REC Hållbart anv av gränsöverskridande vatten  resurser och vattensäkerhet REC Sust Use of Trans Water Resources Water Security Management - Water SUMS - REC - Sustainable use TWM Regional Environmental Centre (REC) har ansökt om 55 miljoner kronor för att genomföra programmet  "Hållbart användande av gränsöverskridande vatten resurser och hantering av vattensäkerhet" i Mellanöstern och Nordafrika under perioden 2014-2016. 

Insatsen syftar till att bidra till hållbart hanterande av regionala vattenresurser i MENA regionen och klimatanpassning. Insatsen syftar vidare till att minska hotet för konflikter kring gränsöverskridande vattenresurser och därigenom även stärka fred och säkerhet i regionen. 

Sida är ensam givare till insatsen och den totala budgeten är på 55 miljoner SEK. The Regional Environmental Center ha applied for funding of 55 MSEK to carry out the project "Sustainable Use of Transboundary Water Resources and Water Security Management - Water SUMS" during the period 2014-2016.
The overall objective of this project is to promote and enhance sustainability of managing water resources in beneficiary countries and MENA region to reduce the downward spiral of poverty, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation. The intervention addresses the challenge of lack of coherent approach to management of regional waters and natural resources. The intervention aims to positively affect the situation through promoting insitutional and behavioural change. Two components are envisaged int the project. The first one focuses on water resources management and good practices (including knowledge transfer) and the second focuses Water and security and will develop local water security action plans for adoption in municipalities.

Sida is the sole funder of the project. WATER SUM aimed to promote and enhance the sustainable use of water resources in the MENA region, taking into consideration the impacts of climate change, by mutually reinforcing efficient national water resources management and regional cooperation on water issues.
The project comprised of two components, namely: 
Water Resources Management Good Practices and Knowledge Transfer (WATERPOrT)
Objective: To accelerate more sustainable use of the region’s water resources and strategic approach on adaptation to climate change by identifying best water management practices, demonstrate successful replication strategies, and to disseminate and promote best practices and replication strategies to practitioners, decision makers and interested public.
Water and Security (WaSe)
Objective: To promote comprehensive and integrated approach to water security and ecosystem services for sustainable development of eight municipalities and their local communities in selected countries of MENA region, as a part of efforts to combat water scarcity, reduce threat of conflicts, downward spiral of poverty, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation, and increase overall human well-being within the wider context of ensuring regional peace and stability