Communications

Session 1:

● Integrated Waterborne Transport Planning On The Mekong River System In Cambodia
● Integrated Water Resource Management in The Implementation of The 1995 Mekong Agreement
Nguyen Nhan Quang, Deputy Secretary General, VNMC
● Mekong the mother and the new challenges - Communication and Text
WATT Botkosal, Cambodia
● Strategic Directions for Integrated Water Resources Management in the Lower Mekong Basin
JOHNSTON, Mekong River Commission

Session 2:

● Negotiating the 1995 Mekong Agreement – The Framework for IWRM in the MRB
Dr. George E. Radosevich
● The Water Rights of the Co-riparians to the Jordan River Basin
David J.H. Phillips, Shaddad Attili, Stephen McCaffrey and John S. Murray
● Institutionalizing IWRM In the Lower Mekong Basin
Chanthavong Saignasith Director General Lao National Mekong Committee
● Cultures of regulation, river basin organisations and IWRM in the Mekong River Basin
Philip Hirsch - Australian Mekong Resource Centre School of Geosciences University of Sydney
● Desecuritization as a Foundation for Benefit-haring: Lessons from the Okavango River Basin
Dr.Anthony Turton Gibb-SERA Chair in Integrated Water Resource Management

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Session 3: Maintaining Ecological Maintaining (More about the thematic of the session)

● Sharing Water: Environmental Flows as a Tool for Negotiation
Ms. Kate Lazarus IUCN-The World Conservation Union
● The Living Mekong Programme Goal
Rob Mather
● Maintaining the natural capital of the Mekong river basin
Pham Xuan Phuong (Maintaining Ecological Balance)
● Natural Resources Conservation and Livelihoods in the Tonle Sap Basin
YEM Dararath - Water Resources and Environmental Management Specialist
● Enhancing the natural capital for food and water needs
Dr. Richard Friend and Peter-John Meynell, Mekong Wetlands Biodiversity Programme

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Session 4: Building Capacity (Introduction, Discussion topics and Key findings)

● Réseau International des Organismes de Bassin / International Network Basin Organizations
Jean François Donzier - INBO Technical Permanent Secretary
● Building capacity to implement IWRM at basin level
Paul Taylor
● Capacity building of environmental network towards IWRM experience from the upper Chi River Basin, Thailand
Araya Nuntapotidech
● Integrated Water Resources Management in Lao PDR
Mr. Chanthanet BOUALAPHA - Deputy Director of Water Resources Coordination Committee Secretariat, Lao PDR
● The TAB : developing capacity for regional fisheries management
Wolf Hartmann, MRC/FP
● For practical IWRM approach through Network of Asian River Basin Organizations (NARBO)
Sasahara Hideshi, NARBO secretariat, Sri Hernowo Indonesian NARBO secretariat