A seminar, organized by Global Water Partnership Central and Eastern Europe and University of Ljubljana under the auspices of the Community of Practice on Nature-based Solutions in Water Management invites all to join.
More than 50 stakeholders representing public institutions, NGOs, international organisations to name but a few participated at the SDG 6.5.1 review process in Lebanon, which has just been concluded with the assistance of GWP-Med.
The Mono Basin Authority (MBA) held the sixth (6th) ordinary session of its Council of Ministers on January 26, 2024 in Lomé, Togo. This meeting was preceded by the meeting of the Technical Committee of Experts (CTE) from January 22 to 25.
Malawi has finalised the development of response strategies meant to address major challenges rocking the water and sanitation sector in the country. The strategies were being developed with the guidance of the country’s Ministry of Water and Sanitation, under the Global Water Leadership Programme (GWL) which the Global Water Partnership is implementing with funding from FCDO.
The 2021 edition of GWP's annual Network Meeting of Partners will take place online on 1-2 December, under the theme ‘Leading Change and Innovation through our Partners’.
GWP celebrates 25 years in 2021, and we are introducing the anniversary website gwp25years.org. The launch took place in connection to the GWP Regional Days (31 May-3 June), an annual gathering of GWP’s staff worldwide. The new website is a place to capture the collective celebration of what the network has achieved so far, and to look to the future. It is a place where everyone is invited to share messages and where they can be part of the journey to make good water governance a reality for everyone.
A series of six national stakeholders' meeting for the planning of the Flood and Drought risk management strategy in the Volta Basin started on 16 November 2022 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire as the first of the series to be held in the VBA countries.
As the COVID-19 pandemic hit, many meetings, workshops, and consultations suddenly went online. In many parts of the world, in-person meetings were impossible for a long time, and only now are slowly resuming. In other parts, hybrid meetings with online presence and in-person participation are becoming the new norm. Each of these formats comes with its pros and cons. In-person meetings allow for broader and deeper discussions, while online meetings are logistically easier to manage and make it easier for more participants to join. A new publication analyzes the impact that different formats can have on the quality of the interaction in the context of multi-stakeholder consultations.
While Bamako, the capital of Mali, is being hit hard by flooding, a workshop is being held on the subject of real-time mapping of the risk of flooding in Mali on the basis of rainfall forecasts, remote sensing and deep learning (AFCIA-Mali Project).
