10th General Assembly of the International Network of Basin Organizations

The tenth edition of this Assembly will organize its work around major strategic issues to ensure the necessary implementation of programs of adaptation to great global challenges such as population growth, food and energy demand, or adaptation to the effects of climate change, in the basins of local, national and transboundary rivers, lakes and aquifers, which will be addressed in plenary sessions, roundtables and side events, focusing on:

• Adaptation to climate change in basins,
• Mandates, composition, role and means of the Basin Councils and Committees,
• Sustainable basin management: planning and funding,
• The participation of the economic sectors and citizens.

You are invited to come and present a paper on your experience.

The Assembly will also be an opportunity to present a first assessment of the implementation of the commitments of the « Paris Pact on water and adaptation to climate change in the basins of rivers, lakes and aquifers », already signed by 324 organizations from all over the world on the occasion of the COP21 in Paris in December 2015 and to define its operational prospects for the next COP22, to be held in Marrakech, Morocco, at the end of this year.

The meeting is open to all Basin Organizations - INBO Members or Observers - and also to all the water administrations, local authorities, economic, academic and scientific sectors, as well as non-governmental organizations, interested in integrated water resources management at the level of river basins over the world.