UNECE Publications

Assessment of ecological priorities in Central Asia (2026)

Scoping report: Regional Environmental Performance Review of Central Asia (2026)

Guidance Note for the Implementation of Source-to-Sea Management in Transboundary Basins (2025)

Promoting Nature-based Solutions and Sustainable Infrastructure in the ECE region: Environmental and Health Co-benefits (2025)

The Equitable Access Score-card 2.0 Shaping water and sanitation policies to achieve the human rights to water and sanitation (2024)

Progress on Transboundary Water Cooperation under the Water Convention: Third report on implementation of the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (2020-2023) (2024)

Good Practices and Lessons Learned in Data-sharing in Transboundary Basins (2024)

Progress on Transboundary Water Cooperation: Mid-term status of SDG Indicator 6.5.2, with a special focus on Climate Change – 2024 (2024)

How to Accelerate the Funding and Financing of Transboundary Water Cooperation and Basin Development? Opportunities and Challenges (2023)

Summary Handbook on Water Allocation in a Transboundary Context (2023)

Updated Strategies for Monitoring and Assessment of Transboundary Rivers, Lakes and Groundwaters (2023)

Making water and sanitation affordable for all: Policy options and good practices to ensure the affordability of safe drinking water and sanitation services in the pan-European region (2022)

The Protocol on Water and Health. Driving action on water, sanitation, hygiene and health (2022)

The Water Convention: 30 years of impacts and achievements on the grounds (2022)

Funding and financing of transboundary water cooperation and basin development (2021)

Practical Guide for the Development of Agreements or Other Arrangements for Transboundary Water Cooperation (2021)

Solutions and investments in the water-food-energy-ecosystems nexus. A synthesis of experiences in transboundary basins (2021)

Water resources allocation in a transboundary context to strengthen water cooperation between the countries of Eurasia (2021)

Handbook on Water Allocation in a Transboundary Context (2021)

Progress on Transboundary Water Cooperation. Global baseline for SDG indicator 6.5.2 (2018)

Progress on transboundary water cooperation under the Water Convention (2018)

Frequently Asked Questions on the 1992 Water Convention with the Road map to facilitate accession processes (2020)

Principles for Effective Joint Bodies for Transboundary Water Cooperation under the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (2018)

Reconciling resource uses in transboundary basins: assessment of the water-food-energy-ecosystems nexus (2015)

Policy Guidance Note on the Benefits of Transboundary Water Cooperation: Identification, Assessment and Communication (2015)

Model Provisions on Transboundary Groundwaters (2014)

Strengthening Water Management and Transboundary Water Cooperation in Central Asia:the Role of UNECE Environmental Conventions (2012)

Second Assessment of transboundary rivers, lakes and groundwaters (2011)

Guidance on Water Supply and Sanitation in Extreme Weather Events (2010)

Guidance on Water and Adaptation to Climate Change (2009)

Transboundary Flood Risk Management: Experiences from the UNECE region (2009)

River basin commissions and other institutions for transboundary water cooperation (2009)

First Assessment of Transboundary Rivers, Lakes and Groundwaters in the UNECE region (2007)

Strengthening Cooperation for Rational and Efficient Use of Water and Energy Resources in Central Asia (2004)

Transboundary Water Cooperation in the Newly Independent States (2003)