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Environment and Security Initiative - ENVSEC -
Working Group on Integrated Water Resource
Management 22-24 October 2008
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Purpose

• To contribute to reduction of environment and
  security risks, and strengthened cooperation
  between and within countries

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Partners

• OSCE regional security expertise on early
  warning, conflict prevention, conflict management
  and post-conflict rehabilitation
• UNEP - assessments of the state of the
  environment and expertise on environmental
  policies, institutions and laws
• UNDP expertise on linkages between
  environmental trends and human security as well
  as poverty reduction
• UNECE - environmental policy and international
  environmental law, including five regional
  environmental conventions
• REC regional expertise and network of
  professionals of environmental field work
• NATO associated member providing technical and
  financial support to clean-up and remediation
  efforts

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UNECE Conventions

• Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution
• EIA in a Transboundary Context
• Transboundary Waters
• Transboundary Effects of Industrial Acidents
• Aarhus

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Principles and Approaches

• Links between peacebuilding, governance,
  development and environment
• Participatory approach National Focal Points and
  stakeholders to shape the program
• Responsiveness to local priorities
• Potential for environmental peacemaking in every
  region
• Two-stages approach Assessments and Work
  Programmes

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Assessment reports

• Amudarya and East Caspian Assessments are about
  to be finalised
• The case of Eastern Europe, Belarus Moldova
  Ukraine, 2007
• The case of the Ferhana valley, Central Asia -
  Ferghana / Osh / Khujand area, 2005
• The Case of the Southern Caucasus, 2004
• The Case of Central Asia and South Eastern
  Europe, 2003

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Work Programmes

• In-depth vulnerability assessment, early warning
  and monitoring
• Strengthening policies, institutions and
  awareness
• Capacity building. In areas where specific risks
  are present
• Clean-up and remediation by mobilizing
  financial support and technical expertise

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How it works

• Field presences of OSCE, UNDP, and REC, ENVSEC -
  in 20 countries
• Close cooperation with national experts, NGOs and
  research institutes
• Over 50 projects implemented
• Supported by Austria, Belgium Canada, the Czech
  Republic, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands,
  Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA

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Projects under the Water Convention

• Capacity building for cooperation on dam safety
  in Central Asia.
• Enhancing Regional Exchange of Water Resource
  Information in Central Asia, CAREWIB II.
• Transboundary cooperation and sustainable
  management of the Dniester river.
• Support to a bilateral agreement under the UNECE
  Water Convention between Azerbaijan and Georgia.
• Bi-/multilateral arrangements for prevention of
  transboundary environmental conflicts the Timok
  River shared by Bulgaria and Serbia.

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Dniester cooperation
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Dniester River Basin

• Aims at the improvement of the joint management
  of the basin
• Promote the adoption of the new Dniester River
  basin Agreement
• Facilitate cooperation between sanitary-epidemiolo
  gical services of the two states
• Support activities on biodiversity conservation
  (with focus on fisheries)
• Facilitate information exchange at the national
  and basin-wide levels
• Raise public awareness and media coverage of the
  basin environmental issues.

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Kura cooperation
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Kura River Basin

• Support Georgia to ratify and implement the UNECE
  Water Convention
• Strengthen transboundary water cooperation
  between Azerbaijan and Georgia
• Draft bilateral agreement, including the
  establishment of a joint management body

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Timok Cooperation
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Timok River Basin

• Facilitate cooperation between Bulgaria and
  Serbia on the Timok River Basin
• Developing a bilateral agreement on transboundary
  waters, which will also include the above basin

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More Information

• www.envsec.org