The workshop started at 10.00 a.m. on Wednesday, 4 December and ended at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 5 December 2019 in Salle XVI, at the Palais des Nations, Geneva. The workshop was followed by the Fifteenth meeting of the Working Group on Monitoring and Assessment, which was held on 6 December 2019, Palais des Nations, Geneva.
Expected participation to the workshop from different regions of the world made it possible to exchange broadly experience in tackling challenges related to exchange of data and information, benefiting Governments, basin organizations and regional organizations in their particular contexts.
The workshop consisted of plenary presentations and discussion sessions as well as smaller group discussions and exercises. Working languages were English, French, Russian and Spanish.
The workshop’s information notice is below.
The main objectives of the workshop were to:
- Discuss practical experiences, on the basis of a range of initiatives and basin or aquifer cases, related to different key issues in information and data exchange that has brought results and has allowed to overcome challenges, considering different solutions – lighter and more comprehensive ones, institutionally and in terms of resource requirements;
- Draw some recommendations on the themes highlighted at the workshop which can be taken on in further work with support of the Water Convention and the workshop’s organizing partners.
The workshop enabled discussing practical experiences, on the basis of a range of initiatives and basin and aquifer cases, related to different key issues in information and data exchange that has brought results and has allowed to overcome challenges, considering different solutions - lighter and more comprehensive ones, institutionally and in terms of resource requirements. The conclusions from the workshop will be used in the future work under the Water Convention to foster transboundary cooperation and provide assistance to countries and joint bodies, such as transboundary basin organizations. In particular, the conclusions guided the discussions in the meeting of the Working Group on Monitoring and Assessment which met just after the workshop (Geneva, 6 December 2019).