Regional reflections: Watering the NDCs and NAPs

This segment will open with a review of where water is reflected in current NDC submission and then feature three regional roundtables where constituencies from each region can reflect on their efforts and progress made in incorporating water in preparations for the next round of NDCs and other climate policy commitments and strategies. Three roundtables will be organized covering the Asia/Pacific Region, Africa Region, and the Middle East and North Africa.

Agenda

Moderator:	Mr. Ivan Sjögren, Programme Officer, International Policy, SIWI

9:35 – 9:45	Scene-Setting on Water in the NDCs

	Mr. David Hebart-Coleman, Senior Program Manager, SIWI – online

9:45 – 10:15	Asia and the Pacific Regional Reflections

Facilitator:	Mr. Adnan Ibne Abdul Qader, Climate and Water Governance Specialist, WaterAid Bangladesh

Panelists:	Mr. Md Foezullah Talukde, Head of Climate Change Program, Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB), Bangladesh – online Mr. Saut Sagala, Assistant Professor, Senior Research Fellow and Chair of Disaster and Climate Resilience Cluster, Resilience Development Initiative (RDI), Indonesia Mr. Hongpeng Liu, Director, Energy, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Ms. Manohara Khadka, Country Representative – Nepal, IWMI

	Discussion

10:15 – 10:45	Africa Regional Reflections

Facilitator:	Ms. Farai Tunhuma, Senior Advisor Water and Climate Resilient WASH, UNICEF Headquarters

Panelists:	Mr. Teddy P. Taylor, Climate Change Assistant, FreshWater Challenge Focal Point & ACE National Focal Point, Environmental Protection Agency, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Liberia Mr. Sunday Robert, Assistant Director, Transboundary Water Resources, Ministry of Water, United Republic of Tanzania Zambia (tbc-TNC) Uganda (tbc-WaterAid)

	Discussion

10:45 – 11:15	Middle East and North Africa Regional Reflections

Facilitator:	Ms. Ana Vukoje, Regional Lead, Regional Collaboration Center for MENA and South Asia, UNFCCC

Panelists:	Mr. Salman Karim Hamed, Studies and Designs Department, Water Resources Directorate, Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources, Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq Mr. Samer R.S. Kalbouneh, Director of International Projects and Relations Department, Environment Quality Authority (EQA), Ramallah, State of Palestine Mr. Ali Hayajneh, Programme Manager, Water and Climate Change, IUCN-ROWA, Jordan (tbc) or Government representative (tbc-ESCWA)

	Discussion

11:15 – 11:30	Key Take Aways from Regional Reflections

Moderator:	Mr. Ivan Sjögren, Programme Officer, International Policy, SIWI
Commentators:	Mr. David Hebart-Coleman, Senior Program Manager, SIWI – online Ms. Estelle Aljammal, Research Assistant, Climate Change and Natural Resource Sustainability Cluster, ESCWA – online