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The security situation in the project area coupled with the health crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic affected the start of the project implementation.

With the advent of International Women’s Day 2022, GWP-Med is presenting the “Male Voices on Gender Equality”. Aiming to highlight the male perspective on gender, we asked seven of our male partners from the Mediterranean the following question: "Why is it essential to empower women in water cooperation settings?"

The Mono Basin Authority (MBA) held a workshop to validate the report document of the new strategic plan 2023-2027 of the basin. The meeting took place on October 18 to 20, 2022 in Grand Popo (Benin). The official ceremony was led by Mr. Christophe Mègbédji, prefect of the department of Couffo and chair of the Mono Basin Management Committee in Benin.

As the COVID-19 pandemic hit, many meetings, workshops, and consultations suddenly went online. In many parts of the world, in-person meetings were impossible for a long time, and only now are slowly resuming. In other parts, hybrid meetings with online presence and in-person participation are becoming the new norm. Each of these formats comes with its pros and cons. In-person meetings allow for broader and deeper discussions, while online meetings are logistically easier to manage and make it easier for more participants to join. A new publication analyzes the impact that different formats can have on the quality of the interaction in the context of multi-stakeholder consultations.

The Niger Basin Authority (NBA) organized the meeting of its Technical Experts Committee to analyze and examine the various concerns facing the NBA in its functioning, its relations with its partners, the Executive Secretariat and the Member States and made recommendations and orientations to enable the Ministers of the 9 Member States to take decisions for the good functioning of the Authority.

In line with the third principle of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) on the role of women and to promote the Gender Transformative Approach in the water and climate sector, the Cameroon Country Water Partnership (GWP-Cmr) organized a gender training for public service planners and civil society organizations from October 25th to 26th 2021 in Yaounde, Cameroon.

In the early 2000s it was clear to the citizens and municipality of the megacity of Karachi, Pakistan, that nothing short of stakeholder empowerment would be sufficient to overcome the urban water management problems facing the city.  The result was the GWP-supported Karachi Water Partnership, which has successfully served as a platform for collective action by citizens, government, and the private sector to better manage water resources.

Bucharest, 4 November 2021 - The Danube Floodplain project which was launched to examine how to reduce flood risk with the restoration of floodplains in the Danube River Basin comes to an end this November. The project partners presented the results of the project at a closing conference which was held online on 3-4 November 2021.