Saghit Ibatullin Chairman of the EC IFAS

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"Strengthening regional cooperation on
water role of the Executive Committee of the
International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea "

• Saghit Ibatullin - Chairman of the EC IFAS

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Systematic objectives and key functions of the
IFAS resulted from the Statement of the Heads of
Central Asia
Objectives

• Objective 1. To continue cooperation targeted to
  improve environmental and socio-economic
  situation in the basin of the Aral Sea.
• Objective 2. To develop mutually acceptable
  mechanism on integrated use of water resources
  and protection of environment in Central Asia
  with taking into account interest of all states
  in Region.

Tasks
Task 1. To foster activities and develop
cooperation with the UN organizations. Task 2.
To further improvement organizational structure
and legislative base of the IFAS. Task 3. To
develop Action Program on providing assistance to
the countries of the Aral Sea basin for 2011-2015
period (PASB-3) with participation of national
experts and donors.
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• Task 2
• Further improvement of organizational structure
  and agreement-legilsative base of the IFAS
• Improvement of the IFAS structure, measures on
  develoment of general potentials of the EC IFAS,
  SIC ICWC, and MKUR based on the strenthening
  their mandates as the international organizations
  and also optimization of their structures and
  overall management
• Coordination of the activities both of the IFAS
  structural bodies and donor organizations
• Development of the potential of the WRMB
  Amudarya WRMB Syrdaryataking into account
• Strethening of the legislative status as the
  international organizations
• Organization of the effective dispatching
  services of the WRMB on the base of modern
  telecommunication systems and systems of
  automated control of water.

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Objectives 2

• Development of mutually acceptable mechanism on
  integrated use of water resources and
  environmental protection in Central Asia taking
  into account interests of all states in the
  region
• Reforming water resources management requires
  decision in the form of unified interstate system
  of water resources management in Central Asia
  with distiguishing three levels of water
  management
• First level. Interstate management. On this level
  of the IWRM necessity of development of the
  following document
• Strategy of water resources use in Central Asia
• Program of food security in Central Asia
• Program of energy security in Central Asia
• Concept of environmental sustainability in Aral
  Sea Basin
• Second level. Basin Interstate Management. The
  tasks are to develop interstate IWRM of the
  Amudarya and Syrdarya basins, to ensure
  transboundary monitoring system of water
  reources, and to establish unified information
  data base with the advanced networks of
  hydrometereological stations.
• Third level. National Basin Councils ensuring
  development of IWRM schemes in the national basin
  borders.

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• Development of the Aral Sea Basin Programme-3
  (ASBP-3) for the period of 2011-2015 under the
  umbrella of the International Decade for Action
  Water for Life (UN Program for 2005-2015)
• Activities undertaken by the EC IFAS on
  implementation of this important task is oriented
  towards activites that have been planned
• 1. Working groups according to the directions
  within the ASBP-3 are established.
• 2. Groups of independent experts representing
  potential donors to be involved in the components
  of the ASBP-3 are established.
• 3. To conduct first meeting of the Working group
  on development of the PASB-3
• 4. To conduct donors conference on furthering
  development of the ASBP-3
• 5. To submit draft of the Program for discussion
  and approval by the member states of the IFAS

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Indicators of cooperation of the IFASwith the UN
organizations
1. Development of a wide political and investment
arena for the IFAS activities through ?)
merging interests of the IFAS from one side and
opportunities of the financial institutes
(donors) from the other b) exclusion of
parallelism and duplication, better coordination
of donors activities while investing programs and
projects in the countries of the Region based on
the Equator principle c) developing system of
motivations and priorities for financing regional
projects included in ASBP-3. 2. Development of
mutually replaceable mechanisms for conflict
resolution and compensation of economic loss in
the result of violating rules on joint use of
water resources. 3. Development of the
cooperation mechanism with organizations of the
UN system. 4. Providing methodological assistance
for performance of duties related to receiving by
the IFAS status of UN General Assembly observer.
5. Moving ahead idea of receiving UN General
Assembly resolution on About cooperation with
the IFAS (draft of the resolution is sent to the
UN). 6. Involvement of the IFAS in the work of
program coordinator for UN-Water