Cooperation and conflicts across borders on water issues present major challenges and opportunities to countries and other stakeholders seeking to manage freshwater resources.
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Workshop proceedings
International Workshop on Institutional Capacity Development in Transboundary Basins (Proceedings No. 2)
UNW-DPC is happy to present the proceedings of the International Workshop on “Institutional Capacity Development in Transboundary Basins: Lessons learned from practical experience”, which was held in the BMZ, Bonn on 10-12 November 2008. Read more
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Institutional Capacity Development in Transboundary Basins: Lessons learned from practical experiencePresentations
Session I
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes
Heide Jekel, Chairperson to the Meeting of the Parties of the Water Convention Knowledge & Information as a basis to establish transboundary cooperation: the experience of the North Western Sahara Aquifer System (NWSAS)
Ousmane S. DIALLO, Coordinator of the Water Programme Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel (OSS)
Trans-boundary River Basin Management The OKACOM Initiative
Dr. Ebenizário Chonguiça, OKACOM Secretariat From the most Romantic Sewer in Europe to a Living River- The Rhine Case
Dr. Fritz Holzwarth, Deputy Director General German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear SafetySession II
Governance and Institutional Arrangements in the Great Lakes Basin
Dr. Murray Clamen,Secretary, Canadian Section International Joint Commission Mekong River Commission and its first test in a transboundary impact incident - Ialy Dam
Le Duc Trung, Acting Secretary General Viet Nam National Mekong Committee Doosti Dam on shared river of Harirood:Friendship Bridge Between-Iran and Turkmenistan
Saeed Nairizi,Toossab consulting Engineers Co. Institutional Capacity in Transboundary Basins: The Danube
Philip Weller. ICPDR, Executive SecretarySession III
Nile Basin Initiative: Current Context and Evolution towards Institutional Strengthening
By Hamere Wondimu, Nile Basin Initiative Secretariat, Entebbe Uganda Perspectives de Developpement du Bassin du Niger
Nialen CONDE/BANGOURA, Directrice de l’Administration et des Finances Observatoire de l’Environnement de et du Développement Durable du Bassin du fleuve Sénégal
TamsirNDIAYE SOE-OMVS Guarani Aquifer (GAS) Project: from Knowledge to Governance
Luiz Amore, Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development of the Guarani Aquifer System Project - 2
Capacity Pool No. 4 on Sharing Waters
This Capacity Pool is dedicated to the subject of transboundary water, a topic that is also theme of the 5th World Water Forum and World Water Day 2009 Transboundary Basins: Lessons learned from practical experience”, which was held in the BMZ, Bonn on 10-12 November 2008.
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Side publication on on Institutional Capacity Development in Transboundary Water Management
To provide detailed information to go alongside the Third World Water Development Report (WWDR3), a number of official WWDR3 Side Publications were presented to the public by WWAP. One of these is the UNW-DPC Side Publication, entitled "Institutional Capacity Development in Transboundary Water Management".
Institutional Capacity Development in Transboundary Water Management
