BetaBetaDataset
To provide detailed institutional design data for more than 120 River Basins Organisations in more than 110 internationally shared watercourses.
The database highlights the commonalities and differences across RBOs in the way they are set up and in the functions they fulfill in governing international watercourses.
The dataset entail code of the RBO, river code, river name, agreement date, water law principles, type of water law, type of organisation, organisational bodies, river relatedness, monitoring mechanism, scope of monitoring, level of monitoring, type of cost shairing mechanism, donor involvement, type fof participation mechanism and cooperate partners.
Data on the different RBOs has been gathered from a number of different resources – including the underlying agreements and treaties, official documents of RBOs such as Rules of Procedures, Annual Work Plans, Strategic Plans or websites, official documents provided by bilateral and multilateral donors supporting the respective RBOs, program and project descriptions related to the RBOs as well as secondary analyses of different RBOs as far as available