, marine plastics, ecosystem adaptation, scientific WaSH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene), etc. The objective is to bring on board communities inter-connected with Water to realise its targets leverage, best practices case studies, technological and eco-friendly solutions to address water availability and accessibility concerns and the corresponding inter-linkages with sectors such as agriculture, rural development, gender, etc. Our activities are expected to bring on board leading policy-makers and professional domain experts, high-level representatives, development partners, technical experts, academia, and stakeholders, Governments, UN agencies and international organizations, communities, children and youth, women, disadvantaged, etc. The main beneficiaries of the SDG actions are targeted towards shall include indigenous communities, women, youth and children, minorities, disadvantaged and excluded sections. Our actions shall bring a uniform platform to engage national and international agencies and partners, Not for profit organizations, Educators, Educational and Technical Institutions, District Administration, Panchayati Raj Institutions (local government), communities at grass root level, etc.
Contact Information:
Dr. Arvind Kumar
Email: [email protected]
Phone No: +911126349533
Headquarters: Delhi India
Post Source: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/partnership/?p=37039
