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Expert Scoping Workshop on Quantifying the Benefits of Transboundary Water Cooperation
6 - 7 June 2013
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Expert Scoping Workshop was the first activity organized to initiate a discussion on the approaches and methods of quantifying the economic, environmental, social and political benefits of transboundary water cooperation, in order to:
- Develop a definition of cooperation in the context of transboundary water management, as the starting point to identify the benefits of transboundary water cooperation
- Identify a typology of benefits
- Discuss existing approaches and methods for the quantification of the typology of benefits identified
- Discuss what characteristics should the Guidance Note have in order to be most useful to the Parties to the Convention and other actors as a tool to promote further transboundary water cooperation develop an approach for identifying and quantifying the benefits of transboundary water cooperation
The Expert Scoping Workshop was organized in the framework of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention), with the support of the Governments of the Netherlands and Switzerland and the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). The meeting took place in the VU University Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies.
Please consult the related press release: UNECE to develop a methodology to quantify the benefits of transboundary water cooperation (11 June 2013)
| Title | |
|---|---|
| Information Notice | |
| Draft agenda of the Workshop | |
| Background document | |
| Extract of the programme of work 2013-2015 of the Water Convention: programme area on quantifying the benefits of transboundary water cooperation | |
| Summary Report (prepared by SIWI) | |
| Notes of the meeting (prepared by the VU University) | |
| List of participants |
| Session | Title | ENG |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Opening: meeting objectives and agenda | |
Objectives of the wokshop John Joyce, SIWI | ||
| 2 | Setting of the Contexts of Transboundary Water Cooperation | |
Transboundary water interaction: a fluid concept Jeroen Warner, Wageningen University | ||
Transnational Water Cooperation in Danube region: status, challenges, benefits Benedikt Mandl, ICPDR | ||
GEF International Waters focal area: Lessons learned Christian Severin, GEF | ||
Opportunities and challenges of transboundary water cooperation Daene McKinney, University of Texas | ||
| Breakout session: Identifying the needs and challenges of policy makers and potential research contribution on quantifying benefits | ||
| Breakout Session A:Policy strands | ||
Bangladesh: transboundary rivers problems and prospects Jahid Hossain Jahangir, Joint River Commission, Ministry of Water Resources | ||
Benefits from the implementation of the UNECE Water Convention – examples Harry Liiv, Ministry of the Environment of Estonia | ||
Identifying and Valuing the Benefits: the Experience of Mekong River Basin Anoulak Kittikhoun, Mekong River Commission | ||
Aral Sea BEAM – A decision support system combining hydrology and economics Jesper Karup Pedersen, COWI | ||
The main challenges in quantifying benefits Rob van der Veeren , Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, the Netherlands | ||
| Outcomes from Breakout Session A | ||
| Breakout Session B: Research strands | ||
What typology for quantifying trans-boundary water cooperation benefits? Jeff Connor, CSIRO, Australia | ||
Gains from trans-boundary water quality management in linked catchment and coastal Peter Roebeling, CESAM, Portugal | ||
Water, trade and climate change Richard Tol, University of Sussex and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | ||
Valuing improved regional water security and integration: Insights and lessons from the Murray-Darling Sarah Wheeler, University of South Australia | ||
Exploring the scope for transboundary collaboration in the Blue Nile River Basin Roy Brouwer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | ||
| Outcomes Breakout Session B | ||
| 4 | How do we use the quantification of benefits to facilitate cooperation? | |
Benefit sharing: how do we get there? Ines Dombrowsky, German Development Institute | ||
How can information on benefits support hydrosolidarity? Pieter van der Zaag, UNESCO-IHE | ||
| 5 | Inputs for Methodological Guidance Note | |
The Guidance Document: towards an annotated outline Roberto Martin-Hurtado, Consultant to UNECE | ||