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Sharing insights on challenges in scaling-up, transferability, and interdisciplinary integration for comprehensive water scarcity strategies. Exchange lessons learned, prioritize challenges, and propose focus areas for integrated strategies in the MENA region. Addressing key issues in solutions, scalability, transferability, and interdisciplinarity for effective water scarcity management.
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Sharing ideas and research findings for solving water scarcity
Goal of today and tomorrow’s sessions • Prioritization of challenges regarding scaling-up, transferability and interdisciplinary for integration of solutions/approaches into a comprehensive water scarcity strategy. • Exchange and integration of lessons learned and challenges within and beyond existing projects / programmes. • List of advice and focus areas for furthering integrated strategies for water scarcity in the MENA region.
Solutions and Contributions to address Water Scarcity (15 min)
ChallengestowardsIntegratedStrategiesfor Water Scarcity Scalability • Capacity for a solution/contribution to be adapted at a different magnitude (greater or lower), e.g. moving from country to region or from city to small town. Transferability • Capacity for a solution/contribution to be applicable across different contexts (biophysical, social, environmental, etc.) and timeframes (emergency vs development) in the MENA region. Interdisciplinarity • Capacity for a solution/contribution toinclude/support or exclude/difficultaddressing concerns from different disciplines, e.g. socialvsenvironmental goals.
Priorization of challenges • Gap between Research and National needs/priorities (and transfer to effective policy) • Effectively including or considering the socio-economic context. • Actively involving the end users in the research process • Absence of a business model to take research towards implementation, and integrated water strategies. • Communication across partners on research projects to address gap and avoid overlaps.
Exchange of LessonsLearnedandOpportunities Absence of Business models: • Create business model via targeting different funding groups at different stages: pilot small-scale large-scale. • Actively involving end users as it considers the socio-economic situation and can address an existing need. • Actively involve private sector in the project • Enable the creation of supportive legislation and enforcement. Actively involving end-users: • End users involved through out research: in inception phase, in measuring and data collection, and in the end results (transdisciplinary research)
Exchange of LessonsLearnedandOpportunities Projects work in isolation: • Creating a registration system for all on-going (research) projects in a country/region for access. • “Centres of Excellence” bringing know-how together, and involving users + private sector Gap between research and national priorities: • Processes need to involve key decision makers from both sectors. • Seek and foster Champions with vision, time and resources • Build dialogue capacity (technical, socio, etc.) in government and academia • Donors should be flexible to changing project outcomes in response to changing priorities and circumstances. • Require involvement of local universities/research centres to ensure continuity.
TowardsIntegrated Water ScarcityStrategies Develop 3 to 5 key messages/advice for the MENA water sector (policy, research, development cooperation and/or professionals) to focus/further creating integrated strategies for water scarcity.
