In an effort to address challenges of climate change and water scarcity, GWP Central and Eastern Europe launches “Integrated Drought Management Programme Inception Report” today.
Developed by the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a climate change adaptation strategy for the water sector was officially launched at COP 17 in December 2011 in Durban, South Africa. It effectively sees SADC take up the challenge of responding to the threat of climate change in southern Africa.
Despite its recent economic progress, Mozambique remains one of the lowest income countries in the world. Majority of the Mozambicans 80% live in rural areas where agriculture and livestock are of central importance to their livelihoods.
Ghana lies along the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa. The country extends inland to about latitude 11° north covering a distance of 672 km from south to north.
GWP membership is open to all organizations involved in water and water resource management. Currently GWP-SEA network has over 360 member organizations in the 9 SEA Countries : Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippine, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
The theme of the 4th Africa Water Week 14-18 May in Cairo, Egypt, is “Water for Growth in Africa, AMCOW’s Journey @10”. The Global Water Partnership will be launching the AMCOW/GWP Strategic Framework material. GWP will have a booth and is also a convenor and co-convenor of sub-themes and will be participating at the following events:
Caribbean Ministers with responsibility for water, along with regional water managers and other experts, met to discuss “Water Management Financing in the Caribbean” at the GWP Caribbean and the Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association’s (CWWA) 7th Annual High Level Session (HLS) on October 6-7, 2011, in Guadeloupe. One of the major issues at the Ministerial Forum was the need for regional governments to decide whether water utilities are to be run as a social service or a business.
Continuing a process launched in 2006, GWP Mediterranean organised four regional workshops during 2011 aimed at enriching knowledge, enhancing experience-sharing and strengthening capacity building on issues relating to transboundary water resources management in south-eastern Europe.
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