/ Eastern Africa
NDA/Somalia GCF Program Develops Operational Manual and Readiness Needs Assessment Report for the Country's GCF Readiness
The Federal Government of Somalia has made a concerted effort to tackle climate change challenge through a number of policies, strategies and institutional response mechanisms including the establishment of the National Designated Authority (the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change) to officially liaison and communicate with the Green Climate Fund.
/ Eastern Africa
GWPEA appointed on the Intergovernmental Working Group of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification- UNCCD
The IWG was established at the UNCCD’s 15th Session (COP15) during the triennium 2022-2024, building on the work of the first IWG that carried out its work from 2020-2022.
/ Eastern Africa
GWPEA conducts Business Case Study on training women as artisans.
#WACDEP-G in Gender Transformative drive-Training women artisans in the Victoria basin water catchments to harvest rainwater.
/ Eastern Africa
DRESS-EA PROJECTS HOLDS 3RD RSC MEETING, APPOINTS NEW CHAIR
The Third Regional Steering Committee for the DRESS-EA project took place on 12th October 2022, in Nairobi, Kenya. This meeting was attended by a cross section of representatives from the Governments of the four National Executing Entities of the project namely:Djibouti, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda; the Regional Executing Entity which is GWPEA and the representatives of Regional Implementing Entity, which is Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS)
/ Eastern Africa
HUSIKA- The ICT solution that will address Early Warning Systems in drought
What is the HUSIKA Multilayered Information Management System?
/ Eastern Africa
The Somalia GCF Readiness Project- GWPEA meets with Ministry of Environment and Climate Change-Somalia
GWPEA met with H. E. Minister Khadija Mohamed Almakhzoumi, of Somalia’s newly established Ministry of Environment & Climate Change (MoECC) to introduce the 2021 Somalia Green Climate Fund (GCF) Readiness Project to her.
/ Eastern Africa
GWP Hosts Pan Africa Water Governance and International Water Law Training
Building on the success of the previous trainings, and growing demand for knowledge and skills relevant to the preparation and financing of transboundary water projects, GWP hosted, with partners, the Pan-Africa Capacity Building Workshop on International Water Law and Water Governance: for improved practices in transboundary water investments in Africa, in Entebbe, Uganda 19-23 September 2022.
/ Eastern Africa
Protecting and Conserving Ewaso Ng’iro North River Basin in Kenya
Kenya Water Partnership coordinated the development of a Catchment-wide Action Plan for the Protection and Conservation of the Ewaso Ng’iro North River Basin. The action planning is part of the pilot project launched by UNEP, GWP and Cap-Net focusing on three target countries (Kenya, Kazakhstan and Argentina)