The States and regional organisations of West Africa and the Sahel region met virtually on 5 December 2024 to discuss the sustainable management of water resources in West Africa, with a particular focus on the regional initiative for the development, resilience and valorisation of water for West Africa (DREVE) and its various pillars. Participants discussed the challenges and opportunities related to climate risk management, project financing, capacity building and the preservation of the Fouta Djallon Mountains.
Project: Reversing Ecosystem and Water Degradation in the Volta River Basin (REWarD-Volta River Basin)
Title: Mission for the ‘‘Establishment and Capacity Building of National and Regional Coordination of the Users of the Volta Basin’s Natural resources’’
Duration: Two hundred and thirty (230) Man-day (MD) over a calendar period of six (06) months
Publication date: 18/04/2024
Closing date: 18/05/2024
The African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) has formally launched a first of its kind for Africa scorecard to track progress in mobilisation of investments towards water security during its 7th annual conference on the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) in Nairobi, Kenya, 1-4 March 2022.
Recognising the urgent need to address transboundary water management challenges, GWP has joined forces with more than 40 governments, international organisations, international financing institutions, NGOs, academia and research centres under the Transboundary Water Cooperation Coalition.
The regional chair of GWP-Central Africa, Mr. Sylvain Guebanda is in Yaoundé, Cameroon for a one-week working visit at the GWP-Central Africa regional secretariat.
Thirty representatives of public and private institutions in Sao Tomé and Principe have been trained by experts from GWP South America on the IWRM Action Hub (GWP Toolbox).
The Austrian Embassy Development Cooperation in Uganda visited GWPEA secretariat to discuss the negative effects of climate change on access to water and how the region can attract more climate finance
