Central Asian International Research and Practice Conference

On the 20th anniversary of the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (ICWC), the following anniversary events will take place 20-21 September 2012 in Almaty - the city, where this significant occasion for the water sector and environment of Central Asia has happened:

• 60th anniversary meeting of ICWC
• Central Asian International Research and Practice Conference «Twenty Years of Water Cooperation among the Central Asian Countries: Past Experience and Future Challenges»

Goals of the Conference:

• Further development of interstate water cooperation
• Outcomes of twenty-year cooperation
• Unrealized opportunities, shortcomings, challenges, and ways out.

The Conference is scheduled in the form of two plenary sessions and five concurrent roundtables.

First plenary session – key reports on regional priorities

Roundtables:

1. Strengthening of the legal framework for cooperation;
2. 10th anniversary of the Global Water Partnership for Central Asia and Caucasus - inputs into integrated water resources management;
3. Water cooperation, water and energy security in Central Asia;
4. Transboundary river water management;
5. Preservation of water resources capacity under climate change.

Second plenary session – reports of roundtable chairmen, summing up, adopting a “Resolution”, and closing of the Conference