10-11 December 2007, Bled Slovenia
The Conference of the Water Directors of the Euro-Mediterranean and Southeastern European Countries that was held in Bled, Slovenia, on 10-11 December 2007, is the fourth such meeting in sequence.
The total length of rivers and canals reaches the length of 44,943 km. The largest river is the Danube and the longest is the Vah (367.2 km).
In this section you can find information that is fundamental to doing communications work in the GWP network. The most important item here is the GWP Visual Brand which, if followed, ensures that our diverse and semi-autonomous network communicates that we are a single partnership.
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.
New York: Greece has this month become the 21st country to ratify a global water treaty designed to reduce conflict and guide joint management over rivers and lakes forming or crossing international boundaries.
Social equity is the least understood of the 3 E’s (equity, economic efficiency and environmental sustainability) in the concept of integrated water resources management. This new Global Water Partnership Technical Committee Background Paper No. 15, “Social Equity and Integrated Water Resources Management”, sets out an overarching framework for the analysis of equity in the context of water development and management. It is intended as an aid to decision makers in designing policies, interventions, and programs aimed at the equitable distribution of benefits from water resources.
Comments from GWP Chair, and our allies, in a Circle of Blue Circle story from Cancun, COP16.
As the 16th meeting of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters its second week in Cancun, Mexico, some advocates feel that water is getting more attention–though perhaps not yet from negotiators–than it did last year.
GWPSEA Program Coordinator – Mr. Djoko Sasongko, was invited by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Regional Office, to participate in a Regional Consultation Workshop, which was held in Winsor Suites Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand. The workshop is a part of a study initiated and organized by FAO, funded by IFAD and implemented by AIT as consultant
GWP has developed a Policy Brief to emphasise key messages to policy makers at Rio+20:
Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) together with representatives from the Projects Unit of the National Institute of Higher Education Research, Science and Technology (NIHERST) had the opportunity to meet with two (2) Women’s Groups in rural Trinidad on October 21st, 2011, to discuss a future renewable energy project to benefit their communities.