The interesting and ambitious Workplan of the EU funded Water and Environment Support (WES) project, for the year 2023, was unanimously endorsed on January 24, 2023, during the online 4th WES Steering Committee Meeting (SCM), where also the project’s achievements and challenges were thoroughly discussed. 

This SCM brought together the WES Water and Environment Focal Points (FP) from the Partner Countries (PCs) (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia), the European Commission and EU Delegations in the PCs, the institutional partners - the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)/Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP) - as well as the WES Consortium Members and representatives of the WES Demonstration projects.

The EU funded Water and Environment Support (WES) in the ENI Southern Neighbourhood region project aims at protecting the environment and improving the management of scarce water resources in the Mediterranean. It tackles problems related to pollution prevention and water use efficiency. The project’s activities began in May 2019 and will end in November 2024, with a total budget of 9.508.054 euros.