For the purpose of better building and management of urban water environment, the GWP China Hebei, jointly with Water Branch of Hebei Provincial Senior Scientists Association and Water Bureau of Shijiazhuang City of Hebei Province, organized “High-level Forum on Urban Water Environment Building and Management” on November 27- 28, 2011 in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province with over 80 participants .
Rwanda, with an estimated population of over 9 million inhabitants has a surface area of 26,338 sq. km, which makes it the most densely populated country in Africa with about 397 inhabitants/sq. km.
With a surface area of 27,834 square km², Burundi is located between the 29° and 30°25 eastern meridians and between the 2°20 and 4°25 southern parallels. Burundi’s population is estimated at 8 million inhabitants.
GWP-SEA further operates through relations with accredited Country Water Partnerships (CWP), and other separate co-operating entities that have been given a role in the Regional Water Partnership (RWP) in accordance with GWP-SEA Statute.
Global Water Partnership South Asia (GWP SAS) has partners in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Knowledge and technical resources, tools, programme guidelines and other resources to assist programme staff and stakeholders
Since December 2009, GWP Armenia and its Partners have been deeply involved in solving household wastewater treatment problems. As a result of long-time lobbying, in 2010 funds from the United Nations Development Programme Global Environment Facility (UNDP/GEF) were granted to address wastewater treatment in Parakar, Armenia, where it was a serious problem.
In response to a decision of Heads of the Central Asian States to address the critical issues of water resources, climate change and ecosystem loss in the Aral Sea basin, GWP Central Asia and Caucasus became the platform for policy dialogues in all eight Central Asian nations.
On July 12, 2011, at the start of the African Sanitation Conference, the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) launched its “Policy and Strategy for Mainstreaming Gender in Africa’s Water Sector.” The strategy development process, facilitated by AMCOW, GWP, UNEP, the Gender and Water Alliance, and the WSP-World Bank, involved more than 40 African countries.