As Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, and other countries in Southern Africa take stock of the ravaging effects of Cyclone Ana, the Global Water Partnership Southern Africa and Africa Coordination (GWPSA-Africa) has called for increased financing and better commitment to climate resilience by national governments and development partners.
In our series of inter-regional discussions on gender equality and social inclusion, GWP’s Liza Debevec invited GWP South Asia’s Lal Induruwage, and Ashish Barua of the Swiss development organisation Helvetas, to talk about meaningful and inclusive participation in decision-making and partnerships. This is something both their countries – Sri Lanka and Bangladesh – have made great progress on in policies. However, they both agree that gaps still exist between policies and reality on the ground. One of the big challenges is lack of accountability.
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)
International Seminar on Risk Management of Extreme Flood and Drought Disaster convened 100+ experts from European and Asian-Pacific regions to share their knowledge fruits and attracted 500+viewers flooded into the broadcast studio.
The Global Water Partnership - Mediterranean is seeking to hire a Programme Officer, to be based in Athens. The successful candidate will be hired by the Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development (MIO-ECSDE), a civil non-profit society based in Greece, in its capacity as Host Institute for GWP-Med.
This online session is planned for 2 November 2022. In this 14th installment, we investigate the relationship between data and decision-making over transboundary waters.
