The first Meeting of the Parties to the Memorandum of Understanding for the Management of the Extended Transboundary Drin Basin (Drin MoU - Tirana, 25 November 2011) was held on 28 May 2013 in Tirana, Albania.
The Meeting of the Parties reviewed the progress in the implementation of the Drin MoU and endorsed the Action Plan for its implementation. The Action Plan guides the related work undertaken by the Parties with the facilitation of the Drin Core Group and its Secretariat.
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The 2012 World Water Week takes place on 26-31 August 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden. This year's theme is "Water and Food Security".
Flickr is an online treasure trove of photographs from around the world, covering every aspect of water, that is at your disposal for use in publications and online. It is important for the regions to join the GWP group (if not already members) and contribute photos.
The 7th World Water Forum was held from April 12 to 17, 2015 in South Korea. This event, which is now included in to the global sustainable development agenda has brought together thousands of participants from all continents of the world. Global Water Partnership West Africa (GWP-WA) was represented by the WACDEP program Manager Mahamoudou TIEMTORE and Mrs. Felicite CHABI-GONNI Epse VODOUNHESSI IDMP Project Officer.
The United Nations World Water Day is set for 22 March 2014. This year’s theme is Water and Energy.
Download the "Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Expertise Database for the Caribbean" here.
Two back-to-back meetings on water management in Central Asia recently took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. GWP representatives Natalia Alexeeva and Vadim Sokolov were invited to the regional workshop “Integrated Water Resources Management in Central Asia”, where they presented the IWRM Toolbox and instruments, and gave an overview of the SDG process and the activities of GWP Central Asia and Caucasus.
“Building resilience of people, communities and countries to these water-related disasters and extreme climate events is the major challenge of our time, as climate change will get worse before it gets better,” were the closing words of the speech given by the GWP Chair Dr Ursula Schaefer-Preuss at the first meeting of the High-level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters (HELP) on 4 June 2013 in Tokyo, Japan.
The South Asia Regional Workshop on lessons learnt in Strategy Implementation on Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) in Water Sector was held on 9 to 10 September 2014 in Colombo, Sri Lanka and it was organised by South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme (SACEP) in partnership with GWP SAS, and in technical collaboration with UNDP.