Stakeholders in Ghana organized on 29 and 30 April 2024 a national workshop to review the integration of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) policies, plans, and guidelines at local, national, and transboundary levels in the Volta Basin.
PRESASS 2024 was organized, from 22 to 26 April 2024 in Abuja, Nigeria, by the AGRHYMET Regional Climate Center for West Africa and the Sahel (AGRHYMET RCC-WAS) of CILSS, in collaboration with ACMAD, the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (SNMHs), the WMO and West African River Basin Organizations.
The Regional Forum on Seasonal Forecasts of the agro-hydro-climatic characteristics of the rainy season for the Sudanian and Sahelian zones of West Africa and the Sahel (PRESASS), 2024 edition was held from 22 to 26 April 2024 in Abuja, Nigeria.
The Asia Pacific Water Scarcity Programme (WSP) has been implementing core activities in Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam over the past year. FAO is bringing together all technical stakeholders involved in the WSP for a Regional Technical Workshop on Water Scarcity to take stock of progress, review the WSP approach, and gain stakeholder insights on the best ‘way forward.’
Project: Reversing Ecosystem and Water Degradation in the Volta River Basin (REWarD-Volta River Basin)
Title: Mission for the ‘‘Establishment and Capacity Building of National and Regional Coordination of the Users of the Volta Basin’s Natural resources’’
Duration: Two hundred and thirty (230) Man-day (MD) over a calendar period of six (06) months
Publication date: 18/04/2024
Closing date: 18/05/2024
Project : Reversing Ecosystem and Water Degradation in the Volta River Basin (REWarD – Volta River Basin)
Title : Mission for the elaboration of the detailed project document on the integrated management of aquatic invasive species in the Volta basin
Duration : Forty (40) Man-Days (MD) spread over a calendar period of ninety (90) days Publication Date : 18/04/2024
Closing Date : 18/05/2024
Project : Reversing Ecosystem and Water Degradation in the Volta River Basin (REWarD – Volta River Basin)
Title : Mission for the elaboration of a detailed project document on the management of shallow groundwater (water table) in the Volta basin
Duration : Forty (40) Man-Days (MD) over a calendar period of ninety (90) days
Publication Date : 18/04/2024
Closing Date : 18/05/2024
Chad is the first African country to join the Water Convention in 2018. Aware that a large part of its water resources is shared, its accession to this convention will enable the country to better manage the resource in a concerted manner which adequately meets the growing needs of the population in a context where water security is increasingly threatened by climate change.
