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REPUBLIC OF LEBANON CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION FOR STATISTICS (CAS)

REPUBLIC OF LEBANON CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION FOR STATISTICS (CAS). 5 th WORLD WATER FORUM SEEAW FOR LEBANON Istanbul – Turkey – 16-22/03/2009. Ghalia Hamamy – Central Administration for Statistics Email: hamamyghalia@yahoo.fr ghaliahamamy@windowslive.com. O U T L I N E.

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REPUBLIC OF LEBANON CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION FOR STATISTICS (CAS)

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  1. REPUBLIC OF LEBANONCENTRAL ADMINISTRATION FOR STATISTICS (CAS) 5th WORLD WATER FORUM SEEAW FOR LEBANON Istanbul – Turkey – 16-22/03/2009 Ghalia Hamamy – Central Administration for Statistics Email: hamamyghalia@yahoo.fr ghaliahamamy@windowslive.com

  2. OUTLINE • INSTITUTIONALIZATION VERSUS INDIVIDUAL EFFORTS AND INITIATIVE IN CAS • ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH VERSUS GOVERNMENTS AND UN METHODOLOGY • NATIONAL VERSUS BASIN LEVEL DATA COLLECTION • REGULATOR IMPORTANT ROLE IN INSTITUTIONALIZING AND BUILDING A SEEAW

  3. 1 INSTITUTIONALIZATION VERSUS INDIVIDUAL EFFORTS AND INITIATIVE IN LEBANON • Building a SEEAW means intra and inter institutional effort • Better and faster access to exhaustive and reliable data • More relevant SEEAW • In Lebanon, CAS exerts individual efforts to build a SEEAW: • Reading SEEAW manual • Identifying water management context and the potential stakeholders • Searching sustainable, reliable and exhaustive water data • Constituting and trying to make sustainable the SEEAW Steering Committee

  4. 2 ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH VERSUS GOVERNMENTS AND UN METHODOLOGY • Water Academicians are numerous in Lebanon • In Lebanon, water research is fragmented, discontinuous with no holistic national objective. It relies a lot on donors • UN methodology and SEEAW should be the thread for the water research and work in Lebanon but in one condition: being adapted to the Lebanese reality.

  5. 3 NATIONAL VERSUS BASIN LEVEL DATA COLLECTION • Regional Level • Water and Wastewater Establishments • Office National du Litani • National Level • Ministry of Environment • Ministry of Energy and Water and French Embassy • Civil Servants Fund • Central Administration for Statistics • Aggregated contract and sectoral level to reach national level • Ministry of Finance • Council of Development and Reconstruction • Aggregated regional level to reach national level • Ministry of Agriculture • Green Project • Climatology Service

  6. THANKS 4 REGULATOR IMPORTANT ROLE IN INSTITUTIONALIZING AND BUILDING A SEEAW • Regulator should be independent as much as possible • Regulator collects, centralizes, processes and disseminates water data • Regulator reviews water laws in order to issue modern and realistic regulations. The main objective is to build regulatory systems. • Regulator sets up water pricing and playing field rules for the water stakeholders and players. • THUS, independent regulator holistic water data, regulation and work will institutionalize SEEAW work.

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