The Workshop will be from 11th to 12th June 2014 in Tunis, Tunisia and will discuss how transboundary cooperation can be fostered in order to improve water resources management between riparian countries, the sustainability of these shared resources and to safeguard water rights. Specifically, the Workshop will aim to increase awareness and understanding of the different legal frameworks for cooperation on shared waters resources. It will provide a platform to discuss the opportunity that the globalization of the Water Convention represents for the Arab region.
This Workshop is a follow-up to the International Roundtable on Transboundary Water Resources Management in the Southern Mediterranean and responds the request expressed in June 2013 by the Arab Ministerial Water Council, which operates within the framework of the League of Arab States.
The Workshop is jointly organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), the Center of Water Studies and Arab Water Security of the League of Arab States and the Global Water Partnership - Mediterranean (GWP-Med), in collaboration with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and with the support of France, Switzerland and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) International Waters Learning Exchange and Resource Network (IW:LEARN).
Read more: http://www.unece.org/env/water/workshop_arab_countries_2014.html .
