Development Effort on Legal Frameworks for Transboundary Water Cooperation by UNECE

The present document contains the first draft of the annotated outline for the Checklist on the Development of Legal Frameworks for Transboundary Water Cooperation, as included in the Programme of work for the period 2019-2021 (ECE/MP.WAT/54/Add.1) adopted by the Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (‘Water Convention’) at its eighth session (Nur-Sultan, 10-12 October 2018). It was prepared by the Secretariat in cooperation with several partners, to support the preparation of the Virtual Workshop on designing legal frameworks for transboundary water cooperation (28-29 July 2020).

Following the virtual workshop, the checklist will be further developed, also by integrating inputs received during the workshop, for consideration by the Working Group on Integrated Water Resources Management and the ninth Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention in 2021.

The present document contains the first draft of the annotated outline for the Checklist on the Development of Legal Frameworks for Transboundary Water Cooperation, as included in the Programme of work for the period 2019-2021 (ECE/MP.WAT/54/Add.1) adopted by the Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (‘Water Convention’) at its eighth session (Nur-Sultan, 10-12 October 2018). It was prepared by the Secretariat in cooperation with several partners, to support the preparation of the Virtual Workshop on designing legal frameworks for transboundary water cooperation (28-29 July 2020).

Following the virtual workshop, the checklist will be further developed, also by integrating inputs received during the workshop, for consideration by the Working Group on Integrated Water Resources Management and the ninth Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention in 2021.