The 10th World Water Forum “Water for Shared Prosperity” Kick-Off Meeting facilitated several discussions on six topics of water management through thematic and regional processes at the Jakarta Convention Center. As the host for the 10th World Water Forum that will be held in Bali on 18-24 May 2024, the Government of Indonesia facilitated the first kick-off meeting (stakeholders consultation meeting) on 15-16 February 2023, attended by policymakers, academics, practitioners, and associations operating in and related to the water sector.
During periods of flooding people suffer all manner of deprivations, with access to clean water being among the first things to go. Since the original Rio Earth Summit in 1992, floods, droughts, and storms have affected 4.2 billion people (UNISDR 2012), with the impact on sanitation processes and hygiene receiving little attention.
The Ugandan Ministry of Water and Environment, GWPEA together with Uganda Water Partnership, are organizing a 2-day event to launch and conduct initial stakeholder consultations of the Global Water Leadership Programme
Nineteen Global Water Partnership Southern Africa (GWPSAF) stakeholders from Lesotho’s ReNOKA Programme, which translates to ‘We are a River”, on a recent learning visit to Tanzania and Kenya have hailed the lessons learnt on the trip as critical in the implementation of various initiatives of the ReNOKA Programme.
The Regional Forum on the theme: "Capitalization and scaling up of IWRM best practices for water security and population resilience in the WAEMU Space" took place from November 28 to 30, 2023 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Being innovative in the face of an ever-changing world, delivering GWP’s strategy despite the challenges of COVID, and connecting water communities across the globe – these were some of the key messages during this year’s GWP Network Meeting.
