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UN 2023 Water Conference Side Event
Partnerships and Cooperation for Water: The main findings of the

United Nations World Water Development Report 2023 and
experiences from the countries
22 March 2023 from 11:00 am to 12:15 pm

UNHQ, Conference Room 5
Organized by:
Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations - MAECI, Italian
Ministry of the Environment and Energy and UNESCO World Water
Assessment Programme
Contributing partners:
UN-Water (FAO, UNIDO, UNDP, UNEP, UNESCO IHP), OECD
Countries: Kyrgyzstan, Tunisia
Stakeholders: FAO-Mountain Partnership, Aga Khan Agency for
Habitat – AKAH, World Youth Parliament for Water
Background on the event
The United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR) is the UN system's most
authoritative water report, providing decision-makers with the critical knowledge and tools
needed to formulate and implement sustainable water policies and actions. Launched each year
on World Water Day (22 March), 2023 edition, entitled 'Partnerships and Cooperation for
Water', has been designed to inform and inspire the dialogues and deliberations of the 2023
UN Water Conference. Building on the findings of the report, this side event highlighted
relevant experiences at the local, regional and national level in Italy and other countries.
Water Action Agenda
Not only the 2023 Report but the previous editions of the UN WWDR contribute to inform
many commitments submitted for the UN 2023 Water Conference:
https://www.unesco.org/en/wwap/wwdr#thematic-reports-2014---present
Key Issues discussed
The session shared the key findings of the 2023 edition of the United Nations World Water
Development Report underlining that:
• Almost all water-related interventions involve cooperation from local to global scales.
Similarly, formal and informal agreements through water partnerships bring together a
variety of stakeholders with different objectives and perspectives;
• Partnerships in different sectors are key to ensure water, food and energy security;
• Transboundary nature of water resources necessitates that partnerships and co-
operation practices take into account the need for basin level management;
• Financing in water sector is not sufficient. Co-operation and partnerships would help
addressing this challenge;
• Amongst many, partnerships between the nature and human beings are the most critical
to ensure wellbeing of all and to address the triple crisis of climate change, nature loss
and pollution;
• National efforts are underway to improve water management practices. Partnerships
between science community and policy making circles need to be strengthened.
Key recommendations for action
• Building partnerships and strengthening cooperation in all dimensions of sustainable

development are essential to accelerate the achievement of all SDG targets and to
realise human rights to water and sanitation. No-one must be left behind;
• It is important to focus on partnerships that implement nature-based solutions, involve
local, indigenous peoples;
• Mixed financing systems should be developed to overcome the lack of resources needed
to achieve SDG 6;
• Data from science must be taken into account in water policies.
The intersectoral nature of water, crossing all the social, economic and environmental
pillars of sustainable development, also requires the exploration of opportunities for
new models of partnerships and cooperation across all scales, from the municipal,
national and basin levels through to the global;
• Safeguarding water, food and energy security through sustainable water management,
providing water supply and sanitation services to all, supporting human health and
livelihoods, mitigating the impacts of climate change and extreme events, and
sustaining and restoring ecosystems and the valuable services they provide, are all
pieces of a great and complex puzzle. Only through partnerships and cooperation can
the pieces come together. And everyone has a role to play.

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UN 2023 Water Conference Side Event

Partnerships and Cooperation for Water: The main findings of the

22 March 2023 from 11:00 am to 12:15 pm

Background on the event

Key Issues discussed

Key recommendations for action

• Building partnerships and strengthening cooperation in all dimensions of sustainable

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