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Researching your Audience

Researching your audience is critical when it comes to designing your website. You need to know who you are aiming to attract and what they are ultimately going to get from your website.

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Water and climate change put higher on regional agenda

Central America is one of the regions most vulnerable to climate change, so recognising that water is essential to adaptation is crucial to national and regional strategies. To this end, GWP Central America has contributed to the water component in the Action Plan of the Regional Strategy for Climate Change (ERCC) and organised a regional workshop on water and climate change.

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Stakeholders provied roadmaps for addressing gender issue in IWRM

The Country Water Partnership of Benin (CWP-Benin) organized in June 2012 a training workshop of water stakeholders on gender mainstreaming in the management of water resources in the country. The Thecnical Note develop by the CWP for stakeholders, users and decision-makers has served as reference framework of the capacitiy building session.

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Call for Quotation in Malta

GWP-Med, lawfully and legally represented by MIO-ECSDE, announces a Call for Quotations for the Construction of Rubble Walls in Ramla Valley, Island of Gozo, Malta, within the framework of the Non Conventional Water Resources Programme in Malta.

 

We are kindly invited to submit your bids by Wednesday 24/7/2013 to the contracting authority, in the following address MIO-ECSDE 12 Kyrristou str., 10556 Athens, Greece

 

For further information, please send your queries to:

secretariat@gwpmed.org, to the attention of Ms. Konstantina Toli, or call: 0030 210 3247490 or 3247267.

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Transboundary water: Gambian journalists to understand the UN 97 Convention

A one day sensitization workshop took place on 30 July 2013 in Banjul, Gambia. The meeting brought together about twenty (20) journalists from various media houses and freelance journalists from The Gambia with the aim to inform participants on the ratification process of the UN 97 Law on the use of international watercourses for purposes other than navigational in the country.

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ABOUT GWPEA

GWP Eastern Africa (GWPEA) is one of 13 regional networks that make up GWP, an international network that was created in 1996 to foster implementation of integrated water resources management: the coordinated development and management of water, land, and related resources that maximises economic and social welfare without compromising the sustainability of ecosystems and the environment.
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Transboundary: Groundwater management issues for Guarani aquifer (# 368)

The quality of groundwater recharging the Guarani aquifer is threatened in some areas by rapid land-use changes, and locally by rapid urbanisation. Action was taken by the World Bank through a GEF-funded project on the ‘Sustainable Development & Environmental Protection of the Guarani Aquifer’, which included scientific studies, institutional provisions and transboundary groundwater management. This case study reinforces the lesson to ‘think globally but act locally’.