AARINENA in collaboration with ICARDA and GFAR held an expert consultation meeting at ICARDA, Aleppo-Syria during 26-27 November, 2006. 
Water use efficiency experts participated in the meeting from Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Sudan,
Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Yemen, ICARDA and FAO.
The participants presented their country profiles and reviewed the proposal for establishing a WUE Network in the WANA region. The participants adopted the proposal for the establishment of the network with the following composition:

• The venue and the secretariat of the Network will be at INRA -Morocco.
• Elected Dr. Ayman Abu-Hadid from Egypt as the chairman of the board of the network.
• Identified the following countries to host the technical working groups:
  1. Management and conservation of rainwater in rain fed agriculture (Yemen).
  2. Sustainable management of water in irrigated agriculture (Iran).
  3. Decision making and water management tools{modeling and GIS}(Egypt).
  4. Institutional, policy and socio-economy analysis and evaluation of water in irrigated agriculture (Syria). 

The participants recommended as a priority activity for the network to be implemented in 2007 the formulation of an ATLAS that will serve to compile data on water use efficiency.