Convention Establishing the Senegal River Development Organization Document type Multilateral Field of application Regional/restricted Date Mar 11, 1972 Source IUCN (ID: TRE-000518) Title (French) Convention portant création de l'Organisation pour la mise en valeur du fleuve Sénégal (OMVS) Title (Other) Übereinkommen über die Errichtung der Organisation zur Entwicklung des Senegal-Flusses (OMVS) Place of adoption Nouakchott Depository Mauritania Language French Subject Water Geographical area Western Africa, Africa, North Atlantic, Sahel Basin Senegal Abstract Objectives: To promote cooperation among the riparian States of the Senegal river in the management and development of its resources. Summary of provisions: (a) Projects for agricultural or industrial exploitation likely to modify the characteristics of the river appreciably to be implemented only with prior approval of the contracting States (art. 4); (b) Joint programme of work for the coordinated development and rational exploitation of water resources to be defined by the Organization (art. 8); (c) Joint projects to be carried out by management agencies (art. 15), and coordinated by the Office of the High Commissioner (arts. 19 and 20); (d) The organization to be governed by a Council of Ministers, assisted by a Standing Commission to define principles and procedures for sharing the waters of the river, and an advisory Inter-State Committee for Research and Agricultural Development. (Source: UNEP Register of International Treaties and Other Agreements in the Field of the Environment, 2005) Full text French Website www.portail-omvs.org Country/Territory/Participant See Expanded View Show Map Countries Entry into force Simple signature Mali - Mar 11, 1972 Mauritania - Mar 11, 1972 Senegal - Mar 11, 1972 reset zoom out zoom in