World Water Week 2024

adelphi at World Water Week:

Beyond preparedness: Anticipatory action and adaptation efforts for community resilience

Date: 26th August 2024
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Location: Waterfront Congress Centre, Stockholm, Room 26, Level 2

This session will explore the crucial intersection of proactive, anticipatory action and its contribution to longer-term preparedness strategies, with a focus on water security, to address climate-related mobility challenges. Drawing on case studies from Pakistan, Zambia and Uganda, the session will explore water management strategies, tools and approaches to enhance climate resilience between displaced populations/migrants, as well as hosting communities. The format, a blended expert-led panel and an interactive discussion, will foster an active dialogue between panellists and attendees. Panel experts will provide some fire-starting remarks in conversation with the moderator to make the case for how proactive, anticipatory action in the water sector can help address climate-related mobility challenges, showcasing actionable solutions from different contexts to this end. Participants will then be invited to join in the conversation in an ‘Experience Exchange' session, facilitated by the moderator, where they will be invited to share their take on specific challenges and solutions, with the goal of stimulating innovative thinking and collaborative problem-solving. These insights will be synthesised into actionable recommendations in a concluding plenary, ensuring that the session not only fosters meaningful engagement but also drives practical outcomes to bolster resilience against climate change impacts.

Speakers:

Dr. Juan Carlos Sanchez Ramirez, Research Group Leader - Water Governance and Political Economy, IWMI
Dr. Gabriel Pollen, Director, Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit, Republic of Zambia (tbd)
Dr. Callist Tindimugaya, Commissioner for Water Resources Planning and Regulation, Ministry of Water and Environment, Republic of Uganda
Andrew Kruczkiewicz, Red Cross Climate Centre (online, tbd)
Jessica Troell, Director, International Water Program, Environmental Law Institute

Moderation by Beatrice Mosello, Senior Advisor Climate Peace and Security, adelphi

Convenors: adelphi, International Water Management Institute, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Environmental Law Institute

About World Water Week:

World Water Week has been organized every year since 1991 by Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), which curates the content.

Tackling the greatest challenges of our time often starts with water. Here you can delve into a broad range of topics, from food security and health to agriculture, technology, biodiversity, and the climate crisis. Each year is centred on a theme, which is explored from many different perspectives.

At World Water Week you will meet a diverse mix of decision-makers, business leaders, city planners, activists, and researchers from all over the world. Many have found new and smarter ways to manage water. People join the conference to share new ideas, learn from each other and collaborate on innovative solutions.

World Water Week is also an important meeting place for policymakers and institutions to accelerate progress in international processes related to water, development, and climate.

The World Water Week programme is co-created with international organizations to give access to the latest trends and insights from many different fields. Here you find:

Sessions on a broad range of topics. For the most part, these are curated by SIWI but convened by leading organizations from around the world.
SIWI Seminar Series, arranged by the Scientific Programme Committee (SPC). As the thematic core of World Water Week, the topics of the seminars are chosen to delve deeper into different aspects of the year’s theme.