Valuing Water for Sustainable Development
Addressing global development challenges requires valuing and managing water effectively. Achieving universal, safely managed water and sanitation by 2030 is projected to require capital expenditures of USD 114 billion per year. Investment on this scale, along with the accompanying policy reforms to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), can be motivated by a growing appreciation of the value of water.

The OECD Roundtable on Financing Water, UN/World Bank High Level Panel on Water, and initiatives across the developing world create a global opportunity to rethink how we value water and to take stock of rapidly changing models and approaches for financing and allocation.

Join us in Oxford, on 7 November, for a one-day forum to advance new approaches to water valuation, finance and allocation. This forum will convene enterprise, development and government partners to advance action and learning from global experiences.

Objectives


Frame the opportunities for valuing water to address global development challenges;
Understand the drivers, barriers and opportunities for new financial models and allocation systems;
Learn from field experiences with new models of infrastructure finance and water allocation reform; and
Establish priorities and strengthen partnerships to develop, test and scale up new and existing approaches.


Further event details and guidance on planning your trip to Oxford is available here.
Date: 7 November 2017, 8:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2017)
Venue: MBI Al Jaber Auditorium
Speakers: Dr Fred Boltz (Rockefeller Foundation), Dr Nicholas Brozovic (University of Nebraska - Lincoln), Dr Richard Damania (World Bank), Kathleen Dominique (OECD), Prof Michael Hanemann (University of California - Berkeley), Prof Cameron Hepburn (University of Oxford), Dr Guy Hutton (UNICEF), Ambika Jindal (ING ), Dr Xavier Laflaive (OECD), Dr Xavier Laflaive (Global Resilience Partnership), Stuart Orr (WWF-International), Henk Ovink (Government of the Netherlands), Jennifer Sara (World Bank)
Organising department: Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
Organiser: Fran Walker (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.)
Organiser contact email address: events@smithschool.ox.ac.uk
Host: Dr Dustin Garrick (University of Oxford)
Part of: Oxford Water Network
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/product-catalogue/smith-school-of-enterprise-the-environment-ssee/smith-school-of-enterprise-and-the-environment/valuing-water-for-sustainable-development
Cost: £100
Audience: Public
Editor: Alastair Strickland