On 19 November, marking World Toilet Day 2018, GWP invited Kanika Thakar, founder of #ToiletTalk, to a Facebook Live interview. She talked about her passion to change the way the world values and talks about toilets. “How can you solve a problem if we can't even talk about it?” she asks. Kanika says her aim is to break down the taboos surrounding toilets.
The University of the West Indies (UWI) St. Augustine Campus (Faculty of Food and Agriculture) along with other agencies, recently hosted a week-long International Conference entitled “Climate Change Impacts on Food and Nutrition Security” in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
On October 18, 2018, the GWP-WA Steering Committee meeting was held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso bringing together 22 representatives of different structures, including the Global Water Partnership Organisation (GWPO), some West African Country Water Partnerships (CWP),
he Designated National Authority of the Green Climate Fund (DNA/GCF) of Burkina Faso, Mr. Mamadou HONADIA, held a workshop in Koudougou on 19 and 20 October 2018 bringing together representatives of the
A GWP delegation including the Chair, Prof. MAIGA, ES Armand HOUANYE, Technical Committee chair, Dr. BARRY and Network Officer, Julienne ROUX met on 16, 17 and 19 October with several institutions to start or strengthen collaboration. The personalities and institutions met include the Executive Director of the Volta Basin Authority (VBA), IFAD Burkina Faso Office,
The project titled "Integrating Flood and Drought Management and Early Warning for Climate Change Adaptation in the Volta Basin’’, for which the development process started in 2015 and received great support and contributions from Volta Basin Authority Executive Secretariat and institutions from the six Volta Basin riparian countries, has been approved for funding from the Adaptation Fund during the 23rd meeting of the Project and Program Evaluation Committee (PPRC) of the Fund held from 9 to 11 October, 2018 in Bonn, Germany.
