Integrated Water Resources Management Concepts and Challenges

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• CAPACITY FOR WATER COOPERATION(CWC)

• Country / Region
• All EECCA countries.
• Participating EECCA agencies
• Water and Environment Authorities, RECs, NGOs
• Partners outside EECCA
• UNECE, Finnish Ministry of Environment, Swedish
  EPA, IW LEARN and others

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Building Block Objectives

• To strengthen the capacity for transboundary
  water management with regard to
• The legal basis for cooperation
• The work of the river basin commission
• Joint monitoring and assessments
• Access to and exchange of information, and public
  participation
• Integrated water resources management and river
  basin management planning
• Shared river basins and the relation to regional
  seas
• Health related issues

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Expected results and achievements

• Trained officials and experts on transboundary
  water cooperation
• Improved coordination, cooperation and exchange
  of experience between different countries, actors
  and projects and
• Publication of recommendations, positive
  experiences, case studies.

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Financial requirements
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How to get further information?

• Contact details
• UNECE Secretariat
• Rainer Enderlein, Francesca Bernardini, Bo Libert
• Palais des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva
• 0041-22-917 23 73, 917 24 63, 917 23 96
• fax [phone]
• rainer.enderlein_at_unece.org, francesca.bernardini_at_u
  nece.org, bo.libert_at_unece.org