CEO Water Mandate Events at Stockholm World Water Week 2015
April 28, 2015
We are delighted to invite you to join the Mandate Secretariat in August at Stockholm World Water Week for another round of sessions on advancing sustainable water management. As in years past, Mandate events will take place both as seminars that will occur within the World Water Week conference, as well as side events that will be convened offsite. The latter category will consist of multi-stakeholder facilitated dialogues that will bring together a variety of experts from the private sector, civil society, governments, UN agencies, and others to explore critical issues and that advance particular aspects of corporate water stewardship.
An overview of planned events can be found immediately below, with more detailed session descriptions following.
Tuesday, August 25:
- Accelerating Corporate Action on WASH
Location: Seminar within WWW conference
Time: 2pm – 3:30pm
Partners: WaterAid and WBCSD
- Tools for Improving Water Stewardship Performance
Location: H&M headquarters (multi-stakeholder session)
Time: 4pm – 6 PM
(Wine reception immediately following)
Wednesday, August 26:
- Corporate Water Stewardship in Support of a Water SDG
Location: TBD
Time: 11am – 3:30pm (provisionally)
Thursday, August 27:
- Managing Business Water Risk through Collaboration
Location: Seminar within WWW conference
Time: 4pm – 5:30 pm:
Partners: H&M and WWF
To RSVP for the sessions, please email Stefanie Woodward (Research Associate, Pacific Institute) at swoodward@pacinst.org.
CEO Water Mandate Session Descriptions
The Mandate’s multi-stakeholder sessions in Stockholm will focus on a variety of topics, including managing integrity in water stewardship initiatives, stewardship in the supply chain, the Water Action Hub platform as a tool for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and corporate water disclosure in relation to targets underpinning a water SDG. Participants will explore how companies can adopt good practices and take on-the-ground action. These sessions will be invitation-only and will take place independent of the World Water Week program.
Improving the Impacts and Effectiveness of Corporate Water Stewardship Collective Action - Tuesday, 4pm - 6pm
Businesses increasingly recognize their greatest water-related risks are best addressed through multi-stakeholder partnerships. Donors are investing in collaborative water stewardship initiatives (WSIs) to leverage private sector involvement for sustainable water management. Although the case for WSIs is strong, it comes with key challenges for all parties involved, especially:
a) how can WSIs best address shared water-related challenges to support water security? and
b) how can long-term sustainable benefits to society be ensured?
This session will explore soon-to-be-released joint work of the Mandate and Water Integrity Network on:
- Designing and establishing high-integrity WSIs that serve the public interest
- Conducting participatory water risk assessments to develop consensus on priorities
- Strengthening public sector capacity and policy implementation
- Transparently monitoring, evaluating and communicating WSI impacts
Supply Chain Engagement through the Mandate's New Capacity Platform - Tuesday, 4pm - 6pm
At this year's World Water Week, the Mandate will launch a beta version of its capacity platform that connects companies of all sizes and at all stages of their water management journey to a wide array of stewardship resources and tools that can help them build their practice. This new platform will house a variety of Mandate-developed tools and provide details and access to key resources developed by other organizations and initiatives, including CDP, WWF, WRI, WFN, Ceres, and more. This platform will not only enable stewardship in companies’ own operations, but also offer a resource for companies to engage their suppliers on water stewardship.
The Mandate will launch this new platform and explore how it can be used as a key supplier engagement tool in this session.
Corporate Water Stewardship and Sustainable Development Goals: From Vision to Action - Wednesday, 11am - 1pm
Building on the outcomes of the UN-Water conference in Zaragoza, Spain in January 2015, this session will identify implementation mechanisms for the achievement of an anticipated water SDG, and seek to understand how water stewardship can help to achieve it. In particular, the session will explore how different implementation mechanisms including finance, capacity development, technology, and institutional frameworks/governance are being used by businesses under each of the four themes likely to underpin a water SDG.
Data For A Smarter Water Future: Linking Measurement of Corporate Water Stewardship Practice With the Indicator System Underpinning a Water SDG - Wednesday, 2pm - 3:30pm
In an increasingly water-stressed world, the call to action for all water users to adopt stewardship practices has never been stronger. The power of sharing water data between water users (e.g. corporations, cities, government agencies) is increasingly being used to answer this call to action. This collaborative approach is being taken into new territory by the prospect of linking critical data sets from the public and private sectors to facilitate cross-sectoral action on water.
CDP, WRI and the Mandate have created a pipeline linking datasets of global water risk information, responses to those risks, and actors who wish to engage in collective solutions to address shared water challenges. This session invites corporations, policy makers, city authorities, river basin managers, and other data users and providers to join an interactive demonstration and discussion to improve these linked data sets as well as others. It will identify related contextual data sets, including the indicator system that will support the six presumptive targets of a water SDG, in order to safeguard water resources for future use and development. Finally, the session will also explore the mechanics of reorienting the Water Action Hub as a coordination platform for partnership opportunities relating to a water SDG.
World Water Week Seminars Co-Convened by the Mandate
Accelerating Corporate Action on WASH: Role and Opportunity for Business - Tuesday 2pm – 3:30pm
Partners: WaterAid, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
There is a compelling business case for taking action on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): a healthier and more productive workforce, increased brand value, lower reputational risks and a more secure license to operate, and more vibrant emerging markets. Moreover, the private sector has a clear role to play in this challenge through respecting the human right to water and sanitation (HRWS), ensuring employees have access to WASH at the workplace, and going beyond their own operations to contribute to universal access to WASH. Leading companies are making great strides, while others are beginning to look at internal operations. Many have yet to consider these important issues.
This learning-focused seminar will share challenges and practical solutions to accelerate action on WASH so that respecting the HRWS becomes the ‘new norm’.
Managing Business Water Risk through Collaboration - Thursday, 4pm – 5:30pm
Partners: WWF, H&M
This seminar will focus on how water stewardship partnerships can overcome corporate water risk management challenges. WWF will present their newly-launched publication on Water Stewardship and Collective Action, addressing why water stewardship is important and how it can be implemented. H&M will share their practical experiences and insights from their partnership efforts to address water risks. The Mandate will introduce tools and guidelines that help companies determine with whom and how they can collaborate on water in an efficient and effective manner.
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