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.
Press release, 3 June 2010
A number of well known international organisations and research centers join forces to highlight the role of water in the context of climate change. The newly formed alliance, named the Water and Climate Coalition, is officially launched today at a side event at the climate talks in Bonn.
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
You can find GWP Partner Application forms on the right hand side of this page in Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
The Zambian Government mainstreamed adaptation to climate change in the water chapter of the 6th National Development Plan. This is the result of close collaboration between the Ministry of Energy and Water Development, the Water Sector Advisory Group (WSAG) under the Ministry of Finance and National Planning, and other stakeholders fostered by GWP Zambia.
Zimbabwe is a semi-arid country heavily reliant on regular rains. Like the rest of southern Africa, Zimbabwe is strongly influenced by fluctuations in rainfall.
The water stakeholders in Sierra Leone agree to establish a National Water Partnership (CWP) at a meeting held December 23, 2011 in Freetown. The consultative meeting was convened to validate the feasibility study for the creation of a CWP in the country.