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inTeRnaTional evenTs
UNECE
Adaptation to climate change in basins
UNECE and INBO have joined forces to
materialize one of the commitments
made during the last World Water
Forum in Marseilles on adaptation to
climate change on the basin scale.
For over two years, they have worked on the
subject with a score of basin organizations
worldwide and adozen international partners.
A network of basin organizations wor-
king on adaptation to climate change
was established both to exchange good
practices, collect the first lessons lear-
ned from undertaken actions and disse-
minate them.
This group is also developing a
”Collection
of good practices
and lessons learned on
water and adaptation to climate change in
transboundary basins of rivers, lakes and
aquifers”.
As for the two previous handbooks edi-
ted by INBO and its partners in 2009
and2012, this publicationwill bebased
on practical experience and know-how
acquired inbasinsworldwide.
This publication will complete the ”Guidance
on water and adaptation to climate change”
drafted by UNECE in 2009.
Initially prepared in English and French, this
publicationwill be presented at the 7
th
World
Water Forum inDaegu inApril 2015.
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TheWater Governance Initiative (WGI), coor-
dinated by OECD, follows the commitments
made during the 6
th
WorldWater Forum held
inMarseilles in 2012.
The goal of the initiative is to firmly establish
good water governance principles, based on
the experience gained by institutions and
countriesworldwide and proposals from four
working groups established inMarch 2013.
INBO, IOWater and UNESCO facilitate
Working Group 3 on water governance
inbasinsof national and transboundary
rivers, lakes and aquifers.
Thiswork in thebasinswill lead to thepropo-
sal for rules of goodwater governance along
the following lines:
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Legislative and institutional frame-
works,
such as treaties, regional agree-
ments, regulations, management plans
and any other legal provision for a balan-
ced use of resources and soils;
l
Strengthening and establishment of
national or transboundary river, lake
and aquifer basin organizations,
capable of achieving sustainable water
resourcesmanagement;
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Development of analyses or assess-
ments,
allowing the orientation of deci-
sionmaking;
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Establishment of a set of gover-
nance indicators at the level of ba-
sins.
Thisworkwill be presented at the nextWorld
Water Forum during the sessions planned on
the theme ”Effective Governance (4.2.)”, and
more particularly during the session 4.2.3 on
”strengthening basin governance to
manage water resources on different
scales”.
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OECD
Water Governance Initiative
3
rd
PlenaryMeeting of the Initiative - 28-29 April 2014 - Madrid - Spain
UNECEmeetings - 9-10 April 2014
Geneva - Switzerland
