The Water Changemaker Innovation Awards 2023 is proud to announce the top 30 finalists selected from a pool of innovative and impactful projects dedicated to addressing water-related challenges worldwide. The finalists will be announced during a hybrid event held on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday, 22 September 2023.
Water science and policy development go hand in hand. But how exactly can data support decision-making for transboundary waters? What types of data are critical to designing and implementing policies? And what happens when data is patchy, biased, or missing?
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Today marks the 2022 World Water Day celebration. The GWP CEE Water in the Circular Economy Taskforce prepared a report from Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia
Songsan, 6 July 2023--The Water Changemaker Innovation Awards 2023 have officially been launched during the kick-off of the largest gathering on water in Asia, the International Asian Water Week in South Korea.
There is a decline in the capacity of institutions within the SADC region to produce data for decision making and negotiations. It is, therefore, imperative to develop institutions’ data management capacities as a means of improving the adequacy, quality, and quality of data for decision making in transboundary water management.
The project team of TonFuturTonClimat of Benin has officially launched the reforestation actions by the Mayor of Tanguieta (in northern Benin) in the presence of the Executive Secretary of CWP-Benin, the heads of the Local Committee of Water (CLE), the departmental forestry officer, the communal unit of the territorial agency of agricultural development and several other guests.
The Water Scarcity Program (WSP) was developed by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization with support from the Australian Government to support countries in Asia-Pacific in taking practical steps to address and manage water scarcity under rapid population growth and in a changing climate. The WSP specifically aims to provide technical and policy support to help countries ensure that agricultural water use is managed in a sustainable and productive manner under increasing water scarcity, thereby contributing to water security, food security, resilient rural livelihoods, and prosperity in across Asia-Pacific with an additional focus on achieving SDGs 2 and 6.