The GIWA Project Document: The Project Document too Prescriptive. Focus on policy analysis without adequate input from policy specialists. Ambiguities of the Project Document.

1. GIWA
What We Learned?

2. The GIWA Project document
• The Project Document too
Prescriptive.
• Focus on policy analysis
without adequate input from
policy specialists.
• Ambiguities of the Project
Document.

3. GIWA Methodology
• Design and field testing.
• The scaling/scoping approach.
• Methodology is not a
“cookbook”
• GEF visa non-GEF regions.

4. GIWA NETWORK
· Set up of the regional teams.
· The regional teams
composition.
· Scientific Guidance.
· Socio-Economic aspects
· Civil society Involvement .

5. Governance of GIWA
• The Steering Committee.
• An Executive Committee.
• GIWA “general assembly”.

6. GIWA Outputs
• The regional assessment
reports
• The GIWA Regional expert
teams
• The GIWA Global and LME
Reports

7. Building on GIWA Lessons
• GIWA methodology - limited
understanding of the major
environmental and water
related concerns.
• Ecosystem-based global
assessment methodology to
periodically assess the status of
the transboundary water
systems of the world.

8. Building on GIWA Lessons
• Deal discretely with different
water-body systems whilst
maintaining the overall
integrated concept of
transboundary ecosystems.
• Natural and anthropogenic
short-term and long-term
changes

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