GWP Caribbean developed a rooftop rainwater harvesting system as a way to address water security in rural communities.
National IWRM Status Reports
IWRM
Global Water Partnership created a series of publications on IWRM providing technical leadership on water resources management. Material is available for consultation online here.
Water Dialogue
Read what is happening in Water Management in Southern Africa in our “Water Dialogue” – A forum for Partnership Action in Water Management in Southern Africa. Access the publsications below:
-2013 edition here.
2014 edition articles below:
- Editorial
-Financing Water Resource Management in SADC
-Local Indigenous Knowledge Practices and Systems (LIKPS)
-Developing the NCCRS for Zimbabwe
-Exploring the Water, Energy and Food Nexus
-Promoting Water and Food Security through CPWF
-Building resilience in the Limpopo
-Global Water and Gender Conference
-Balancing Water Usese and SNRM in the Orange Senqu River Basin
-15th WaterNet/GWPSA Symposium
For comments and article submissions contact:
the Knowledge Management and Communications Officer, GWPSA
The Workshop on Health of Water and Ecology was jointly organized by the GWP China and the Ecological Society of China on December 12, 2010 in Beijing, with more than 50 participants from Eco-Environmental Research Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences, IWHR, CDC and other universities, enterprises, governmental agencies and NGOs.
The 16th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP16) and the 6th Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP-6) were taken place in Cancun, Mexico from November 29 to December 10, 2010.
Press release 6 December 2010
CANCUN. Over the weekend, six countries from around the world at COP16, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, called for water to be put on the climate agenda. The countries highlighted the fact that climate change stands to have a significant impact on water resources, and stressed the need for further discussions on how this issue can be addressed within the climate framework.
Cancun, Mexico. December 2nd. Global Water Partnership (GWP) representatives continued their participation in events organized at the climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico.
Cancun, Mexico. 1st December, 2010.
Real development: national planning that integrates water resources management and adaptation
On the afternoon of December 1st, two representatives from GWP participated in two different panels of the Dialogs for Water and Climate Change. The first was “Bridging IWRM and National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs)” and the second was a Stakeholder’s Panel: “Urgencies to Adapt—Experiences and Constraints.”
(Photo: GWP Chair Dr Letitia A Obeng)
Press release 30 November 2010
The Global Water Partnership (GWP) and the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) have unveiled a joint programme to support climate change adaptation in Africa.