The World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (WDCD) is observed every year to promote public awareness of international efforts to combat desertification.
On April 8th, 2019 at the Korea Global Adaptation Week, the Global Water Partnership (GWP) launched the publication “Addressing Water in National Adaptation Plans - Water Supplement to the UNFCCC NAP Technical Guidelines.”
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),
The seventh Africa Water Week was organized in Gabon from 0ctober 29 to November 02 on the theme « Toward Achieving Water Security and Safely Managed Sanitation for Africa”. GWP was one the main session convening institution and GWP WA was represented by the Chair, Prof. Amadou Hama MAIGA and the Executive Secretary, Mr. Armand HOUANYE.
As a follow up to several discussions held between representatives of the four Asian Regional Water Partnerships (RWPs) of Central Asia and Caucasus, China, South Asia and South-East Asia held since 2014 on how to work more closely together in areas of common interests to the region, the group organised workshops on thematic areas identified and prioritised by the RWPs. These workshops promoted exchange of experiences, knowledge sharing, capacity building, project development and other forms of cooperation on the common issues of the Pan Asia Region.