Room 2.2 | 2th floor

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9:30 – 11:10am:

Side Event “Integrated Water Governance in Metropolitan Regions: The Link Between Water Resources Regulation and Sanitation for Water Supply Resilience”

Opening Remarks and Background

Moderator: Expert in water resources or sanitation (academic, representative of an international organization, professional from a water management body or regulatory agency).

• Elcires Pimenta Freire, Graduate Professor and Project Coordinator at the São Paulo School of Sociology and Politics Foundation (FESPSP)

• Nicolas Bourlon, Director of Projects for Latin America at the International Office for Water (OiEau) and Head of Mission for Expertise France on the Governance of Municipal PPPs in Brazil Project (2018–2023)

9:40– 10:00am:

Focus on service regulation, oversight of investments in resilience, contingency plans, and service quality (Representatives of Regulatory Agencies)

• Luiz Antonio de Oliveira Júnior, Superintendent of Basic Sanitation Oversight – Representative of the São Paulo State Public Services Regulatory Agency (Arsesp);

• Rafael Machado Mello, Superintendent of Water Supply and Sewage at the Federal District Regulatory Agency for Water, Energy, and Basic Sanitation (ADASA).

• AGENERSA, Representative to be confirmed.

10:00 - 10:20am:

Focus on water resource management, water abstraction permits, hydrological monitoring, and water scarcity protocols (Representatives of management agencies)

• Silvano Silvério da Costa, Superintendent of Water Services and Basic Sanitation Regulation at the National Water and Basic Sanitation Agency (ANA).

• Ana Paula Zubiaurre Brites, Director of the São Paulo State Water Agency (SPÁguas);

10:20 - 10:40am:

Focus on the implementation of regulatory guidelines, operational challenges, and infrastructure investments for water security (Representatives from concessionaires)

• Caroline Lopes Santos, Environmental Manager at Águas do Rio

• Thibault Lechat-Vega, President of the French Guiana Water Authority (Office de l’Eau de Guyane – OEG);

• Video presentation by the Interdepartmental Syndicate for Sanitation of the Paris Metropolitan Area (SIAAP) on the clean-up of the Seine River – Advances in sanitation in the Île-de-France Region.

10:40 - 10:55pm:

Moderated Discussion / Q&A with the Audience

10:55– 11:10: Conclusions

• Ana Asti, Undersecretary of Water Resources and Sustainability for Rio de Janeiro – SEAS and Chair of the Committee for the Integration of the Paraíba do Sul River Basin – CEIVAP

• Vinicius Benevides, President of the Brazilian Association of Regulatory Agencies (ABAR)

11:10 – 11:20pm:

Workshop Transition

11:20am– 13:00 Side Event “Governance of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Brazil: Four Decades of Cooperation Between Brazil and France for the Integrated Management of River Basins”

Introduction: A brief history of four decades of cooperation between Brazil and France in the integrated management of river basins.

• • Vinicius Benevides, President of the Brazilian Association of Regulatory Agencies (ABAR), Director of the Federal District Regulatory Agency (Adasa); former General Coordinator of Water Resources and former Director of the National Department of Water and Electric Power (DNAEE) and former Director of the Rio Doce and Paraíba do Sul Projects (1991–1998);

  • Nicolas Bourlon, Director of Projects for Latin America at OiEau; former coordinator of the Rio Doce and Paraíba do Sul projects - Beture Setame (1988-1992) and specialist in water-environment cooperation at the French Embassy in Brazil (1992-1999).

Rio Doce Project - Simulation of an agency for the Rio Doce basin (1988-1998)

• Paulo Maciel Júnior, former coordinator of the Rio Doce Project (FEAM-MG) and Director of the Rio Doce Basin Technical Agency (1989-1998).

• Mr. Márcio Santa Rosa, coordinator of the blue economy and bays at the State Secretariat for the Environment and Sustainable Development – SEAS-RJ and former sanitation specialist at the Paraíba do Sul River Basin Technical Agency (1992–1998).

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PCJ Basins: 35 Years of Partnership with France

• • Rafael Piovezan, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Intermunicipal Consortium of the Piracicaba, Capivari, and Jundiaí River Basins - PCJ Consortium;

  • Francisco Carlos Castro Lahóz, Executive Secretary of the PCJ Consortium.

Paraíba do Sul Basin: AGEVAP and 30 Years of CEIVAP

• • Maria Aparecida Vargas, Secretary of the Committee for the Integration of the Paraíba do Sul River Basin - CEIVAP;

  • Aline Raquel Alvarenga, President of the Association for Water Management of the Paraíba do Sul River Basin - AGEVAP

Interagency Project - Cooperation between water agencies in Brazil and France (AGEVAP, PCJ Basin Agency, and AELE) and MARU Project - Monitoring of Urban Wastewater and its Environmental Impact

• • Eduardo Cuoco Léo, Information Systems Coordinator at the Piracicaba, Capivari, and Jundiaí River Basins Agency Foundation (PCJ Agency)

  • Márcio Fonseca Peixoto, Water Resources Specialist at AGEVAP (Association for Water Management of the Paraíba do Sul River Basin)

  • Alain Bernard, Head of the Latin America Service at the International Office for Water.

  • Presentation of the MARU Project video.

Participants’ remarks

Prospects for cooperation

• • Ana Asti, Undersecretary of Water Resources and Sustainability of Rio de Janeiro State - SEAS and Chair of the Committee for the Integration of the Paraíba do Sul River Basin - CEIVAP

  • Larissa Oliveira Rêgo, Director of the National Water and Basic Sanitation Agency (ANA)

  • Hervé Gilliard, Gerente de projetos de ações internacionais e de planejamento - Agência de Águas Loire-Bretagne (AELB);

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13:00– 14:15:

Buffet-style lunch

14:30 – 17:30:

Workshop 3: Negotiated water allocation in semi-arid contexts: the experience of the State of Ceará (Brazil) and dialogue with African and European experiences

Moderators:

• • Ms. Rosana Garjulli Sales Costa, Senior Consultant in Participatory Public Policy Management, Brazil

  • Mr. Patrick Laigneau, Project Manager, International Office for Water (OiEau), INBO Secretariat, France

Multilateral Dialogue 1: A tripartite collaborative dialogue on water governance and the negotiated allocation of water resources in the State of Ceará

Panelists:

• • Mr. Francisco José Coelho Teixeira, Ceará Foundation for Meteorology and Water Resources (Funceme), Advisor to the President, will present the water resources management model of the state of Ceará;

  • Ms. Clara de Assis Jerônimo Sales, Ceará Water Resources Management Company (Cogerh), Manager of Participatory Management, will present the methodology and practice of negotiated water allocation;

  • Mr. Aridiano Beck de Oliveira, Chair of the Lower Jaguaribe River Sub-Basin Committee, will speak as a water user and as Chair of the Basin Committee about his experience with negotiated water resource allocation.

Question-and-Answer Session

Multi-Voice Dialogue 2: dialogue on African and international experiences in water governance and allocation

Panelists:

• Mr. Mohamed Fawzi Bedredine, Director of Regional Infrastructure, OMVS (Organisation for the Development of the Senegal River)

• Mr. Ramiro Martinez, Júcar River Basin Authority (CHJ), Spain