Second meeting of the Joint Ministerial Council for Agriculture and Water

After discussion it was decided to:

1.Adopt the Action Plan to operationalize Cairo Declaration and refer it to the next Arab Summit or the one after, according to the standing procedures of the League of Arab States.

2. Invite the Joint Technical Secretariat and its partners to communicate with Arab Funds, Regional Banks, and relevant Organizations and Donors to mobilize resources and support to implement the Action Plan to operationalize Cairo Declaration.

3. Invite the Joint Technical Secretariat to report on the progress in implementing the resolution and present it during the next meeting of the Joint Ministerial Council.

After discussion, it was decided to:
1. Adopt the Guideline on Water Allocation for Agriculture and refer it to the next Arab Summit or the one after according to the standing procedures of the League of Arab States.

2. Invite countries, willing to voluntary implement the Guidelines, to communicate with the Joint Technical Secretariat before the end of April 2022, to enable its partners to prepare an action plan to support the

application of the Guidelines in interested countries.

3. Invite the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA) to provide support to countries willing to voluntary try applying the proposed Guidelines on Water Allocation on the field at the level of pilot projects.

4. Invite countries, which have Guidelines on Water Allocation, to share them with the Joint Technical Secretariat by email (shuhryar@yahoo.com and

kamel.mostafa.elsayed@gmail.com) to enable the dissemination of experiences among countries for the of all.

5. Invite the Joint Technical Secretariat to report on the progress in implementing the resolution and present it during the next meeting of the Joint Ministerial Council.

After discussion, it was decided to:

1.Invite the Joint Technical Secretariat, The FAO, and ESCWA to prepare a report on the status, challenges and future of non-conventional water in the Arab region and the way to expand its use, based on the

presented scoping paper.

2. Present the report to the upcoming meeting of the High-Level Joint Technical Committee for discussion and submit a recommendation to the Joint Ministerial Council on the necessary next steps to benefit from the outcomes of the report.

3. Invite the Joint Technical Secretariat to report on the progress in implementing the resolution and present it during the meeting of the next Ministerial Council.