PUBLIC-PRIVATE DIALOGUE (PPD) ON WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT REFORM ISET POLICY INSTITUTE

As such, the first PPD event provided an overview of the current stance of the water resource management reform and identified the relevant indicators for tracking the reform progress. [...] ISET PI integrated its planned introductory PPD meeting on assessment of the water resource management reform into the format of the committee’s PPD meeting that allowed it to use the parliamentary committee platform and inform stakeholders on upcoming assessment of the reform under the ReforMeter project. [...] Key public sector stakeholders included the Parliament of Georgia, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia (MEPA), the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development (MoESD), the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia (MRDI), Georgian Amelioration, and the National Environmental Agency (NEA). [...] The agenda of the event was comprised of three main blocks: 1) Introduction to the draft law on Water Resource Management and resulting changes in the secondary legislation. [...] Tandilashvili highlighted that the most fundamental building block of the Water Resource Management reform is implementation of regular and extensive monitoring practices of water quality and quantity, as this monitoring data becomes the basis for the RBMPs and water resources prioritization plans.