We Offer:
- highly cost effective 3 and 4 day training and capacity building sessions, custom designed to meet your international waters governance needs and objectives, including by teaching you how to negotiate, using real world negotiation simulation exercises, case studies, cross cultural communication and experiential learning;
- negotiating, and implementing, international waters governance arrangements in a wide range of areas including benefit sharing, data and information sharing, institutional architecture, dispute prevention, dispute resolution, finance, resilience and climate change, compliance and enforcement and beyond.
We act for individual parties/countries/organizations in negotiations, facilitate negotiation and mediation processes, educate and capacity build to pass on vital skills and substantive knowledge, and conduct project and program evaluations.
Some representative examples include helping the:
- Global Environment Facility critically review lessons learned and experiences with governance of international waters throughout the world
- United Nations Centre for Regional Diplomacy for Central Asia negotiate a new international waters and energy governance arrangement with particular emphasis on dispute resolution and implementation
- Lake Tanganyika Authority negotiate a series of environmental Protocols to the Lake Tanganyika Convention to deal with invasive species, land based sources of marine pollution, oil and gas, fisheries and coastal management
- Nile Basin Initiative to negotiate a basin wide data and information sharing and exchange agreement
- Government of British Columbia prepare for negotiations regarding renegotiation of the Columbia River Treaty
- Aga Khan Foundation capacity build in the area of environmental impact assessment in Afghanistan
- Mekong River Commission Secretariat negotiate a series of Protocols to the 1995 Mekong River Agreement including prior notification and data and information sharing and exchange
- Government of Bangladesh to capacity build in the areas of environmental impact assessment and environmental prosecutions
- Nepal Water and Energy Commission Secretariat to negotiate with India regarding international waters governance arrangements for transboundary international waters
“The team approach you bring to negotiating and implementing successful governance arrangements for international waters is unparalleled. Your training and capacity building short courses are tremendous”
- Kindy Gosal, Director Special Projects, Columbia Basin Trust, Canada
- Kindy Gosal, Director Special Projects, Columbia Basin Trust, Canada