notably the united nations economic commission for asia and the pacific escap founded the original mekong river committee in and continues to support the commission established in it assists in the development and strengthening of multicountry river basin institutions fostering policy and legislative reforms and promoting broad stakeholder involvement in addressing key threats and priorities it has allocated usd billion supplemented by more than usd billion in cofinancing for more than projects in over countries for example gwp has been leading since the dialogues on effective water governance with the international council for local environment initiatives iclei