Governance

	Introduction
	Definitions
	Integrated Water Resources Management
	Introduction to IWRM
	Steps for IWRM
	Entry Points for IWRM
	River Basin Management
	River Basin Organisations
	Basin Planning
	Stakeholder Involvement
	Gender and Water
	Capacity Development
	Organisations
	Knowledge Management
	Transboundary Water Management
	Introduction
	International Agreements
	Flexibility
	Regional Agreements
	Basin Level Agreements
	Benefit Sharing
	Examples of RBOs
	Danube River (ICPDR)
	Mekong River (MRC)
	Nile River (NBI)
	Southern African Development Community (SADC)
	SADC Water Sector
	IWRM within SADC
	Instruments of the Sector
	SADC Protocol
	SADC Water Policy and Strategy
	SADC Water Division
	Regional Strategic Action Plans
	SADC Guidelines
	River Basin Organisations
	Water Governance in the Orange-Senqu River Basin
	ORASECOM Agreement
	ORASECOM Mandate, Structure and Functions
	ORASECOM Programmes
	Funding and Support
	Stakeholder Analysis
	Stakeholder Roadmap
	Strengthening ORASECOM
	National Water Laws
	Botswana
	Lesotho
	Namibia
	South Africa
	Agreements
	Stakeholders
	River Basin Organisations
	National Governments
	Local Government
	International Cooperating Partners
	Non-Governmental Organisations
	Community Based Organisations and Management
	References

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Transboundary Water Management:

Examples of River Basin Organisations

River Basin Organisations are umbrella organisations for basin-wide water resources management .Three river basins - the Danube, the Mekong and the Nile - facing different challenges and at varying stages of development, are described below.

Learn more about the functions and types of river basins in the world:

ORASECOM study tour to the Danube River basin, Serbia.

Source:ORASECOM 2009

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Next: International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River

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