The WES-BCA project organised an online Consultation Meeting  “Advancing WEFE Nexus policies, strategies and their implementation: a collaborative review of key findings and recommendations”,  on September 03, 2025.

This event is part of the WES-BCA horizontal activity to assist in the advancement of policy and institutional settings for the WEFE Nexus at country level and contributes to the implementation of the draft Strategy. It does so by assessing the state of WEFE Nexus integration in Jordan, Lebanon and Morocco, where significant steps on WEFE Nexus have been observed, and support cross-country learning on applied and anticipated solutions for advancing WEFE Nexus integration.

The first event was actually a focused consultation with the WES-BCA Focal Points for Water and Environment from Jordan, Lebanon, and Morocco. Later in the year, a regional webinar will be organised by involving a wider group of stakeholders from across the Southern Mediterranean. The Global Water Partnership-Mediterranean (GWP-Med) synergizes in this activity through the GEF UNEP/MAP MedProgramme Child Project 2.2. on ‘Mediterranean Coastal Zones: Managing the WEFE Nexus’ that aims to promote WEFE Nexus and Source to Sea approaches, and the PRIMA WEFE4Med Project that aims to establish and facilitate a Mediterranean WEFE Nexus Community of Practice.

The WEFE Nexus is vital for sustainable resource management in the Mediterranean, where water scarcity, rising energy demand, food insecurity, and environmental degradation create complex interdependencies that require coherent, integrated and cross-sectoral solutions. Recognizing these challenges, the Union for the Mediterranean, the Barcelona Convention and the European Commission are leading the development of the WEFE Nexus Strategy in the Mediterranean Source to Sea Continuum), with technical support provided by the projects EU WES-BCA, GWP-Med, PRIMA WEFE4Med.