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Economic and environmental matters have always been an integral part of the OSCE agenda, reflecting the Organization’s comprehensive approach to security. The OSCE has a long track record of supporting countries to jointly manage water resources sustainably and has successfully supported co-operation among its participating States.
  • OSCE supports summer school in Kazakhstan for water and land resources management
    An OSCE-supported summer school session on methods and tools for the assessment and monitoring of Central Asian water and land resources concluded on 17 June 2016 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
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    17 June 2016
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  • OSCE trains young specialists in the water management issues
    The OSCE Programme Office will support a two-day training seminar on the water metering topic for some 25 students from Kazakhstan’s five leading academic institutions in Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan. The participants will have an opportunity to improve their knowledge on the water management principles by, inter alia, acquainting with the water metering installations and equipment, operated at the Kyzylorda hydro facility. As a follow-up to the training seminar the students will be also offered an opportunity to develop and defend their master’s theses on the presented topics under the guidance of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea Executive Directorate in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
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  • Gender mainstreaming and conflict resolution in Central Asia’s water governance in focus at OSCE regional workshop in Almaty
    ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 10 July 2015 – A three-day regional training workshop on gender mainstreaming and conflict resolution in water governance, jointly organised by the OSCE Gender Section and the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA) in co-operation with the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia (CAREC), concluded in Almaty today...
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    10 July 2015
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  • Ukraine and Moldova endorse Dniester River Basin climate change adaptation strategy
    High level government representatives from Ukraine and Moldova, along with parliamentarians, experts and NGO representatives from both countries, convened in Kyiv on 23 April 2015, to discuss the trans-boundary climate change adaptation strategy and co-operation in the Dniester/Nistru River basin...
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    23 April 2015
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  • OSCE-supported Aarhus Centres discuss their role in trans-boundary water management in South-East Europe
    TIRANA, 26 March 2015 – More than 40 representatives of central and local governments, Aarhus Centres and civil society from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia discussed the challenges of public participation in trans-boundary water management and in trans-boundary Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) processes at a two-day regional roundtable organized by the OSCE, that ended today...
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    26 March 2015
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  • OSCE Chairperson Dačić and Secretary General Zannier highlight importance of water governance on World Water Day
    VIENNA, 20 March 2015 – “Water is an important topic for the OSCE – it can be a source of conflict, just as water co-operation can be a tool for conflict prevention,” said the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić on the eve of World Water Day...
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    20 March 2015
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  • 1st Preparatory Meeting of the 23rd OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum
    Water governance in the OSCE area – increasing security and stability through co-operation is the theme of the 2015 Economic and Environmental Forum which traces its origin to the early 1970s, to the Helsinki Final Act Chapter on Co-operation in the Field of Economics, Science and Technology and Environment.
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  • OSCE helps local authorities manage environmental challenges in Armenia’s Syunik region
    Enhancing skills in decision- and policy-making in environmental management was the focus of a four-day training organized for representatives of local municipalities and civil society in Armenia’s remote Syunik region on 24-27 December 2014. The event was held with the support of the OSCE Office in Yerevan’s Project Implementation Presence in Syunik...
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    29 December 2014
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