National Policy Dialogue in Armenia ©EUWI+ Over the past five years, the EU has supported a combination of policy reform and capacity development at both national and basin scale to improve water management in Armenia for the benefit of people and the environment. Experts representing Armenia, the European Union and the European Union Water Initiative Plus programme implementing partners (OECD, UNECE, Austria and…

Screenshot – consultation meeting for the Chorokhi Ajaristskali River Basin Management Plan – Appendix on coastal and transitional waters ©REC Caucasus On 5 May 2021 in Batumi, 30 participants were consulted on the future of their coastal waters. The new part of the Chorokhi-Ajaristskali River Basin Management Plan concerning coastal and transitional waters was presented to members of the government and parliament…

Presentation of Mr. Mutallim Abdulhasanov, Head of Division of Water Resources Management of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan ©UNECE More than 45 participants joined the 9th meeting of the Steering Committee of the National Policy Dialogue on Integrated Water Resources Management in the Republic of Azerbaijan held in Baku and online on 29 April 2021. The meeting focused on discussing…

Screenshot – joint meeting of the working group on IWRM, 27 April 2021 ©UNECE On 27 April 2021 the UNECE organised joint meetings of the Working Group on Integrated Water Resources Management and the Working Group on Monitoring and Assessment under the Water Convention. Representatives from the Eastern Partnership countries and all implementing partners shared latest results and achievements under the National…

Laboratory Staff of Laboratory Centre of the National Environmental Monitoring Department in Baku, Azerbaijan World Laboratory Day celebrates the place where great inventions emerge, which help to make the world better. In terms of the European Water Initiative Plus (EUWI+), better equipped and newly renovated water laboratories contribute to usher in a new era for water resources management in the EU’s eastern…

A map and dashboard are available to visualise the results Map – Water Bodies Risk Analysis of the 6 Eastern Partnership countries ©OiEau In the frame of the EU-funded EUWI+ project, water resources in pilot areas of the Eastern Partnership countries have been assessed. The specific indicators employed in the assessments show the current and future level of environmental quality in line with the pressures likely to…

Workshop – consultation on the draft Water Supply and Sanitation Master Plan for the Nirnova Basin ©OiEau On 1 April 2021, a workshop gathered around 30 participants to present and collect feedbacks on the draft version of Water Supply and Sanitation Master Plan for the Nirnova sub-basin in the Republic of Moldova. In Moldova, access to tap water in rural areas is about 37%, compared to 89% in urban areas. In the…

Supported by the European Union, the national environmental laboratory meets highest international quality standards Lab staff with new EU-funded equipment. © Reference Laboratory of the Environmental Agency of Moldova The EU by means of its project European Water Initiative Plus (EUWI+) supports the Republic of Moldova on its journey towards sustainable water management. In addition to numerous capacity building…

On the occasion of the World Water Day 2021, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine presented the newly renovated water quality laboratory in Vyshhorod. The upgrade of the laboratory, realised with support of the European Union and operated by the State Agency of Water Resources, marks a milestone on the road to a clean environment and clean water for everyone in Ukraine. The new…

Technical workshop in Minsk © CRICUWR On 4 March 2021, a technical workshop held both in Minsk and online gathered more than 25 participants to discuss recent progress towards sustainable water management in Belarus. With the support of the EU-funded European Union Water Initiative Plus for Eastern Partnership (EUWI+) programme, Belarus is taking measures to develop its water sector, adapt it to climate change and…

Public consultation on the Danube Prut & Black Sea RBMP in 2020 © Centrul National de Mediu Moldova is in the process of adopting the Danube-Prut & Black Sea River Basin Management Plan Cycle II. The goal is to adopt this new-generation RBMP in 2021 in order to start its six-year implementation in 2022. If the adoption process is successful, the RBMP 2022-2027 will be synchronised with all other EU and Danube…

Lake Beleu, one of the most important wetlands in the Republic of Moldova, © OiEAU On 2 February, the world celebrates the importance of wetlands and its links to and sustainable management practices. A good occasion to recall the natural heritage of wetlands in Eastern Partnership countries and highlight how implementing the EU Water Framework Directive can help protecting them. 88 wetlands of international…

The high-level event Water and Beyond, hosted by the European Commission Directorate-General for International Partnerships and the Government of Slovenia, with the support of the Government of Portugal, is wrapping up its work today. The event has provided insights on how to strengthen transboundary cooperation, build broader partnerships and trigger water investments in support of the Sustainable Development Goals…

Ukrainian version below. Українська версія нижче Today’s webinar presented some of the key results of the European Union Water Initiative plus for the Eastern Partnership (EUWI+) project in Ukraine. With the European Union’s support, the first part of a management plan for the Dnipro River Basin has been developed and a vast pollutant screening organised. These activities will simultaneously address challenges…

The European Union Water Initiative Plus team was deeply saddened to learn about the death of Victor Bujac this Monday 30 November. Victor had worked as the EUWI+ representative in the Republic of Moldova since 2017. He was a dependable, active part of the team and generously shared his knowledge gained through 30 years’ experience in the water sector. Victor significantly contributed to the progress in water…

A consultation meeting on the revision of the National Programme for the implementation of the Protocol on Water and Health Attended by over 40 participants, the stakeholder consultation meeting on the revision of the National Programme for the implementation of the UNECE-WHO Regional Office for Europe Protocol on Water and Health in the Republic of Moldova for 2016-2025 took place in Chisinau on 26 November 2020…

The second training on the application of the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for the River Basin Management Plans was organized in Tbilisi, Georgia on 18 November 2020 (in virtual format). The event was held within the framework of the SEA Pilot Project implemented by the UNECE with funding from the European Union under the EU Water Initiative Plus Programme. The training aimed at enhancing capacities of…

On 3 November 2020 an online meeting took place to discuss the progress in developing a Water Supply and Sanitation Master Plan for the Nirnova sub-basin. The aim of this strategic plan at local level is to facilitate the implementation of concrete solutions to improve access to safe water for the rural population of the Nirnova sub-basin (358km², 30 villages, and almost 44,000 inhabitants in total). The master plan…

On 21 October 2020, a draft Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for the Draft Alazani-Iori River Basin Management Plan (RBMP) was presented and discussed in Tbilisi, Georgia. The Stakeholder Meeting informed key actors engaged in the management of water resources of Georgia about the outcomes of the pilot SEA project. In particular, participants were familiarized with the main features of the draft Alazani-Iori…

Georgian experts at the Debed river, Georgia ©EUWI+ Ecological monitoring is critical to ecosystem health, fostering groups of species and boosting the resilience of natural river systems. As a result, rivers and streams can stand up to small disturbances and provide ecological services that are also of economic importance, ranging from self-purification processes (clean water), biomass production (fish, grass,…

Textul în limba română începe mai jos. A public consultation on the revision of the National Programme for the implementation of the Protocol on Water and Health in the Republic of Moldova for the years 2016-2025 (Government Decision no.1063 of 16.09.2016) is now open until 14 November 2020. The revision of the National Programme was carried out with the support of the European Union under the European Union Water…

The code provides a new framework to tackle the current intensification of farming practices ©EUWI+ The Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment (MARDE) of the Republic of Moldova approved on 27 July 2020 the Code of Good Agricultural Practice developed with support of the EUWI+ project. This document is an important tool to prevent nitrate pollution and ensure good quality water resources in…

©EUWI+ A workshop on economic analysis for River Basin Management Plan was organised on September 24, 2020, in cooperation with the European Union Water Initiative Plus and OSCE Project Coordinator in Ukraine. 57 participants attended the workshop, representing water stakeholders from the Dnipro and Don river basin districts (representatives from SAWR and BUVRs) As Ukraine is aligning its water sector with European…

Public consultation in Moldova ©National Environmental Center, Moldova Within September 15-19th, 4 sessions of public consultation were organised to present the Programme of Measures of the draft Danube-Prut & Black Sea River Basin Management Plan developed with support of the European Union Water Initiative + (EUWI+). Water operators and water consumers were invited to the consultations. 66 participants for 2 days…

On 9 September 2020, water monitoring experts from Armenia and Georgia collected samples at different monitoring sites along the transboundary Debeda river to carry out a simultaneous field survey and harmonise their environment monitoring. EUWI+ Joint Field Survey between Armenia and Georgia © Zurab Jincharadze for EUWI+ 17 sampling sites on both sides of the border Hydrobiologists and chemists from the…

EUWI+ water monitoring survey in the Kura river delta in early August 2020 © EUWI+ In June 2020, significant intrusion of seawater in the upper parts of the Kura river delta in Azerbaijan was identified by surveys of the National Hydrometeorology Service of Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources. Next monitoring surveys executed until early July indicated some improvement. On request of the Ministry of Ecology…

Period of consultation 27 July-28 August 2020 A public consultation on the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) report for the draft Water Strategy 2030 of the Republic of Belarus is now open until 28 August 2020. The SEA report and the draft Water Strategy were developed with the support of the European Union Water Initiative+. The report and all supporting information is accessible in Russian at…

The government of Moldova approves the updated national Water Supply and Sanitation Strategy and associated Action Plan prepared with support from EUWI+ Birds flying, Moldovan landscape ©OIEau On 1 July 2020, the Government of Moldova approved the updated national Water Supply and Sanitation Strategy and associated Action Plan on implementing this strategy in 2020-24. The package was prepared by the Ministry of…

The Armenian Minister of Environment has approved a roadmap to align national water legislation with European Union regulations through its Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA) From left to right: Edgar Pirumyan (Ministry of Environment),Irina Ghaplanyan (Deputy Minister of Environment), Gonzalo Serrano De La Rosa (European Union Delegation to Armenia), Vardan Melkonyan (Chairman of the Water…

Screenshot of the Data related to water section for Moldova in the EUWI+ website ©OIEau In the framework of the EUWI+ project, French experts from the International Office for Water support Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine in improving their data management capacities. Key points include supporting interinstitutional collaboration on data management, strengthening the information systems of…

UNECE webinar on Sustainable Development Goal indicator 6.5.2 (transboundary water cooperation) ©UNECE All countries sharing transboundary waters are engaged in the 2nd reporting exercise on Sustainable Development Goal indicator 6.5.2 taking place in 2020. Representatives of the Eastern Partnership countries joined colleagues from their neighboring countries and from Central Asia to exchange experiences and…

The Water Commission was created by Decree of the Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliyev, on 15 April 2020. Shahin Mustafayev - Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan and chairman of the Water Commission. © Azertag.az Water Commission to coordinate water resources management The role of the newly created Water Commission is to ensure the efficient use of water resources in the country by coordinating all…

Georgia, staff from the NEA Laboratory. ©OIEau The current corona virus pandemic has touched the lives of almost everyone on the planet. As long as the health emergency situation continues, we must strictly follow World Health Organisation (WHO) guidance and advice. Meanwhile, many countries have already started discussions on post-COVID recovery measures to support people and economies. Undoubtedly, we need to take…

Georgia, staff from the NEA Laboratory. ©OIEau The current corona virus pandemic has touched the lives of almost everyone on the planet. As long as the health emergency situation continues, we must strictly follow World Health Organisation (WHO) guidance and advice. Meanwhile, many countries have already started discussions on post-COVID recovery measures to support people and economies. Undoubtedly, we need to take…

Armenia has moved a step closer to the European Union acquis in integrated water resources management. In the water domain, the CEPA between Armenia and the EU is designed to gradually align the Armenian legal framework in the water sector with the EU acquis. The EUWI+ is supporting the Ministry of Environment through a roadmap for the implementation of provisions under the 5 EU water-related directives in the CEPA.…

Two renovated hydrological monitoring posts in Armenia (left: Aparavan reservoir, Hartavan community.Right: Hrazdan river, Argel community) ©Hydromet Six hydrological observation stations run by the Hrazdan River Basin hydro-meteorological service have been renovated and fitted with modern equipment thanks to funding from the European Union Water Initiative Plus programme. The modernisation of Armenia’s hydrological…

Training session on Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) for the pilot Alazani-Iori River basin ©UNECE Training session on Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) for the pilot Alazani-Iori River basin On 6 April 2020, UNECE, in the framework of the European Union Water Initiative Plus programme for the Eastern Partnership Countries (EUWI+), organised a course by videoconference for Georgian experts with the…

The European Union is adopting a new policy framework for the Eastern Partnership (EaP) beyond 2020. As well as helping the 6 Eastern Partnership countries achieve established targets, the European Union Water Initiative Plus (EUWI+) beneficiary countries stand ready to further improve their water resources management in line with the new set of policy objectives. Eastern Partnership beyond 2020: working together…

Second training session on Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) for the draft Water Resources Management Strategy in the Republic of Belarus Second training session on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for the draft Water Resources Management Strategy in Belarus ©UNECE On 26 March 2020, UNECE, in the framework of the European Union Water Initiative Plus programme for the Eastern Partnership Countries…

Georgian landscape © OIEau Water use grew more than twice as fast as the population over the last century. There is enough freshwater on the planet for everyone, but too much of it is wasted, polluted and unsustainably managed. Action plans to tackle climate change impacts need to be integrated across different sectors and coordinated across borders. Thanks to the European Union’s Water Initiative Plus (EUWI+)…

The European Union’s Water Initiative Plus (EUWI+) project supports Belarus in its implementation of best international practices on Integrated Water Resources Management, including those summarised in the European Union Water Framework Directive. This will help the country meet its relatively ambitious water policy objectives. One of the targets is a greater level of water security for people in Belarus, including…

The European Union supports Azerbaijan's commitment to improve water management information and transparency regarding water management The web portal of the hydro-meteorological service at the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan provides its citizens with all of the weather information they need. In the framework of the European Union Water Initiative Plus, Azerbaijan is now working on a new web…

Fisher and climate change ©EUWI+ This week, starting from 9 March, EUWI+ began a Facebook campaign on water and climate change. With climate change, the water cycle is becoming even more unpredictable: higher temperatures are modifying rainfall patterns and leading to more extreme weather events, such as floods and droughts. Fisher and climate change ©EUWI+ With the impact of climate change on water, we will have to…

From left to right: Mr Alisher Mamadzhanov - UNECE, Ms Tatiana Efimova - OECD,Ms Nino Tandilashvili - Deputy Minister, Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture (MEPA),Mr Alexander Zinke - EUWI+ project leader of the EU Member State Consortium© Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia Georgia is undertaking a major reform of its water sector that includes a shift towards basin…

From left to right: Mr Grygoriy Shmatkov – NPP Centre for Environmental Audit and Clean Technologies;Ms Oksana Konovalenko - EUWI+ national representative in Ukraine; Mr Oleksii Anguretc - Deputy Chairman of the Regional Councilfor the Executive Office - Head of the Department of Ecology, Energy Saving and Investment of the Executive Office of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council;Ms Viktoriya Yashkina – Communications…

From left to right: Maka Zumbulidze, Keti Jibladze and Sophiko Akhobadze - REC Caucasus, Georgia; Zurab Jincharadze - representative of the EUWI+ project in Georgia. © OIEau This two-day workshop took place in the Georgian capital Tbilisi (26-27 February) in the framework of the EUWI+ project. It aimed at developing a set of guidelines for public consultations based on past experiences in the participating countries…

Belarus signed an agreement on cross-border water protection with Poland on Friday 7 February 2020, in Bialowieza, western Poland. This is Belarus's first agreement on transboundary water bodies with a European Union country. From left to right: Mr Andrei Khmel, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection and Ms Anna Moskwa, Polish Deputy Minister of Maritime Economy and Inland Waterways…

Pripyat second public consultation in Gomel on 31 January ©OIEau Public consultation began last November on the first draft River Basin Management Plan (RBMP) for the Pripyat river basin. The first consultation session was held in Minsk on 1 November 2019. On 31 January 2020, a second round of consultation took place in Gomel to discuss the draft River Basin Management Plan for the Pripyat river basin. Discussions…

The Moldovan Presidency wants to begin the new decade focusing on crossing borders in sectorial as well as geographical terms. Moldova takes over ICPDR Presidency for 2020 from Hungary ©ICPDR The Republic of Moldova took over the annual Presidency of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) from Hungary during the official ceremony in Vienna on 30 January. The incoming President…

From left to right: Mr Vahagn Tonoyan - country representative of the EUWI+ project in Armenia, Mr. Alexander Zinke, H.E. Mr. Alois Kraut, H.E. Ms. Andrea Wiktorin, Mr. Erik Grigoryan, Ms. Claire le Flécher, Mr Afanasy Lazarev. ©Philipp Hohenblum/EAA On Friday 31 January, Armenia and the European Union celebrated the newly renovated Laboratory of the Environmental Monitoring and Information Centre (EMIC) in Yerevan.…

You can download the ToR below: TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR LOCAL CONTRACTOR “SPECIFIC IMPLEMENTATION ACTIVITIES: IMPROVEMENT OF THE NATIONAL RIVER BASIN PLANNING FRAMEWORK (TCP 17.06-14-2017 (33140)” TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR LOCAL CONTRACTOR « STRENGTHENING OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATION AND AWARENESS IN THE DNIEPER AND PRIPYAT RIVER BASINS IN BELARUS »

Dnieper Basin Council in Mogilev, Belarus. © OIEau Dnieper Basin Council in Belarus: next steps to implement the River Basin Management Plan in 2020 On 13 December 2019, the Dnieper Basin Council took place in the city of Mogilev, Belarus. Participants discussed approval procedures for the Dnieper river basin management plan and the results of several expert studies concerning water protection and quality. The…

Workshop: Dnipro River Basin Management Plan in Ukraine, first phase (10-11 December). © OIEau The two-day workshop (10-11 December) was held in Kyiv, Ukraine. The objectives were to discuss and validate the results concerning the first phase of the Dnipro river basin management plan produced by the Ukrainian experts and to discuss the significant water management issues and the main messages to be disseminated…

Global workshop on exchange of data and information in transboundary basins, held in Geneva, 4-5 December 2019. ©UNECE On 4-5 December 2019 in Geneva, a Global Workshop on Exchange of Data and Information in transboundary basins was organized by the Secretariat of the Water Convention at the UNECE in cooperation with several partners including the EUWI+. The main objectives of the workshop were to discuss practical…

From left to right: Mr Alexandre Darras,EU delegation to Georgia, Ms. Nino Tandilashvili, Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture (MEPA),Ms Christine Kitlzer, Environmental Affairs Officer UNECE. © UNECE On December 9, 2019 a pilot project on the Application of a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for the Draft Alazani-Iori River Basin Management Plan (RBMP) was launched in Tbilisi,…

Mr. Mukhtar Babayev - Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan,and Mr Kestutis Jankauskas, Ambassador - Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Azerbaijan unveiling the plaque commemorating the EU support for the Laboratory renovation On Tuesday 10 December, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan and the European Union celebrated the opening of the newly renovated…

Second meeting of the national inter-agency committee managing EUWI+ implementation in Belarus, 5 December 2019. © OIEau On 5 December, the 2nd meeting took place of the national inter-agency committee managing EUWI+ implementation in Belarus, the main platform to facilitate reform of water policies. The event marked several significant milestones in the EUWI+ programme and discussed the next steps to improve water…

Landscape: Kyiv, Dnipro river, Ukraine © OIEau The objective of the workshop is to provide support to the beneficiary countries to understand and implement the EU-Water Framework Directive on the ecological classification of surface water bodies. Two-day workshop for the three countries The workshop, which runs from 3 to 4 December 2019, is held in Kyiv, Ukraine. It is attended by representatives from Ukraine…

Laboratory Centre, National Environmental Monitoring Department, Baku. © OIEau On Tuesday 10 December, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan and the European Union will celebrate the opening of the newly renovated Laboratory Centre of the National Environmental Monitoring Department in Baku in a festive ceremony to mark new laboratory capacities provided by the European Union in the framework…

A week of learning and exchange on water management best practices has been organised by the European Union-funded project “European Union Water Initiative Plus for Eastern Partnership Countries” (EUWI+) from 25 to 28 November 2019 in Paris, France. The meeting brings together the Programme’s implementing partners (UNECE, OECD and an EU-Member State Consortium of Austria, Umweltbundesamt Austria, and France,…

In July-August, more than 170 people expressed their opinion on the main challenges facing their river basin to develop the second RBMP planning cycle (2021-2027). Consultations continue at different levels: after the Danube-Prut and Black Sea river basin district committee’s meeting in September, a new round of consultations took place in Cahul in November. Civil society representatives were also invited to give…

EUWI+ at the Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol of Water and Health in Belgrade ©OIEau From 19 to 21 November 2019, the 5th Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol on Water and Health took place in Belgrade. The meeting was organised by the government of Serbia, with support from the United Nations (UNECE and WHO Regional Office for Europe joint secretariat). The event was an opportunity to take…

Workshop: Ecological classification of surface water bodies in EUWI+ pilot areas of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. © OIEau The objective of the workshop is to provide support to the beneficiary countries to understand and implement the EU-Water Framework Directive on the ecological classification of surface water bodies. Two-day workshop for the three Caucasus countries The workshop, which runs from 19 to 20…

On 1 November, a consultation took place in Minsk to discuss the draft river management plan for the Pripyat river basin. Read about the first conclusions and future steps towards this key document below. Consultation on the draft Pripyat River Basin Management Plan. ©OIEau Consultation as part of the EUWI+ project The draft plan was developed by specialists from the Central Research Institute for the Complex Use of…

On 5 and 6 November, the National Policy Dialogue (NPD), which is the main platform to facilitate reform of water policies, took place in Ukraine as part of the “AQUA 2019” International Water Forum. High-level opening session. From left to right: Marta Voitsekhovich, Verkhovna Rada’s Committee on Energy, Housing and Utilities Services,Johannes Baur, Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine, Mikhailo Khorev,…

From left to right: Mr. Alexander Zinke – EUWI+ project leader of the EU Member State Consortium, H.E. Mr. Carl Hartzell - Ambassador of the European Union to Georgia, Mr. Levan Davitashvili – Minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia, H.E. Mr. Arad Benkö – Ambassador of Austria to Georgia, Mr. Andro Aslanishvili – Head of the National Environment Agency of Georgia. Tbilisi, Georgia, 30 October…

From left to right: Gintas Baranauskas, Deputy Head of Operations, EU Delegation to the Republic of Moldova,Alexander Karner, Head of Office, Austrian Development Agency in the Republic of Moldova, Caroline Tissot, Director of Cooperation,Swiss Cooperation Office in the Republic of Moldova, Alexander Zinke EUWI+ Project Leaderof the EU Member State Consortium The 5th meeting of the Coordination Committee of the…

Workshop on Basin Management Organisations and Public Consultations - Kyiv, Ukraine, 22-23 October. © OIEau About 80 participants from Ukraine, Republic of Moldova, Republic of Belarus and Armenia gathered at the Qualification Enhancement Centre. The water institution employees took part in a workshop co-organised by the EUWI+ project funded by the European Union and the State Agency of Water Resources of Ukraine.…

Regional workshop for laboratory personnel in Kyiv, Ukraine © OIEau On 16-17 October 2019 in Kyiv, EUWI+ experts ran a workshop on internal audits for Armenian, Azerbaijani and Ukrainian laboratory personnel. Internal auditing is an essential tool in any management system to ensure continual improvement. The workshop aimed at building knowledge of audit techniques and reporting, and looked at how audit results can…

From left to right: Edgar Pirumyan (Ministry of Environment), Irina Ghaplanyan (Deputy Minister of Environment), Gonzalo Serrano De La Rosa (European Union Delegation to Armenia), Vardan Melkonyan (Chairman of the Water Committee) and Dmitri Mariasin (resident representative of the UNDP in Armenia) ©OIEau The 18th Meeting of the National Policy Dialogue (NPD) steering committee took stock of major progress in the…

More than 7,000 participants from all over Ukraine joined the Facebook challenge That’s almost three times more than last year! As a reminder, this challenge is part of a global initiative – International Clean Beach Day, when active citizens around the world concentrate their efforts on cleaning river banks and beaches. Ukraine is one of the leaders of this initiative with 234 clean-ups in every oblast in the…

Workshop on Programmes of Measures, 2-3 October 2019, Georgia. ©OIEau A two-day workshop on how to develop Programmes of Measures was organised by EUWI+ at the Kvareli Lake Hotel, Georgia. During the workshop, participants exchanged on the state of the art of Programmes of Measures in different countries and coordinated on-going contracts for the Alazani-Iori and Khrami-Debed river basins in Georgia, and the Kura…

On 2 October, the Working Group on the Economy of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) held its 19th meeting in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The Working Group deals with the economic aspects of the EU Water Framework Directive and contributes to the development of respective management plans, in particular with regard to the development of appropriate and pragmatic economic…

Embankment on board of the vessel “Beshumi”. From left to right:Paata Vadachkoria–Marine biologistTinatin Jaglidze–Student of Marine science at Batumi UniversityGrozdan Kuspilic –EUWI+ ConsultantIrina Baramidze –Marine chemistMadona Varshanidze–Marine biologist. ©EUWI+ In September, the European Union Water Initiative Plus for Eastern Partnership Countries (EUWI+) conducted the first round of coastal and…

The Low Dnipro River Basin Authority (BUVR) held a seminar for its employees, water users, and NGOs on 20 September. About 30 participants attended the event. Oksana Konovalenko, EUWI+ representative © OIEau The first part of the seminar was dedicated to the River Basin Management Plan (RBMP) and the second part focused on issues of stakeholder involvement and communication. EUWI+ experts shared their knowledge with…

Waste collected on the Dnipro riverbanks in Ukraine © Vyacheslav Rozhon, Ukraine’s State Agency of Water Resources Each September, millions of people in more than 150 countries get together to clean up riverbanks and seashores to mark International Clean Beach Day (#EUBeachCleanup). EUWI+ co-organised and supported several activities this year linked to International Clean Beach Day (#EUBeachCleanup) in Ukraine and…

This summer, around 350 schoolchildren from the Sevan and Hrazdan River Basin communities used special kits to carry out basic monitoring of local waterbodies. The activity followed a series of green events organised in Armenia aimed at raising awareness on water protection. Schoolchildren presented the results of this summer campaign on the occasion of World Water Monitoring Day on 18 September 2019 in Harsnaqar…

The Lviv EcoForum is one of the key events in Ukraine’s environmental calendar. Combining a conference and a trade show, about 600 participants were present at the forum. The OECD, representing the EUWI+ team, spoke in the opening panel session on developing the national water strategy of Ukraine and the role of the EU-funded EUWI+ programme to support the Government of Ukraine in the reform journey and the benefits…

Organised through the EU funded EUWI+ project, participants took stock of progress in developing the water supply and sanitation strategy of Ukraine, and its harmonisation with the national water resources strategy, which are being developed by two different line ministries. It was a follow up to a workshop organised in July 2019 and the workshops were organised in Lviv to attract a wide range of stakeholders and…

This summer, around 350 schoolchildren from the Sevan and Hrazdan River Basin communities used special kits to carry out basic monitoring of local waterbodies. The activity followed a series of green events organised in Armenia aimed at raising awareness on water protection. The results of this summer campaign will be presented during World Water Monitoring Day on 18 September 2019 in Harsnaqar Hotel in the Sevan…

Workshop hydromorphological assessment in Georgia ©IOW The objective of the workshop is to provide support to the beneficiary countries in understanding and implementing the methodology of Water Framework Directive compliant hydromorphological assessment of rivers. These workshops aim at enhancing experts knowledge on hydromorphology and Geographic Information System. Field hydromorphological surveys will start in…

To mark Sevan Protection Day on 24 August, pupils and teachers from several Communities around Lake Sevan took part to a beach clean-up event in Sevan Lake area. Children cleaning the beach - ©OIEau This event was organized by the European Union Water Initiative Plus for the Eastern Partnership (EUWI+) in co-operation with Armenian Ministry of Ecology, Water Committee under the Ministry of Territorial…

Involving students into the process of the Ros river water assessment EUWI+ together with the students and lecturers of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv had an open session on water resources monitoring . At the moment the hydrology students of the geography department are having a hydrology field training in Bohuslav at the Ros river (Dnipro river basin district) and the geography student in Kaniv…

To raise awareness on water pollution issue, young people will join the clean-up action co-organised by EUWI+ on the occasion of the Lake Sevan protection day. The 2019 edition of the Lake Sevan protection day is co-organised by the Armenian Ministry of Environment, the Water Committee under the Ministry of Territorial Administrations and Infrastructure, Gegharkunik Regional Authorities, Sevan National Park, Country…

Mrs. Ina Coseru, chair of The National Environmental Center discussing with a representative from the General Department of Agroindustrial Complex of Gagauzia Region © National Environmental Centre of the Republic of Moldova From 12 to 30 July 2019, in the framework of the EUWI+ project, the National Environmental Center of the Republic of Moldova organised five public consultations in five regions of the country:…

OECD printed the final report on Economic Regulatory System for the water supply and sanitation system (WSS) in the Republic of Moldova, produced with financial support from the EU under EUWI+. This report aims to support the development of a sound economic regulatory system for the water supply and sanitation (WSS) sector in the Republic of Moldova (hereafter “Moldova”). The prevailing policy framework calls for…