THE FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION

FOR

ACHIEVING THE PAKISTAN WATER VISION 2025

Introduction

The Report by the Pakistan Water Partnership (PWP), represents an initiative in formulating a Framework for Action (FFA) which would lead to the achievement of the country'w Water Vision 2025.

The creation of the PWP, along with similar partnerships in other countries and their regional groups, has been fostered by  the Global Water Partnership (GWP). The GWP is collaborating with the World Water Council (WWC) in the Development of the Long Term Vision for Water. Life and the Environment in the 21st century of World Water Visions. The World Water Vision is expected to subsume the Water Vision for the countries and regions in Tandem with the development of the Water Visions. The GWP has initiated the formulation of country and regional FFAs which would constitute the building blocks for the formulation of Global FFA. This would help in the achievement of the Water Vision in the year 2025. The World Water Vision and the Global FFA are due for presentation at the international World Water Forum and Ministerial Conference in The Hague, March, 2000.

Before embarking on the formulation of the Country's FFA, the PWP with the help of a National Coordinator prepared in June, 1999, the Pakistan Country Report Vision for Water for 21st Century. this was the result of a wide consultation with the stakeholders in water culminating in the Vision Workshop May 24-25, 1999 in Islamabad 

For formulating the country's FFA the PWP decided to follow the consultative process as for the Water Vision, and to carry it through appointed a National FFA Coordinator in mid-September, 1999.

To assist the National FFA Coordinator in carrying through the consultative process for the formulation of the Country's FFA, the PWP made provision for mobilizing the services of resource persons. The PWP also required that for the initial Consultation on the FFA, the FFA Coordinator would prepare a background paper which would bring together such material in a cogent form which would help the participants of the Consultation in formulating considered opinions on the actions to the undertaken, in the short, medium and long term, to realize the objectives and goals of the Water Vision 2025

As the preparation of the Country, Regional and Global FFAs to be undertaken on similar lines, the GWP has mobilized a team of International Specialists in a Framework for Action Unit (FAU) to prepare the Global FFA and to facilitate the process of Framework preparation by others. 

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