International Network of Basin Organizations
THE FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The first General Assembly will be held in Mexico from March 27 to 29, 1996.
Since the constitutive meeting that took place in Aix-les-Bains (France) in May 1994
at the invitation of the French river basin organizations, INBO's Liaison Bureau held
three meetings in Romania (October 1994), Poland (March 1995) and Mexico
(September 1995) respectively.
This Bureau is composed of Messrs BENEVIDES (Brazil),
CHIROUZE (France), LASCU (Romania), KOUADIO (Ivory Coast), NOAIN
(Spain), MESTRE-RODRIGUEZ (Mexico), OSTOJSKI (Poland) and ROEDJITO
(Indonesia).
The Bureau has adopted the texts of the Network Declaration of Membership and
Charter of Organization and Operation. Those will be presented to the Member-
Organizations for approval during the next Morelia General Assembly which should
gather representatives from 31 countries interested in integrated water resources
management at the level of large river basins.
The Bureau has launched the first collective projects that interest the Member-
Organizations:
INBO'S NEWSLETTER
Written by the Network members themselves, is a link and means for exchanging
information on their experiences.
Two issues were published in 1995. 5,000 copies of the second issue were
disseminated in the three official languages of INBO (French, Spanish and English).
The international Technical seminar
information necessary for decision-making
It will be held on March 28, 1996, during the Morelia General Assembly.
This seminar should enable the finding of solutions to be used for developing
monitoring and analyses networks, optimizing the necessary data collection, while
setting up real "basin observatories" to summarize the information useful for planning,
determining water charges and following up priority action plans.
Retrieval of data in a form easily understood by and accessible to Authorities and to
members of River Basin Committees, is also an issue of great interest.
The Secretariat has requested the network's members to write papers for this seminar
in order to constitute a particularly useful reference document.
An international WORKSHOP ON MASTERPLAN PREPARATION
It will be held in June in CONSTANZA (Romania) on the initiative of the Romanian
Authorities. It will aim at examining the organization of water institutions in the
various countries concerned by INBO: it will be a comparative analysis of the
institutions that could be useful to develop principles adapted to
each local situation for a better water resources management.
The Liaison Bureau also confirmed the International Office for Water in its mandate
for assuming the Technical Permanent Secretariat, with the support of the six French
Water Agencies, during the first 4-year period up to the 1998 General Assembly.
