The Government of Tajikistan, committed to continue providing a platform for policy dialogue, partnership and action, is organizing, with the support of the United Nations, high-level international conferences throughout the Water Action Decade, thus establishing the so-called “Dushanbe Water Process“.
The biennial conferences under the Dushanbe Water Process provide timely and valuable opportunities to create an enabling environment and platform for promotion of action, partnership and policy dialogue, review the implementation of the Decade, as well as to promote interlinkages with and contribute to other relevant processes.
The First High-level International Conference on the International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018-2028, was held in Dushanbe on 20-21 June 2018.
In addition, as an initiator of the most water related UN GA Resolutions, Tajikistan actively promotes water issues on the global agenda. In this context, the Government of Tajikistan in cooperation with the UN and other international organizations convened the following important international water events:
- The International Fresh Water Forum, 29 August – 1 September 2003, Dushanbe;
- The International Conference on Regional Cooperation in Trans-Boundary River Basins, 30 May – 1 June 2005, Dushanbe;
- The International Conference on Water-Related Disasters Reduction, 27-29 June 2008, Dushanbe;
- The High-Level International Conference on midterm comprehensive review of the implementation of the International Decade for Action “Water for Life”, 2005-2015, 8-10 June 2010, Dushanbe;
- The Preparatory conference «Towards the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20): Water cooperation», 19-20 October 2011, Dushanbe;
- The High-Level International Conference on Water Cooperation, 20-21 August 2013, Dushanbe;
- The High-Level International Conference on the implementation of the International Decade for Action “Water for Life”, 2005-2015, 9-11 June 2015, Dushanbe;
- The High-Level Symposium on SDG 6 and Targets: Ensuring that No One is Left Behind in Access to Water and Sanitation, 9-10 August 2016, Dushanbe;
- The High-Level International Conference on International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018-2018, 20- 22 June 2018, Dushanbe.
In this regard, the Government of Tajikistan will host in cooperation with the United Nations and other partners from 18 to 20 June 2020 a Second High-level International Conference on the International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018-2028 entitled “Catalyzing water action and partnership at the local, national, regional and global levels”. The second conference will be co-chaired by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Tajikistan and the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs.