Iran and FAO are to sign a Memorandum of Understanding on
Risk-Based Integrated Watershed Management by the end of the current year.

 

According to the FRWO’s website, Khalil Aghaee, Deputy Minister and Head of
Forests, Range and Watershed Management Organization (FRWO) on the sidelines
of a meeting with the new representative of FAO in Iran,
accompanied by the senior experts from FAO said that this joint
partnership aims at improvinglivelihood of the communities,
mitigating water scarcity, and reducing vulnerability in the Basin/Watersheds including
IWM methodology, risk management, and monitoring the effectiveness of
watershed activities in Iran.



 At the meeting, Dr. Gerold Bodeker, the new representative of FAO in
Iran, expressed his satisfaction with the technical cooperation  with FRWO on IWM
project in Iran and said that FAO is assisting Iran with the
formulation of a UTFproject document technically and
financially.