MEDSTAT II Environment Sector / UNESCWA / UNSD Joint Sub-regional Training Session on the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Water (SEEAW)
The MEDSTAT II Environment sector is organizing a sub-regional training
session on the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Water
(SEEAW), jointly with the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
(ESCWA) and the UN Statistics Division (UNSD).
The training course, taking place in Jordan from March 10-13, aims at
providing a sound knowledge on the compilation and practical and operational
use of the SEEAW. It will draw on experiences from around the world, while
participants are encouraged to bring data so that work on real water
accounts can be done.
Water accounting provides a robust framework for producing and integrating
hydrological and economic information on water for managers and
decision-makers.
The meeting will bring together experts (water statisticians, water
managers and/or accountant) from National Statistical Offices, Ministries of
Environment and Water Authorities of the Mediterranean Partners countries
and ESCWA member countries.
The course will address the following topics:
* Compilation and use of the System of Integrated
Environmental and Economic Accounting for Water Resources (SEEAW) for
integrated water resources management (IWRM);
* Functions and limitations of water accounting ;
* Practical and operational process of SEEAW;
* Institutional framework that affects/supports the
application of SEEAW;
* Examples that apply SEEAW.
The working languages are English and Arabic. Interpretation will be
available for both.
An Information Note with all the background and practical information,
the purpose of the training course as well as links is available.
Participants are kindly asked to prepare a short paper presenting their
country situation in terms of water management, water statistics (data
sources, availability) and water accounting (if relevant) and bring national
data to the training session so that the group sessions can work with real
data sets and problems, rather than data that are fictitious or from
countries that already completed water accounts. Data may be drawn from
information published by National Statistics Offices, Water Departments, and
Environment Departments, Agricultural Departments or other government
sources. If possible data should be in the form of spreadsheets (e.g. Excel)
and supplied in advance of the meeting. An Excel sheet sample will be send
by email later.
Supporting paper or country paper not exceeding 8 pages in length should be
submit in MS Word format (via e-mail) to Ms Cécile
Roddier-Quefelec and Ms Wafa Aboul
Hosn by February 6, 2008.
PowerPoint and PDF presentations will be available for download at the CIRCA MEDSTAT II
domain and ESCWA/Statistics
Division website and the project
website.
Contact information |
Ms Cécile Roddier-Quefelec ; Ms Wafa Aboul Hosn / Florian LEBOURDAIS / Emilie BECLE / Beata SUSZTEROVA (MEDSTAT II - Lot 2 - Adetef)/ Ms Amal Nicola; Ms Yasmina Adra
(email: cecile.roddier-quefelec@medstat2.fr ; aboulhosn@un.org ; emilie.becle@adetef.finances.gouv.fr; florian.lebourdais@adetef.finances.gouv.fr; beata.suszterova@adetef.finances.gouv.fr; nicola@un.org; adra@un.org) Phone: /+33 1 53 44 22 84 / 69 / 88 Fax : +33 1 53 44 22 90/ +961-1-869-666 extension 6531 ; +961-1-869-666 extension 7561 |
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Event type | Training |
File link |
http://www.escwa.org.lb/information/meetingdetails.asp?referenceNum=683E |
Source | EuroMed Info Centre |
Subject(s) | FINANCE-ECONOMY , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT |
Relation | http://www.emwis.net/initiatives/medstat |
Geographical coverage | Jordan |
Address | Radisson SAS, Amman, Jordan |
Organizer | The MEDSTAT II Environment sector, jointly with the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and the UN Statistics Division (UNSD). |
Target audience | Regional |
Period | [10/03/2008 - 13/03/2008] |
Status | Confirmed |
Working language(s) | ARABIC , ENGLISH |