The
Butterfly Effect : the international NGO’ Coalition
‘From local to global’
Mobilize – Advocate – Propose
– Share
Our objectives are to :
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Mobilize and facilitate meaningful NGO and
CSO participation and contribution in World Water Fora and on
the “Water” international agenda in general by pooling knowledge and resources and exert greater influence over the
sector’s actors and decision-makers;
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Promote
inclusive processes in the World Water Fora in order to
ensure a prominent role for civil society organisations, both throughout the
preparatory processes and during the Forum;
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Share innovative expertise: The Butterfly Effect proposes solutions based on
human rights principles, communities’ experience that relate to policies,
projects, information campaigns and empowering stakeholders. Crucially, these
solutions are local, sustainable, adaptable, innovative, equitable, accountable
and people-orientated.
Overcome the water crisis at
all levels
We have identified several key water governance and management
issues that need addressing to overcome the water crisis and contribute to water security in the
broader sense :
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The
human right and access to safe water
and sanitation: Implement this human right
quickly, by all appropriate means and at all levels. Develop human rights based
national roadmaps (national action plans) for the implementation of the human
rights to safe water and
sanitation by 2015 and beyond.
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Governance:
Integrate specifically the equity, participation and accountability dimensions
of a human rights-based approach in water governance.
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Finance:
Implement sustainable reliable finance mechanisms that are earmarked for water
and sanitation services for the poor (namely where fiscal and grant financing
takes precedence over loan financing)
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Water,
Sanitation, Hygiene and Health linkages: Base sound
policies on a “nexus” understanding of the critical linkages between
sanitation, water, environment, health and nutrition.
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Capacity
Development: Create a demand / needs-based capacity development
program that enables and empowers civil society, community organizations and
stakeholders to fulfil their roles in water governance and management.
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Peace
and (transboundary) cooperation: Ratify and domesticate the UN
Watercourses Convention, (and were appropriate the UNECE water convention) thus
promoting basic rules for cooperation and sustainable and equitable use of
international watercourses shared between States.
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Water and natural resources management and
climate change: Empower local communities and relevant
institutions at the lowest relevant level to plan and manage water and related natural
resources through scaling-up and enhancing valuable community-based mitigation
and adaptation strategies and programs
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Water
- and Food security:
Recognize the value of local (indigenous and traditional) knowledge and ensure
local voices are taken into account in policies and their implementation at all
levels.
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Water and emergencies:
Support the appropriation and application of the Hyōgo framework for action by
all States facing chronic crisis.
Our members :
ACF – AJAAMEP - AIDDP – ANDAR - ANEW - AOSED- ASSOCIATION DES VOLONTAIRES
DU DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE EN RDC- ARCA – BPW I - Both Ends- BORDA-CCFD- CCHR - CCOAD-
CDC – LSTHM- CIUDAD- Coalition Eau- Coalition Nationale- Conservation
International - Coopération Atlantique Guinée 44 – Corambiente – CRSD - 4D - Eau Vive – EAST – Ecogerencia - Ecumenical
Water Network - End Water Poverty - FAN Global- FAN Mexico- FAN South America
(FANAS)- FAN South Asia (FANSA) - FANCA – FANAS - Fit For School- Grameen
Development Society- GONWAS -Green Cross International- GRET- Groupe Pivot
Eau-Hygiène et Assainissement- HSF- Helvetas- Humanitaire Plus- IIED-AL- IRTECO-
Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW)- ISW- Jeunes Volontaires pour l’Environnement- Jal
Bhagirathi Foundation – KEWASNET - LEDARS - LVIA- Mediu et Sanitas- MENTOR
Initiative- MFCS -Muslim Family Counselling services- MSB (Swedish civil
contingency agency) – NASACAYUB -NCA- Netwater-Nile Basin Discourse – NRMI - OXYO
WATER- Progressio- Projection- Protos- RADI - Réseau Africain pour le
Développement Intégré – ROCS - SARAR - SCF-UK / Save the children- Secours
Catholique – Caritas- SWE-SWEM- SIMAVI- Secours Islamique- Service Humanitaire
de Développement - Stay Green Foundation- SWAPHEP- Tearfund – UICN – UNISUR
- Uganda Water and
Sanitation NGO Network (UWASNET)- Volta Basin Development Foundation / Ghana Dams Dialogue-
WaterAid Burkina Faso- WaterAid Nepal- WaterLex- WECF- WET (project) - Wetlands
international- WfWP- WU-WASH UNITED- WWF – International- WWF – France- WWF-Suisse.
Contact :
Coordinator of the Butterfly Effect
Email : mwhite[at]sie-isw.org
Cell. : +33677250055
