The UNEP Project Document GF/FP/1100-99-01 comprises the full background to the GIWA initiative and outlines the objectives, work programme, and structure of the Global International Waters Assessment.

• Document 1
  Background. Objectives. The GIWA Network. The GIWA Project Phases. The GIWA Products. The GIWA Programme Structure.

• Document 2
  Environmental and socio-economic impacts of water-related major concerns and principal issues. Principal socio-economic root causes. Interactions between major concerns and principal issues. Causal chain analyses for identified water-related major concerns and principal issues. Marine geographical areas and freshwater basins. Preliminary consideration of the regional importance of the major water-related concerns and issues.

• Document 3
  Project Logframe Matrix. Incremental costs and benefits of GIWA. Timetable for the execution of GIWA. GIWA workplan: summary of GIWA activities, milestones and products.