and
Sustainable Development Department (MNSSD), Middle East and North
Africa Region,
World Bank
cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring a recent World
Bank publication
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| | MENA Development Report on Water |
| | Making the Most of Scarcity |
| (Embedded image moved | Accountability for Better Water |
| to file: pic02324.jpg) | Management in the Middle East and North |
| | Africa |
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| | Water in the Middle East and North |
| | Africa region is a source of major |
| | social and economic challenges stemming |
| | from scarcity, variability, unreliable |
| | services, and environmental |
| | degradation. Current population growth |
| | will put further stress on this |
| | situation in the near future, unless |
| | current practices change. In addition, |
| | climate change is predicted to increase |
| | the temperature and thereby, water |
| | demand in agriculture, and will cause |
| | more droughts and floods. While water |
| | professionals have been advocating |
| | comprehensive water reforms for years |
| | and many countries have improved their |
| | water policies and institutions, some |
| | of the most politically sensitive |
| | elements of reform remain untouched. |
| | The book suggests that a series of |
| | factors are now emerging that represent |
| | a potential opportunity to break this |
| | impasse. |
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 from 12:00pm - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building - J1- 050 (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and
Pennsylvania Ave.)
Presentation followed by Light Lunch Reception
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Opening Remarks by
Inger Andersen
Director, Sustainable Development Department, Middle East and North
Africa Region, World Bank
Inger Andersen is the Director of the Sustainable Development
Department (MNSSD), Middle East and North Africa Region, of the
World Bank Group. Prior to that, she held positions as Senior Water
Resources Specialist leading the Africa Urban and Water II [West and
Central Africa (AFTU2)] resources program where she worked closely
with the Nile Basin, and subsequently Sector Manager of AFTU2.
Prior to joining the World Bank, Ms. Andersen held various positions
at UNDP, including managing environment and water operations and
policy dialogue in both Africa and the Middle East regions. She
also worked in Sudan, where she managed an NGO supporting drought,
famine, and war relief and rehabilitation in Western and Southern
Sudan.
Presentation by
Julia Bucknall
Lead Natural Resources Management Specialist, World Bank
Julia Bucknall is the main author of the report. She is presently a
Lead Natural Resources Management Specialist in the Sustainable
Development Department (MNSSD), Middle East and North Africa Region
of the World Bank Group. She has worked on water projects for the
Bank in Latin America, East Asia, ECA and MENA. Before that, she
was an environmental consultant in Europe. She is an environmental
policy specialist by training.
Comments by
Jamal Saghir
Director, Energy, Transport and Water, in the Sustainable Vice
Presidency (SDNVP), World Bank
Jamal Saghir is the chair of the Energy and Mining Sector Board,
Transport Sector Board, and Water Sector Board. The position also
includes management of the network functions for the Energy,
Transport, and Water sectors Bank-wide.
Mr. Saghir joined the Bank in 1990 and worked on a variety of
private sector development, privatization and restructuring
assignments in Africa, Latin America, the CIS countries and the
Middle East and North Africa. In 1994, Mr. Saghir joined the Middle
East Country Department then transferred to the Private Sector
Development and Infrastructure Division in 1995. In 1999, Mr. Saghir
was appointed Sector Manager, in the Infrastructure Development
Group in MENA.
Carlos Silva-Jauregui
Advisor to the Chief Economist, Social and Economic Development
Group (MNSED), Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank
Carlos Silva-Jauregui is Advisor to the Chief Economist in the
Social and Economic Development Group (MNSED), Middle East and North
Africa Region of the World Bank Group. He began his professional
career working in the research department of the Banco Nacional de
Mexico (BANAMEX), the largest commercial bank in Mexico, and spent a
number of years in academia, doing research and lecturing in areas
such as macroeconomics, microeconomics, statistics and econometrics
in Mexico, Spain and the US. In 1991, he joined the World Bank as
an Economist and has worked in the Latin America, ECA and the MENA
regions. He is author and co-author and team leader of numerous
studies at the World Bank. Mr. Silva-Jauregui is also a member of
the regional Gender Advisory Group.
Dale Whittington
Professor of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, City & Regional
Planning, and Public Policy, at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Dr. Whittington is a Professor of Environmental Sciences &
Engineering, City & Regional Planning, and Public Policy, at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since 1986, he has
worked for the World Bank and other international agencies on the
development and application of techniques for estimating the
economic value of environmental resources in developing countries,
with a particular focus on water and sanitation and vaccine policy
issues. He has designed and carried out valuation studies in Haiti,
Guatemala, Mexico, Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia,
Mozambique, Tanzania, Pakistan, Nepal, China, Philippines, Vietnam,
Thailand, Indonesia, Bulgaria, and Ukraine. His current research
focuses on the following four areas: (1) development of planning
approaches and methods for the design of improved water and
sanitation systems for the rapidly growing cities of Asia; (2) the
design of municipal water tariffs in developing countries; (3)
estimating the economic benefits of vaccines for malaria, typhoid,
cholera, and HIV/AIDS; and (4) Nile water management issues.
Professor Whittington is the author (with Prof. Duncan MacRae) of a
graduate textbook on public policy analysis, Expert Advice for
Policy Choice.
Closing Remarks by
Vijay Jagannathan
Sector Manager for Water, Sustainable Development Department, Middle
East and North Africa Region, World Bank
Vijay Jagannathan is the Sector Manager for Water in the Sustainable
Development Department (MNSSD), Middle East and North Africa Region,
of the World Bank Group. Prior to this assignment, he worked on
water supply and sanitation programs in Southeast Asia, and in the
Center (in the infrastructure and environment departments). His
pre-Bank experience has been in both the public and private sectors
in India. In the public sector, he worked on a range of
developmental issues in India as a member of the Indian
Administrative Service, and in the private sector in the Tata
Administrative Service.
For more information about the report, please go to
http://go.worldbank.org/WDPAMJ5290
Information on water in mena :
http://www.worldbank.org/mena-water
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