The Expert Consultation Workshop on Finance and Water in North Africa and the wider Mediterranean will be held on 24 February 2010 in Madrid, Spain.
The Egyptian-Dutch Water Conference “Towards the new Long Term Strategy for Water in the Mediterranean”, an open, multi-stakeholder event was held on 2 and 3 November, in Cairo, Egypt.
The Conference was organised in conjunction with a meeting of the Circle of Mediterranean Parliamentarians for Sustainable Development (COMPSUD) and the Circle of Mediterranean Journalists for Environment and Sustainable Development (COMJESD), which took place on 01 November 2009, Cairo Egypt.
The main objective of the Conference is to contribute to the on-going dialogue and to promote knowledge sharing about hydropower infrastructure development and operation in the Western Balkans and more particularly to elaborate on the key question of how to enhance sustainability of hydropower schemes through the adoption of environmental standards, including the environmental flows concept.
This first WEG meeting focused on defining the terms of references for the elaboration of a new Strategy for Water in the Mediterranean, aimed to be adopted at the next Ministerial Conference on Water, 12-14 April 2010, in Spain.
Background
The Capacity Building Workshop on “Integrated Water Resources Management, with particular reference to the conditions in the extended Drin River Basin” was co-organised in Skhodra, Albania, 25-27 November 2008 by the Global Water Partnership-Mediterranean (GWP-Med), the Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development (MIO-ECSDE) and the GEF “Lake Shkoder/Skadar Integrated Ecosystem Management” Project.