On September 21 and 22, 2022 the 8th meeting of the Working Group on improving the organizational structure and legal framework of IFAS was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The meeting was organized with the financial support of the World Bank. The meeting was attended by members of the Working Group from the IFAS founding States, representatives of EC IFAS and its branches, structural divisions of the ICWC and ICSD.
The improvement of the organizational structure and legal framework of IFAS is carried out with the aim of creating an effective and sustainable institutional mechanism capable of responding to new challenges and solving existing environmental and socio-economic problems and issues of integrated use and protection of water resources of the region.
On the first day of the meeting, Summaries of agreements on the 1st stage of improving the organizational structure and legal framework of IFAS, a report on the 2nd stage of improving the organizational structure and legal framework of IFAS were presented and discussed, as well as options for an institutional structure for an improved IFAS, taking into account international practice.
On the second day of the meeting, the mandates of the improved IFAS units were discussed, as well as an overview of the institutional structure options in connection with the improvement of the mandates of IFAS units. As a result of the meeting, the Final Document of the 8th meeting of the Working Group on improving the organizational structure and legal framework of IFAS was agreed upon.
