The TDA launch (or kick-off) meeting, often combined with the TDA/SAP Training Workshop, brings together key national representatives from the participating countries, many of which will have been involved in the TDA/SAP training course and are likely to continue to work on the development of the TDA and the subsequent SAP. The main objectives of the meeting, through two workshops will be to initiate the process of:

• Identifying the priority transboundary problems
• Identifying the impacts of the priority problems

Whilst the TDA Development Team and the Project Manager are together it is also sensible to have a TDA Planning meeting during which the team:

• Identifies the next steps in the TDA development process
• Agrees the scope of the TDA document
• Develops a High level table of contents