This World Water Day, 22nd March, is about tackling the water crisis by addressing the reasons why so many people are being left behind. GWP joins the worldwide celebrations of the day, and shows online support on its newly launched Instagram account.
Meet Kareem Hassan, an international innovation expert, sustainability entrepreneur, Director of Youth and Innovation at the Global Institute for Water, Environment, and Health (GIWEH), and Managing Director of BENAA Foundation, which aims to build the capacities of youth in order to build up sustainable WASH projects in Egypt.
GWP-C will participate in a regional Project Preparation Workshop for Climate Resilient Water Projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. The regional workshop is scheduled for July 2nd - 4th, 2019 in the Latin American region.
GWP-C will be participating in the 6th Caribbean Water Operators’ Conference in St. Lucia which will be hosted by the Caribbean Water and Sewerage Association Inc. (CAWASA) in collaboration with the Water and Sewerage Company (WASCO) of St. Lucia. The Conference will take place on June 26th – 28th, 2019.
GWP-C is collaborating with its Partner, Haiti Survie to establish a community Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) system in a water scare community in the country. The project began on April 1st, 2019 and is scheduled to be completed by July 31st, 2019.
On August 17, GWP granted formal accreditation to GWP Colombia - or “Alianza Colombiana para el Agua”, which is the local name. Colombia is a country recognised by its technical capacity in Latin America and beyond.
GWP had a full agenda at this year’s Stockholm World Water Week. Eight new publications were launched, hundreds of photo statements captured, and a series of video comments recorded – these were in addition to the over ten events that GWP was involved in throughout the week.
In the period 2017-2020 Country Water Partnership-Armenia as a partner together with Urban Foundation for Sustainable Development and Yerevan State University Environmental Law Resource Centre undertook the implementation of USAID-funded “Participatory Utilization of Resource Efficiency of Water” Project/ PURE Water Project.
The Global Water Partnership - Mediterranean (GWP-Med) is seeking to hire an external Consultant in the framework of the Water, Climate and Development Programme, WACDEP, for the activity : “Preparation of funding request for a water adaptation project in Mauritania for submission to the GCF project preparation facility”
