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Social Audit in India's Water Sector
Dr Arvind Kumar
Feb 2010
Feb 2010
Great expectations were anticipated from flurry of hectic diplomatic activities that presaged the convening of the 15th International Summit on Global Climate Change at Copenhagen from 7 to 18 December 2009 with regard to inclusion of water in the agenda. However, these expectations have been belied as water sector has been ignored in the draft treaty. The international water groups have been haunted by the simmering discontent at the tone tenor of various rounds of negotiations that ensued for over a year in the lead up to Copenhagen-15. Water experts throughout globe have been pleading persistently to include water in the agenda of Copenhagen summit and their pleas seemingly fell on deaf ears.
The 2009 World Water Week was convened in Stockholm during the third week of august 2009 in which participants unanimously said that water must be included in the COP-15 climate negotiations scheduled to be held in Copenhagen in December 2009. At various sessions throughout the Week, a number of organizations and officials had articulated the reasons why water needed to be an integral part of the negotiation process on climate change and adaptation. Those reasons became key points of the “Stockholm Statement” which the assembled participants of the 2009 World Water Week unanimously supported at the final plenary session this morning.
Water is a crucial factor in climate change and as such its inclusion in the Copenhagen summit was essential. Experts are unanimous on the view that the effects of climate change on water resources will be among the most devastating consequences of continued global warming pollution. Floods, droughts, water pollution, and other impacts will affect communities at home and across the globe.
Notion of Social Audit
Broadly speaking, social audit is a mechanism that empowers the people – the ultimate beneficiaries of any scheme, programme, policy or law – to audit such schemes, programmes, policies and laws. As an ongoing process, the social process ensures the involvement of the potential beneficiaries and other stakeholders of an activity or project from the planning stage to the monitoring and evaluation of that activity or project. In this manner it endeavours to make certain that the activity or project is designed and implemented in a way that is most congenial for the existing (local) conditions, aptly mirrors the priorities and preferences of those affected by it, and serves public interest most effectively.
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