EU Water Initiative National Policy Dialogues on Integrated Water Resources Management and vision for the future development of the dialogues. Note prepared by the UNECE secretariat for the Seventh Ministerial "Environment for Europe" Conference in Astana, Kazakhstan on 21-23 September 2011.

This document gives an outline of objectives, current state and plans for the future development of the National Policy Dialogues on Integrated Water Resource Management. National Policy Dialogues are the main operational instrument under the European Union (EU) Water Initiative. Participants of the Seventh “Environment for Europe” Ministerial Conference are invited to examine this document, to assess the progress with the implementation of the programme, as well as to provide comments and recommendations for the future implementation.