The Project started in November 2010 and will last for 4 years.
DIKTAS is a global pioneer project, as it aspires to introduce sustainable integrated management principles in a vastly large transboundary karstic aquifer for the first time. It comprises of the following components:
- Component 1: Improving the understanding of the resource and of its environmental status.
- Component 2: Establishing cooperation mechanisms among countries sharing the aquifer.
- Component 3: Facilitating the harmonization of policies and priority reforms.
- Component 4: Communication, dissemination and replication of activities.
The Project partners include the Global Environment Facility (GEF), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
GWP-Med provides expertise with regard to the participatory management of the underground water resources; it coordinates the fourth component of the project.
The following countries participate in the project: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro (as GEF fund recipient countries) and; Italy, Slovenia, Greece and France (as GEF fund non-recipient countries).
For more information please visit the DIKTAS Project website.
