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The water sector under the SOPAC’s Community Lifelines Programme (CLP), has a structure consisting of Resources Management, Asset Management and Governance. For the water sector these translate into water resources management (CLP1), which includes rainwater, surface water and groundwater resources assessment, development, management and protection, with a particular emphasis on water resources management in climatic extremes. This component includes climate adaptation with regard to water resources issues. Main programme results are the Pacific Hydrological Cycle Observing System (HYCOS), the Pacific Island Climate Update (ICU) and the Pacific Water and Climate Resource Centre. The focus is on capacity building and wise practice promotion.
Sanitation and drinking water services are addressed by the Asset Management component (CLP2) and include drinking-water supply and wastewater disposal asset management. Regional programmes have been established on drinking water quality monitoring (WQM), drinking water safety planning (WSP), water demand management (WDM), rainwater harvesting (RWH) and, in general, the sustainability of water and wastewater technologies for both urban and rural systems.
The Governance component (CLP3) pulls together a number of different areas which together attribute to better institutional arrangements in the water sector. These include national level policies, plans and strategies; institutional instruments such as legislation and institutional strengthening; multi-stakeholder national water partnerships; IWRM and catchment level management; community level water governance; awareness raising and education initiatives; and advocacy for community participation and gender. The Governance component also includes regional and global high-level advocacy and awareness with SOPAC playing a coordinating role as facilitators of the Pacific Partnership Initiative on Sustainable Water Management which involves national stakeholders and external support agencies in the region.
The water sector under the SOPAC’s Community Lifelines Programme (CLP), has a structure consisting of Resources Management, Asset Management and Governance. For the water sector these translate into water resources management (CLP1), which includes rainwater, surface water and groundwater resources assessment, development, management and protection, with a particular emphasis on water resources management in climatic extremes. This component includes climate adaptation with regard to water resources issues. Main programme results are the Pacific Hydrological Cycle Observing System (HYCOS), the Pacific Island Climate Update (ICU) and the Pacific Water and Climate Resource Centre. The focus is on capacity building and wise practice promotion.
Sanitation and drinking water services are addressed by the Asset Management component (CLP2) and include drinking-water supply and wastewater disposal asset management. Regional programmes have been established on drinking water quality monitoring (WQM), drinking water safety planning (WSP), water demand management (WDM), rainwater harvesting (RWH) and, in general, the sustainability of water and wastewater technologies for both urban and rural systems.
The Governance component (CLP3) pulls together a number of different areas which together attribute to better institutional arrangements in the water sector. These include national level policies, plans and strategies; institutional instruments such as legislation and institutional strengthening; multi-stakeholder national water partnerships; IWRM and catchment level management; community level water governance; awareness raising and education initiatives; and advocacy for community participation and gender. The Governance component also includes regional and global high-level advocacy and awareness with SOPAC playing a coordinating role as facilitators of the Pacific Partnership Initiative on Sustainable Water Management which involves national stakeholders and external support agencies in the region.
