The “Workshop on recent progress on transboundary water cooperation: from getting cooperation started to its long-term sustainability” was held in the Palais des Nations in Geneva on Tuesday, 4 July 2017, back-to-back with the twelfth meeting of the Working Group on Integrated Water Resources Management (WGIWRM) under the Water Convention (5-6 July 2017).  It was organized under the leadership of Hungary and Lithuania and in cooperation with the Geneva Water Hub, International Network of Basin Organizations and the International Commission for the Protection of eh Danube River.

The main objective of the workshop was to support countries and basin organizations in advancing step-by-step their cooperation on transboundary surface and ground waters, especially with regard to the development and revision of agreements, and setting up and sustaining joint bodies.

By gathering experience and sharing lessons learned from recent developments in different parts of the world, in basins where cooperation is at different levels of advancement, the workshop aimed to galvanize progress, by showing that it is possible to start or engage in the next step of cooperation, even in challenging circumstances.

More specifically, the workshop illustrated experiences and lessons learned from recent developments (last 5-7 years), in particular:

• In the starting off of cooperation and step-by-step establishment of the legal and institutional frameworks for cooperation, including new agreements and arrangements;
• In the progressive development and long term support to cooperation.

Please access this link for pictures from twelfth meeting of the Working Group on Integrated Water Resources Management (WGIWRM) and above workshop.