Intro
Provisional Calendar
Ministerial Process
Parliamentarian Process
Local and Regional Authorities Process

Intro

The objectives of the Political Commission are to facilitate a better understanding of water issues by political decision-makers, including outside the water sector, and to help give greater consideration to these issues at all levels of decision-making. Its mandate is to:

- coordinate the work of the 3 political segments (local and regional authorities / parliamentarians / governments) that the political outcomes effectively reflect the main issues, action targets and solutions emerging from the experts analyses and from regional priorities;

- build on previous fora and move forward, by reviewing the commitments made (parliamentarians’ help desk, “Istanbul consensus” for local and regional authorities and “water champion cities”, topics in the ministerial declaration) and then taking forward selected topics or new commitments;

- monitor the implementation of the decisions from the Forum of Istanbul and include into political documents (declarations, recommendations or voluntary commitments) the new recommendations of the various thematic and regional processes.

The political process is chaired by Sujiro Seam, Deputy Director of the Global public goods directorate at the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, and the Vice-President is András Szöllösy-Nagy, UNESCO- Institute for Water Education’s Rector.

Provisional Calendar

Ministerial Process

The ministerial process wishes to make progress on targets specific to the Istanbul Ministerial Statement or standing out in the international negotiations, and to have the Marseille Forum’s recommendations recognised as a contribution to other ongoing UN processes, for example, on water and health (WHO) or the Rio+20 Conference (Mid 2012) via the green economy.

> More information on the ministerial process

Contact: j.newton@worldwaterforum6.org

Forum documents

The Ministerial Declaration in English

The Ministerial Declaration in French

The Ministerial Declaration in Russian

The Ministerial Declaration in Spanish

The Ministerial Declaration in Chinese

The Ministerial Declaration in Arabic

Parliamentarian Process

The parliamentarian process aims at developing the permanent international Parliamentary “Helpdesk”. This tool will facilitate political cooperation regarding water-related legislation and will help share best practices and domestic water-related legislation.

Parliamentarian events:

More information on this process

Contacts: s.legrand@worldwatercouncil.org or
François-Xavier Imbert, fx.imbert@worldwaterforum6.org

Local and Regional Authorities Process

The Local and Regional Authorities process will highlight Local and Regional Authorities’ major role in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The 6^th World Water Forum will build on the results of the political processes organised previously. Thereby, the Istanbul Water Consensus (IWC), main output of the Local and Regional Authorities political process of the 5^th World Water Forum (Istanbul, 2009), is the cornerstone of the Local and Regional Authorities process of the 6^th World Water Forum.

More information on this process

Contact: iwc@worldwatercouncil.org

General Contact : political@worldwaterforum6.org