The multi-million dollar, GWPEA-coordinated, four-year-project, “Strengthening Drought Resilience for Smallholder Farmers and Pastoralists in the IGAD Region” (DRESS-EA), was launched on 6 October 2020 on the online platform, Zoom.
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.
SDG 6.5.1 monitoring and reporting provides a wealth of data and a comprehensive global picture on the progress of IWRM implementation in countries. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), as the custodian agency for SDG indicator 6.5.1, periodically invites countries to undertake data collection to respond to a survey on the status of IWRM, analyses the data submitted by countries and shares the results in global progress reports to boost implementation of IWRM.
Taking place on 15-19 November 2021, it will provide a multi-layered program that aims to bridge theoretical knowledge, practical issues and links to policies in Floodplain Management.
What is so special about water diplomacy? And where does the discussion on women and gender fit in?
Placing women, water and diplomacy in the same sentence, often enough causes reactions that include head-scratching and eyebrow-raising; the link among them is not easily -nor well- understood.
The Third Regional Steering Committee for the DRESS-EA project took place on 12th October 2022, in Nairobi, Kenya, and was attended by a cross section of representatives from the Governments of the four project executing entities, Djibouti, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda, as well as the observers from the implementing entity, the Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS)
Twenty young water and climate professionals from Hungary, Slovakia, Belgium, France and Sweden form the first cohort of the Youth for Water and Climate Program.
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 liaise and communicate with the Green Climate Fund.
The members of the regional Steering committee of GWP-Central Africa met in Douala, Cameroon for the 16th annual Steering Committee meeting which was held from November 24th – 25th 2022.
