Water, a common good !
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
For 51 countries, there is a risk of entering into conflict over water between now and 2015. By 2025, 48 countries will be lacking water, mainly in the Middle East and Africa, and by 2035 half the world’s freshwater reserves will have disappeared.
Citizen action has become increasingly necessary in order to avoid this forecasted catastrophe. Citizens’ participation in decision-making is essential to ensuring that water policies adapted to local needs secure fair supply and transparent management and protect this common good from commoditisation. Only a sharing of responsibilities will ensure effective access to water for all.
Within the framework of the Water Messengers’ movement, France Libertés is putting out a call for proposals on “Water, humanity’s common good”, focusing on actions in the field, awareness-raising and advocacy work to promote the effective right to access to water for all and democratic governance and management of water.
Concept notes should be ask to projets-porteursdeau@france-libertes.fr and sent by 15th April 2010.