Objectives: Strengthen the capacity of transboundary water management in EECCA Facilitate exchange of experience and improve cooperation and coordination Establish, maintain and strengthen a network of EECCA experts Make recommendations for future action, taking into account the outcome of the previous workshops Contribute to the assessment report on the status of transboundary waters in the UNECE region.

1.
CWC project: next stop Tbilisi
Francesca Bernardini
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

2. Convention of the Protection and Use of Transboundary
CWC project
• November 2004, Kiev:Legal aspects of
transboundary cooperation
• June 2005, St. Petersburg: Information
management and public participation
• November 2005, Tbilisi: Monitoring and
Assessment, including early warning

3. Convention of the Protection and Use of Transboundary
Information cycle
Workshop on Information
Management and Public
Participation, June 2005
Workshop on Monitoring
and Assessment, October
2005

4. Convention of the Protection and Use of Transboundary
Objectives
• Strengthen the capacity of transboundary water
management in EECCA
• Facilitate exchange of experience and improve
cooperation and coordination
• Establish, maintain and strengthen a network of
EECCA experts
• Make recommendations for future action, taking
into account the outcome of the previous
workshops
• Contribute to the assessment report on the status of
transboundary waters in the UNECE region

5. Convention of the Protection and Use of Transboundary
Assessment of transboundary waters
• Developed under the work plan of the Water
Convention
• First report ready in 2007 for the Belgrade
Ministerial Conference Environment for Europe
• Will cover rivers, lakes and groundwaters
• Specific focus on EECCA and SEE
• Will include information on the basins, M&A
programmes, pressures and state, and future trends
• Benchmark progress in the Convention’s
implementation and in water management in UNECE

6. Convention of the Protection and Use of Transboundary
Partners
• Finnish Environment Institute
• Ministry of Environment of Georgia
• REC Caucasus
• UNECE

7. Convention of the Protection and Use of Transboundary
More information at
http://www.unece.org/env/water/cwc.htm