Issue 22: January 2003

Conference calls for headwater
management commission

An international commission for headwater management should be established to provide direction and continuity for headwater issues and to create an awareness of headwater concerns at governmental level. That is one of the recommendations contained in the Nairobi Headwater Declaration, the first UN University contribution to the International Year of Freshwater 2003. 

The declaration was issued at the end of the the International Conference on Sustainable Management of Headwater Resources, held last August at the United States International University (USIU) in Nairobi. The event was co-organized by UNU and USIU in collaboration with Kenyatta University, UNESCO (Nairobi), UN Centre for Human Settlements (UN HABITAT), UNEP, the International Association for Headwater Control (IAHC), and the World Association of Soil and Water Conservation (WASWC).

The conference provided an international forum for discussions focusing on the interdisciplinary aspects of scientific and applied water resource management. The aim was to link and share perspectives from NGOs and community-based organizations, research scientists, hazard-risk experts, land management practitioners and policy makers, and to contribute to the promotion, development and evaluation of land management strategies suited to self-sustainable development of headwater regions. 

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