Context:
Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire) has become the 10th African nation to join the United Nations Water Convention.
Key Highlights
- It is now the 53rd Party to the 1992 UN Water Convention, also known as the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes.
- The Convention requires parties to cooperate on sustainable management of transboundary waters.
- Ivory Coast shares eight transboundary river basins (Black Volta, Bia, Tanoe, Comoe, Niger, Sassandra, Cavally et Nuon) with six of its neighbours
- The Global Water Security 2023 Assessment ranks Ivory Coast as the 40th most water-insecure country in Africa.
- Sierra Leone, Zambia, and Zimbabwe are also in the final stages of joining the Convention.
About the United Nation water convention
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- The 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (UN Water Convention) is a unique international legal instrument and intergovernmental platform that aims to ensure the sustainable use of transboundary water resources by facilitating cooperation.
- Initially negotiated as a regional instrument (for the pan-European region), it was opened up for accession to all UN Member States in 2016.
- The Protocol provides a practical framework to translate into practice the human rights to water and sanitation and to implement SDG 6 (Ensure access to water and sanitation for all).
- India is not a party to the Convention.
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