The 1st Regional Conference of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) labelled project Governance & Financing for the Mediterranean Water Sector will be held on 28-30 October 2014, in Athens, Greece, in close collaboration with the European Union funded Sustainable Water Integrated Management (SWIM) - Support Mechanism programme.
The Governance & Financing for the Mediterranean Water Sector project (mid 2013 – mid 2016) - officially labelled under the UfM in July 2012 – was launched on 28-29 May 2013 at the UfM headquarters, in Barcelona, Spain. It is implemented jointly by the Global Water Partnership-Mediterranean (GWP-Med) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) with the support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) for the regional component, and the support of the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the GEF MedPartnership programme for targeted and time-bound parts of the national component. The project is carried out in synergy with the Mediterranean Component of the European Union Water Initiative (MED EUWI) that together with the MedPartnership set the ground for this project with work completed in previous years. Please find attached the project brief for your kind consideration.
Sustainable Water Integrated Management - Support Mechanism (SWIM-SM) (2010-2014) is a Regional Technical Assistance Programme of the European Commission that aims to contribute to the extensive dissemination and effective implementation of sustainable water management policies and practices in the Southern Mediterranean Region. Further information on the programme is available here.
The 1st Regional Conference aims to engage targeted stakeholders in a constructive policy dialogue on the governance-financing nexus within the Mediterranean water sector and to promote the exchange of experiences and best practices. The Conference will take stock of the outcomes from the Water Policy Dialogues conducted in Jordan and Tunisia during the first year of the UfM project’s implementation (2013-2014) and will discuss the way forward for the second year. Moreover, the Conference will benefit from completed and ongoing work on the theme conducted by SWIM-SM, especially in view of the programme’s completion (Dec 2014) and the potential next phase of work.
