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UN ESCWA // Water-Energy Nexus Operational Toolkit: Resource Efficiency Module

ESCWA is implementing a UN Development Account (DA) Project on “Developing the Capacities of ESCWA Member Countries to Address the Water and Energy Nexus for Achieving Sustainable Developing Goals”. The DA project targets to strengthen the capacity of ESCWA member countries to achieve an integrated and sustainable management of water and energy resources to contribute to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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The project is implemented through two parallel and complementary tracks. The first track targets high-level officials in ministries responsible for water and energy while The second track focuses on water and energy public service providers.

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), as part of its efforts to help member countries find an integrated approach to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is implementing a United Nations Development Account project to develop the capacity of member States to examine and address the water and energy nexus.

To achieve this, ESCWA is using two parallel and complementary tracks. The first targets highlevel officials into ministries of water and energy who will be trained on how to incorporate the nexus in policies and strategies at national and regional levels by means of a regional policy toolkit. This is comprised of seven modules based on priorities identified during an intergovernmental consultative meeting in 2012. The seven priorities, which were endorsed by the ESCWA Committees on Water Resources and on Energy, are the following:

  1. Knowledge and awareness-raising;
  2. Increasing policy coherence;
  3. Examining the water-energy security nexus;
  4. Increasing efficiency;
  5. Informing technology choices;
  6. Promoting renewable energy;
  7. Addressing climate change and natural disasters.

The second track targets water and energy service providers by means of three technical interventions addressed through an operational toolkit made up of the following three standalone modules:

  1. Resource efficiency: To improve efficiency during the production and consumption of water and energy resources and services;
  2. Technology transfer: For water and energy considerations when pursuing the transfer of new technologies regionally;
  3. Renewable energy: To assess costs and benefits related to applying renewable energy technologies in the region.

Each module will be discussed in one of three regional technical workshops, which will bring together participants doing similar work in different sectors.

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2016

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United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN ESCWA)

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