EECCA

EAP Task Force

Joint meeting of

the EU Water Initiative’s EECCA working group

the OECD EAP Task force’s

AGENDA

VENUE

Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)
Address: Mechelininkatu 34 a
Helsinki, Finland

TIME

24 to 25May2007

DRAFT AGENDA

Thursday, 24 May 2007
Opening / Opening and Adoption of the Agenda
9:00 / Opening remarks by hosts and chairs
  • Ms. Lea Kauppi, Director General of the Finnish Environment Institute
  • Mr. Pierre Hecq, EUWI EECCA Group
  • Mr. Grigoriy Semchuk, Deputy Minister, Ministry of construction, architecture and housing economy of Ukraine

Session
1 / WSS & IWRM – Current status
9:30 /
  • Approval of minutes of the 2nd Joint meeting of the EUWI EECCA Working Group and of the EAP Task Force Group of Senior Officials for Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Reform (April 2006), as well as the 8th EUWI-EEECA WG meeting (November 2006)
Background documents:
Document: 17:Joint Meeting of the EU Water Initiative’s EECCA
Working Group and the EAP Task Force Environmental Finance and Water Networks
Document 18:8th EUWI - EECCA Component Working Group meeting, Bonn, Germany, 23 November 2006
  • Progress in reforming the WWS sector
  • Presentation of EECCA-wide trends on the basis of EAP Task Force water utility performance indicators data-base, Ms. Tatiana Efimova, EAP Task Force
  • Presentation of trends of water utility performance in Kyrgyzstan, Mr. Ulduz Zalyalov, Deputy Chairman, KYRGYZZHYLKOMMUN
  • Presentation of trends of water utility performance in Russia, Mr. Dmitriy Khomchenko, Institute of Urban Economics
Background documents:
Document 1: Thecategory II document “Financing WSS sector in EECCA country, including progress in achieving water-related MDGs”;
Document 2: Monitoring of the System of Water Supply And Wastewater in the Russian Federation
Document 3: Monitoring of the System of Water Supply And Wastewater in Tajikistan
Document 4: Monitoring of the System of Water Supply And Wastewater in theKyrgyzRepublic
11:00 / Coffee Break
11:30 /
  • Progress on the development of IWRM
  • Presentation of EECCA-wide situation, Mr. Palle Lindegaard-Jorgensen, TS
Presentation of practical cases, Rainer Enderlein, UNECE
12:30 / Lunch Break
Session
2 / Ongoing Activities
14:00 /
  • National Policy Dialogue in Armenia
  • Presentation of results of financing strategy for the urban water supply and sanitation sector and progress on developing a strategy for the rural sector, Mr. Gagik Khachatryan, Deputy Chairman, State Water Committee of Armenia and Mr. Alexander Martoussevitch, EAP Task Force
  • Presentation of the dialogue process on introducing river-basin planning for the water sector in Armenia, Ms. Svetlana Vardanyan, Water Resources Management Agency
Background documents:
Document 5: Implementing a National Finance Strategy for Water Supply and Sanitation in Armenia - Executive summary
Document 6: Implementing a National Finance Strategy for Water Supply and Sanitation in Armenia – Task 1: Updating the Finance Strategy and Integrating it into the Budgetary Process
Document 19:Financing Strategies For Rural Water Supply And Sanitation In Armenia - Baseline Simulation
Document 20: Millennium Development Goals and Minimal Water Supply Standards
  • National Policy Dialogue in Moldova
  • Presentation of progress on the Moldovan financing strategy project, Mr. Valentin Guznac, the Vice-Minister of Local Development of Moldova
  • Presentation of the dialogue process on introducing river-basin planning for the water sector in Moldova, Ms. Tamara Guvir, Ministry of Ecologyand Natural Resources of Moldova

Background documents:
Document 7:Discussion Paper for Water and Waste water Development in Moldova
Document 8:Facilitating policy dialogue, and Developing a National Financing Strategy for Urban and Rural Water Supply and Sanitation in Moldova
Present situation and Baseline scenario
15:30 / Coffee Break
Session
3 / Financing of WSS and IWRM of the Water Sector
16:00 /
  • Presentation of a pilot project implementing EAP Task Force financial planning methodology in a regional water utility in Armenia, Ms. Sofya Hovnannisyan, Finance Director, Armvodocanal
Background documents: FPTWU Tool and User Manual(on CD-rom)
  • Presentation of the outcomes of the EC TACIS Water Investment Support Facility (WISF),Mr. George McDonnell, Arcadis Consultants

17:15 / Closing of the day
19:30 / Boat trip and Dinner
Friday 25 May 2007
Session
4 / Monitoring
9:30 /
  • Monitoring of the progress of the EUWI EECCA component, Mr. Palle Lindegaard-Joegensen, TS
Background documents:
Document 10: Draft assessment of performance of EECCA Component of EU Water Initiative (2006)
  • Establishing a system ofImpact monitoring and assessment of financial resources needed to meet the MDG´s,
    Mr. Jesper Karup Pedersen, TS
Background documents:
Document 11:Impact Monitoring Tool
10:30 / Coffee Break
Session
5 / Towards Belgrade 2007 and beyond
11.00 /
  • Outline of the EUWI EECCA report for the Belgrade Environment for Europe Conference and Future Activities (Work programme including the Central Asia region),
    Mr. Pierre Hecq, EUWI EECCA Group
Background documents:
Document 12:EUWI-EECCA Component - Background, Achievements and Prospects
Document 15:EUWI-EECCA Component - Standard Request Form
Document 16:EUWI-EECCA Component - Organisational Set-up
  • EAP-TF Work Programme and report for Belgrade, Mr. Peter Börkey, EAP Task Force
Background documents:
Document 13: Programme of work and budget of the EAP Task Force
Document 14: Going for Results - Progress in Environmental Management in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia - Chapters dealing with Water
  • Any other ongoing activities (i.e EU-MS bi-lateral co-operation)

12:00 /
  • Preparations for the next meeting of the group

12:30 / Closing of the Meeting