Tuesday 22 March 13:00 – 15:00 (UTC / Dakar time)
Room 4
PROGRAMME (90 mins)
Opening
- Introduction by the UNECE: overview of the session programme, key topic, and questions
Presentation - Sonja Koeppel, Secretary of the Water Convention, UNECE & Alice Aureli, Chief of Section, Groundwater Systems and Settlements, UNESCOThe state of transboundary water cooperation in light of the results of monitoring exercise under SDG indicator 6.5.2
Panel I (20 min)
Tools for accelerating the progress towards the development of operational arrangements and their successful applications
Moderator: M. Bougounou Djeri-Alassani (Head Division, Water Governance and Policies, ECOWAS Water Resources Management Center ECOWAS) – TBC
Presentations on the following questions:
- Which processes, tools, and guidance materials are available at the global level for accelerating the progress towards the development and implementation of operational arrangements?
- What are the recent developments and examples of the successful application of international water law principles at the regional and basin level?
Panel Interventions:
- Accession to the UN global framework conventions: country perspective (M. Mahamat Alifa Moussa, Chad – TBC)
- Peter Kovacs, Hungary - TBC
- Introduction to the Practical Guide for the Development of Agreements and other Arrangements for Transboundary Water Cooperation
- Sophearin Chea, Regional Water Policy Expert, Mekong River Commission Secretariat
Application of Water Utilization Rules and Procedures: Procedures for Notification, Prior Consultation and Agreement (PNPCA) for mainstream hydropower projects in the Mekong River Basin - Developing an Agreement on a Transboundary Basin: The Case of the OMVS (TBC)
Q&A (15 min)
Panel II (25 min)
Progress, gaps and challenges in the development and implementation of legal and institutional frameworks for transboundary water cooperation
Moderator: Ms. Dinara Ziganshina (Deputy Director, Scientific Information Center of the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination in Central Asia, Uzbekistan) – TBC
Panel discussion based on the results of the second reporting exercise on SDG indicator 6.5.2:
- Progress, gaps, and challenges in the MENA region: the Case of Iraq, Minister of Water of Iraq – TBC
- Mr. Juan Carlos Alurralde, Secretary general, Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee for the la Plata River (CIC)
Progress, gaps, and challenges in the Latin American region - Christophe Brachet, Deputy-Secretary General, International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO) – TBC
Progress, gaps, and challenges in Africa - Progress, gaps, and challenges:perspective of youth - Lyazzat Syrlybayeva, Central Asia Youth for Water Network – TBC
- Progress, gaps, challenges, and the way forward: perspective from the academia, Laurence Boisson de Chazournes (University of Geneva) – TBC
Interactive discussion (15 min)
Take Away and concluding remarks: EU representative (5 min) – TBC
Closing remarks by the Geneva Water Hub (3 min)