GWP-WA’s Executive Secretary, Mr. Armand HOUANYE and Communication manager, Sidi COULIBALY participated in the first virtual meeting of the Steering Committee of the IUCN-PACO’s new programme on water governance and environment known as PREE together with partners from Central and West Africa.
Abstracts can now be submitted to the 22nd WaterNet/WARFSA/GWPSA Symposium to be held 20 -22 October 2021, under the theme "Integrated Water Resources Management for Sustainable Development in East and Southern Africa".
Edit 27 April: Please note that the application deadline for the GWP summer internships was 26 April (the below text is the original call), therefore we are no longer accepting submissions - shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you to everybody who applied!
Technical Workshop on Climate Resilient Water Projects in Latin America and the Caribbean: Transformational proposal preparation concepts for the Green Climate Fund has brought together national, regional, and international entities, all of whom are important stakeholders in the GCF architecture, and are committed to contribute to important objective – to enable countries to prepare high quality climate resilience water projects that can be supported by the GCF.
Technical Workshop on Climate Resilient Water Projects in Latin America and the Caribbean: Transformational proposal preparation concepts for the Green Climate Fund has brought together national, regional, and international entities, all of whom are important stakeholders in the GCF architecture, and are committed to contribute to important objective – to enable countries to prepare high quality climate resilience water projects that can be supported by the GCF.
An online Workshop on “Gender Equality (GE) for Sustainable Development in Nexus sectors in Drin Riparians” took place on 12 October 2021 with the participation of around 55 representatives from different gender related institutions and nexus related sectors, gender focal points, civil society, academia, women empowerment activists and experts from Albania, Kosovo* and North Macedonia. Its overall purpose was to bring these actors together to discuss challenges and opportunities for promoting gender equality as a driver for sustainable development in Drin Riparians.
Water and climate change is the theme for celebrating World Water Day 2020 at a time when access to sufficient and safe water for all to meet sustainable development goals by 2030 remains a major challenge in an increasingly critical global climate context.
" I call on all stakeholders to increase climate action and invest in robust adaptation measures for water sustainability. By limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the world will be in a much better position to manage and solve the water crisis that we all face. » (António Guterres, UN Secretary General)
GWP celebrates International Women’s Day (IWD) 2019 on 8 March by joining the global campaign #BalanceforBetter that reflects GWP’s commitment to gender equality.
