The World We Want

Thematic Consultation on Water

The consultation is co-led by UN-Water, UNDESA and UNICEF. UNICEF is responsible for designing and managing the water web-page

http://bit.ly/W2xInT

The Thematic Consultation on Water is part of the UN-system led "global dialogue" comprising around 100 Country Consultations and 11 global Thematic Consultations, including one on water.

The water consultation (similarly as the other thematic consultations) is mainly taking place as an on-line web-based discussion using different social media.

The purpose is :
To bring in voices from a broad range of stakeholders to build a consensus around key future challenges in water and the need for a new global water goal in the post-2015 development agenda.

The web-based consultation will consist of two broad parts:
- the general global dialogue on water, and
- the sub-consultations with focus on particular sub-sets of water..

General Global Dialogue on water (November 2012 – March 2013):

The objective is to host a consultation focusing broadly on water, aiming to attract a wide array of participants to discuss water from different perspectives.

There are different ways to engage:

 

Comment: interact and comment directly on the webpage at http://bit.ly/W2xInT

Twitter: tweet news; state your views on twitter, use the hashtag #waterpost2015.

Facebook: read news, post news, state you views, join the Facebook group WaterPost2015.

Water-2015 related news: suggest current news and developments related to water and the post-2015 development agenda, the SDG process, cover events and more on the webpage.

Quiz and questions: participating in quiz or polls on pertinent water challenges to raise awareness.

Videos/YouTube clips: suggest existing water related videos/YouTube clips to inform or inspire discussions (professional or amateur videos) or provide a new one.

Links to other sources and web-pages: suggest links to other relevant sources and web-pages, blogs and similar that can create awareness about the water consultation or for reaching out.

Sub-consultations (January – February 2013)

This part of the water consultation will focus on identified key challenges for the future water agenda and is looking for a broad participation of stakeholders engaged in water issues. These discussions will be moderated and kicked off by an eminent person posing some urgent questions to be discussed on-line.

There will be various means of interaction by the public, primarily through posting direct comments on the web-page, byTwitter or the Facebook page.

Other means of engagement

 

Several global, regional and national meetings/events are taking place independently of the post-2015 process, which are of high relevance for the consultation. In these meetings, awareness about the water consultation can be raised and participants can also take active part in the discussions, for example feeding in to the news section of the web-page and reporting on outcomes of deliberations via blogging and Twitter. During the meetings, interviews can be recorded asking questions to participants on priorities and challenges for the new post-2015 development framework and what would be the best possible outcome. Through these meetings recommendations or questions can also be directed to the water consultation for discussion….”

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