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The TonFuturTonClimat project is a response of GWP-WA and the International Secretariat for Water (ISW) to the November 2016 Call for Proposals of the International Climate Cooperation Program (PCCI) funded by the Government of Quebec and aimed at reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adapting to the impacts of climate change (CC) in the most vulnerable French-speaking countries.

CLOSED. Global Water Partnership-Mediterranean is seeking to hire a Programme Officer to be stationed at and support operations of its Tunis Office. The successful candidate will be hired by MIO-ECSDE, a civil non- profit society based in Greece, in its capacity as Host Institute for GWP-Med.

The Global Water Partnership-Mediterranean is seeking to hire a Gender Programme Officer. The successful candidate will be hired by MIO-ECSDE, a civil non-profit society based in Greece, in its capacity as Host Institute for GWP-Med.

Global Water Partnership, Central Africa (GWP-CAf) is looking for a technical assistant on a consultancy basis to support the implementation of the field activities on the dental fluorosis pilot project in the Far North Region of Cameroon.

Social inclusion and gender equality are long-established, core values of the GWP Network and manifested in the GWP Gender Strategy and the GWP Gender Action Piece. In a series of inter-regional discussions, GWP Senior Gender & Social Inclusion Specialist Liza Debevec sets out to identify what GWP as an institution can do to apply the concepts in these documents. Her first discussion is with Amy Sullivan and Andrew Takawira, who are both involved in a large Pan-African project on gender transformative water and climate investment. The discussion topic is institutional leadership and commitment, which is the first of 4 action areas in the Gender Action Piece. Their message is clear: leadership makes all the difference.

December 28, 2019, a draft version of protection law for the Yangtze River is open to public comments on the official website of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature.

All behavioral change needs motivation from the inside – this is true both for people and organisations – and change is impossible until old belief systems and stereotypes die away, says GWP Senior Gender & Social Inclusion Specialist Liza Debevec. She reflects on a discussion on gender equality during the recent webinar series on “Women Water Climate: Tackling the Challenges” – and the huge challenges that surround this topic.

On March 8, 2019, GWP-WA joined the global campaign #BalanceforBetter on the occasion of International Women's Day.

Edition January-February 2021

Cambodia: Cambodia’s Tonle Sap shows what’s at stake in the Mekong’s dam-fueled decline; Wastewater treatment plant in Southern Phnom Penh to be built in late April; Indonesia: Jakarta's river troops remove 436 cubic meters of garbage; Lao PDR: Laos issues new decree on dams; Malaysia: Air Selangor to employ retention ponds as fallback against pollution-related disruptions; Myanmar: Water problems draining the pockets of Yangonites; Philippines: Congress should pass ‘Dept of Water’ bill; Thailand: PWA well-prepared for drought scenarios; Viet Nam: HCM City's major environment and sanitation project face slow progress; Singapore: S'pore's fourth desalination plant, which can treat both sea and reservoir water, officially opens; and more stories are provided.