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Monday, 13 December
9.30 - 15.30	Water Tour

Tuesday, 14 December. Stakeholder engagement: city experiences
08.15 - 09.00	Registration
09.00 - 09.45	A look at the ocean (A1) Opening session Welcome from your host: Juan Alberto Belloch, Mayor of Zaragoza; National and Regional Authorities: Alfredo Boné, Environmental Counsellor of the Regional Government of Aragon.; Rosa Aguilar, Minister of Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs (tbc); Welcome from Mohan Peck (UNDESA) and and presentation of the SWITCH Project: Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, Director of the School of Global Sustainability, University of South Florida, United States. Overview of the Conference Josefina Maestu, Coordinator, UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC).
09.45 - 10.15	Streams to the sea. Stakeholders in the city: integrating and strengthening sustainable water management (A1) Keynote speaker: John Butterworth, Senior Programme Officer, IRC - International Water and Sanitation Centre.
10.15 - 10.45	Coffee break
10.45 - 11.30	Following the streams. Presentation of experiences in cities (A2a) Panel presentations Moderator: Josefina Maestu, Coordinator, UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC). Panelists: Belo Horizonte: Nilo Nascimento, Minas Gerais Federal University, Brazil and Sonia Knauer, Municipality of Belo Horizonte. Lodz: Monika Dziegielewska-Geitz, University of Lodz and SLC consulting. Zaragoza: Javier Celma, Director of the Environment and Sustainability Agency, Municipality of Zaragoza City. Questions and Answers
11.30 - 13.30	Discussion of city experiences (A2b) Small group discussions Introduction and coordination: Ewen Leborgne, Programme Officer, IRC - International Water and Sanitation Centre. Participant cities: Africa: Accra (Ghana), Alexandria (Egypt), Entebbe (Uganda), Johannesburg (South Africa), Kaolack (Senegal), Lusaka (Zambia), Rabat (Morocco). Latin America: Apopa (El Salvador), Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Cali, Bogotá (Colombia), Granada (Nicaragua), Quito (Ecuador). Leon (Nicaragua), Lima (Peru), Santa Tecla (El Salvador), Porto Alegre (Brazil), Asia: Aqaba (Jordan), Baguio (Philippines), Chittagong (Bangladesh), Dushanbe (Tajikistan), Jakarta (Indonesia), Islamabad (Pakistan), Lahore (Pakistan), Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Rawalpindi (Pakistan). Europe: Barcelona, Gran Canaria (Spain), Lodz (Poland), Reus, Segovia, Vitoria, Zaragoza (Spain). Working Group A Asia | Working Group B Africa | Working Group C Europe | Working Group D Latin America 1 | Working Group E Latin America 2
13.30 - 15.00	Lunch and informal discussions
15.00 - 16.00	Streaming to the sea. Talk show on key lessons from city experiences of stakeholder engagement (A3a) Talk show Interviewer: John Butterworth, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre. Panelists: Bertha Darteh, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST. Sonia Knauer, Belo Horizonte City Hall, Brazil or Nilo Nascimento, Minas Gerais Federal University, Brazil. Gunter Merzthal, IPES Promoción del Desarrollo Sostenible. Carol Howe, UNESCO - IHE.
16.00 - 17.00	Group discussions (A3b) Introduction and coordination: Ewen Leborgne, Programme Officer, IRC - International Water and Sanitation Centre. Working Group A Asia | Working Group B Africa | Working Group C Europe | Working Group D Latin America 1 | Working Group E Latin America 2
18.30 - 20.00	Cooperation in action: the Water Alliance (A4) Open session. Debate series Víctor Viñuales, Mª Jesús Cajal, Water Alliance Manuel Calderón Chévez, Mayor of Leon, Nicaragua César Samperio Blanco, AMVISA, Vitoria Javier Rodríguez Melón, Social Participation, Municipality of Zaragoza.

	Plenary room, ground floor
	Working group rooms
	Round table room, 1st floor
	Paraninfo of the University of Zaragoza, City Centre

Wednesday, 15 December. Stakeholder engagement: tools and approaches
08.15 - 09.00	Keynote address Biodiversity, Water and Cities, Outcomes of CBD -COP10, Nagoya 2010. By David Coates, Secretariat of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
09.00 - 09.30	Ripples and reflections (B1) Recap and overview Josefina Maestu, Coordinator, UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC).
09.30 - 10.00	A compass and a sextant: tools and approaches for stakeholder engagement (B1) Interview to keynote presenters Interviewer: Pireh Otieno, Water, Sanitation and Infrastructure, UN-Habitat. Interviewees: Alastair Sutherland, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, U.K. Bertha Darteh, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST.
10.00 - 10.30	Coffee break
10.30 - 11.30	What the compass tells us: Highlights of the work with tools and approaches for stakeholder engagement (B2a) Facilitator: Ewen Leborgne Programme Officer, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre. Panelists: a) Engaging small industries and marginalized communities, the case of Bogotá, Colombia. Mónica Sanz, UNESCO-IHE. Transitioning and strategic niche management, the cases of Birmingham, United Kingdom and Accra, Ghana. Alison Duffy, University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland. Visioning and scenario-based planning, the case of Alexandria, Egypt, Accra, Ghana and Lodz, Poland. Carol Howe, UNESCO-IHE. Promoting public participation, the case of Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre, Brazil. Nilo Nascimento, Minas Gerais Federal University, and Sonia Knauer, Municipality of Belo Horizonte. The Future Cities Game, the case of Lodz, Poland. Monika Dziegielewska-Geitz, University of Lodz. Institutional mapping, the cases of Birmingham, London, Alexandria, Belo Horizonte, Beijing. Colin Green, University of Middlesex, United Kingdom. The city water information sharing platform, the case of Alexandria, Marc Soutter, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Water demand management, the case of Zaragoza, Spain. Ramón Barberán, University of Zaragoza, Spain.
11.30 - 13.30	In-depth presentation and discussion of different tools and approaches (2 rounds) (B2b) Group sessions Working Group A | Working Group B | Working Group C | Working Group D | Working Group E
13.30 - 15.00	Lunch and informal discussions
15.00 - 15.10	Introduction to pro-poor practices of local authorities in water management (B3) John Butterworth, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre.
15.10 - 16.00	Pro-poor practices of local authorities in water management (B3b) Group discussions Working Group A | Working Group B | Working Group C | Working Group D | Working Group E
16.00 - 17.00	Pro-poor practices of local authorities in water management and the cities' contribution to the MDGs (B3c) Panel session Moderator: Bertha Darteh, Accra, Ghana Panelists: Mohan Peck, Senior Sustainable Development Officer, UNDESA Magda Vânia Corrêa Carmona, Municipality of Porto Alegre, Brazil Senyo Theodore Amengor, Chief Operations Officer, Aqua Vitens Rand Ltd./Ghana Water Company Ltd. Evidalia Fernandez, Small Tanners Association of Villapinzón, Colombia Emmanuel Chinyamakobvu, UN Convention to Combat Desertification
18.30 - 20.00	Change in action: integrated solutions for the cities of the future (B4) Open session. Debate series Moderator: Tomás Sancho, World Council of Civil Engineers. Panelists: Alberto Galvis, Cali, Colombia; Mónica Sanz, UNESCO-IHE, Bogotá, Colombia; Gunter Mertzhal, IPES Promoción del Desarrollo Sostenible, Lima, Peru. Manuel Omedas, Ebro River Basin Authority (CHE)
20.00	Cocktail by the Municipality of Zaragoza. Plaza del Pilar, Zaragoza City Centre

	Plenary room, ground floor
	Working group rooms
	Round table room, 1st floor
	Paraninfo of the University of Zaragoza, City Centre

Thursday, 16 December. Political engagement
08.15 - 09.00	Keynote address Running Out of Water: Prospects for Cities? By Peter Rogers, Professor, Harvard University
09.00 - 09.30	Welcome and Highlights of the Conference (C1) Recap and introduction to the day: Barbara Anton, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability. World Water Day 2011: Bert Diphoorn, Director Human Settlements and Financing Division, UN-Habitat.
09.30 - 10.30	Strong and successful political engagement in implementing Sustainable Water Management in cities (C1) Interview session Interviewer: Carol Howe, SWITCH Project Manager, UNESCO - IHE. Interviewees: Jerónimo Blasco, Councilor of Culture, Environment, Civil participation and Major Projects., Municipality of Zaragoza Stephen Kabuye, Mayor of Entebbe, Uganda Mónica Sanz, UNESCO-IHE Bogotá, Colombia Nadia Abdou, Alexandria Water Company, Alexandria, Egypt.
10.30 - 11.00	Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30	Parallel sessions. Political opportunities and challenges in implementing Sustainable Water Management in cities. Round Table with Mayors and political representatives of Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia (C2a) Juan Alberto Belloch, Mayor of Zaragoza. Cristobal Punina, Vice-minister of Water. Ecuador Susan Leal, Harvard University Stakeholders views (small groups' discussions). Coordinated by Ewen Leborgne, Programme Manager for Africa, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (C2b) Working Group A | Working Group B Working Group C | Working Group D | Working Group E
12.30 - 13.30	Integrating views of political representatives and stakeholders on the Political Challenges in implementing SWM in cities. Dialogue session Interviewer: Colin Green, University of Middlesex, United Kingdom. Interviewees: Chair of Political Representatives Round Table and Facilitators from the Stakeholders' working groups.
	Closing address Soraya Rodríguez, Secretary of State of Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain. Eva Almunia, President's counsellor, Government of Aragon
13.30 - 15.00	Lunch and informal discussions
16.00 - 18.00	Side events
	Water and Development in Asia: Challenges and Good Practices for Urban Water Management in Asian Cities (C4a) Co-organized by "Casa Asia" and UNW-DPAC. Soraya Rodríguez, Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Government of Spain. Josefina Maestu, Director, UNW-DPAC Peter Rogers, Professor, Harvard University. Arjun Thapan, President's Special Senior Advisor for Infrastructure and Water, Asian Development Bank (ADB). Roberto Martín-Hurtado, Economist, Environment Directorate, OECD. Dominique Demessence, Business Development Director, AGBAR. Imtiaz Inayat Elahi, Mayor of Islamabad, Pakistan High-level representative, Tajikistan Bringing nature back into cities for water (C4b) Co-organized by UN-CBD, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC). David Coates, Secretariat of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Canada Case study
18.30 - 20.00	Talk show. Target 2015: Water to fight poverty (C5) Open session. Debate series Interviewer: María Dolores Campos, Counselor, Municipality of Zaragoza Interviewees: Alberto Tejada-Guibert, Director a.i. Division of Water Sciences, IHP - UNESCO. Antonio Embid, Professor of Water Law at the University of Zaragoza Helena Caballero, Adviser on Water and Environment, UNO-IDfA/UNW-DPAC.

	Plenary room, ground floor
	Working group rooms
	Round table room, 1st floor
	Paraninfo of the University of Zaragoza, City Centre

Friday, 17 December. Media engagement
08.15 - 09.00	Keynote address Managing Water in the City of the Future By Professor Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, Director of the School of Global Sustainability, University of South Florida, United States.
09.00 - 09.30	Welcome and Highlights of the Conference (D1) Video-Newsletter highlights and overview of the day: Marcel van den Heuvel, UN Habitat Consultant. Messages and statement for World Water Day 201. Bert Diphoorn, Director, Human Settlements and Financing Division, UN-Habitat
09.30 - 10.00	City examples of strong and successful media engagement (D1) Interview session Interviewer: Linda M. Whiteford, Associate Vice-president for Academic Affairs and Strategic Initiatives, University of South Florida, United States. Interviewees: Bertha Darteh, Accra, Ghana Monika Dziegielewska-Geitz, University of Lodz, Poland.
10.00 - 10.30	Coffee break
10.30 - 12.00	Parallel sessions. The role of media and communication in the process of change Round table of media and communication representatives of LAC, Africa, and Asia (D2a) Miguel Iturbe, Director of the newspaper Heraldo de Aragón. Linda M. Whiteford, University of South Florida. Stakeholders views (small groups' discussions) (D2b) Facilitated by Marcel van den Heuvel and Ewen Leborgne Working Group A | Working Group B | Working Group C | Working Group D | Working Group E
12.00 - 13.00	Integrating views of political representatives and stakeholders on the Political Challenges in implementing SWM in cities. Dialogue session Interviewer: Piers Cross, UN Habitat Consultant Interviewees: Miguel Iturbe, Director of Heraldo de Aragón; Facilitators of the stakeholders' group discussions.
13.00 - 13.30	Light Lunch
13.30 - 15.00	Insights and feedback to the conference on the messages of World Water Day 2011 (D4) Side events Moderator: Josefina Maestu, Coordinator, UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication. Panelists: Bert Diphoorn, UN-Habitat. Alberto Tejada-Guibert, UNESCO-IHP. Carol Howe, UNESCO-IHE Mohan Peck, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). David Coates, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Emmanuel Chinyamakobvu, Secretariat of UNCCD. Juan Felipe Hunt, International Labor Organization Jens Berggren, Director of World Water Week, Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). Thomas Van Waeyenberge, AquaFed. Timeyin Uwejamomere, WaterAid.

Main venue
Edificio del Antiguo Seminario/Seminary Building
Vía Hispanidad, 20
50012 Zaragoza, Spain

Side events and Open sessions
Paraninfo of the University of Zaragoza
Plaza Basilio Paraiso, 4
Zaragoza City Centre

	Plenary room, ground floor
	Working group rooms
	Round table room, 1st floor
	Paraninfo of the University of Zaragoza, City Centre