The Center for Middle Eastern Studies of the FPSC (CEMOFPSC) organized a roundtable on “Interregional cooperation: The problem of water in Jordan, Palestine and Israel” in Madrid’s Arab House.
One of the priority areas of action of CEMOFPSC is cooperation development in the Middle East, and one cross-cutting issue addressed in this area is water in the Middle East and its implications for peace in the region.
The panel is also an action of awareness under the FPSC / AECID Convention: “Improved management of water resources in agriculture to ensure food security in the Palestinian Territories and Jordan.”
Participants in the Roundtable were: Pilar Lara, President of the Foundation for Social Promotion of Culture (FPSC), Eduardo Lopez Busquets, Director General of the Arab House, Prof. Ramon Llamas, Professor Emeritus, Director of the Water Observation of the Botin Foundation (the first interdisciplinary think- tank on water in Spain), Isabel Casado, AECID Adviser in the Department of the Middle East, Munqeth Mehyar, President and Director of Friends of the Earth-Middle East (Jordan), Mohammed Obidallah, the Bethlehem Office of Friends of the Earth-Middle East / WEDO, Ido Aviani, Tel Aviv office of Friends of the Earth-Middle East, Barah Mikail, Senior Researcher at FRIDE, Pablo Alcalde, Head of the Department of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene at Action Against Hunger Foundation, Jose Felix Porras Dominguez, Area Manager of Contract & Project Management, Organization Management, Processes and Energy at Isdefe, Macarena Cotelo Suils, Director of Projects and Cooperation at the Foundation for the Social Promotion of Culture, Manuel Cimadevilla , Senior Project Coordinator in Jerusalem at the Foundation for the Social Promotion of Culture, Monica Bohigues, Secretary General of the Foundation for Social Promotion of Culture and Lucia Recarte, Project Coordinator of the Middle East at the Foundation for the Social Promotion of Culture, Isaiah Barreñada , Educational Programs and Publications at the Arab House and Karim Hauser, of the Socioeconomic Program of the Arab House.
The session was moderated by Jumana Trad, Executive Committee Member of CEMOFPSC and President of the Euro-Arab Network of NGOs for Development and Integration.
During the days leading up to the roundtable, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the FPSC and as part of awareness-raising activities of the Convention, signed with AECID, a descriptive sheet was distributed with relevant information,