The Power of Policy: Creating the conditions to scale nature-based solutions for water security

Climate change, population growth, unsustainable catchment management, and pollution are eroding water security across the world, increasing costs to water users and amplifying the risk of disruption to water services. These pressures are also accelerating biodiversity and habitat loss and ecosystem decline. To address these challenges, we must closely examine our policy systems and how they are enabling or hindering us from solving our greatest water challenges. Organised by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in collaboration with IWA and partners, this webinar will be a celebratory launch of TNC’s latest report: The Power of Policy: Creating the conditions to scale nature-based solutions for water security. This report gathers data from example case studies in 17 countries around the globe, examining collaborative lessons and including a tool for projects to examine their own enabling conditions.

Practitioners, utilities, regulators, water and sanitation service providers, watershed and basin committee members i.e. practitioners, academics and researchers, utilities, students, engineers, etc.

There is no expected level of expertise for webinar participants, although an interest and basic understanding of water policy will be helpful.

Live translation available in Spanish and Portuguese

Following this session, participants will:

• Be among the first to see the first copy of the report : The Power of Policy: Creating the conditions to scale nature-based solutions for water security
• Understand where to go to use the framework tool developed for the report
• Have materials and information about enabling NbS applicable to their contexts

This report captures the wide-range of political, legal, and economic contexts in which NbS for water investment are delivered today. Together they offer the following guidance to decisionmakers:

• What legal frameworks enable, permitting can undermine.
• Coordination between institutions and across jurisdictions is key.
• Policy cannot be implemented without financing: predictable revenue and impartial procurement are vital.
• Community support, leadership and capacity are key – whatever the policy conditions.
• Crises Create Windows of Opportunity—but a rapid response is needed to capitalise.