The MOU provides the framework for a cooperation plan between the two sides on training, consultations and exchanges of expertise, mainly on drought management, which is a crucial need to many parts of the region. Following the signing ceremony, implementation will start instantly.

As relations between Israel and the Mekong Basin countries are booming in the last years, Israel is happy to share its knowledge and expertise on those issues with its friends, and contribute to finding much needed solutions to some of the challenges which the Mekong Basin faces.

Israel is a world leading country in the fields of smart agriculture and water management, and masters a variety of solutions to drought conditions. It’s agency MASHAV has been sharing experience, know-how and technologies with developing countries since 1957, based on the country’s own development experience, and guided by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The Mekong River Commission is an inter-governmental organization, which is mandated by its member governments (Viet Nam, Lao PDR, Thailand and Cambodia) to promote and coordinate the sustainable development of the shared water resources of the Mekong River Basin.  It works to ensure the efficient and mutually beneficial development of the Mekong River Basin while minimizing the potentially harmful effects on the people and the environment in the Basin.

The Mekong River region in recent history has to work and coordinate on its common issues of water sources, ecological environment, disaster management, climate change response of which drought prevention and its effects management are given growing importance.