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The Water Integrity Network is seeking information on initiatives addressing corruption related to water and climate change for the Water Integrity Case Information Sheet series.

Case studies should address questions such as 

What obstacles are rendering water-related climate change adaptation strategies inadequate or inequitable?; What types of initiatives have been put in place to avoid or address climate-related water integrity issues (regulation, policy, monitoring, advocacy, project design, etc.)?; How do local, national, and international groups and organisations tackle such problems?; and What other special problems is climate change implicating for water integrity?

The deadline is 1 June 2009. The Water Integrity Case Information Sheets(CISs) are an initiative to exchange information and experiences of successful anti-corruption action. CISs are quick and easy to produce; the contributor must complete a two-page questionnaire, which will be reviewed by two other WIN members from the region. Selection is based on credibility, reliability, relevance towards water integrity (and in this case climate change), usefulness for other WIN members, integrity, style and diversity. All CISs must be submitted in both English and the local language. Selected contributions will receive an allowance of Euro 300, will be published in the series layout and profiled on the WIN website and WIN newsletter.

Please complete the Submission Form and send it to info@waterintegritynetwork.net. The deadline is 1 June 2009.

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Implications of climate change on the water sector are both pervasive and complex. Global and local communities are finally mobilizing, designing mitigation and adaptation mechanisms in an attempt to avoid some of the worst damage and prepare for those consequences which may now be unavoidable. Because enormous infrastructure investment is a certainty, 30-50% of which will be water-related, the potential for corruption is high.

Furthermore, while corruption will surely have impacts on water-related climate change initiatives, the inverse is also true. Corruption compounded with the environmental stresses and uncertainty of climate change are bound to severely impact water use and allocation, equitable access to water supply and sanitation infrastructure, allocation of irrigation resources, development of multi-purpose dams, and the environmental sustainability of water resource management.

For more information

Contact: Birke Otto Water Integrity Network c/o Transparency International (TI) Alt Moabit 96 10559 Berlin, Germany T +49 30 3438 2056, F +49 30 3470 3912, e-mail: botto@transparency.org or visit: www.waterintegritynetwork.net