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This Asia Pacific Bulletin series of analyses on Strengthening Governance of Transboundary Rivers is being released as part of the Indo-Pacific Conference on Strengthening Governance of Transboundary Rivers organized by the East-West Center in Washington, U.S. Department of State, and Mekong-U.S. Partnership. The invitation-only conference, to be held virtually on October 15-16, 2020, brings together practitioners, experts, and national and civil society representatives to focus on Enhancing Transparency, Partnerships & Stakeholder Engagement.
Matus Samel, Consultant for the Economist Intelligence Unit, explains that: “Top-down basin-level stakeholder engagement has been limited by the fact that the river’s upstream states, China and Myanmar, are only ‘dialogue partners’, not full members, of the Mekong River Commission.”
Leonie Pearson, Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute, explains that: “For many, the state-centric actors are delivering the governmental agenda. Therefore, it is not governance that is managing transboundary water in Asia, but government."
Jake Brunner and Raphaël Glémet, of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, explain that: “Investment decisions that only consider the institutional or national benefit may have large negative transboundary externalities, and appeals to the impact of upstream projects on biodiversity and livelihoods downstream tend to fall on deaf ears.”
John Dore, Lead Water Specialist, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Singapore, explains that: “Australia’s Water Act is an ambitious piece of legislation that seeks to return water allocations in the Murray Darling Basin to sustainable levels and to coordinate planning and decision-making at the Basin level.”
Ivan Zavadsky, Executive Secretary of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River, explains that: “One of the key challenges in managing an international transboundary river basin is to ensure sustainable development, water allocation, and utilization among sovereign states.”
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This Asia Pacific Bulletin series of analyses on Strengthening Governance of Transboundary Rivers is being released as part of the Indo-Pacific Conference on Strengthening Governance of Transboundary Rivers organized by the East-West Center in Washington, U.S. Department of State, and Mekong-U.S. Partnership. The invitation-only conference, to be held virtually on October 15-16, 2020, brings together practitioners, experts, and national and civil society representatives to focus on Enhancing Transparency, Partnerships & Stakeholder Engagement.
Matus Samel, Consultant for the Economist Intelligence Unit, explains that: “Top-down basin-level stakeholder engagement has been limited by the fact that the river’s upstream states, China and Myanmar, are only ‘dialogue partners’, not full members, of the Mekong River Commission.”
Leonie Pearson, Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute, explains that: “For many, the state-centric actors are delivering the governmental agenda. Therefore, it is not governance that is managing transboundary water in Asia, but government."
Jake Brunner and Raphaël Glémet, of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, explain that: “Investment decisions that only consider the institutional or national benefit may have large negative transboundary externalities, and appeals to the impact of upstream projects on biodiversity and livelihoods downstream tend to fall on deaf ears.”
John Dore, Lead Water Specialist, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Singapore, explains that: “Australia’s Water Act is an ambitious piece of legislation that seeks to return water allocations in the Murray Darling Basin to sustainable levels and to coordinate planning and decision-making at the Basin level.”
Ivan Zavadsky, Executive Secretary of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River, explains that: “One of the key challenges in managing an international transboundary river basin is to ensure sustainable development, water allocation, and utilization among sovereign states.”
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