This document discusses the role of civil society in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals related to water and sanitation by 2030. It notes that achieving universal access will require significant funding from governments, organizations, agencies, the private sector, and civil society. It identifies challenges in securing adequate funding, including issues with government policies and resource allocation, donor approaches, private sector practices, and community capacity and engagement. The document proposes tools for addressing financial and management obstacles, such as various funding mechanisms, cooperative models, multisector partnerships, knowledge sharing, and ensuring international cooperation on transboundary water resources.

1. Civil society contribution to the implementation of the
Sustainable Development Goals related to water
Financing and Economic Instruments
Moez Allaoui
Senior Legal Desk Officer
15-17 January 2015
Zaragoza

2. Civil Society aware that achieving the SDG’s
goals relating to the right to water and
sanitation by the end of 2030 needs a global
resource mobilization,
Governments, International Organizations,
Development Agencies, Private Sector and
Civil Society, each of them has a crucial role
to play,

3. Also aware that raising funds for achieving universal
and equitable access to drinking water and
sanitation, but also for a satisfactory IWRM
everywhere would not be an easy task especially in
a context of a financial and economic crisis,
And aware of the challenges related to good
governance of the sector and denoucing the risks
posed by the lack of accountability and integrity,

4. But determinated to play fully its role and
exercise its rights to public partcipation, to
have access to information and to struggle
against discrimination especially regarding
women, youth indeginious and vulnerable
people.

5. On the basis of the lessons learnt through our session and
the similar cases and experiences already known, the civil
society group identified regarding fianacial issues, 4
categories of Challenges – Obstacles classified according to
the stakeholders taking part in the process of
implementation of the right to water and sanitation:
Government (National and Local)
Donors,
Private sector,
Community,

6. Government:
unadapted legislations – regulations,
Unadapted policies
Inefficiency in resource allocation + inequalty
Lack of information
Lack of communication
Lack of transparency
Bureaucracy : Administrative and procedural burdens

7. Donors :
Action detached from the communities reality
Preconcieved solutions not always adapted to reality
Inadequate dissemination of information (funding opportunities)
Lack of projects follow up
Lack of coordination between donors
Lack of funding to the NGO’s working on field

8. Private Sector:
Unadpted projects – technologies,
Lack of respect of human rights,
Lack of transparency,
Sustainability,

9. Communities:
Lack of trust to Women and youth initiatives
Lack of awarness
Lack of capacity
Lack of involvement
Lack of financial means
Lack of willingness to pay for water

10. Tools: Funding
Seed funding (Tanzania)
National small scale funding (Tanzania)
Funding instutions involvement in the process implementation
(Tanzania)
Self-funding : payment for services (Tanzania)
Revolving funding- Micro finance
Donors platforms (LIFT –Myanmar)

11. Tools : Mangement
Local coooperatives (Tunisia)
Small scale local companies- Public Authorities- Civil society partnerships
(installing and maintaining water systems)
Gathering several NGO’s toghether around a same target – Project
(Myanmar)
Communication inside the community (Tanzania)
Users involvement (inclusiveness)
Project appropriation
Long term and multi sectors approach (Tanzania)

12. Tools : Mangement
Cost effeciency by introducing economic activities (Tanzania, Nicaragua)
Knowledge dissemination (Tanzania)
Training (Tanzania)
Integrity (WIN tool )

13. Tools dissemniation and duplication :
The SDG’s are not targeting only WASH objectives, but also IWRM and
water security.
The majority of watercourses and aquifers are transboundary.
More than 600 shared aquifers are identified around the world.
So international cooperation around the SDG’s is conditioned by an
international cooperation on watercourses management.
Just a minority of countries have ratified the global frameworks (UN 1997
Convention and UNECE 1992 Convention)
The Aarhus convention is also an important instrument for civil society to
fully play its role through the right to information, public participation and
access to justice.

14. Thank you for your attention
Moez Allaoui
m.allaoui@waterlex.org
WATERLEX
International Secretariat
83, rue de Montbrillant
1202 Geneva
Switzerland