UNDP-GEF Kura II: Advancing IWRM Across the Kura River Basin

Second Meeting of the UNDP-GEF Kura II Project Advisory Group 4 October 2017

The Second Meeting of the UNDP-GEF Kura II Project Advisory Group was conducted on 4 October 2017 in UNDP/GEF Kura II Tbilisi Training Center, with facilitation by Ms. Mariam Makarova, Water Division, Head, Kura II project focal point, and Dr. Mary Matthews, Kura II Chief Technical Advisor and Regional Project Coordinator.

The meeting presented an overview of the project activities since the 1st PAG meeting (in July 2017), and the upcoming plans. The project team presented the results of the Water Indicators meeting, River Restoration meeting and the Hot Spots report, noting that the international expert of Kura II will work with both countries' laboratories to harmonize methodology for measuring these parameters, and that the two countries will share the hotspot reports that were prepared by the national experts, so the experts know what the problem is in the other country, to exchange knowledge.