5+5 Water Strategy in the Western Mediterranean

According to the approved Rules of Procedure, Menbo acts as the Technical Secretariat of the Ministerial Group on Water (MGW) of the 5+5 WSWM. According to article 4 of the Rules of Procedure, Menbo’s functions include the following:

• provide logistical, administrative and technical support of the decisions taken by the Working Group of Experts (WG) and by the MGW 5+5;
• prepare the minutes of the meetings of the WG and of the MGW 5+5;
• refer the notices of the meetings and maintain the Web Page of the “Water Strategy in the Western Mediterranean”.

The Water Strategy in the Western Mediterranean (WSWM) is an initiative put in place under the leadership of Spain and Algeria with the objective to approve and implement a water strategy in the Western Mediterranean aiming to promote and foster a sustainable use of water resources in the Western Mediterranean region.

The Strategy is framed under the Western Mediterranean Forum, known as the 5+5, which is a cooperation policy platform created in 1990 between the two banks of the Western Mediterranean. The participant countries are Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Malta, on the European side, and Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, on the southern Mediterranean side.

More information in the WSWM section.