Preparatory Meeting of INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE (IC) FOR WORLD WATER SYSTEM HERITAGE (WSH) PROGRAM

Preparatory Meeting of  INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE (IC)  FOR WORLD WATER SYSTEM HERITAGE (WSH) PROGRAM
Sunday, March 20, 2016

The 53rd Board of Governors meeting (BoG) of World Water Council (WWC) approved the creation of a Task Force to propose the implementation framework of ICID’s proposal on the World Water System Heritage (WSH) Program under the chairmanship of the President of ICID, Dr.Saeed Nairizi. At the 54thBoG held at Gyeongju, Korea on 11 April 2015 the Chair presented the draft report of the Task Force (TF) through a PowerPoint presentation where the basic framework was proposed with four important elements: International Committee (IC), Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), the National Committees (NC) for WSH and the Centre for WSH (as the Secretariat). A preparatory meeting on WSH was organized in at ICID Headquarters in New Delhi on 16 March 2016, with potential members from the International Committee (IC) and the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) to fine tune the proposal before presenting to the 58thBoard of Governors (BoG) meeting of WWC at Jodhpur, India on 18-19 March 2016.

The brief outcomes of the meeting, including the discussions followed at the 58thBoG of WWC in Jodhpur on 18-19 March 2016, are given in the following paragraphs.

Item 1: Review of the Institutional Framework Proposed for the WSH Program

Item 2: Setting up of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) for the WSH Program

Item 3: Establishment of Centre for WSH (Secretariat) for coordinating the activities under the programme

Item 4: Funding mechanism for WSH Program to support its activities

Item 5: The Way Forward