GWP China Hebei organized the Forum on Water Security & Economic Development in Coastal Areas on 19-21 May, in Tangshan City, Hebei Province.
The 2nd Partners Meeting of GWP China was taken place on 13 May, in Changsha, Hunan Province.
GWP encourages support to the fight against Global Warming through this WWF initiative.
GWP China has a delegation group of four members, Prof. Wang Hao, Vice Chair; Mr. Zheng Rugang, Coordinator; Dr. Jiang Yunzhong, Communication Officer and Ms. Ma Yilin, Program Officer, to attend the Fifth World Water Forum (WWF5) in Istanbul, Turkey, March 16 to 22, 2009.
GWP Central America and other organisations have contributed to reactivating Central America’s IWRM Strategy (ECAGIRH), which had been lying fallow since 2006 due to lack of finances.
GWP Guatemala was invited to participate in the Water Cabinet created by the President of Guatemala in August 2008. The Cabinet represents a national effort to promote IWRM at the highest levels and is coordinated by the country’s vice-president and made up of ten ministers.
When GWP-C and the NGO group Haiti Survie hosted the first IWRM workshop in September 2007, they were surprised to discover no women among its 30 participants.