The Water Convention and the Protocol on Water and Health, as well as different activities carried out under their framework, will be presented and promoted in different events organized under the different processes of the 8th World Water Forum.

UNECE will co-organize different sessions related with the three following themes: governance, climate and capacity. The UNECE Water Convention secretariat coordinates the topic transboundary water cooperation within the thematic process under the theme governance. UNECE’s contribution through presentations and inputs to special focus processes and side events will focus on the following sub-themes:

- International water law and support to transboundary water cooperation;
- Adaptation to climate change in transboundary basins;
- Monitoring, assessment and data sharing in transboundary basins;
- Integrated Water Resources Management in transboundary basins;
- Water-Food-Energy-Ecosystems Nexus approach in transboundary basins;
- Human right to water and sanitation and SDG 6 on water.