High-Level Conference “Strengthening Water Finance & Investments”

17-18 October 2022, Cairo, Egypt. The High-Level Conference “Strengthening Water Finance and Investment Policies to Address the Climate Emergency in the Mediterranean Region — A Pre-COP 27 Event” will take place under a hybrid format from Cairo (Egypt) on 17-18 October 2022 in the framework of the 2022 Cairo Water Week.

The High-Level Conference is being jointly organized by UfM and EU in partnership with the Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation and Sida in the framework of Cairo Water Week.

In 2021, the EU and the UfM identified the opportunity to bring a clearer focus to their annual collaboration and agreed to create the EU-UfM Water Investment Policy Forum as an annual regional forum focused on improving water investment policy issues in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean.  The third edition of the EU-UfM Water Investment Policy Forum took place on 25^th October 2021 and served to identify common priorities for improving water investment policies. The 2021 EU-UfM Water Investment Policy Forum included a special session on desalinization investments, and its conclusions were summarized in the publication Improving water investment policies in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean.

In this year’s edition the overall objective of the High-Level Conference will be to support progress towards achieving water security in the Mediterranean by providing a high-visibility platform for policymakers and stakeholders to discuss how to further improve water finance and investment policies in Mediterranean countries in the face of climate change.

The High-Level Conference will include sessions on:

• Climate, Water and Finance: Implications for the Financial Sustainability of the Mediterranean Water Sector
• Attracting Climate Finance for Water
• UfM Regional Dialogue on Water and Finance: Engaging Public and Private Financiers
• Improving Water Investment Policies under Climate Change
• Team Europe Initiatives on Water
• Investing in Water to Adapt to Climate Change: Focus on Water Reuse
• Ministerial Level Segment — Conference Recommendations for COP-27

Please save the date in your calendar and register on the following link: 

Form: High Level Conference on Water Finance Investment Policies – Union for the Mediterranean – UfM (ufmsecretariat.org)

Concept note of the High-level Conference

Agenda

Supporting documents:

• UfM Financial Strategy for Water
• Public Private Partnerships and the Financial Sustainability of the Mediterranean Water Sector
• Improving Water Investment Policies in Eastern and Southern Mediterranean

DELIVERABLE: 2022 Cairo Action Agenda on Water Finance and Investment for Climate Resilience FINAL