GLOBAL COALITION FOR GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE Launched at the 2016 World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden
The OECD Principles on Water Governance On 4 June 2015, the OECD Principles on Water Governance were endorsed by OECD Ministers as standards for more effective, efficient and inclusive design and implementation of water policies. The Principles have been developed and discussed through a bottom-up and multi-stakeholder approach within the OECD Water Governance Initiative, an international network of 120+ policymakers and stakeholders gathering twice a year in a Policy Forum. The Principles aim to enhance water governance systems that help manage too much, too little and too polluted water in a sustainable, integrated and inclusive way, at an acceptable cost, and in a reasonable time-frame. They consider that governance is good if it can help to solve key water challenges, using a combination of bottom-up and top-down processes while fostering constructive state-society relations. It is bad if it generates undue transaction costs and does not respond to placebased needs. The Principles were developed on the premise that there is no one-size-fits-all solution to water challenges worldwide, but a menu of options building on the diversity of legal, administrative and organisational systems within and across countries. The OECD Principles on Water Governance recognise that governance is highly contextual, that water policies need to be tailored to different water resources and places, and that governance responses have to adapt to changing circumstances. They acknowledge that water governance is a shared responsibility between levels of government, public, private and non-profit stakeholders. The OECD Principles on Water Governance provide a framework to understand whether water governance systems are performing optimally and help to adjust them where necessary. They can catalyse efforts for making good practices more visible, learning from international experience, and setting reform processes into motion at all levels of government to facilitate change where and when needed. They can also help avoid traps and pitfalls, learning from international experience. OECD Principles on Water Governance Source: http://www.oecd.org/governance/ oecd-principles-on-water-governance.htm Available in 15 languages at http://www.oecd.org/governance/ oecd-principles-on-water-governance.htm
The Global Coalition The Global Coalition for Good Water Governance aims to trigger collective action towards effective, efficient and inclusive governance so that water security contributes to growth and well-being. Over 2016-2018, the Coalition will guide public action from policymakers, business and society at large through the identification, collection and upscaling of innovative solutions that can shape the future of water. In practice, the Global Coalition will catalyse through its members hundreds of success stories at international, national, basin and local levels, and foster related knowledge and experience sharing. These world class solutions to water governance gaps will be disclosed in a user-friendly OECD database at the 8 th World Water Forum to be held in Brasilia, March 2018. In addition, the 170+ members of the Global Coalition will also be consulted on the ongoing development of indicators to support the implementation of the OECD Principles on Water Governance. Such indicators will help assess, amongst others, whether i) framework conditions are in place to get water governance right; ii) the progress over time against a baseline ; and iii) the impact of governance structures on policy outcomes in terms of managing too much, too little and too polluted water and ensuring universal coverage of water services. The indicators will also contribute to the monitoring of selected targets of SDG 6, such as 6b on local participation, for instance. 35 OECD MEMBER COUNTRIES 7 NON-MEMBER COUNTRIES 140 STAKEHOLDER GROUPS
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Join the Global Coalition Whether you represent an international, national, basin or local stakeholder, from public, private and non-profit sectors, you can endorse the OECD Principles on Water Governance and join the Global Coalition for Good Water Governance. To do so, you are welcomed to print, fill-in, sign and return the endorsement form available at http://www.oecd.org/gov/regional-policy/oecd-principles-wg-endorsement-form.pdf to water.governance@oecd.org.
For more on OECD work on water governance: visit www.oecd.org/gov/water or contact water.governance@oecd.org