United Nations Development Programme Regional Centre for Europe & CIS – Bratislava / Slovak Republic Opportunities for Cooperation: UNDP and Coca-Cola in Europe and CIS Ben Slay, Director Juerg Staudenmann, Water Governance Advisor Bratislava Regional Centre Vienna, 24 January 2006

UNDP Regional Centre for Europe & CIS – Bratislava SK 6/1/2015/JS page 2 Overview 1. Water in Europe and CIS: Challenges and responses 2. UNDP and the private sector 3. Opportunities for cooperation: 1. Water 2. Non-Water 4. Questions and discussion

UNDP Regional Centre for Europe & CIS – Bratislava SK 6/1/2015/JS page 3 Water governance and development in Europe, CIS  UNDP has extensive water portfolio  Environment, security, development  Regional seas and trans-boundary river basins:  Baltic, Black, Caspian, Aral  Danube, Don, Volga, Kura-Aras, Amu-Darya, Syr- Darya  Local water governance issues:  Municipal water treatment systems  Access to clean water

UNDP Regional Centre for Europe & CIS – Bratislava SK 6/1/2015/JS page 4 Challenges: Local water use  Strong economic recovery since 1999: pressures on water resources, quality:  Commercial uses (industry, agriculture)  Municipalities, households  Legacies of inadequate investment:  Water, sanitation tariffs below cost-recovery levels  Integrity of local water services at risk, especially in CIS countries

UNDP Regional Centre for Europe & CIS – Bratislava SK 6/1/2015/JS page 5 Challenges: Trans-border water use  Region’s major river systems:  shared water resources  inadequate trans-boundary cooperation  development, security challenges  Examples:  Central Asia: Water-energy nexus  Caucasus: Water and security

UNDP Regional Centre for Europe & CIS – Bratislava SK 6/1/2015/JS page 6 Solution: international water conventions...  Examples:  EU water framework directive  Trans-boundary water convention  Aarhus convention  Johannesburg directive ... But major capacity constraints:  Inadequate data  No systematic monitoring  Insufficient finance

UNDP Regional Centre for Europe & CIS – Bratislava SK 6/1/2015/JS page 7 UNDP’s response: Globally  Water, development, security: recognise links  Millennium Development Goal 7  Integrated water resources management  Partnerships for cooperative solutions  UNDP, UN system  Governments  Private sector  Civil society  Global initiatives:  UN-decade “Water for Life” ( )  Water and Development human development report

UNDP Regional Centre for Europe & CIS – Bratislava SK 6/1/2015/JS page 8 UNDP’s activities in the region: Water projects  $175 million water project portfolio,  networks of expertise  Partnerships with:  GEF  Bilateral donors  Private sector  Focus:  Infrastructure  Local development  Small grants

UNDP Regional Centre for Europe & CIS – Bratislava SK 6/1/2015/JS page 9 UNDP and private sector  Private sector: development driver  Millennium Development Goals will not be met without private sector partnerships  UNDP private sector work:  Corporate social responsibility: “Global Compact”  Private sector development: removing obstacles to pro-poor entrepreneurship  Public private partnerships: better local service delivery

UNDP Regional Centre for Europe & CIS – Bratislava SK 6/1/2015/JS page 10 UNDP and Coca-Cola: Partnership opportunities  Build on successful cooperation  Joint project activities  Regional, national, municipal water projects  Small grants  New forms of private sector partnership  Public awareness  Global, regional publications

UNDP Regional Centre for Europe & CIS – Bratislava SK 6/1/2015/JS page 11 Joint project activities  Regional water projects (cost-sharing with GEF):  Central Asia: Upper Syr-Darya  Caucasus: Kura-Aras  Balkans: Tisa, Prut, Maritza, Dnipro  National-level projects:  Small grants: UNDP-Coca Cola partnerships in Turkey, Romania  Local level:  Partnerships with municipalities, utilities  Improving local service delivery, access to clean water

UNDP Regional Centre for Europe & CIS – Bratislava SK 6/1/2015/JS page 12 Example: regional replication of TEST approach  Within or beyond Danube Basin  “Champion role” for Coca Cola among peer companies  “Innovation fund”  “Blended project support”: Capacity building for municipal finance

UNDP Regional Centre for Europe & CIS – Bratislava SK 6/1/2015/JS page 13 Awareness and education  Public awareness campaigns  Coca-Cola partnership with Danube Commission  Educational materials  Joint or co-funded publications  UNDP Human Development Reports  Dissemination of successful water project results  Support for national projects  UNDP-Coca Cola partnership in Romania

UNDP Regional Centre for Europe & CIS – Bratislava SK 6/1/2015/JS page 14 Replicating Life + project  UNDP country offices impressed and by October presentation in Istanbul  Local youth employment discussions with Coca-Cola now on-going in:  Macedonia  Croatia  Bulgaria

UNDP Regional Centre for Europe & CIS – Bratislava SK 6/1/2015/JS page 15 Coca-Cola and the Global Compact  Coca Cola companies participate in national Global Compact chapters  Greece, Ghana  Membership in other Europe, CIS counties?  Benefits of participation:  Sharing experiences of implementation of CSR related activities  Local platform for cross sectoral partnership projects

UNDP Regional Centre for Europe & CIS – Bratislava SK 6/1/2015/JS page 16 Coca-Cola and “Growing Sustainable Business”  GSB: Pro-poor private enterprise  Examples of potential GSB activities:  Local sourcing (sugar, paper for labeling, plastic, glass)  Recycling of PET packaging  Discussions on-going, in Macedonia, Serbia-Montenegro  Albania, Bosnia, Moldova, Turkey?

UNDP Regional Centre for Europe & CIS – Bratislava SK 6/1/2015/JS page 17 Beyond water: Possible cooperation in other areas  Regional publications: In the pipeline  Regional Millennium Development Goals Report  Vulnerable Groups Survey Roma, refugees, IDPs in Western Balkans Roma, refugees, IDPs in Western Balkans  Human trafficking in CIS countries  Development and Transition newsletter Quarterly, with London School of Economics Quarterly, with London School of Economics  Development challenges in CIS countries  Publications could be conceived jointly

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