Capacity for Water Cooperation Project

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Categories: Project | Caucasus | Europe & CIS | Central Asia | UNECE

Project Title: Capacity for Water Cooperation Project

Organisation(s):

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (link to WaterWiki article UNECE)

Partner(s):

Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, GEF, International Waters Learning Exchange and Resource Network (IW:LEARN)

Region:

Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia

Status:

Ongoing

URL:

http://www.unece.org/env/water/cwc.htm

Description:

The CWC project is intended to strengthen the capacity of transboundary water management in EECCA. The objective is to create a framework for cross-fertilization and exchange of experience between river basins and countries on regulatory, institutional, methodological and other aspects of integrated management of transboundary waters, and, at the same time, bring in valuable experience from other parts of the UNECE region. CWC also aims to establish a network of EECCA experts involved in transboundary water management who are used to cooperating and sharing knowledge.

Workshops:

First: Legal Basis for Transboundary Water Cooperation, Kiev, 22-24 November 2004

Second: Information Management and Public Participation, St. Petersburg, 8-10 June 2005

Third: JOINT MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT OF SHARED WATER BASINS, INCLUDING EARLY WARNING AND ALARM SYSTEMS. Tbilisi Georgia, 31 Oct - 2 Nov 2005 (see announcement letter below).

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