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As part of the UN Decade for Action on “Water for Sustainable Development”, the Global Acceleration Framework sets the basis for faster results to deliver SDG 6 by 2030. The Framework identifies five accelerators that can seriously boost progress. The water dialogues filled the accelerators with life and determined concrete measures for each accelerator on stakeholder level that can help policy makers to take action.
Innovation for Acceleration – A transformative pathway: Decision-makers need to combine traditional knowledge with modern technology and innovative methods by involving multiple stakeholders to increase efficiency of water use and ensure sustainable freshwater supplies, especially in water-stressed and transboundary regions.
Governance for Acceleration – A cross-sectoral, cooperative, good water governance approach: Growing water demands in view of increased water uncertainty calls for improved vertical and horizontal governance and intensified cooperation among stakeholders, sectors and countries.
Financing for Acceleration – A new paradigm: Governments, national and international financial institutions and multilateral actors need to improve targeting and effective use of existing funding, mobilize domestic resources, and attract additional investment from private and public sources.
Capacity for Acceleration – An inclusive approach: Capacity development needs to holistically transfer knowledge beyond training to foster cross-sectoral decision-making, planning and implementation, intensifying horizontal and vertical cooperation on all levels.
Data for Acceleration -Data-based decision-making: Decision-makers (from household to policy level) need access and be enabled to employ quality, accessible, timely and reliable disaggregated data for analysis, planning and implementation of effective cross-sectoral action in order to leave no one behind.
The Water Dialogues have brought together world regions, governments, technical experts and representatives of UN Major Groups with the objective to overcome “business as usual” and thinking in silos. The results are policy recommendations and key messages that propose cross-sectoral action to accelerate SDG 6 implementation. They are supported by more than 60 UN member states from all world regions and will stand as official inputs into the Midterm Review of the Water Action Decade and the corresponding UN Water Conference in 2023.
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