Maxime TEBLEKOU is the new staff recruited at GWP WA secretariat as project technical assistant for the Volta Project "Integrating Flood and Drought Management and Early Warning for Climate Change Adaptation in the Volta Basin”.
The SDG 6 IWRM Support Programme, coordinated by GWP in collaboration with the UN Environment-DHI Centre and UNDP Cap-Net, has facilitated a coordinated approach to monitoring and enhancing Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.5, implementing Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). In 2019 four pilot countries were supported to create an IWRM Action Plan. Some lessons on how the experience gained can be put to practical use in other countries have now been captured in a summary report.
The International Water Resources Association (IWRA) is organising an online conference on 29-30 October to address the challenges and priorities on how to resiliently manage groundwater resources under climate change.
Using the key IWRM challenges identified in Stage 1, the aim of this stage is to facilitate a government-led multi-stakeholder process to formulate and prioritise appropriate responses to those challenges. The result of Stage 2 is typically an IWRM Action Plan (the name might be adapted for each country), which includes a series of attractive investment opportunities to systematically guide the implementation of solutions to IWRM challenges.
GWP Central America held its annual General Assembly in Costa Rica on April 1, with the participation of 40 partner organisations. The activity was organised as a parallel event during the Latin American Sanitation Conference (LATINOSAN 2019), to integrate partners in the sanitation discussions carried out during the conference.
The nineteenth session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC 19) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) will be organised online from 15 to 19 March. GWP will be represented at the event.
More than one million small-scale farmers and pastoralists are set to benefit from the Strengthening Drought Resilience for Smallholder Farmers and Pastoralists in the IGAD Region Project (DRESS-EA) which was granted USD13,079,540 by the Adaptation Fund.
The UN Economic and Social Council's (ECOSOC) 2021 Partnership Forum will focus on the theme of 'Partnerships as Game Changer for a Sustainable Recovery from COVID-19'. The 2021 Forum will convene virtually and be webcast via http://webtv.un.org/.
