Fourteenth meeting of the Working Group on IWRM

The fourteenth meeting of the Working Group on Integrated Water Resources Management (WGIWRM) under the Water Convention was held from Tuesday, 22 October until Thursday, 24 October 2019 in the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The Working Group meeting was preceded on 21 October by the meeting of the Expert Group on water allocation as well as the regional workshop on reporting on SDG indicator 6.5.2 for the pan-European region, and was followed on 24 October afternoon by the Event "Promoting an integrated and inter-sectoral approach to water management in the Mediterannean region".

The Working Group reviewed the implementation of the work programme for 2019-2021 of the Water Convention (ECE/MP.WAT/54/Add.1). The meeting also aimed to discuss the implementation of decisions taken by the eighth Meeting of the Parties (Nur-Sultan, 10-12 October 2018) and to prepare for the second reporting exercise under the Convention and on Sustainable Development Goal indicator 6.5.2, including by reviewing the draft Guide to reporting under the Convention and in contribution to SDG indicator 6.5.2. Moreover, the Working Group discussed the Convention’s global opening and ongoing and future activities, e.g. on water allocation and financing transboundary water cooperation.