Stakeholder Forum’s role towards the Bonn2011 Nexus Conference

Consultation and cooperation between a vast range of stakeholders will be critical for creating and implementing sustainable solutions to the Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus. Ensuring an enhanced understanding of the nexus amongst civil society and catalysing a global discourse in the build-up to Rio+20 are essential preconditions for achieving positive change.

On behalf of the convenors, the non-governmental organisation Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future is facilitating a constructive dialogue process among all key stakeholders. For this purpose, an International Advisory Group (IAG) was set up early in the process. Its members include representatives from NGOs, trade unions, indigenous peoples, women’s groups, farmer organisations, scientific community and local governments. Careful attention has been paid to gender and regional balance. The IAG coordinates the contributions from the different groups in the conference and ensure that the activities undertaken for this dialogue take into account their diversity of perspectives around the Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus. The inputs and suggestions from these groups will feed into the overall conference recommendations and specific conference elements.

Furthermore, to ensure that a wide diversity of voices is heard, the Stakeholder Forum has run Global Online Consultation and three regional workshops during the Rio+20 preparatory meetings in Seoul and Addis Ababa, and at the UN/DPI meeting in Bonn. The objective was to give stakeholders the opportunity to express their views and formulate recommendations on how to address the interlinkage of water, energy and food security.

list of organizations involved in the IAG (PDF, 45 kB)

A Message from Felix Dodds

Executive Director, Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future, and International Steering Committee (ISC) Member

Today, nearly one billion people do not have access to safe drinking water, one billion people suffer from hunger, and 2.5 billion people do not have access to modern forms of energy. Global trends such as population growth and increased economic prosperity in developing and emerging economies are also set to increase the world’s demand for our water, energy and food resources. ...

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