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Ninth Meeting of the Parties to the Framework Agreement on the Sava River Basin
The 9th Meeting of the Parties, as the highest decision making mechanism for implementation of the Framework Agreement on the Sava River Basin, was held in Zagreb, on the December 9, 2022. The high level Meeting, gathered more than 40 participants, delegation of the Parties, representatives of Montenegro, European Commission, UNESCO, UNECE, WMO, World Bank and other international partners, and institutions supporting and interested in the implementation of the FASRB.
Recalling the vital importance of regional cooperation of the Parties and acknowledging so far implementation of the FASRB, the 9th Meeting of the Parties adopted the Declaration, recognizing the progress in the coordinated implementation of the EU Directives, and approved the second Sava River Basin Management Plan as one of the major achievement in regional cooperation. Furthermore, Parties reconfirmed their commitment for further rehabilitation and development of navigation on the Sava River and its navigable tributaries, encouraged further and enhanced multisectoral dialogue with all relevant stakeholders including youth and further activities toward climate change adaptation.
Recognizing the benefits of cooperation through ISRBC, Meeting of the Parties highly appreciated its remarkable work.
The next 10th Meeting of the Parties will be held in Republic of Serbia.
Recalling the vital importance of regional cooperation of the Parties and acknowledging so far implementation of the FASRB, the 9th Meeting of the Parties adopted the Declaration, recognizing the progress in the coordinated implementation of the EU Directives, and approved the second Sava River Basin Management Plan as one of the major achievement in regional cooperation. Furthermore, Parties reconfirmed their commitment for further rehabilitation and development of navigation on the Sava River and its navigable tributaries, encouraged further and enhanced multisectoral dialogue with all relevant stakeholders including youth and further activities toward climate change adaptation.
Recognizing the benefits of cooperation through ISRBC, Meeting of the Parties highly appreciated its remarkable work.
The next 10th Meeting of the Parties will be held in Republic of Serbia.
Events
6th Stakeholder Workshop within the SHELTER project
The overall objective of the Shelter (Sustainable Historic Environments hoListic reconstruction through Technological Enhancement and community based Resilience) is to establish cross-scale, multidimensional, data driven and community based operational knowledge framework for heritage-led and conservation-friendly resilience enhancement and sustainable reconstruction of historic areas to cope with climate change and natural hazards. Details about the project available here: https://shelter-project.com/.
On 14 December 2022, the International Sava River Basin Commission jointly with the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture for Europe and with support of other Shelter project partners held online the sixth Open Lab workshop.
The main objective of the workshop was the initial demonstration and testing of Shelter tools, namely: Resilience dashboard, Strategic Decision Support System dashboard, Social and Rapid mapping dashboard, Risk Assessment dashboard (including validation of risk assessment methodology).
Furthermore, as usual all achieved objectives and the follow-up actions from previous workshops were presented and discussed.
This workshop achieved to bring together more than 50 representatives from the Sava River basin management authorities (Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia, as well as Albania) including experts from cultural heritage authorities, flood management operators and emergency responders as major stakeholders of the project, as well as Shelter project partners and guests.
| Venue | Premises of the Sava Commission (Kneza Branimira 29, Zagreb) and Online |
| Start | 14.12.2022. |
| End | 14.12.2022. |