The «Dakar Action Plan for basins of lakes, rivers and aquifers» is an initiative from the Senegal, Morocco, Switzerland, the International Network on Basin Organizations, UNECE, OMVS and OMVG. The Dakar Action Plan for basins provides the technical definition of the principles for actions and commitments needed. It mobilizes the main stakeholders of basin management (basin organizations and committees, ministries, donors, water users' associations, etc.)

We don't think we should repeat the experience of the UN Summits on Sustainable Development and others with a hundred and thousand partnership initiatives without real global and local practical changes.
It would be great if the Conference clearly showed that water and water-related crises are caused by conventional management systems - fragmented, short-term oriented and increased a conflicts. Therefore, it is necessary that the final recommendations of the Conference include not a hundred initiatives and prescriptions for all cases, but one reliable solution.

The Association Agir pour la Solidarité et le Développement Durable, ASDD, has already noticed enormous consequences linked to the destruction of trees especially on the littorals of rivers and streams that flow into Lake Tanganyika. This is especially true of the MUGERE River which separates the MUHA and KABEZI communes. The waters of the MUGERE River flow directly into Lake Tanganyika. Following the deforestation of the protective trees of its banks, the torrential rains cause damages to the inhabitants such as the destruction of houses, cultivable lands and dwellings, the intoxication of the lake following the discharge of waste water and lands torn off on the banks of the river MUGERE. It is for this reason that the Lake Tanganyika shows tendencies of overflowing, which causes problems to the inhabitants of the littoral of the lake.

Even though lakes account for more than 90% of the freshwater resources (liquid) on the earth, their importance has not been reflected adequately in the "Global Water Agenda" and the "Sustainable Development Goals." (SDGs). Meanwhile, a resolution on “Sustainable Lake management” adopted by the 5th United Nations Environment Conference (UNEA5) in March 2022 is expected to be instrumental in mainstreaming lakes in those and other global commitments.
The International Lake Environment Committee Foundation (ILEC) has undertaken a wide range of activities to contribute to the sustainable management and conservation of the world’s lakes and their basins since its establishment in 1986.