The regional meeting of the Roundtable on Financing Water in EaP countries in 2024 aims to: 

• Exchange on EaP country challenges and opportunities for financing water; including through the EU’s Global Gateway Initiative and the Economic and Investment Plan for the Eastern Partnership;
• Engage with public and private actors, in particular financial institutions and investors on solutions to scale up investments for water in EaP countries;
• Focus on enabling policy and institutional frameworks, innovative financing approaches and the financial sustainability of water utilities. 

More information: https://www.oecd.org/water/eleventhmeetingoftheroundtableonfinancingwater.htm

EU4Environment Water Resources and Environmental Data is organising a regional workshop focusing on the main results of Output 2.1 (water accounts are extended) and Output 2.2 (land and agricultural monitoring data are improved) and the potential synergies between the two.

The workshop is accessible with invitation only.

Economic Commission for Europe

Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes

Working Group on Integrated Water

Resources Management and Working Group on Monitoring and Assessment.

The EU4Environment Water and Data programme plans a session under the following item on the agenda “Supporting National Policy Dialogues on Integrated Water Resources Management under the European Union Water Initiative.”

Action on finance under the EU4Environment Water & Data programme is focussed on the implementation of RBMP Programs of Measures (PoMs), including Nature-based Solutions (NbS). This includes developing recommendations on domestic finance mobilisation through instruments such as water tariffs and taxes, assessing national enabling environments for water finance, and identifying innovative and cost-effective approaches.

Held back-to-back with Moldova’s annual National Policy Dialogue on Water, this workshop will discuss the ongoing work on the OECD Assessment of the Enabling Environment for Water Finance in Moldova and work on water tax reforms. While each piece of work is distinct, and the discussions will be driven by the specific findings and recommendations, the workshop will embody the holistic approach taken by the EU4Environment Water & Data Programme, as well as the complexity of financing water security from both domestic and international sources of finance.