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The Masungi Georeserve was announced winners of the Water ChangeMaker Awards in a ceremony at the Climate Adaptation Summit on 25 January. Their project is about restoring forgotten watersheds through youth-led movements. In a Facebook Live session on 4 March, Billie Dumaliang, representing the winning team, encouraged youth to be brave and creative, and to work together when tackling their climate challenges.

The COVID-19 pandemic has arisen an issue on how we should cope with Water-Related Disaster under such situation. To this end, the High-level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters (HELP) with the support from the Government of Japan, has developed and is promoting a Guideline for addressing water-related disaster risk reduction under the COVID-19 pandemic. The HELP Group through the Global Water Partnership (GWP) network launched an initiative to hold consultations on those Guidelines in three CACENA countries (Uzbekistan, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan).

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.

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.

Request for Offers 6/2021/Drin For the provision of Technical assistance to the Project Coordination Unit for the utilization of existing data repository and population of the Drin Information Management System

The Assembly of the African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government have formally adopted the progressive Continental Africa Water Investment Program (AIP), during its 34th Ordinary Session, held on 7th February in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR LOCAL PARTNERS RECRUITMENT TO IMPLEMENT LOCAL COMMUNITY FLOOD AND DROUGHT MANAGEMENT INITIATIVES IN THE VOLTA BASIN

Darío Soto-Abril is the Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Global Water Partnership, a global action network focused on the sustainable management of water resources.

Consultants for Regional SDG Programme Support in Asia

JOB TITLE  : Senior IWRM Expert for the PAN-ASIA Region Programme
SUPERVISOR : Regional Coordinator of Global Water Partnership Southeast Asia
CONTRACT MODALITY : Part-time consultancy with fixed number of days for the duration of contract (9 months contract: two days per week, with salary range from
1,500 - 2,000 euro/month, including tax)
CONTRACT DURATION : April – December 2021 (with prospect of extension pending availability of funding)
LOCATION : Home-based, preferably in Asia region
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: March 14th , 2021

Please kindly find the Term of Reference here.

Learn more about the SDG 6 IWRM Support Programme here.