Transboundary Water Cooperation 2010
Sharing Benefits from Transboundary Water Management - The Nile, The SADC/Zambezi and the Mekong river basins
January 20-22, 2010 at Mekong River Commission Secretariat, Vientiane - Lao PDR
Overview of presentations from Day 1:
- The role of benefit and cost sharing in Transboundary Water Management - key concepts and paradigms: Palle Lindgaard-Jørgensen
- Benefit sharing in transboundary basins - the political context: Christer Holtsberg
- A framework for implementing benefit sharing: John Metzger
- The Decree for benefit sharing for hydropower development in Viet Nam: Larry Haas
- General Perspectives and Benefit Sharing - The Nile: Antoine Sendama
- General Perspectives and Benefit Sharing - The Zambezi/SADC: Michael Mutale
- General Perspectives and Benefit Sharing - The Mekong: Tuan Tran Van
Overview of presentations from Day 2:
- Socio-economic development and Benefit Sharing in the Nile Basin: Hellen Natu
- The Mekong Basin perspective: Hang Pham Thi Thanh
- Guidelines for benefit sharing in the SADC area: Tracy Molefi-Mbui
- Cost and benefits for communities: Tek Vannara
- Engaging stakeholders in Transboundary Water Management and basin planning related to costs and benefits: Tracy Molefi-Mbui
- Experiences from Nile Basin Discourse: Sarah Naigaga
- Transboundary co-operation on fisheries management: Roger Mollot
- Summary of workshop
Other relevant documents:
- UN Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses, 1997 -
- Sadoff, C. and D. Grey: Cooperation on International Rivers - A Continuum for Securing and Sharing Benefits
- Report 25: Getting Transboundary Water Right - Theory and Practice for Effective Cooperation (WWW 2009)
- Report 23: The TWO Analysis - Introducing a Methodology for the Transboundary Waters Opportunity Analysis
- Report 20: Transboundary Water Management as a Regional Public Good
- Phillips D. et al.: Trans-boundary Water Co-operation as a Tool for Conflict Prevention and Broader Benefit Sharing
- MRCS 2006: Integrated Basin Flow Management, Report No. 8 - Flow-Regime Assessment
- King, J., C. Brown: Integrated basin flow assessments: concepts and method development in Africa and South-East Asia
- 1966 International Law Association Helsinki Rule on the Uses of the Waters of International Rivers
- IIED: Sharing the benefits of large dams in West Africa
- Claassen, M. et al.: Transboundary Water Opportunity Analysis - Case Study (SIWI 2009)