Consultation Meeting on Integrated Management of the extended Drin River Basin
24 November, 2008 Tirana, Albania

The Consultation Meeting on Integrated Management of the extended Drin River Basin took place on 24 November 2008, in Tirana, Albania. It was jointly organised by the Albanian Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Water Administration , UNECE and Global Water Partnership-Mediterranean (GWP-Med).

The Consultation Meeting was financially supported by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency , the German Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and GEF IW:LEARN.

The event was organized in the framework of the Petersberg Process Phase II / Athens Declaration Process and the UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourse and International Lakes (Water Convention). The Meeting contributed to and supported the implementation of the GEF Strategic Partnership for the Mediterranean Sea Large Marine Ecosystems and the Mediterranean Component of the EU Water Initiative (MED EUWI).

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Events organized within the Petersberg Phase II / Athens Declaration Process and the GEF IW:LEARN

International Roundtables

• “Protection and Sustainable Use of Transboundary Waters in South-Eastern Europe”
  
  Berlin, 5th to 7th December 2005

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• "Integrated Shared Lake Basin Management in Southeastern Europe Ohrid"
  
  FYR Macedonia, 12-14 October 2006

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• "Principles for Multipurpose Water Management in the Sava River Basin"
  
  Zagreb, Croatia, 15-17 November 2006

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• " Integrated Shared Groundwater in Southeastern Europe"
  
  Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia,14-16 November 2007

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• " Stakeholder / Public Participation for the Integrated Management of Shared Water Resources - The Case of Mesta / Nestos River Basin"
  
  Sofia, Bulgaria, 15-16 April 2008

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• " Water and Climate Change in Southeastern Europe: Understanding Impacts & Planning for Adaptation"
  
  Tirana, Albania, 24-25 June 2008

• "Stakeholder involvement in Transboundary Water Resources Management",
  
  Podgorica, Montenegro, 25-27 March 2008

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• "Integrated Management of Shared Lakes Basins"
  
  16-18 July 2008, Ohrid, FYR Macedonia

This Website facilitates an Internet-based Transboundary Waters Information Exchange Network for the Southeastern Europe region (TWIEN-SEE).

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It is one of the two main outputs of the activity of GEF IW:LEARN, Activity D2 “Face-to-face and virtual training, knowledge sharing and capacity building cooperation between stakeholders in Southeastern Europe and Mediterranean sub-region”.
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Core Partners of this project are:

• GEF IW:LEARN
• German Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
• Global Water Partnership – Mediterranean (GWP-Med)
• Hellenic Ministry for Foreign Affairs
• International Network of Water-Environment Centres for the Balkans (INWEB)
• UNECE
• UNESCO-IHP International Shared Aquifers Resource Management Programme    (ISARM)
• World Bank