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9th World Water Forum

March 21-26, 2022

Dakar, Senegal

9th World Water Forum
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  • The World Water Forum is the world’s biggest water-related event, held every three years to bring together key political actors, business leaders, NGOs, donors, and international organizations to promote dialogue and facilitate access to water and sanitation.  This year’s Forum—under the theme, Water Security for Peace and Development—is jointly organized by the World Water Council (WWC) and the Government of Senegal, and will be the first hosted in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Forum provides a unique platform for the water community and key decision makers to collaborate and make long-term progress on global water challenges. The WWC, notably through the organization of the World Water Forums, has strongly contributed to positioning water as a global political priority. 

    The 9th World Water Forum will focus on four priorities: 1) water security and sanitation; 2) cooperation; 3) water for rural development; 4) means and tools for implementation of reforms in water and sanitation. Additionally, the Forum will convene a Summit of Heads of States and major international institutions, to advance the political agenda on water and sanitation at the midpoint of the 2030 agenda on implementing the water and sanitation targets and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

    The World Bank will convene and participate in several sessions and side events, details for which will be announced soon. You can follow along via Twitter using #WWF9.

     

  • March 21

    Opening Ceremony

    9:00-12:00

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   David Malpass, President, World Bank Group

    ·   Read his full remarks here>>

    Opening of the World Bank Exhibition Booth

    14:30

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   David Malpass, President, World Bank Group  (TBC)

    HIGH LEVEL PANEL - Global CEO Panel | Not 'Business' as Usual: Game-Changing Innovations for Water Security

    14:00-15:30

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Makhtar Diop, Managing Director and Executive Vice President, IFC

    ·   Param Iyer, Program Manager, 2030 Water Resources Group

    Financing our future: Shared funding mechanisms for managing shared water resources

    14:00-15:30

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Joel Kolker, Program Manager for Global Water Security and Sanitation Partnership (GWSP)

    Platform for Dialogue on Financing

    14:00-15:30

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Dambudzo Muzenda, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, World Bank Water Global Practice

    Keystone Roundtable: Means and Tools

    15:45-17:15

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Jennifer Sara, Director, World Bank Water Global Practice

    Sahel Alliance

    17:00-18:30 | Senegal Pavilion

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Madio Fall, Water and Sanitation Specialist, World Bank Water Global Practice

    March 22

    HIGH LEVEL PANEL - Making the invisible visible: Groundwater, a response for resilience and sustainability

    9:00-10:30

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Maria Angelica Sotomayor, Manager, Global Program, World Bank Water Global Practice

    HIGH LEVEL PANEL - Financing a Water-Secure Future: Ways Forward

    9:00-10:30

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Joel Kolker, Program Manager for Global Water Security and Sanitation Partnership (GWSP)

    Enhance global collaboration in the field of WASH in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

    9:00-10:30

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Jean-Martin Brault, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, World Bank Water Global Practice

    HIGH LEVEL PANEL - AMCOW: Launch of the Water and Sanitation Report and Africa Investment Programme on Water

    10:45-12:15

    World Bank participating speakers:

    ·   Maria Angelica Sotomayor, Manager, Global Program, World Bank Water Global Practice

    ·   Yogita Mumssen, Practice Manager, Africa West, Water

    ·   Soma Ghosh Moulik, Practice Manager,  World Bank Water Global Practice

    HIGH LEVEL PANEL - The State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture 2021 (SOLAW 2021)

    10:45-12:15

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Pieter Waalewijn, Senior Water Resources Management and Irrigation Specialist, World Bank

    New perspectives on droughts in a time of climate change and a new approach for hydro-climatic risk management

    10:45-12:15

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Chloe Viola, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, World Bank Water Global Practice

    Groundwater Catalogue for informed policy development and management interventions

    10:45-12:15

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Soma Ghosh Moulik, Practice Manager,  World Bank Water Global Practice

    Policy, Institutional and Regulatory Enablers: the key ingredient for achieving SDG6

    10:45-12:15

    World Bank participating speakers:

    ·   Dambudzo Muzenda, Water and Sanitation Specialist, World Bank Water Global Practice

    ·   Gustavo Saltiel, Lead Water and Sanitation Specialist, World Bank Water Global Practice

    Carbon Neutral Smart Water Management for Climate Resilience

    10:45-12:15

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Maria Angelica Sotomayor, Manager, Global Program, World Bank Water Global Practice

    HIGH LEVEL PANEL - Global Observatory on Water and Peace, and its regional partner the Pole Eau Dakar

    10:45-12:15

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Jennifer Sara, Director, World Bank Water Global Practice

    Accelerating Cooperation on Transboundary Waters with Water Diplomacy

    12:00-13:30

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·  Anders Jagerskog, Senior Water Resources Management Specialist, World Bank Water Global Practice

    HIGH LEVEL PANEL - Charting Water for COP 27

    13:30-15:00

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Jennifer Sara, Director, World Bank Water Global Practice

    HIGH LEVEL PANEL - Wastewater epidemiology studies for tracking COVID-19 pandemic, extension of these studies to One-Health approach

    13:30-15:00

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Jean-Martin Brault, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, World Bank Water Global Practice

    Promoting peace by developing and implementing legal frameworks for transboundary water resources

    13:30-15:00

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·  Anders Jagerskog, Senior Water Resources Management Specialist, World Bank Water Global Practice

    HIGH LEVEL PANEL - Road to UN Conference

    13:30-15:00

    World Bank participating speaker: TBA

    Keystone Roundtable: Water Security and Sanitation

    15:15-16:45

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Gustavo Saltiel, Lead Water and Sanitation Specialist, World Bank Water Global Practice

    Water Security/Ecological Security Initiative

    16:00-17:00

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Jennifer Sara, Director, World Bank Water Global Practice

    Accelerating transboundary water cooperation through the Water Convention

    16:00-17:00

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·  Anders Jagerskog, Senior Water Resources Management Specialist, World Bank Water Global Practice

    March 23

    Depollution of Water Bodies in Urban Environments, Circular economy and adaptability in water and sanitation services

    9:00-10:30

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Jennifer Sara, Director, World Bank Water Global Practice

    HIGH LEVEL PANEL - Water Investments in Africa: Transforming the Investment Outlook for Climate Resilient Water and Sanitation in Africa

    9:00-10:30

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Maria Angelica Sotomayor, Manager, Global Program, World Bank Water Global Practice

    Water as a resource for peace - Building a shared understanding of water-security linkages

    9:00-10:00

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·  Anders Jagerskog, Senior Water Resources Management Specialist, World Bank Water Global Practice

    Accelerating action: increasing financing & sharing experiences for the development of resilience projects

    10:45-12:15

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·  Anders Jagerskog, Senior Water Resources Management Specialist, World Bank Water Global Practice

    HIGH LEVEL PANEL - The Sustainable Management of Hydrological Cycles at the heart of the acceleration of the Great Green Wall in Africa

    10:45-12:15

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Simeon K. Ehui, Regional Director for Sustainable Development for Africa, World Bank

    HIGH LEVEL PANEL - Systems Approach to Deliver Water to People Proposal

    13:30-15:00

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Gustavo Saltiel, Lead Water and Sanitation Specialist, World Bank Water Global Practice

    A New Approach to Hydro-Climatic Risk Management

    13:30-15:00

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Jennifer Sara, Director, World Bank Water Global Practice

    HIGH LEVEL PANEL - Road to UN Conference

    13:30-15:00

    World Bank participating speaker: TBA

    Data Collection across Africa's River and Lake Basins

    14:00-16:00

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Noosha Tayebi, Water Resources Management Specialist, World Bank Water Global Practice

    Keystone Roundtable: Water for Rural Development

    14:00-16:00

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Param Iyer, Program Manager, 2030 Water Resources Group

    March 24

    Smart Water Management

    9:00-10:30

    World Bank participating speakers:

    ·   Petra Schmitter, Consultant, World Bank Water Global Practice

    ·   Pieter Waalewijn, Senior Water Resources Management and Irrigation Specialist, World Bank

    Boosting international partnerships in the fights against climate change - the role of the Portuguese Environmental Fund and international financial institutions

    9:00-10:30

    World Bank participating speakers:

    ·   Gustavo Saltiel, Lead Water and Sanitation Specialist, World Bank Water Global Practice

    Water for agricultural climate resilience

    10:45-12:15

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Petra Schmitter, Consultant, World Bank Water Global Practice

    Joining forces to prevent the reversal of the SDGs in Fragile, Conflict, and Violence affected settings

    10:45-12:15

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Soma Ghosh Moulik, Practice Manager,  World Bank Water Global Practice

    Concrete answers for Water Security (SS52)

    10:45-12:15

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Jennifer Sara, Director, World Bank Water Global Practice

    IAEA-UNESCO Side Event: Human Capacity to Improve WRM

    12:15-13:30

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Erwin De Nys, Program Leader for the Sustainable Development and Infrastructure Program at the World Bank

    Water, Connector of Solutions to Face Global Challenges

    13:30-15:00

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Chloe Viola, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, World Bank Water Global Practice

    HIGH LEVEL PANEL - Transboundary basins and cooperation between actors, a contribution to peace

    13:30-15:00 

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Maria Angelica Sotomayor, Manager, Global Program, World Bank Water Global Practice

    Realizing the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation

    13:30-15:00 

    World Bank participating speaker:

    ·   Joel Kolker, Program Manager for Global Water Security and Sanitation Partnership (GWSP)

     

  • March 21

    Opening Plenary (9:00-12:00)

    World Bank Group President David Malpass presented opening remarks at this year's Forum. 

    Read his full remarks here>>

    Private Sector CEO Panel on Water (14:00-15:30)

    With crises of too little, too much, and too polluted water intensifying around the world, the urgency to act to sustain water resources has never been stronger. Recognizing the scale of the challenge, the private sector is leading various innovations to positively disrupt the way it supplies, uses, treats, and finances water. This session brings together leading CEOs in a panel discussion to highlight (a) examples of game-changing approaches, including innovative financing, that companies are advancing, and (b) the opportunity space for competitive collaboration amongst corporates and with governments for achieving water-related impact at scale.  

    The session will be presided by Makhtar Diop, IFC, Managing Director, World Bank Group EVP, and Paul Bulcke, Nestlé, Chairman of the Board. 

    March 22

    Keystone Roundtable on Water Security and Sanitation (15:30-17:00)

    Enhancing water security requires diversifying water sources (including unconventional sources), improving efficiency and demand management, and putting in place strong regulatory systems, as well as adequate pricing and subsidies policies, among other measures. This entails a comprehensive approach to planning and management of water resources and services.  It also calls for a moving away from the “take, make, dispose” linear model towards circular economy approaches that put valuable resources back in the water system. This session will bring together leaders in the sector to identify critical factors that lead to water security. It will also strengthen the case for rethinking water and sanitation challenges through a circular economy lens thereby delivering services in a more sustainable, inclusive, efficient, and resilient way.

    March 23

    Keystone Roundtable on Water and Rural Development (15:30-17:00)

    Water is integral to multiple aspects of rural development. Reliable drinking water and sanitation services improve health and wellbeing. Water security and a predictable climate underpin agricultural and pastoral livelihoods. While progress is being made, rural areas lag in access to water and sanitation services, and climate change existentially threatens rural livelihoods in many parts of the world. This high-level panel brings together government leaders from around the world to discuss the full array of contemporary issues and solutions for water in rural development, from basic services to irrigation to water resources management.

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