The Water-Employment-Migration Task Force, together with food-energy-ecosystems nexus, climate change, water and finance, sanitation-hygiene task forces, was adopted as part of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) Ministerial Declaration in the area of water in the year 2017.

The water-employment-migration task force held a meeting on 23-24 October 2018 in the Italian Foreign Ministry in Rome under the co-chairmanship of Turkey and Italy. SUEN attended the meeting representing Turkey as the co-chair.

The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM‎) is an intergovernmental organization consisting of 43 member states from Europe and the Mediterranean Basin: the 28 EU member states and 15 Mediterranean partner countries from North Africa, Western Asia and Southern Europe. It was founded on 13 July 2008 at the Paris Summit for the Mediterranean, with the aim of reinforcing the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (Euromed) that was set up in 1995 as the Barcelona Process. Its General Secretariat is located in Barcelona, Spain.