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Included in the session. FT2.30
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| 1.CONTACT INFORMATION OF POTENTIAL CONVENER(S) |
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ID |
TS0598
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Convening Organization(s) |
Green Cross International
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| Head of organization |
Mikhail Gorvachev |
| Position. |
Chairman of the Board |
| Contact person / people
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Bertrand Charrier |
| Position |
Vice President |
| Address
160a, route de Florissant |
| Post / Zip code CH1231 |
City
Geneva |
| Country
Switzerland
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| Telephone
+41227891662 |
Fax + 41227891695 |
| E-mail |
bertrand.charrier@gcl.ch |
| Website www.greencrossinternational.net |
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2.TYPE OF ORGANIZATION |
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Civil society and Water Users organizations
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3.INFORMATION ON THE ORGANIZATION’S INCORPORATION
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| Year of incorporation
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| 1993
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| Objective of the organization
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The mission of Green Cross is to help ensure a just, sustainable and secure future for all by fostering a value shift and cultivating a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility in humanity’s relationship with nature.
Green Cross:
o Promotes legal, ethical and behavioral norms that ensure basic changes in the values, actions and attitudes of government, the private sector and civil society, necessary to build a sustainable global community
o Prevents and resolves conflicts arising from environmental degradation.
o Provides assistance to people affected by the environmental consequences of wars and conflicts.
The work of Green Cross is based on mediation and cooperation, not confrontation, and focuses on the need for dialogue and transparent interaction between all sectors of modern society. Green Cross provides: unbiased environmental analysis and expertise, information dissemination, education, neutral fora for public debate, scientific studies, and social and medical support.
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Has the organization previously convened a session at a World Water Forum?
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Yes
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Which:
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Green Cross Int. was very active for the 2ndWorld Water Forum in The Haye. President Gorbachev present the result of the high segment panel on the National Sovereignty and international watercourse management.
During the 3rd World Water Forum in Kyoto jointly with UNESCO GCI leads the sessions on Water for Peace.
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| 4.CO-CONVENING ORGANIZATIONS |
| (1) Name of organization Itaipu Binational |
| Contact person: Nelton Friedich |
| Position: Executive director |
| E-mail address: nelton@italpu.gov.br |
| (2) Name of organization Plata Basin Countries |
| Contact person: Soares |
| Position: Secretary General of CIC |
| E-mail address: heliocic@cicplata.org |
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5.FRAMEWORK THEME AND CROSSCUTTING PERSPECTIVE(S)
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Framework themes. |
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Water for Growth and Development |
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Crosscutting Perspectives.
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Institutional Development and Political Processes
Application of Science, Technology and Knowledge
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6.GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS OF THE SESSION
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A.Please select whether the focus of the session is global or regional
Americas |
B. Precise if it's specific to a country, city, area of a city or river basin.
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| Country
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| City, State, Province, etc. |
0 |
| River Basin |
La Plata River Basin |
| 7.TITLE OF THE PROPOSED SESSION |
| Title: Title: Integrated sustainable La Plata River basin management |
8.OBJECTIVE
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To present, based on between the five nations of the La Plata Basin (Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina), an strategic proposal of sustainable territorial development integrated to a shared agenda, with the aim of promoting cooperation on the water related subjects. This strategy will take into consideration the opinion and participation of communities, organized civil society, governments, universities and financing institutions, by means of technical, scientific and political documents.______
Specific objectives:
Identify the causes and characteristics of actual and potential water-related conflicts, based in the structures already realized;
Identify obstacles, incentives and benefits related to the sustainable development of the water resources;
Increase public awareness of sustainable and integrated management values;
Strengthen dialogue between the interest parties and increase new networking channels;
Engage states and productive sectors in the search for practical, mutually beneficial and sustainable solutions.
Strengthen the mechanisms to prevent new conflicts arising out of changing circumstances.
Strengthen a systematic and integrated strategy for water management, particularly regarding large inter-state hydropower projects.
Strengthen territorial approach across the whole basin, to forge improved relations, both within and across state lines, between different layers of decision-making and Civil Society
Promote institutional representation channels for organized civil society participation on alternative sustainable water use formulations and monitoring;
Identify and promote shared collaborative actions which will contribute to the challenges mentioned above.
Increase local actions in the Basin to develop the relations, simultaneously, between the States and …..
To protect nature integrity;
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9.TITLE OR NAME OF LOCAL ACTION(S) TO BE PRESENTED DURING YOUR SESSION (At least one these acions should aleready be in the database of local actions on the 4th forum website, and should be the same name as on that website).
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• Cultivating Good Water from Itaipu Binational
• Cooperation over 5 countries and political agreement
• Between 20 to 25 local actions will be registered after the La Plata Dialogues that will take place on November 23-2(, 2005 in Iguacu Brazil with the participation of the 5 presidents of the region
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10.EXTECTED OUTPUTS OF SESSION.
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- Present and discuss the Shared Documents, signed by La Plata Basin five countries highest political authorities during the La Plata Dialogues of Nov 23-25, 2005
- Present local actions for a global challenge, using the development by sharing methodology, with modern technological tools joining the decision makers, governments, technicians, civil society, NGO´S, universities etc;
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11.USE OF LOCAL ACTIONS TO ACHIEVE THESE OUTPUTSCOMES OF YOUR SESSION
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During the La Plata dialogues of Nov 23-25, 2005 approximately 500 local actions will be presented and discussed. The “best” practices will be presented in Mexico. The final selection will be made between November to December 2005 and submitted to the WWF secretariat at the beginning of January 2006
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12.EXPECTED NUMER OF PARTICIPANTS (please note that around 10,000 participants are expected at the Forum, and that session rooms range from 80 to 1100 participants)
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400
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13.ACTIVITIES TOWARD PRIOR TO THE PROPOSED SESSION
(Comferences, workshops, meetings, virtual workshops, research, studies etc.)
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Major Dialogues will take place on Nov 23-25, 2005 in Itaipu Binational. 2000 participants from the whole river basin will attend.
5 presidents are invited and will participated and 25 ministers from the countries will be there.
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14. ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS OR COMMENTS
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The topic of integrated indicators continues to generate much debate and there are numerous researches.
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