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The High-Level Joint Water-Agriculture Technical Committee (HLJTC) is the technical arm of the Joint Water-Agriculture Ministerial Council of the League of Arab States that elaborates regional policies, ensuring proper coordination and coherence between water and agriculture policies, with support from the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and FAO. During its first meeting in October 2019, the HLJTC adopted five priority areas for its work on agriculture and water: water allocation in agriculture, water productivity, efficient water usage, use of non-conventional water in agriculture, and water–energy–food nexus. At the fourth meeting of the HLJTC in October 2022, they agreed to a timetable prepared by the Technical Secretariat and partners to implement the Cairo Declaration 2023 Action Plan, and assigned the Technical Secretariat, in coordination with partners, to set priorities for implementation during the year 2023, and to submit a report to the next meeting on implementation. Among other items agreed to at the meeting, countries were invited to prepare reports on the progress of implementing their executive action plans before the next meeting of the Joint Arab Ministerial Council to be held during the month of October 2023.

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