In an interview for GWP-Med Newsflow, Mr Almotaz Abadi, Managing Director for Water, at the Union for the Mediterranean - Water and Environment Division, discusses regional efforts to address water scarcity and climate challenges, the key ingredients of impactful UfM projects, ways to adapt to COVID-19 effects, and the necessity of adopting a proactive approach for realizing the SDGs.
Organised in the context of the SEE Nexus Project that is supported by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and implemented by GWP-Med in partnership with the UNECE.
On 10 & 11 March 2020, more than 20 experts, water managers, scientists and representatives of authorities joined a training on Drought Management in the Drin Basin, organised by GWP-Med. An online platform was used to virtually bring together participants from Albania, Greece, Kosovo*, North Macedonia and trainers from Slovenia. The focus was on enhancing capacities for a proactive approach to integrated drought planning, adaptation and management.
The best way to tackle complex issues such as water resources management is for all affected stakeholders to work together. Multi-stakeholder processes are at the heart of Integrated Water Resources Management and as such are a cornerstone of the intervention logic of the SDG 6 IWRM Support Programme.
The Global Water Partnership-Mediterranean is seeking to hire a Project Assistant. 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 Ministry of Environment and Forest resources, the Designated National Authority of the Green Climate Fund in Togo, organized on 27 November 2020 a workshop with financial support from partners.
Since 2021, the Global Water Partnership (GWP) has been organising an interactive online series called the “Transboundary freshwater security governance train” together with our partners. Within its first three seasons, 14 online sessions were conducted as a ‘train’ stopping at various locations in the world, with a focus on topics related to transboundary water governance, international water law and water diplomacy. After a short stop, the train is back on track in October 2023 for Season 4 and will ‘travel around’ to focus on various aspects of transboundary water management until the end of the year.
The SDG 6.5.1 monitoring process started in the region where UNEP-DHI through GWP is bringing financial and technical assistance to 7 countries out the 15 ECOWAS member states to facilitate the data collection and reporting process.
