Water Monitoring Alliance

Mapping and Interlinking Monitoring & Reporting Activities on Water

In brief

This programme builds on the recommendations made at the 3^rd World Water Forum in Kyoto. It aims to facilitate better coordination of monitoring activities in the water sector by mapping out various existing activities and identifying possible links among them.

 

Objectives

- To create an inventory of existing activities;
- To analyse interrelations, respective scopes, definitions, indicators and objectives;
- To propose methods and tools to strengthen complementarities;
- To create a platform for exchange of information and experiences and to provide access to websites, publications and databases;
- To improve access to information and to raise awareness on the importance of monitoring.

Outcomes

- Greater visibility for organisations and programmes involved in water monitoring;
- Improved exchange and sharing of information among those organisations and programmes;
- Better use of existing information;
- Better access to information on water for decision-makers, the media and the general public;
- Better coordination among the various monitoring activities on water.

Water Monitoring Alliance

A portal website has been created in order to present the results of this mapping exercise and to provide a platform for organisations involved in monitoring. This platform, called the "Water Monitoring Alliance" serves to:

1) Create a common tool that facilitates access to databases and reports from various organisations;
2) Create an alliance among organisations involved in activities related to monitoring and reporting, that would like to create better links between their activities and others.

The Water Monitoring Alliance can be visited at www.watermonitoringalliance.net

Other activities

A Side-event was organised on April 20, 2005, during the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD 13) to raise awareness on the importance of monitoring. This event was organised in cooperation with the Governments of France, Japan, the United Kingdom, Italy and Denmark, as well as the European Union, the European Union Water Initiative, the African Bank of Development, the African Ministers Council on Water and the International Secretariat for Water.
Read the report of the side-event (PDF, 597 KB)