The Transbounadary Waters Assessment Programme (TWAP) – Lake Group Technical Meeting was successfully convened at ILEC with approximately 15 participants from Japan, USA, China and Malaysia (May 13-16, 2013). TWAP-FSP is a Global Environment Facility (GEF) – funded project to make a global assessment of five waterbodies (rivers, lakes, groundwaters, large marine ecosystems and open oceans. The project is implemented by UNEP and ILEC is responsible for lake components.