Global Water Commons Draft Action Plan

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Global Water Commons Draft Action Plan

• Short term and long term strategies......

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Campaigns

• Short Term
• Global week of action to raise awareness of the
  global water commons
• Form an international solidarity team to quickly
  support national and regional campaigns promoting
  the water commons
• Develop community-based protocols on the water
  commons which can be used at local level
• Asian-joint campaigns to protect the water
  commons (longer term, form an Asian Network?)
• Long term
• campaign for constitutional change with country
  campaigns
• Campaign to change culture of water departments
  - for instance, use model of change management
  group
• Short and Long Term
• Campaign to challenge commodification of water at
  local, regional and international levels

• for the
• Global Water Commons

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Raise Awareness

• for the
• Global Water Commons

• Short term and Long term
• Improve the practices of public water managers
  and engineers, using community participation/contr
  ol and management
• Promote teaching global water values in
  educational systems
• Develop media strategies promoting the values of
  the water commons
• Develop publications and communication tools
  promoting the global water commons
• Use traditional community rituals, festivals and
  cultural practices to highlight importance of the
  water commons

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Legal strategies Legislation and policies

• for the
• Global Water Commons

• Campaign for constitutional amendments to include
  water as a commons/human rights etc.
• Enforcement of existing laws
• Global campaign for international law recognizing
  water as part of the global commons
• Global campaign for recognizing existing UN
  treaties and covenants, including respecting
  General Comment 15
• New campaign for water laws recognizing that
  water is a right for all living and non-living.
• Legal recognition of traditional and cultural
  practices

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Publications and Documentation

• for the
• Global Water Commons

• Document case studies highlighting the values of
  the global commons
• Use existing practices related to water commons
  to develop a broader set of commons principles
• Have publication on water issues related to the
  commons in Asia within one year short term
• Participatory governance highlighted as
  important, but no clear strategies at this point