2nd Session, 21st Meeting of the Working Group on Monitoring and Assessment.


 The twenty-first meeting of the Working Group on Monitoring and Assessment under the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention) will be held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.


The twenty-first meeting of the Working Group on Monitoring and Assessment under the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention) will be held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, starting at 10 a.m. on Thursday, 7 May 2026, and ending on the same day at 6 p.m. It will be held back-to-back with the Global Workshop on the Use of New Technologies and Innovations for Monitoring, Assessment and Data-sharing in Transboundary Basins (Geneva, 5-6 May 2026).

The main objectives of the twenty-first meeting will be to discuss:

(a) Preparations for the 2026 United Nations Water Conference (United Arab Emirates, 2-4 December 2026) and in particular Interactive Dialogue (d) - Water for Cooperation;

(b) Future work on monitoring and assessment, building on insights from the ongoing fourth round of reporting under the Water Convention and Sustainable Development Goal indicator 6.5.2 and from the Global Workshop on the Use of New Technologies and Innovations for Monitoring, Assessment and Data-sharing in Transboundary Basins;

(c) The implementation of activities on monitoring, assessment and data-sharing under the Convention in the period 2025-2026, notably the preparation of the publication Policy Guidance Note on Conjunctive Water Management in Transboundary Basins.

Location: Av. de la Paix 8-14, 1211 Genève, Switzerland

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