SCIENTIFIC CAPACITY STRENGTHENING FOR WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

FACING CLIMATE CHANGE

Cecilia Öman Royal Institute of Technology, SwedenInternational Foundation for Science

Local strategies

Ownership

Content

Ownership

Monitoring and evaluation

Scientific capacity strengthening activities

The Water Cycle

Subsidising investments to decrease emissions of carbon dioxide

Cleaner Development Mechanism CDM

decrease emissions of carbon dioxide

Challenge one

� Developing countries lack institutional and economic capacity to cope with climate change impacts and to rebuild the infrastructure damaged by natural disasters

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� Dependent on external aid when affected by a natural disaster, developing countries are

� Lack the resources to carry out adaptation studies and to implement the strategies emerging from these studies

Carbon credit

� Trading system between industrialised countries and developing countries

� One carbon credit equals one ton of carbon dioxide emitted

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dioxide emitted

� Value on the spot market (10-25€/carbon credit)

Eligibility

� Qualified countries are those who signed the Kyoto protocol

� Qualified project are those where the owner can show that the carbon credits are required to fund

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show that the carbon credits are required to fund the necessary investments

� Thus the investment are not economical sound without the subsidizing of carbon credits

Typical CDM projects

� Wind mill farms

� Small Hydropower plants

� Different furnaces� cement and steel industry

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cement and steel industry

� Collection and energy production of biogas from landfills

� … and all those projects would not been invested in unless subsidized by carbon credits

Sustainable local strategy

� Local strategies builds on

� Identifying priorities, providing information, research

� Change in behaviour builds on

� Ownership, motivation

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� Ownership, motivation

� Sutstainability requires

� Monitoring and evaluation

� Scientific capacity can be efficiently strengthened

� Through a well defined program of activities

Local strategies

• high quality• at all levels

Access to technology

• implementation of Well defined roles

Target

• implementation of adaptation strategies

Well defined roles and responsibilities

• regional, national, local• climate change, adaptation

Dissemination of information

Science-based analysis and modeling

Provide communities

Local strategies

Provide communities with local information

Identify priorities for climate change adaptation planning

Local information

�Changing temperatures

�Precipitation patterns

Glacial recession

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�Glacial recession

�Changing stream and river flows

High-level policy makers

especially targeted

Sectoral level more likely to mainstream

Address stakeholders

Sectoral level policy makers, planners and managers

more likely to mainstream adaptation to climate

change into on-going and planned work

National and international experts and researchers

share their knowledge with decision makers

and planners

Local strategy participatory approach1. The relevant stakeholders from the most vulnerable

sectors of the economy and regions within the country are involved

2. High-level policy makers are aware of the importance of the issueThe general public is made more aware about the

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3. The general public is made more aware about the issues

4. Special focus is given to the most vulnerable regions and populations within each country

5. All relevant institutions within the government as well as civil society need to be made aware of the problem and their respective roles in dealing with it

Research supported in-country

Local strategy requirements

Research results translated into

language and time scales

relevant for stakeholders

All relevant stakeholders involved -

information must be adapted

To seek the good solutions and be flexible to meet well a variety of challenges... Grasp opportunitites

Change in behavior, ownership

change in behavior

support required

Elements of ownership

1. Decision for action to change is based on how the problem is perceive

2. Motivation for change is high if

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2. Motivation for change is high if the advantages are important than the disadvantages

3. Motivation varies between countries and stakeholder

3 Pillars

� Participatory approach �involving all stakeholders

�Appropriate technology

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�equipment, infrastructure

� Financial mechanism �autonomous financial resources

3 Pillars

Financial Mechanism

Policy &

strategy

Financial Mechanism

Institutional

environment

Management Development

Monitoring and evaluation

Outcome mapping

� Focuses on Outcomes

�Changes in behavior towards which the

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Changes in behavior towards which the planned intervention is contributing

�www.outcomemapping.ca

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Scientific capacity strengthening

IFS support strategy

Initiate new scientific research

Generate results

research

Inform and implement

Follow-up

Major constraints for research in developing countries

Poor library facilities

Nonavailability of research equipment

Lack of funds

as identified by 700 researchers

from Gaillard, J.; Tullberg, A. F. Questionnaire survey of African scientists - IFS grantees and INCO beneficiaries. Report No 2, IFS MESIA Impact Studies, International Foundation for Science, Stockholm, Sweden, 2001

0 5 10 15 20 25 30

Lack of transportation

Heavy teaching and administration load

Low salaries / lack of incentives

Lack of competent support staff

Poor library facilities

%

Funds

1. Workshops� develop scientific research

proposal for funding� scientific methodology

2. Project proposal reviewed

IFS support for fundraising

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2. Project proposal reviewed � 10 international senior researchers

3. Workshop for revision of research proposals 4. Research grants

Equipment and Support staff

IFS equipment support

� Research grant for procuring equpiment

� Support procurement

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� Support universities

� procurement, maintenance, repair

� training on use, maintenance and repair of equipment

� equipment management strengthening program PRISM

Literature

Literature

� Training courses

� Finding literarture on internet

� Developing a literature review

� In collaboration with

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� In collaboration with

INASP, OARE, HINARI, AGORA

Transportation to field sites

� Research grant for visit field sites

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Generation of scientific results

� Training courses �good sampling and laboratory practices

� statistical methods and

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� statistical methods and experimental designs

�equipment use and maintenance

� Thematic workshops

� Mobilising networks

Dissemination and implementation

� Training courses

� oral presentations, posters, scientific papers

� Funds to participation in

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� Funds to participation in scientific conferences

� Workshops –platform for communication

� researchers, policy-makers, public, private sector, development organisations, media

Gender balance among scientists

1. Networking

2. Role-models

3. Fair recognition in relation to merits

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3. Fair recognition in relation to merits

4. Tools for how to manage work career and family management

“The unbalanced distribution of scientific activity in the world generates serious problems

not only for the scientific community in the developing countries,

but for development itself”but for development itself”

Koffi Annan

Previous Secretary-General of the United Nations

Summary

� Local strategies builds on

� Identifying priorities, providing information, research

� Change in behaviour builds on

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� Change in behaviour builds on

� Ownership, motivation

� Sutstainability requires

� Monitoring and evaluation

� Scientific capacity can be efficiently strengtened

� Through a well defined program of activities

Ana Dorly Jaramillo

Paola Vasquez

Acknowledgement

Paola Vasquez

Centro Regional de Producción Más Limpia

www.ifs.se

“Strengthening Capacity for

Thank you for your attention!

“Strengthening Capacity for Water Resources Research in Countries with

Vulnerable Scientific Infrastructure”