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The challenge: The Integration and new approaches to manage risks in the light of increasing uncertainties require transformation processes in institutional resource regimes and management style. Different approaches have been developed and proposed to deal with this complexity and with the ambition of ensuring a sustainable use of the resource. The failure of governance systems has been identified as being one of the most important reasons for the increased vulnerability of populations to water related disasters. Successful governance in river basin management depends on adaptive institutions that are able to cope with complexity and uncertainty and to face new challenges such as climate change. Project Objectives: Over the past years, the EU has funded several projects that undertook research on specific integrated water resources management (IWRM) issues in case studies carried out on twinned river basins from Europe and from developing countries. The aim of Twin2Go now is to review, assess, synthesize and consolidate the outcomes of these projects in order to make them transferable and applicable to other basins, and to disseminate the project results effectively to relevant authorities, stakeholders and end-users. In order to achieve this aim, Twin2Go will elaborate a methodology that allows comparative analysis and synthesis of the outcomes of the diverse projects. The consolidated outcomes will feed into best practice guidelines for the adoption and implementation of sustainable water resources management plans. All synthesis activities will involve stakeholders from the projects and basins including all relevant levels of target groups and high level decision makers in water policy. Twin2Go will focus its activities on the thematic priority 'adaptive water governance in the context of climate change and cluster past and ongoing twinning projects along their target regions (Latin America, Africa, NIS, South and South East Asia). Methodology: In order to facilitate a comparison of past and ongoing work not only in the selected projects and river basins, but also on the framework conditions (social, economic) within which these projects are performed, a methodology for comparative analysis will have to be elaborated. This methodology is intended to support the comparison between the ongoing projects and/or river basins and synthesise their lessons, which will allow opening new perspectives for water managers and stakeholders in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. Such analyses support what can be called a 'diagnostic approach which develops tools to analyse problems embedded in context and supports the development of context specific solution instead of advocating simplistic panaceas. In the conceptual context, the methodological framework of Twin2Go will fall back on approaches of adaptive management, institutional development, social learning and adaptive governance.
Objective: The overall objective of the WETwin project is to enhance the role of wetlands in basin-scale integrated water resources management, with the aim of improving the community service functions while conserving good ecological status. Strategies will be worked out for: utilizing the drinking water supply and sanitation potentials of wetlands for the benefit of people living in the basin, while maintaining (and improving as much as possible) the ecosystem functions adapting wetland management to changing environmental conditions integrating wetlands into river basin management improving stakeholder participation and capacity building with the aim of supporting sustainable wetland management. The project will work on 'twinned' case study wetlands from Africa, South America and Europe. Management solutions will be worked out for these wetlands with the aim of supporting the achievement of the above objectives. Involvement of local stakeholders into the planning process will play a crucial role. Knowledge and experiences gained from these case studies will be summarized in general guidelines in order to support achieving project objectives on global scale. The project also aims at supporting the global exchange of expertise on wetland management. Stakeholder participation, capacity building and expertise exchange will be supported by a series of stakeholder and twinning workshops.
Objective: The overall objective of the WETwin project is to enhance the role of wetlands in basin-scale integrated water resources management, with the aim of improving the community service functions while conserving good ecological status. Strategies will be worked out for: utilizing the drinking water supply and sanitation potentials of wetlands for the benefit of people living in the basin, while maintaining (and improving as much as possible) the ecosystem functions adapting wetland management to changing environmental conditions integrating wetlands into river basin management improving stakeholder participation and capacity building with the aim of supporting sustainable wetland management. The project will work on 'twinned' case study wetlands from Africa, South America and Europe. Management solutions will be worked out for these wetlands with the aim of supporting the achievement of the above objectives. Involvement of local stakeholders into the planning process will play a crucial role. Knowledge and experiences gained from these case studies will be summarized in general guidelines in order to support achieving project objectives on global scale. The project also aims at supporting the global exchange of expertise on wetland management. Stakeholder participation, capacity building and expertise exchange will be supported by a series of stakeholder and twinning workshops.
Ziel eines Twining-Projektes von Deutschland war die Stärkung der institutionellen Strukturen und behördlichen Kapazitäten der Tschechischen Republik im Umweltbereich. Ecologic unterstützte in diesem Zusammenhang die Tätigkeit des deutschen Langzeitberaters im tschechischen Umweltinspektorat bei der Projektdurchführung und bei der Berichterstattung für die Europäische Kommission.
Die geplante Osterweiterung der EU um die assoziierten mittel- und osteuropaeischen Staaten (MOE-Staaten) stellt die europaeische Umweltpolitik vor grosse Herausforderungen. Die tiefgreifenden oekonomischen und politischen Transformationsprozesse in den MOE-Staaten eroeffnen einerseits die einmalige Chance, die Umweltqualitaet in Gesamteuropa durch die Annaeherung der rechtlichen, institutionellen und strukturellen Rahmenbedingungen nachhaltig zu verbessern. Andererseits stellen sowohl der oekologische Problemdruck als auch die mangelhaften administrativen Kapazitaeten in den MOE-Staaten eine Herausforderung fuer die europaeische Umweltpolitik dar. Hinsichtlich der konkreten Ausgestaltung der Beitrittsverhandlungen untersucht die Studie im Auftrag des Umweltbundesamtes und des Bundesministeriums fuer Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit die umweltpolitischen Beitrittsstrategien ausgewaehlter Beitrittskandidaten und der EU. Dabei baut die Studie auf eine detaillierte Analyse der Heranfuehrungsstrategie der Gemeinschaft mit ihren technischen und finanziellen Instrumenten (TAIEX, DISAE, IMPEL-AC, Twinning, Screening/PHARE, ISPA, SAPARD, LIFE) auf. Die derzeitige Umweltsituation in Mittel- und Osteuropa wird nicht nur querschnittsartig nach verschiedenen Bereichen/Umweltmedien untersucht, sondern die Studie beschaeftigt sich auch exemplarisch mit ausgewaehlten Umweltproblemen der einzelnen Beitrittslaender. Aufbauend auf diese Untersuchungen und eine ausfuehrliche Darstellung des europaeischen Umweltrechts (umweltrechtlicher Acquis Communautaire) soll die Studie schliesslich Informationen und Anregungen fuer die Definition einer umweltpolitisch plausiblen deutschen Verhandlungsposition waehrend der Beitrittsverhandlungen bereitstellen. Bisher liegt der fachliche Zwischenbericht der Studie vor.
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